Petre - florin M.
Program Lead Manager – Ambient Lighting
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
1 yearProgram Manager – Batteries (EV-Electric Vehicle)
Da Vinci Engineering
- Main interface between customer, stakeholders and internal cross-functional teams (software, hardware, mechanical and suppliers)
- Ticket management of internal and customer problems using Jira
- Lead pre-analysis team to conduct first analysis and assignments of tickets to the responsible person and/or departments
- Define the interfaces of the problem resolution management process to engineering, change-request management and project management processes
- Facilitate regular meetings to track root-cause analysis and problem resolutions
- Monitoring project progress and identify deviations in time, scope, cost and quality
- Leading the projects through all quality gates and milestones until SOP
- Forecast, resource planning, controlling and cost estimation for running projects, new RFQs and customer changes
- Weekly reporting the project status to the Program Director
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
1 year 4 monthsProgram Manager - Interior/Exterior Lighting
Fuerda Fuyulong
- Program lead for ambient lighting systems and Head Up Display in multiple Audi carlines
- Coordinated with R&D teams in China and Germany across development, validation, logistics, and sales
- Driving and leading the team through all milestones from RFI/FRQ, validation gates, sample deliveries until SOP
- Update program open issues and drive the teams to closure on those issues
- Meet program gates through complete project milestone
- Leading and prioritizing activities inside Jira and Connect inside the company and for customer communication
- Leading worldwide team of 30+ members
- Responsible for project budgets of $4M+
- Leading future business strategy inside the company
- Monitoring budget performance and developing optimization suggestions
- Weekly reporting the project status to the Europe Business Unit Manager
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
4 monthsProject Manager – HUD/Headlamps/rear lamps at Königsegg
Da Vinci Engineering
- Leading products strategy inside Königsegg for future design strategies
- Driving the team through the HUD, headlamp and rear lamp pre-development process
- Responsible for development tasks to achieve project milestones and goals
- Gates to be achieved until first master sample car
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
6 monthsProject Manager - Battery system
Porsche Engineering
- Replacer for 6 months during parental leave of actual PM
- Responsible for Porsche Cayenne battery system
- Responsible for development tasks to achieve project milestones and goals
- Validation testing interpretation for mechanical assembly
- Ticket tracking inside Jira for internal and customer communication
- Prioritize problem root cause analysis in line with taskforce priorities
- Align internal problems via tickets with all suppliers and report to customer
- Work closely with all departments inside VW group
Nov 2016 - Present
9 years 2 monthsProgram Manager - Center Infotainment Display/Instrument Cluster
LGE Electronics
- Leading more than 20 products for Porsche, Bentley and Lamborghini from RFI/RFQ through all milestone gates until SOP
- Update program open issues and drive the teams to closure on those issues
- Leading worldwide cross-functional teams (South Korea, Vietnam, USA and Europe) for R&D (mechanical, hardware, software), quality, production, logistics, sales and purchasing
- Managing schedule and open issues to closure by identifying, prioritizing, communicating and reducing risk using applicable processes, tools, systems and procedures
- Main customer interface
- Driving internal reviews and giving final release approval for IMDS and PPAPs/EMPBs
- Update program milestones and reporting to Program Director inside LGE Europe
- Prepare customer presentations and act as main customer interface
- Track tooling expenditures and update tooling matrix for investment recovery
- Track commercial, production industrialization and logistics open issues
- Review and evaluate project risks and implement countermeasures
- Drive internal change management board for each project
- Review and assist internal/external tests like S&R, vibration test, head impact, colour matching, cubing activities
- Drive R&D, pre-series and series sample production with production plant team in Vietnam
- Drive escalated EMC/EMV, flashing and debug activities for customer meetings
- Coordinate with customer regarding problem tickets and plan internal and customer problems via tickets in Jira
- Drive internal transfer system for PFIFF ticket to KPM
- Lead worldwide team of 8 to 32 members
- Responsible for project budgets of $10M+
- Assist with cost saving workshops for running projects
May 2013 - Oct 2016
3 years 6 monthsProject Engineer - interior lighting
TRW BCS Automotive
- Management of product development for required functions (lighting design and mechanics)
- Ensure technological and technical process know-how transfer as well as quality, cost and deadline targets
- Optimization of existing development processes together with lighting design
- Contact with clients (VW, Audi, Ford, Lamborghini) and tools manufacturers
- Identify potential technical problems and implement timely corrective actions
- Provide technical support to technical mechanical leader and the global network
- Ensure worldwide support in development of lighting surfaces using OptisWorks inside SolidWorks
- Conduct single and multi-configuration simulations, develop lighting components (light guides, reflectors), create LEDs based on supplier data sheets, material creation, ray tracing, detector creation, light leakage and colorimetry analysis
- Projects included steering wheel switches, main light switches, sun roof switches, hazard warning lamp switches, console panel switch modules, mobile phone lighting, mirror lift switches, HUD for Audi, VW, Ford and Lamborghini
Aug 2009 - Apr 2013
3 years 9 monthsLighting Developer - exterior lighting
Hella Lighting Romania
- Preliminary preparation of calculations for optical specifications and development with Helios and LucidShape Optical software
- Conduct current calculations for optics evaluations, select LEDs and analyse optics tolerances
- Establish and monitor objectives with product manager in terms of quality, costs and schedules
- Construct mechanical design solutions for devices, components and assemblies
- Establish design solutions based on CAD (Catia V5) provided by client, considering technical and economic aspects
- Develop automotive parts: beacons, rear and head lamps for OEMs (VW, McLaren, Volvo, MAN, DAF), interior lamps for trucks, day time running lights, mirror signal lamps
- Perform geometric dimensioning and tolerance analyses
- Involved in FMEA for entire assembly based on customer requirements
- Develop bill of materials in SAP/PDM environment
- Continuous improvement and implementation of technical information
- Organize data using SAP, PDM and Lotus
- Prepare workflows for orders using e-procurement
- Provide technical support to sales and marketing department
- Propose improvements and environmental and safety measures
- Perform design to cost activities in plant production
- Upgrade old bulb projects to LEDs: quotation, concept and design release, follow-up until two months in production
Jun 2006 - Aug 2009
3 years 3 monthsOptomechanical designer - exterior lighting
Elba Lighting Romania
- Work on design projects for clients (Valeo) in aftermarket field and street/building lighting development
- Perform lighting developments with DiaLUX, OPTIS – SPEOS and LucidShape environments, conduct light simulations, optic surface development and laboratory measurements
- Collaborate with development department colleagues and team leader
- Work with LEDs and bulbs technologies
- Develop interior building lighting solutions (offices, supermarkets) with luminous intensity calculations in DiaLUX
- Collaborate closely with Valeo on project development strategies
- Projects included architectural building products, street lights, High Mounted Stop Lamp, rear lamps for clients like Dacia, Renault, Skoda, BMW and Valeo
Summary
- 18+ years in the automotive industry, with 12+ years in leadership/program management.
- Delivered 30+ projects from RFQ to SOP, with global, cross-functional teams of 30+ people.
- Expertise across a wide product portfolio: headlamps, rear lamps, RGB ambient lighting, switches, Center High-Mount Stop Lights, head-up display, infotainment displays, instrument clusters, batteries, and decorative interior parts.
- Experience working with OEMs: Audi, VW, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Ford, Dacia, Skoda, MAN, Krone, Königsegg.
- Strong command of project/program budgets (€10M+), quality gates, cost optimization, and team coaching.
- Proficient in SAP, Jira, Confluence, PFIFF, KPM, Connect, Polarion, TeamCenter, Catia, NX, LucidShape, Optis, DiaLUX, Microsoft Office, APIS, LION, WIN, BeOn and more.
- Waterfall and Agile methodology together with automotive standards (ASPICE, IATF 16949), Autosar, APQP and certificated Scrum Master.
- Strong soft skills: reliable, organized, team-driven, customer-focused, adaptable, and an excellent communicator.
Languages
Romanian
NativeGerman
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2007 - Jun 2009
Politehnica University - Mechanical Faculty
Master, Computer Aided Design of the Advanced Mechanical Systems (CAD) – in English · Timișoara, Romania
Oct 2001 - Jun 2007
Politehnica University - Mechanical Faculty
Diplom Engineer · Technology Constructions of Machines · Timișoara, Romania
Certifications & licenses
MS Office 2000
ELINF Timisoara
APQP & Plan Control Manual
Advanced Modeling with Catia V5
Advanced Part Modeling with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
Drawing with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
Driving license
FMEA
Interactive Surface Design with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
Lighting software design – Helios, OptisWork
Optis training
OptisWork Engineering in Stuttgart
PPAP Manual
Project management
Unigraphics UG 7.5 training
HBB Stuttgart Engineering
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