| Given Name: | Raimundo Matias |
| Last Name: | Sierra |
| Title: | Dr. sc. ETH Zurich |
Work Experience |
| 11/15 - present | CEO at VirtaMed. Schlieren, Switzerland |
| 10/14 - 10/14 | COO at VirtaMed. Schlieren, Switzerland |
| 03/12 - 09/14 | Head Corporate Digitization at Syngenta. Basel, Switzerland |
| 10/07 - 02/12 | Consultant with McKinsey & Co. Philadelphia, US and Zurich, Switzerland. Part of the organization and operations practice. |
| 10/07 - present | Co-founder of VirtaMed, a company that develops high fidelity surgical training simulators |
| 10/05 - 08/07 | PostDoc at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Boston, US |
| 10/04 - 09/05 | PostDoc at the Computer Vision Laboratory ETH. Zurich, Switzerland |
| 04/03 - 10/10 | Developer and owner of DIX, an online German-Spanish-English Dictionary |
| 04/99 - 04/00 | Assistant for 1st year Electrical Engineering course at ETH. Zurich, Switzerland |
| 07/99 - 10/99 | Intern at IBM Network Security. Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 04/98 - 01/99 | Member of Junior Entreprise ETHjuniors. Zurich, Switzerland |
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Studies |
| 05/01 - 10/04 | Ph.D. at the Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich |
| 10/96 - 04/01 | Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich |
| 10/00 - 04/01 | Master Thesis: Non-Rigid Registration of Diffusion Tensor Images at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA |
| 04/00 - 10/00 | Research Project: Strategic Internet Procurement |
| 10/99 - 03/00 | Research Project: Simulation of a patient for automation of anesthesia control |
| 10/98 | 2nd Pre diploma (BS) |
| 10/97 | 1st Pre diploma |
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Basic Education |
| 01/96 | Degree: Matura Typus B (Major in Latin) |
| 08/89 - 01/96 | Grammar School in St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 06/93 - 01/94 | Student Exchange in Chile |
| 01/87 - 07/89 | Primary School in Herisau, Switzerland |
| 08/82 - 12/86 | Primary School in Santiago, Chile |
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Other Skills & Experiences |
| Programming: | C/C++, OpenGL, Python, AngularJS, Qt, PHP, HTML, Matlab, Oberon, Prolog, Lisp |
| Databases: | CouchDB, MySQL, Access, Filemaker |
| Languages: | German & Spanish: Native speaker
English (advanced); French (intermediate) |
| Interests: | Sports (Skiing, Hiking, Swimming), Creating new things that turn into a new business |
| Traveling, Cultures |
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