Florin Mihailescu - Program Lead Manager - Ambient Lighting

Böblingen, Germany

Experience

Jun 2023 - Present

1 year 9 months

Program Lead Manager - Ambient Lighting

Aris Licht Engineering

Main interface between Fuerda RnD, production plant, logistic and sales in China and customer in Germany
Driving and leading the team through all milestones from RFI/FRQ until SOP
Update program open issues and drive the teams to closure on those issues
Meet Program Gates through complete project milestone
Giving internal advices for lighting development, simulations and mechanical concepts
Leading following ambient lighting products with RGB modules for different Audi carlines: instrument panel, front/rear door and first/second seat row product with curved light guides

May 2022 - Dec 2022

8 months

Project Leader (Bauteilverantwortlicher) - Ambient Lighting

Aris Licht Engineering

Ambient lighting attached to the roof glass for Daimler/BMW with different glass shapes
Leading different ambient lighting pre-development projects
Driving mechanical, lighting, HW and SW teams through development
Representing the team in front of the customer
First contact with suppliers for prototype manufacturing
Budget control of complete projects

Jan 2021 - May 2022

5 months

Product Manager (Bauteilverantwortlicher) - Battery System

Aris Licht Engineering

Replacer for 4 months during parental leave of actual PM
Responsible for Porsche Cayenne battery system
Responsible of development tasks to achieve project milestones and goals of the project
Validation testing interpretation for mechanical assembly
Work close with all departments inside VW group

Nov 2016 - Present

8 years 4 months

Program Manager - Center Infotainment Display / Instrument Cluster

Aris Licht Engineering

Leading several Central Infotainment Displays projects for Porsche, Bentley and Lamborghini from RFI/RFQ faze until SOP
Update program open issues and drive the teams to closure on those issues
Meet Program Gates through complete project milestone
Leading the cross-functional project teams, and managing schedule/open issues to closure (including quality, cost, timing, customer satisfaction, etc.) by identifying, prioritizing, communicating and reducing risk utilizing all applicable processes, tools, systems and procedures
Driving internal reviews and giving final release approval for PPAPs/EMPBs and MDS
Update program milestones and reporting to Program Director inside LGE Europe
Prepare customer presentations and run main customer interface
Track tooling expenditures and update tooling matrix for investment recovery
Track commercial, production industrialization and logistics open issues in the internal escalation graphic
Review/evaluate project risks and implement counter measures/approved plan
Driving internal change management board for each project
Review and assist, if needed, internal/external test like S&R/vibration test, head impact (HIT), color matching, Cubing activities
Driving R&D, pre-series and series sample production with related team in production plant
Driving escalated EMC/EMV, flashing/debug activities for customer meetings
Driving design review meeting with customer after reviewing them internally
Assist global PMs/PLs in Germany and South Korea
Assist with cost saving workshops for running project
Support for complete group regarding lighting issue related to other projects (display, clusters, head up display etc.)

May 2013 - Oct 2016

3 years 6 months

Radolfzell, Germany

Senior Lighting Developer/Application Lead Engineer - Interior Lighting

TRW BCS Automotive

Management of product development for required functions (lighting design and mechanic)
Ensure technological and technical process know-how transfer as well as quality, cost and deadline targets within the area of responsibility
Optimization of existing development process together with lighting design
Contact with client (VW, Audi, Ford, Lamborghini) and tools manufacturer
Identify potential technical problems and implement timely corrective actions to ensure that commitments are reached and provide technical support to technical mechanical leader but also to the entire global network
Ensure support worldwide in TRW in development of the lighting surfaces using OptisWorks inside Solid Works
Development of lighting surfaces and light guides + LED/material choose
Single or multiconfiguration simulations in OptisWork, development of lighting components (e.g. light guides, reflectors), LEDs creation in OptisWork based on supplier data sheets, material creation in OptisWork, ray trace in OptisWork, detectors creation, light leakage and colorimetry analyse
Projects: steering wheel switches (with or without touch pads), main light switches, sun roof switches, hazard warning lamp switches, console panel switch modules, mobile phone inside car with lighting rubber diffuse material, mirror lift switches etc – for Audi, VW, Ford, Lamborghini

Apr 2011 - Apr 2013

2 years 1 month

Romania

Lighting Lead Design Engineer

Hella Lighting Romania

Project coordination in order to ensure customer requirements implementation in our products
Coordinating and supervising suppliers' activities in terms of quality, time and cost
Collecting and implementing lessons learned
Track all tests, managed by quality department to check implementation of technical requirements
In charge to ramp the development team (3 Mechanical Designers, 3 Drafters, 2 Laboratory engineers, 1 Electronics engineer, 1 Project Manager) and to ensure the implementation of company process, technical rules and lessons learned

Aug 2009 - Apr 2011

1 year 9 months

Romania

Optical - Mechanical Designer

Hella Lighting Romania

Preliminary preparement of calculations for optical specifications and development with Helios and Lucid Shape Optical software data
Current calculation for optics evaluations, choose of right LEDs; optics tolerances analyses
Establish and monitoring objectives with the product manager in terms of quality, costs and schedules
Constructive mechanical design solutions for devices, components and whole assemblies
Establish the design solutions based on CAD (Catia V5) provided by the client devices on the design, assembly, parts and surfaces, taking into account technical and economic aspects
Development of different automotive parts (beacons for mining, police, ambulance, construction; rear/head lamps for different OEM - VW, McLaren, Volvo, MAN, DAF, interior lamps for trucks, Day Time Running Lights, mirror signal lamp etc)
Tolerance analyses Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T)
FMEA involvement (in terms of design) for the entire assembly, based on customer requirements (APIS tool)
Development of Bill of Materials (BOM) in SAP/PDM environment
Continuous improvement, interpretation and implementation of relevant technical information received from the outside or inside
Organization data using SAP tools, PDM and Lotus
Preparations of different workflows for different orders using e-Procurement
Technical supporting of sales and marketing department
Proposals for improvements and consideration of measures needed on Environment and Safety
Design to cost activities in actual plant production
Old projects in bulb version upgraded with LEDs: quotation, concept and design release phase and follow up until 2 months in production

Jun 2006 - Aug 2009

3 years 3 months

Romania

Optical Mechanical Design Engineer

S.C. ELBA S.A.

Working at the current design projects for clients (Valeo projects) and for projects in aftermarket field
Lighting developments with OPTIS – SPEOS and Lucid Shape environment, light simulations, optic surfaces development, laboratory measurements, ray trace analyse
Collaboration with project colleagues in Development Department and team leader
Working with LEDs technology but also with bulbs
Interior building lighting development (offices, supermarkets) – luminous intensity calculated in DiaLUX software
Projects: architectural buildings product, streets light product, High Mounted Stop Lamp, rear lamps for clients like: Dacia – Renault, Skoda, BMW, Valeo