Beat Kraehenmann

Beat Kraehenmann began their career in 1998 with an internship at Lake Lucerne Navigation Company, where they learned the basics of an electrician and electrical wiring of a new 700 person capacity motorboat. In 2000, they completed an internship at Swisscom, where they evaluated first generation wireless access points and tested and described the new IP stack of Windows 2000. From 2003 to 2011, Beat Kraehenmann worked at SBB AG Infrastruktur Telecom, first as a Product and Platform Engineer Fixnet, where they were the lead engineer for building a new company-wide Cisco MPLS-VPN network with an underlying Alcatel SDH Network and migrating from and eliminating the exiting Nortel Passport network. Beat also developed migration scenarios for several customers with minimal downtime of network services and solved rollout problems. As a Platform Engineer, they were responsible for engineering technical standards for a migration from Madge/Tokenring LANs to Baystack/Ethernet LANs, applicable for about 600 sites, and coordinating the rollout for various customer projects to ensure the technical quality and be on schedule for the availability of Ethernet on these sites. Beat also lead a region wide multilingual Telecom SBB board including members of the 1st and 2nd level support and others responsible for operations. From 2011 to 2013, Beat Kraehenmann worked at BT Global Services, first as a WAN & WAN Application Sales Specialist, then as a Deal Architect, where they provided in-depth technical product expertise to the Indirect Channels when developing solutions and offering bids for new opportunities. Beat also supported network migrations from Infonet to BT's global MPLS network from a technical design criterion in line with the migration project guidance. Finally, from 2013 to present, Beat Kraehenmann has been working at Levitronix, first as Managing Director Japan, then as Technical Support Manager.

Beat Kraehenmann earned a Master of Science ETH in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from ETH Zürich between 1998 and 2003. Beat then studied Japanese Language at The Yamasa Institute from 2009 to 2011. In December 2009, they obtained a Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 / 日本語能力試験2級 certification from JEES - Japan Educational Exchanges and Services.