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    "label": "Consulting and interim management for technology ventures in mobility and robotics. I help teams evolve their organization, streamline hardware–software development, and deliver solutions that hold up beyond the prototype stage. Aachen | daixtrose.de",
    "name": "Markus Werle",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "Portfolio",
        "url": "https://www.daixtrose.de"
      }
    ],
    "url": "https://vutuv.de/markus_werle"
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "endDate": "1997",
      "institution": "RWTH Aachen University",
      "startDate": "1989",
      "studyType": "Diploma"
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "fluency": "Native speaker",
      "language": "German"
    },
    {
      "fluency": "C2 (Proficient)",
      "language": "English"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Autonomous Vehicles"
    },
    {
      "name": "business development"
    },
    {
      "name": "c++"
    },
    {
      "name": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "name": "english"
    },
    {
      "name": "Information Technology"
    },
    {
      "name": "it strategy"
    },
    {
      "name": "kubernetes"
    },
    {
      "name": "Micromobility"
    },
    {
      "name": "Organization Development"
    },
    {
      "name": "Project Coordination"
    },
    {
      "name": "security"
    },
    {
      "name": "Software as a Service (SaaS)"
    },
    {
      "name": "strategy"
    },
    {
      "name": "Technology Leadership"
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Undisclosed",
      "position": "Chief Technology Officer",
      "startDate": "2026-01",
      "summary": "General Tasks  Lead comprehensive technology development, research, and product innovation with full economic oversight. Direct hardware (mechatronics, sensors, E/E systems), software (on-device, apps, backend, cloud), and scalable architectures. Shape IP strategy, make-or-buy decisions, and technology roadmaps.  IT & Platform Leadership  Drive IT infrastructure evolution. Ensure software quality, IT security, data protection, and compliance (Cyber Resilience Act, ISO 27005).  Operations & Team Building  Manage external providers, product safety/CE approvals, budgets, and resources. Build an engineering team, implement agile processes, CI/CD, and modern dev tools. Represent technology vision to customers, investors, and stakeholders."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daixtrose Engineering",
      "position": "Consultant",
      "startDate": "2022-05"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2025-10",
      "name": "Utimaco",
      "position": "Managing Architect",
      "startDate": "2023-01",
      "summary": "■ R&D Maturity   - Establish guidelines and engineering standards   - Enhance overall developer experience together with IT \r\n■ Technical Strategy   - Align strategic technical developments and decisions with or between developer teams   - Ensure Utimaco is moving towards common platforms that enable the business  \r\n■ Technology and Tool Standards   - Implement tech governance to align teams in technology selection/deployment and enable conscious technology decisions   - Enhance and harmonize the development toolchain for seamless collaboration between sites  \r\n■ Tech Debt Management    - Provide transparency about and coordinate continuous tech debt removal   - Drive technical improvements that go across teams"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2024-12",
      "name": "Utimaco",
      "position": "Team Lead Configuration Management",
      "startDate": "2023-09",
      "summary": "■ Leading a team of 6-8 internal and external IT professionals, recruiting, contract management \r\n■ Coordination with R&D Management and Product Management    \r\n■ Oversight over the Release Process of Utimaco's software portfolio \r\n■ Coordination with and support of certification activities \r\n■ Strategic management of continuous improvement activities for the CI/CD infrastructure \r\n■ Planning and execution of continuous improvement initiatives regarding the IT infrastructure \r\n■ Introduction of modern CI/CD concepts, e.g. containerized development environments and CI infrastructure, Kubernetes"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2022-09",
      "name": "FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences",
      "position": "Visiting Lecturer",
      "startDate": "2022-06",
      "summary": "Conducting a seminar and taking exams for the Aerospace Engineering Department in the subject area Automotive Engineering and Drive Technology."
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2022-04",
      "name": "Ducktrain",
      "position": "Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder",
      "startDate": "2018-10",
      "summary": "Responsibilities:   \r\n■ Developing and communicating the company's technical vision\r\n■ Management of all aspects of technological development, research and product development, as well as responsibility for these at a commercial level \r\n■ Budget planning and monitoring for the technical area \r\n■ Monitoring technological, social and scientific trends that could influence the company's business objectives, identifying opportunities and risks and deriving appropriate measures for the company \r\n■ Shaping the strategic direction and development of the company in the management team \r\n■ Personnel development and setting up development teams in the technical area ■ Strategic planning and further development of the technical infrastructure, the IT infrastructure, and equipment for the company \r\n■ Communication with authorities and inspection bodies to establish and ensure the approval process \r\n■ External presentation of the company, communication of technical development to customers, shareholders, investors and the public \r\n■ Organization and implementation of test drives  Supervision of the following teams:   \r\n■ Vehicle design \r\n■ Mechanical construction \r\n■ Electronics and electrics \r\n■ Software development \r\n■ Certification"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2019-09",
      "name": "PEM Aachen GmbH",
      "position": "Master Expert Software Engineering",
      "startDate": "2017-06",
      "summary": "Dealing with all aspects of autonomous and automated vehicles in an exciting environment"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2017-05",
      "name": "FEV GmbH",
      "position": "Project Leader Connected Mobility",
      "startDate": "2014-01",
      "summary": "■  Consulting with regard to connected mobility topics. \r\n■  Project lead for research and customer projects about connected mobility  \r\n■  Project management. Coordinated the setup of demonstrator vehicles and server systems showing the potential of car2car and car2cloud communication.    ■  Product management. Designed the functional basis for an in-vehicle middleware for connected mobility services.  \r\n■  HMI design. \r\n■  Server Systems. Coordinated the creation and setup of server systems for IoT services (i.e. electric vehicle range prediction, vehicle control center, measurement data acquisition services)"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2013-12",
      "name": "FEV GmbH",
      "position": "Senior Software Designer and Architect",
      "startDate": "2010-01",
      "summary": "■ Senior Software Architect for high quality, mandatory core .NET library components, responsible for standardisation and further modularisation of the existing code base. Conduction of peer reviews and quality enhancement workshops. ■ Research in the field of numerical methods and optimization"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2009-12",
      "name": "FEV GmbH",
      "position": "Project Leader Migration to .NET",
      "startDate": "2009-04",
      "summary": "Project leader of a project aiming at the reorganization of the software development infrastructure and at the migration to .NET (C#, C++/CLI)  \r\n■ Reorganisation of the software development process within the team, Establishment of coding standards and a modular software architecture. \r\n■ Development and implementation of a company-wide standardized highly available server concept for the source code management based on a virtual Windows server, Subversion and Apache, including MediaWiki software as knowledge database \r\n■ Standardisation of testing (NUnit) \r\n■ Concepts for the migration process from C++ and Matlab to C#/.NET, development of code generators for library wrapper code which allows the re-utilization of existing libraries written in Matlab and C++."
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2009-03",
      "name": "FEV GmbH",
      "position": "Software designer and C++ developer",
      "startDate": "2005-01",
      "summary": "Software designer and C++ developer in the so-called “Methodenteam” (Think Tank Department)  \r\n■ Development of new mathematical methods for engine control unit (ECU) calibration \r\n■ Requirements management and communication with internal and external customers \r\n■ Development of concepts for optimization methods based on large data sets, evaluation of vehicle and test bench measurement data and computation of ECU calibration data \r\n■ Design, implementation and maintenance of several software tools with graphical user interface (MFC / Visual Studio .NET 2003 - 2010) which support and automate the ECU calibration process, e.g. a high resolution pattern recognition engine measurement analysis program for cold start analysis and a universal tool for 3D measurement and calibration data visualization (based on OpenGL) and calculation utilities for the prediction of ECU behaviour (including scripting automation) \r\n■ Management of pilot projects and one of three lead appraisal projects for software quality assurance within the certification process for CMMI level 2 (now certified by SEI) and higher \r\n■ Development and optimization of standardized workflows for automotive measurement technologies, testing and selection of measurement equipment\r\n■ Scientific management and training of employees for the application of state-of-the-art measurement technology and in-house software tools. Production of training materials"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2004-12",
      "name": "FEV GmbH",
      "position": "CFD/CAE engineer",
      "startDate": "2004-01",
      "summary": "Computational Fluid Dynamics      \r\n■ Development of plugins and extensions for a commercial fluid simulation        software (STAR-CD) with the capability of parallel execution based on MPI        f77/C++ mixed code.     \r\n■ Generation of a moving grid model for computational fluid dynamics of        internal combustion engines     \r\n■ Creation of a code generator for the production of reliable interface code for a        hydrodynamic solver within the multi-body simulation software MSC ADAMS/Engine  IT-administration Linux      \r\n■ Automation of operating system setup and software installation (SuSE/RedHat)     ■ Development and maintenance of a reliable data backup solution     \r\n■ Service for and maintenance of system-wide installation of commercial CAE        software, license management, automation of simulation and analysis procedures"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2002-12",
      "name": "RWTH Aachen University of Technology",
      "position": "Research Assistant",
      "startDate": "1997-10",
      "summary": "Doctoral Studies in numerical methods for the simulation of short time physics in solids and fluids with a special focus on fluid-structure-interaction.  Development of a time implicit finite element solver generator for the FEM FCT method in modern C++."
    }
  ]
}