Technical due diligence

Role: Management Consultant

Customer: Intuitus Ltd.

Tasks

• Expert on technical due diligence for private equity companies within high-tech industries.

Supporting a start-up

Role: Business partner

Customer: [on request]

Tasks

• Supporting a start-up to scale the business in terms of new industry segments, markets, turn over, employees and facilities.
• Developing business goals and strategy, marketing strategy and product strategy.

Reorganization and implementation of new processes

Role: CTO

Customer: [on request]

Tasks

• Reorganization and implementation of new processes for the R&D department and product management in order to reduce software errors, improving test management, reducing time-to-market and to develop more customer-oriented products.
• This led to a 40% cost and development time reduction, 12% more turn over and a significant higher motivated team.

Implementing and executing processes

Role: Product manager consultant

Customer: CEVT

Tasks

• Defining, implementing and executing processes, methods and templates to develop a Geely and Volvo product strategy and product planning in order to define a common car architecture platform.
• The achieved aim was to establish a new engineering centre which is used by two different companies with systematic, synchronized methods for an optimized product development.

Implementing and executing a systematic process

Role: Maturity level manager

Customer: BMW Group

Tasks

• Implementing and executing a systematic process to improve the product quality by setting up special quality gates during the product development which contain detailed component specifications for testing and validation before every single milestone.

Executing a product independent systematic vehicle architecture process

Role: Product architect

Customer: MAN Bus & Truck 

Tasks

• Defining, implementing and executing a product independent systematic vehicle architecture process and a method to link total vehicle specifications to components and sales codes.
• This method improved the communication and decision-making process between several departments such as engineering, sales and product management.

Interims management for the quote request phase

Role: Program manager

Customer: Bang & Olufsen

Tasks

• Interims management for the quote request phase of different sound systems for several car OEM?s. Additionally, managing projects to get them back on the requested timeline in order to achieve the predefined start of production.
• Finally achieving a customer requested Automotive SPICE level for improving the software quality.

Several mechatronic car components

Program manager

Customer: Visteon

Tasks

• Interim manager for several mechatronic car components during the quote phase.
• Managing and coordinating the international project team, bill of material, customer requirements, quotes and quote presentations to the customer.

Governance of a complex mechatronic optional car equipment

Role: Project manager

Customer: AUDI

Tasks

• Governance of a complex mechatronic optional car equipment with a very high software complexity.
• The main goal was to manage a relatively new supplier in order to reach the high expectations of AUDI regarding timeline and product quality.
• Therefore, several processes were successfully defined, implemented and executed.