Andreas S. - Project Manager

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Mutterstadt, Germany

Experience

Apr 2025 - Present

5 months

Mülheim, Germany

Project Manager

Energy

Rollout/migration project
Established the migration team and defined the strategy
Managed the project

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

4 months

Friedrichshafen, Germany

Project Manager

Automotive

Rollout of a PLM system in a company that had never used one
Managed all PLM-related topics
Team size: 20

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024

1 year 4 months

Kassel, Germany

Program Manager AHTech

Aerospace

PLM carve-in
Managed all PLM carve-in topics
Team size: ~20 (over 3 teams, including 2 implementation partners and internal teams)

Jun 2022 - Sep 2023

1 year 4 months

Kassel, Germany

Program Manager ZFL

Aerospace

PLM migration from Axalant to Windchill and carve-out
Managed all IT, training, process, and migration topics
Completed the switch from Axalant to Windchill in under 12 months and planned next steps
Team size: ~20 (over 3 teams, including 2 implementation partners and internal teams)

Dec 2021 - May 2022

6 months

Program Manager

Automotive

PLM processes
Integration of PLM and PDM with production

Sep 2021 - May 2022

9 months

Munich, Germany

Program Manager DA

Aerospace

Project Management.
Archive a running PDM-system with implementing of all needed product life cycle (PLM) processes.

Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

5 months

Munich, Germany

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Automotive

Transfer BOM and Plan to Windchill PLM including all processes from Windchill to SAP.
Lead the Team to fullfill all necessary Tasks.

Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

3 months

Strategy Development

Nordex

Wind power plants.
Strategy to migrate Data after a takeover of a company.

May 2020 - Feb 2021

10 months

Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Pharma and medical technology

Miltenyi

Implement "SAP Change Service & Revision" where it never had been used.
Plan the project, prepare processes, start the change to the new work organisation, Inform the Stakeholder regarding the needs of organisational changes.
Team size: ~10.

Feb 2020 - Mar 2020

2 months

Darmstadt, Germany

Workshop

Workshop 5 days.
Migration from SAP including connected Systems and Processes like PDM and PLM (Windchill) to SAP HANA V5 and needed changes to all related processes.

Oct 2018 - Nov 2019

1 year 2 months

Altenberge, Germany

Project Manager

SCB

Organize the migration of Data for a go-live and manage the Cut-over and roll out of ONE R&D ONE PLM of 11 different departments at an international Company incl the Org. Change from a department working point of view to a companywide point of view.
Change Management and PLM in a Cloud solution.
Team size: ~8-20.
Budget: > 200k€/Month.

Oct 2017 - Sep 2018

1 year

Strategy Development

different companys

Find solutions for a transition into IioT (industrial internet of things) Change Management, Workshop: “What must be done to go to a cloud solution”, Migration and Cut over Planning, SLM.
Team size: ~4-20.

May 2016 - Oct 2017

1 year 6 months

Heidelberg, Germany

GlobalPLM Program Manager, Change Manager

ABB

International "Roll in" of different sites and organizations into a global IT-Environment (CAD,PDM,ERP,QS...) (Windchill, SAP, Infor…) with interdisciplinary and multi culture teams.
Manage the Change Process, the infrastructure Team and the different PLM Teams.
Stakeholder Management.
Team Management.
Organize 10 Go-Live per year incl Cut-over management and Data-Migration, SLM.
Strategy Workshops "how to integrate ECAD into the PLM-strategy", "ECAD Library's".
Change Management.
Discuss biweekly the global impact of changes with the teams.
Kick of meetings for new "Roll In's" and initiate the main tasks like analyses, collecting requirements, consolidation of product data, ERP-Interface.
"Sell" the project results to the stakeholder by implementing a "News-Letter".
Team size: ~50 (>3 different teams, 2 External and offshore teams, and internal team).

Jul 2015 - Mar 2016

9 months

Project Manager

Getrag / Magna

Data migration from Pro/E (Creo) to CATIA V5 and needed changes to all related processes within Windchill.
Define cut-over-plan for Data-Migration and go-live.
Stakeholder Management, organise the migration into the new system, find solutions with the difficult different parties.
Support the Teams to organize the necessary changes in the organization (Change Management).
Team size: <10.
Budget: < 100k€/Month.

Jul 2014 - Jun 2015

1 year

Project Manager

Develop SAP-PLM (ECTR) project in strategy of data cleansing and data classification.
Team size: < 10.
Budget: < 100k€/Month.

Jan 2013 - Jun 2014

1 year 6 months

Quseer, Egypt

ICT consulting

25% Administration of Windchill from oct. 2013 to Jun. 2014.
BP-Documentation, BP-Live cycle.
Change learning in French.
BPM with openHPI.
ICT consulting in Egypt / El Qusir.
Business analyses and modelling of IT process.
Reorganization of the IT-Department.

May 2012 - Dec 2012

8 months

Wolfsburg, Germany

Project manager

Reorganization, design and construction of the brand internal Incident, Problem and Requirement management environment in Teamcenter.
Support of CONNECT-Project (Windchill based) team.
Feasibility studies, effort estimation.

Mar 2010 - May 2012

2 years 3 months

Qena, Egypt

Project Manager

GIZ / CIM, QCWW

Project coordinator for the customization, integration and commissioning of a business software.
Inter cultural training in Arab culture by GIZ.
Rebuild the Structure of the IT department with 24 Employee.
Defining the IT infrastructure.
Strategy to move to a Cloud solution.
Defining the procedures for the use of business software.
Project communication, quality assurance and acceptance.
Support the range FI / CO and HR in defining their requirements towards IT.
Advising the Chairman.
Consulting on various projects: SLM.
Team size: < 25.
Budget: > 500kEGP/Month.

Jan 2009 - Aug 2009

8 months

Stuttgart, Germany

Remote

Business development

Airbus CIMPA

Business development for the integration of processes in the remote construction in product development.
Delivering solutions to remote construction and the associated remote PDM processes.
Definition of the required infrastructure for remote construction.
Business Process Management.
Based on Windchill implementation of PDM systems.
Data Migration and Cut Over Planing SLM.

Apr 2008 - Dec 2008

9 months

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Project manager

International Roll Out-Project „Access IT“ for control of access rights in the chemical industry.
Analyses of existing global processes and their modelling.
Coordination and communication working with product development and product management.
Coordination and communication working with interfaces and satellite systems.
Data Migration and Cut Over Planning.

Mar 2008 - Aug 2008

6 months

Wolfsburg, Germany

Project manager

Support the project manager for the project "Windchill migration".
Usecase definition of test cases.
Migration test coordination.
Advisor for problem management.

Nov 2006 - Mar 2008

1 year 5 months

Wolfsburg, Germany

Project Management / Support the project manager

H&D

“CAD methods for K-PDM” program for introduction of Teamcenter.
Project coordination and organization of one interdisciplinary team with up to 30 external Employee.
Quality control of the software.
System analyse of Meta data, periphery systems and interfaces.
Coordination with partners from other systems.
BPM for new business cases.
Data Migration and Cut Over Planning.

May 2004 - Nov 2006

2 years 7 months

Germany

Project manager

Aerospace Group

Consulting on various projects.
Support for introduction of SAP in cooperation with IT service providers.
Requirements analysis for hardware and necessary interfaces to legacy systems and inventory data.
Project management change, the communication server on Linux server.
Project management "PDM implementation in electrotechnical operation".
Preparation windchill on UNIX.

Nov 2002 - May 2004

1 year 7 months

Mannheim, Germany

PDM consultant and project manager

Industriehansa

Implementation of PDM systems.
Project coordination and organization of one interdisciplinary team with up to 5 Employee; responsible for 200T€ / year.
Implementing new PDM-systems and PLM-Methods BPM and Business Process analyse and implementing new processes under support of the PDM-Software.
System analyse of Meta data, periphery systems and interfaces.
Coordination with partners from other systems.
Business Development and implementing new training Programs.
Change management at the implementation of the new Business Process in the supported organisation.
Data Migration and Cut Over Planning.

May 1998 - Oct 2002

4 years 6 months

Germany

PDM consultant and project manager

PTC and CPVision

Implementation of PDM systems.
Project coordination and organization of one interdisciplinary team with up to 5 Employee; responsible for 200T€ / year.
Implementing new PDM-systems and PLM-Methods BPM and Business Process analyse and implementing new processes under support of the PDM-Software, Roll out, Roll out support and Trainings.
System analyse of Meta data, periphery systems and interfaces.
Business Development and implementing new training Programs.
Change Management Training at EWA in Koblenz.
BPM for new business cases.
Data Migration and Cut Over Planning.

Jan 1990 - Dec 1998

9 years

Germany

Activity beside Studies

Process analysis in a KAIZEN environment.
Team building.
Conflict management.
Communication and coordination.
Resource planning.

Summary

Diverse experience and in-depth knowledge in international and multicultural project management, mainly in North America, Europe, and the Arabic region. Comprehensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience, e.g. in PLM, project management, conflict management, and change management.

Managing international large-scale projects, program management, PLM/ERP transformations, PLM migrations, international and cross-cultural project management, business analysis, change management, PLM and ERP integration, rollout management, carve-out and integration of company divisions, AI and PLM, smart manufacturing, industry of the future, ITIL know-how, worldwide.

Main focus is on developing, designing, and building structures, processes, and strategies for teams; processes in projects; communication and organizational processes; and project management in large-scale projects.