Alexander S.

Start-up & Venture Consulting

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jun 2024 - Present
1 year 3 months
Berlin, Germany

Start-up & Venture Consulting

immersive-people.com

Comprehensive organizational setup and growth management, interim management, C-Level as a Service, tech recruiting, start-up advisory, fundraising support

Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany

Interim CPO/CTO

icon/incar

Typ.1 audio-haptics (Founding member)

Product management and strategy

Business development and organizational setup of a tech product company

Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 1 month
Berlin, Germany

Senior Director Hardware Engineering

icongroup

Jul 2021 - Present
4 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany

Interim Management

2pm

Training and consulting; case consulting

Agile methods in hardware and product development

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
1 year 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Senior Product Manager Vehicle & Hardware

unu motors

Transitioning the e-scooter prototype into pre-series and mass production

Establishing and synchronizing agile methods in embedded vehicle engineering

Evaluating similarities and differences between B2C and sharing scooters (B2B)

Establishing the hardware product manager role in a software-dominated environment

Managing production quality of the Chinese manufacturing partner

Preparing and supporting global support pre-release

Establishing product communication for marketing and sales

Supporting the change of manufacturing partner

Implementing hardware order fulfillment in the warehouse

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
1 year 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Team Lead Smart Vehicle Engineering (interim)

unu motors

Leading the cross-functional engineering team

Cross-department sprint and quarterly planning (ME, EE & SW)

Creating the technology and engineering roadmap

Introducing agile methods in mechanical engineering

Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
2 years 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Hardware Product Manager

Native Instruments

Evaluating ROI based on features

Aligning hardware with software UX and overseeing hardware/software integration

Creating business cases for hardware development

Analyzing customer segments and defining personas

Creating brand onboarding, upsell, and cross-sell strategies

Exploring hardware subscription models

Leading the internal team of developers and designers

Managing and coordinating with the external development team of the ODM partner

Controlling and managing the development budget

Oct 2015 - Nov 2019
4 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany

Hardware Project Manager

Native Instruments

Project management for consumer electronics

Managing hardware product development with external development partners (ODM & CM)

Creating and maintaining project plans, risk assessments, schedules, and resource allocations

Monitoring and communicating development progress, budgets, and product maturity throughout the development cycle

Planning and overseeing pre-series production in collaboration with contract manufacturers

Supporting production until stable mass production

Hardware maintenance of products in mass production

Establishing and implementing development processes with external partners (ODM Taiwan/China)

Transferring traditional project management methods and procedures into an agile corporate context

Projects/Products: Maschine JAM, MCU platform investigation project, Smart-Fusion platform development, EOL product closing

Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
11 months
Berlin, Germany

Project Planner / Controller & PMO

Bombardier Transportation

Electric traction motors / gearboxes

Defining development process lifecycles

Process-based gate planning for series development

Project planning and documentation

Project controlling and reporting

Developing a standard document list with phase assignments in coordination with design QA in the internal stage-gate process

Feb 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 9 months
Mannheim, Germany

Technical Project Manager & Project Planner/Controller

Bombardier Transportation

Design of electrical power and traction converters

Leading a development team

Process-based qualification for serial production

Project planning, documentation, as well as project controlling and reporting

Sep 2012 - Jan 2013
5 months
Mannheim, Germany

Documentation & Process-Engineer, Primove Wayside

Bombardier Transportation

Inductive charging systems

Managing homologation and documentation processes

Conducting stage-gate reviews

Project documentation; time, cost, and resource planning

Creating project plans and resource estimates

Preparing requirements and specifications documents

Tool-based requirements management in DOORS

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 2002 - Jun 2008

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

Diploma · Industrial Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany

Oct 1992 - Jun 2001

Elisabethen-Gymnasium, Mannheim

Mannheim, Germany

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