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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jun 2024 - Present
1 year 8 months

Start-up & Venture Consulting

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  • Full organizational setup and growth management
  • Interim management
  • C-level as a service
  • Tech recruiting
  • Start-up consulting
  • Fundraising support
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany

Interim CPO/CTO Type 1 Audio-Haptics (Founding Member)

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  • Product management and strategy
  • Business development and organizational setup for a tech product company
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 1 month
Berlin, Germany

Senior Director Hardware Engineering

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Jul 2021 - Present
4 years 7 months
Berlin, Germany

Interim Management

2pm, Product & Project Management - Freelance and Consulting

  • Interim management
  • 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; Team Lead Smart Vehicle Engineering (interim)

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
  • Managing the transition of the manufacturing partner
  • Implementing hardware order fulfillment in the warehouse
  • Leading the cross-functional engineering team
  • Coordinating 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 HW with SW UX and overseeing HW/SW integration
  • Creating business cases for HW development
  • Researching customer segments and defining personas
  • Developing brand onboarding, upsell, and cross-sell strategies
  • Researching HW subscription models
  • Leading the internal team of engineers 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

  • Consumer electronics project management
  • Managing the development of hardware products with external development partners (ODM & CM)
  • Creating and maintaining the project plan, risk assessments, schedules, and resource utilization
  • Monitoring and communicating development progress, budgets, and product maturity in the development cycle
  • Planning and overseeing pre-series production in collaboration with contract manufacturers
  • Supporting production until stable series production
  • Hardware maintenance of products in mass production
  • Setting up and establishing development processes with external development partners (ODM Taiwan/China)
  • Adapting traditional project management methods and processes to 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 lifecycle processes
  • Process-based gate planning for series development
  • Project planning and documentation
  • Project controlling and reporting
  • Creating 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

  • Designing electrical power and traction converters
  • Leading a development team
  • Process-based qualification for series 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

  • Managing homologation and documentation processes
  • Conducting stage-gate reviews
  • Project documentation; time, cost, and resource planning
  • Creating project plans and resource estimations
  • Creating requirements and functional specification documents
  • Software-supported requirements management in DOORS

Skills

  • Proficient Use Of All Ms Office Products, Especially Google Office
  • Ibm Doors (Requirements Management), Sap/4p
  • Atlassian, Confluence, Jira, Asana, Miro
  • Traktor, Maschine, Komplete And Many Other Ni Software
  • Ableton Live, Logic Pro X, Adobe Photoshop
  • Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer
  • Car And Motorcycle Restoration

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 2001 - Jun 2006

Hochschule Darmstadt

Diploma in Industrial Engineering - Mechanical Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany

Oct 1991 - Jun 2000

Elisabethen-Gymnasium

General higher education entrance qualification · Mannheim, Germany

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