Work Experiences
Undisclosed · 8 months
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.
Daixtrose Engineering · 4 years
Utimaco
3 years
2023 - 2025 · 3 years
■ R&D Maturity - Establish guidelines and engineering standards - Enhance overall developer experience together with IT
■ Technical Strategy - Align strategic technical developments and decisions with or between developer teams - Ensure Utimaco is moving towards common platforms that enable the business
■ 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
■ Tech Debt Management - Provide transparency about and coordinate continuous tech debt removal - Drive technical improvements that go across teams
2023 - 2024 · 1 year
■ Leading a team of 6-8 internal and external IT professionals, recruiting, contract management
■ Coordination with R&D Management and Product Management
■ Oversight over the Release Process of Utimaco’s software portfolio
■ Coordination with and support of certification activities
■ Strategic management of continuous improvement activities for the CI/CD infrastructure
■ Planning and execution of continuous improvement initiatives regarding the IT infrastructure
■ Introduction of modern CI/CD concepts, e.g. containerized development environments and CI infrastructure, Kubernetes
FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences · 3 months
Conducting a seminar and taking exams for the Aerospace Engineering Department in the subject area Automotive Engineering and Drive Technology.
Ducktrain · 4 years
Responsibilities:
■ Developing and communicating the company’s technical vision
■ Management of all aspects of technological development, research and product development, as well as responsibility for these at a commercial level
■ Budget planning and monitoring for the technical area
■ 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
■ Shaping the strategic direction and development of the company in the management team
■ 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
■ Communication with authorities and inspection bodies to establish and ensure the approval process
■ External presentation of the company, communication of technical development to customers, shareholders, investors and the public
■ Organization and implementation of test drives Supervision of the following teams:
■ Vehicle design
■ Mechanical construction
■ Electronics and electrics
■ Software development
■ Certification
PEM Aachen GmbH · 2 years
Dealing with all aspects of autonomous and automated vehicles in an exciting environment
FEV GmbH
13 years
2014 - 2017 · 3 years
■ Consulting with regard to connected mobility topics.
■ Project lead for research and customer projects about connected mobility
■ 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.
■ HMI design.
■ 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)
2010 - 2013 · 4 years
■ 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
2009 · 8 months
Project leader of a project aiming at the reorganization of the software development infrastructure and at the migration to .NET (C#, C++/CLI)
■ Reorganisation of the software development process within the team, Establishment of coding standards and a modular software architecture.
■ 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
■ Standardisation of testing (NUnit)
■ 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++.
2005 - 2009 · 4 years
Software designer and C++ developer in the so-called “Methodenteam” (Think Tank Department)
■ Development of new mathematical methods for engine control unit (ECU) calibration
■ Requirements management and communication with internal and external customers
■ 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
■ 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)
■ 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
■ Development and optimization of standardized workflows for automotive measurement technologies, testing and selection of measurement equipment
■ 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
2004 · 11 months
Computational Fluid Dynamics
■ 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.
■ Generation of a moving grid model for computational fluid dynamics of internal combustion engines
■ 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
■ Automation of operating system setup and software installation (SuSE/RedHat) ■ Development and maintenance of a reliable data backup solution
■ Service for and maintenance of system-wide installation of commercial CAE software, license management, automation of simulation and analysis procedures
RWTH Aachen University of Technology · 5 years
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++.