Skills & Competences

Soft skills

  • Able to build trust, empathic
  • Committed leader with team spirit
  • Adaptable, open minded and curious
  • Hands-on mindset, problem solver
  • Intercultural communication


Main skills

  • Business & sales management (P&L)
  • Customer, partner, supplier interface
  • Product / project management
  • Lead of international teams
  • Quality and risk management


Innovation

  • Innovation processes
  • Intellectual property
  • Several patent applications

Information Technology – IT

  • ERP, CRM, databases
  • Microsoft Windows, Linux
  • Microsoft/Open Office, Project
  • Software development, change management

Mobility

  • Business / customer segment leadership
  • Experience with many products in the body, chassis & safety, powertrain, tire and rubber technology domains
  • E/E vehicle architecture, HPC / zone controllers, smart infrastructure systems, tire pressure management systems, engine management systems
  • Product platform steering and product portfolio management
  • Product development and project management processes
  • Functional safety, hazard and risk analysis
  • Quality and production management processes

Languages

  • Union Jack

    English

    Fluent – main working language for 25+ years

  • French flag

    French

    Fluent –
    native language

  • German flag

    German

    Fluent – lived 7 years in Germany, including engineer studies

  • Spanish flag

    Spanish

    Basics

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Know-how & Methods

Know-how

  • Customer, partner, supplier management – strategy, stakeholder analysis, networking at all levels, contract negotiation, dispute resolution, crisis management
  • Sales management – strategic plan, analyses (e.g. white spots, SWOT), lead of requests for information/quotes (RFI/RFQ), business models
  • Financial management – analyses, costing, reverse calculation, budget management, indicators
  • Product and project management – innovation, prototyping, value analysis, complex developments, industrialization, life cycle management
  • Product platform steering and product portfolio management – requirement engineering, agile development
  • Management of international and multicultural teams – mentoring and coaching, personnel development
  • Quality assurance and risk management – IATF 16949

Methods

  • Hoshin Kanri (strategic plan deployment)
  • Business plan, business case analysis
  • Project planning, budget management
  • Value analysis, requirement engineering
  • Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
  • Functional safety, hazard and risk analysis – ISO 26262
  • Design for manufacturing (DFM)
  • Design to Cost (DTC)
  • Risk management (RM)
  • Simulation, modeling, rapid prototyping, benchmarking
  • Lean manufacturing, kanban, poka yoke, statistical process control (SPC)
  • Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing
  • Total quality management (TQM), 8D-report, DMAIC six sigma, root cause analysis, 5 why, fishbone diagram
  • Advanced product quality planning (APQP)
  • Gemba walks, continuous improvement (PDCA, kaizen)

Experience
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Activities

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Products & systems

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Products & systems

  • Architecture & networking
    access systems, body controllers, door control units, gateways, HPC + zone controllers, LED driver modules, smart antennas (connectivity, telematics, radio), wireless chargers

  • Safety & motion
    build to print services – up to ASIL D, chassis control units, safety & motion platform – HPC (high performance computer), smart infrastructure systems, tire information systems – TPMS

  • Smart infrastructure systems
    intelligent intersection, wrong-way driver detection, automated factory / valet parking (AFP/AVP), autonomous systems, cloud computing, AI, radars, lidars, cameras and services

References
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Car & truck makers

We have built trustful relations with almost all car & truck makers worldwide, involving complex developments and large programs.

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Other makers & Partners

We have worked with many other vehicle / equipment makers and infrastructure players, incl. strategic partnerships and innovation.

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Competitors & Suppliers

Competition is always running and turns into cooperation sometimes – active supplier management is key to remain competitive.