Experience
Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 11 months
- Analysis of domain-specific requirements considering the project goal (using DoorS as a tool)
- Deriving work packages and defining milestones based on the analysis
- Creating and continuously updating the project plan using MS Project
- Coordinating with departments and industrializing series production
- Reviewing and tracking milestones and work packages (MS Project, JIRA Confluence)
- Preparing monthly presentations on project planning, status, and outlook for management
- Coordinating prototype setups and tests as part of design verification
- Documenting all project activities including forecasts, analyses, recommendations, and plans (A-Spice compliant)
- Collaborating with sites in China and Thailand
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
10 months
- Independently developing and designing residential containers, office containers, construction containers, and tiny house variants
- Calculating and simulating the requirements specifications
- Designing the factory layout with two production lines
- Building 15 prototypes for the show area
- Optimizing manufacturing costs for series production
- Training and qualifying employees for series production
- Developing marketing strategies (marketing mix)
- Developing sales strategies for local and foreign markets
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
3 months
- Preparing, delivering, and following up on technical training in-person and online
- Creating and adapting training concepts and materials for in-person and online courses
- Enhancing teaching and learning programs in collaboration with vehicle manufacturers
- Getting familiar with the specifications of the vehicles and technologies to be trained, based on technical documentation
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
7 months
- Creating and monitoring milestones under time, cost, and quality constraints
- Supporting the overall project manager in mechanical and hardware scopes
- Reporting to internal and external stakeholders
- Detailed planning and allocation of work packages
- Identifying critical paths, project controlling, and progress reporting
- Conducting root cause analysis (RCA) after design verification
- Managing communication with customers and suppliers
- Supplier management for EMC filter scopes
- Planning resource allocation within the team
- Performing tolerance chain analysis and deriving fixture and assembly concepts
- Coordinating with interfaces in France, Hungary, Japan, India, and China
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
8 months
- Conducting market potential analysis and benchmarking
- Deriving demand for technical developments
- Calculating capital requirements for two prototypes
- Developing the E/E architecture in CAD and sizing electronic components, fuel cell, and drivetrain
- Writing the business plan and financing concept
- Preparing public project funding applications
- Building know-how in fuel cell technology
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
1 year 11 monthsFriedrichshafen, Germany
Hybrid
- Sub-project lead for rail hybrid systems (diesel/e-machine) and marine hybrid systems in the yacht segment
- In-house consulting: development, training, and implementation of a change management system
- Writing training materials for the change management process
- Implementation and training on PTC Integrity for requirements and change management
- Planning and managing work packages, prioritizing change requests, and documenting with PTC Integrity
- Status reporting to overall project manager and department head
- Planning resource allocation in the team
- Applying the V-model and the CMMI model
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
5 months
- Project management of e-motor development for BEV passenger cars and commercial vehicles
- Detailed planning of the project schedule and definition of work packages
- Reworking the LOP from earlier project phases
- Stakeholder analysis and escalation to higher levels
- Status reporting to internal decision-makers
- Monitoring quality criteria and managing the supplier in Slovenia
- Coordinating the e-machine assemblies in the prototype workshop
- Ensuring cost and deadline targets
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
1 year
- Design and selection of electronic components
- Developing the architecture and hardware interfaces
- Concept development for a compact, practical city car with low weight
- Writing assembly instructions and wiring harness routing guide on a Mini Cooper test vehicle
- Creating the master schedule for possible series development
- Conducting market potential analysis and writing the business plan
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
6 months
- Managing hinge scopes (FKL, HKL) and door hinges, as well as the sliding roof for the Audi A7
- Customer interface, managing suppliers in Czech Republic, England, Hungary, and Poland
- Tracking delivery dates and supplier management
- Meeting budget targets and milestones
- Managing prototype assemblies and executing the note-3 sampling
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
7 months
- Project management of front and rear tailgate body parts in aluminum design for Porsche Cayenne
- Responsible for 236 assembly parts (mechanical, electrical, electronic, mechatronic)
- Managing development partners and suppliers
- Task force: tracking delivery dates with challenging suppliers
- Meeting cost targets and milestones from design release to tool/milling release
Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
8 months
- Coordination of prototype builds in the seating area for VW Crafter
- Recording details and variants of vehicle seats and bench seats
- Capacity and resource planning in prototype construction
- Leading the project team and managing development partners and suppliers
- Tracking delivery dates and meeting cost targets and milestones
Feb 2012 - Jun 2015
3 years 5 months
- Calculation and simulation of exhaust systems
- Coordinating calculations and simulations
- Analysis of mechanical and thermomechanical properties
- Aligning concepts with interfaces
- Setting up and applying FEM calculation models
- Validating results with tests
Jun 2009 - May 2011
2 years
- Site analysis in Turkey for renewable energy investments (biogas, photovoltaics)
- Project development and financing solutions
- Advising investors on local market opportunities
- Sales partnership for combined heat and power plants up to 1 MW and biogas plants
Jul 2007 - Mar 2008
9 months
- Development and implementation of a prototype driver cab for DAF XF 107
- Aligning requirements with the client
- Coordinating prototype build and internal/external interfaces (Netherlands)
- Evaluating CFD flow analyses and CAE calculations
- Implementing the camouflage concept
- Preparing the setup for testing and trials
May 2000 - Jun 2007
7 years 2 months
- Concept development for lightweight modular construction for Audi A4 Cabriolet
- Development of a multifunctional rear module system
- Integration of electrical, hydraulic, and safety systems
- Detailed design using aluminum die casting
- Achieving high variability and modularity
- Series development of the A-pillar using hydroforming for Volvo C70 Cabriolet
- Coordinating interfaces in Sweden, Japan, England, and in-house
- Pre-development of alternative body and lightweight concepts (ScaLight and ATLAS projects)
- Idea workshops, benchmarking, patent research, and patent applications
- Designing and coordinating prototype production using hydroforming, laser joining, roll forming, and high-strength steel materials