Skills

Release and schedule planning, scope and budget control, reporting and escalation management, change and defect management, integration and test coordination — from focused single projects to several parallel customer programmes with hands-on multi-project planning.

Requirements capture and alignment down to HIL test-case level, building requirements-management processes even where no tool existed yet, training project leads and engineers in requirements management, CAN/LIN diagnostics, and coordinating lab, climate-chamber and benchmark testing.

ASPICE Level 2 · ISO 26262 (functional safety) · UN R155/156 · V-model/SPICE · Scrum/Kanban/hybrid delivery — practical experience keeping phase-gated release control and agile development working together, not just on paper.

OTA/FOTA · edge-to-cloud · AWS cloud-to-vehicle (live production for around 2 million connected vehicles) · IoT fleet management · ECU/embedded SW · AUTOSAR · powertrain and electrification (transmission control and inverter for MHEV/PHEV) · working understanding of OT security.

CAN, LIN, MOST (optical ring, many years of hands-on work), LVDS, FlexRay, Ethernet, WLAN — hands-on flashing and diagnostic work on pre-series and series vehicles for over 20 years, from early MOST reflash campaigns to today's OTA rollouts.

Steering Tier-1/Tier-2 suppliers and development partners, negotiating development packages (including around €1.7M with one Tier-2 partner), technical interface management with international customer organisations, including ongoing day-to-day alignment with Audi China.

Cross-border matrix leadership (including Germany, India, China, USA, Ukraine, Romania, Singapore), intercultural team steering, building and covering offshore capacity, and selecting or replacing development vendors based on solid performance data.

MS Project · Jira · Confluence · Polarion · DOORS · MKS/PTC Integrity · Git/Jenkins · SAP · Power BI · CANoe

ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity — in productive use since 2025; agent coding to build two of my own web platforms using AI-assisted code generation.

German (native) · English (business fluent, C1)

MBA, TiasNimbas Business School (today TIAS School for Business and Society) & Bradford University, UK (part-time alongside work, 2005–2008) · state-certified engineering technician in electrical engineering, with a certificate as information and communication technician (evening school, Fachschule für Technik Sindelfingen, 2005) · trained electrician (top of trade-guild class two years running).

Built new manufacturing processes and lines (Magna Electronics) — equally at home on the shop floor and in the boardroom.

Self-directed design, installation and official registration of a ~14 kWp solar system (two roof faces plus ground-mounted solar fence, hybrid inverter with 10 kWh storage) · heat pump (Panasonic Aquarea, 9 kW) commissioned for four residential units · deep energy retrofit of a 1900s apartment building including U-value calculations and structural waterproofing — practical systems fluency for the renewable-energy sector.

Boating licences · Diving certificates (Assistant Instructor) · Car/truck/motorcycle licences (classes 1–3)