Engineering / Product / Program Management:
Engineering:
- Managing Automotive Tier1 projects, software product, maintenance, DevOps
- Automotive Electronic Control Unit (ECU), Base Software, Autosar, ADAS, Autonomous Driving, SoftwareDefined Vehicle, Central Compute Unit, Zone Controller, SoCs, POSIX, QNX, Infineon Aurix
- International project teams (Europe, US, India), developing experts, expert career definition, BCC transfer, engineering team build-up, matrix organization, indirect leading
- System engineering process definition including Functional Safety (ISO26262) and Cyber Security (now ISO21434), safety and security analysis of ADAS feature from top level to software/hardware requirements on ECU. Embedded Systems, interaction of software and hardware
- Software Development, C, C++, Swift, Xcode, ARM, RISC-V, V-Model, Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, Kanban
- Automotive Development Process Tier 1, Automotive standards: QS 9000, ASPICE, CMMI, ISO 26262, TÜV certifications, TISAX, Process definition, QA reviews.
- Successful outsourcing to suppliers and consultants
Project Management:
- PMI process areas, Project Definition and Change Process (CCB), Statement of Work, Project Monitoring and Escalations, Releases, project manager training, project manager supervision and mentoring
- Project management, resource allocation and prioritization, multi-project tool (Atlassian, JIRA, Confluence)
- MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, EXCEL
Product Management:
- Market analysis, portfolio management, product strategy definition, key component selection, reporting of product line P&L
- Network into German OEMs, Tier1s, Semiconductor and Software supplier
Sales:
- Technical sales, customer relationship management, Tier 1 RfQ process, offers, product calculation, business case, invoicing and tracing until payment
General Management:
- Budget definition and control, facility management, HR and hiring, talent management, supplier management, development and license contracts
What drives me?
- Drive and develop teams to project success
- Develop on technology edge
- Build-up structures, organizations and leadership
Core Competences:
General
- Acting as intermediary between engineering, management and finance
- Summarize and illustrate technical content to non-technical staff (e.g. finance, HR, etc.)
- Elicitation of technical expert knowledge into principles/models and translation into product and investment strategy
Engineering
- Automotive Electronic Control Unit platforms, Base Software and Software Tools
- Embedded Systems, Interaction between software and hardware
- Rapid diving into complex software and IT challenges
- Team build-up, mentoring software experts, and management of international teams
Project Management
- Successful project execution
- Automotive Development Processes Tier 1, partially OEM, and implementation of relevant Automotive standards: QS 9000, ASPICE, ISO 26262, TISAX
- Training project managers
Product Management
- Market analysis, portfolio management, and product strategy definition in line with company system strategy, reporting of product line P&L for platform and customer projects
- Network in Automotive (OEMs, Tier1s, semiconductor and software supplier)
- Technical sales
Leadership:
- International project teams
- up to 60 team members
- Locations: France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Romania, US, India
- Engineering team build-up
- Matrix organization up to director level for sales, purchase, product marketing, production, QA
- Elektrobit: assessment center definition and first implementation
Ownership Structures:
- Stock-Market
- Private Equity
Mergers and Carve-Outs:
- Integration of Lucas Verity into TRW: Software development integration
- Acquisition of Elektrobit by Continental: ?Customer Care? responsible for 3 Continental Business Units to replace basis software by Elektrobit Autosar
- Split of Veoneer from Autoliv: Managing of continuous operation during changes of approval flows and tools for IT, purchase, HR tools
- Carve-out of TASKING from Altium:
- Carve out TASKING Software Factory from Altium IT
- Supplier selection for IT outsourcing
- ?Managing ?of continuous operation during tool changes for IT, purchase, HR, traveling
Professional Experience
Sales:
- Customer relationship management
- Tier 1 RfQ process and offers
- Product Calculation
- Business Case
General Management:
- Budget Controlling
- Facility Management
- HR and Hiring
- Talent Management
- Supplier management
- Development and License Contracts
RnD:
- Managing Team
- Product Strategy and Key Components
- Project Definition and Change Process (CCB)
- Project Monitoring and Escalations
- Product Releases
Process Implementation and Audit:
- QS9000
- ASPICE, CMMI
- ISO 26262
- TISAX
Achievements:
- TRW:
- Guiding and driving successfully the software team to first SOP airbag ECU Fiat Punto 1999
- Peer reviews of complete airbag ECU software
- Autoliv:
- From engineer to technical sales, Automotive product and project management
- Booked Passive Safety Electronics business for BMW L6 (7,6,5 series) SOP 2008:
- Elektrobit:
- Challenged and acting as entrepreneur in manager role
- Base software development for Porsche Cayenne 4-wheel gear ECU SOP in time cost and quality
- Building up extended network to OEM RnD organization and recommended to consult Asian Tier 1 for entering European OEMs, achieved technical approvals.
- Customer Care for introduction of Elektrobit Autosar into 3 Continental Business Units
- Veoneer:
- Product release for 2 ADAS ECU projects ASIL B ISO 26262
- ECU platforms developed for Intel Denverton, Nvidia Xavier and TI Jacinto, the latter two in time cost and quality, successfully handed over to application projects
- Product strategy embedded in ADAS system strategy
- TASKING:
- Expanding software development competences to software product from requirements to delivery, covering DevOps/IT, license manager, multi-project organization, cost model.
- Outsourcing and freelancer
- ?The one-and-a-half-year at TASKING were my best time in my professional career!?, Alexey Kostyakov, RnD Team Manager reporting to me, at closure of TASKING?s Russian location.
- Recently:
- iOS? ?and MacOS app for Sudoku game in C++ and Swift