Karlheinz W.
Interim Head of Systems Engineering
Experience
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
1 year 3 monthsAltenstadt, Germany
Interim Head of Systems Engineering
Supplier of military power systems
- Led the Systems Engineering department with over 30 staff across 3 teams
- Operational support in defining and implementing SE processes
- Analyzing existing approaches and identifying improvement opportunities
- Planning resources and determining additional staffing needs
- Preparing process and role descriptions
- Coordinating collaboration with other departments
- Planning and coordinating training for staff (MBSE, RE, DOORS)
- Systematically developing goals and templates to implement efficient requirement-based systems engineering for new development projects
- Setting up and maintaining model structures in DOORS
- Creating an RM plan and user documentation
- Implementing custom procedures with DXL
- Environment and tools: DOORS, Excel, Power BI
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
1 year 2 monthsKirchdorf, Germany
Systems Engineering
LHB GmbH
- Deriving and documenting software requirements
- Analyzing flowcharts to translate into system and software requirements
- Advanced modeling with sequence diagrams
- Building a dashboard to display consistency and completeness
- Creating user documents
- Environment and tools: RV&S (PTC Integrity), Excel with PowerPivot, Power BI
Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 2 monthsGermany
Process Analysis and Improvement
Robert Bosch GmbH
- Consulting and coaching on process maturity according to ASPICE
- Data analysis and metrics, project management
- Ensuring conformity of work products and lifecycle data with automotive requirements according to ASPICE L2
- Analyzing issues for root causes in requirements, modeling, testing, and processes and identifying actions to reach process maturity level L2
- Developing an evaluation model to define and implement actions to address identified weaknesses in process and project
- Reviewing process measures, creating metrics for evaluation and assessment
- Introducing supporting measures for quality assurance
- Defining appropriate KPIs to ensure progress and quality
- Building a data model, preparing and analyzing data in Power BI
- Environment and tools: driver assistance system, Power BI, Excel, RTC, RQM, DOORS
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
8 monthsLippstadt, Germany
Systems Engineering, Process Analysis and Improvement
Forvia AG
- Leading and moderating ISO 26262 inspections, reporting progress during inspections
- Supporting data analysis, completeness, and progress control during inspection of work products for safety-relevant components (ASIL D)
- Leading and moderating inspection sessions with international teams
- Extracting data of various entities from the database
- Performing statistical analyses and forecasts, presenting burndown charts to measure progress
- Analyzing completeness and missing parts
- Environment and tools: driver assistance system, Power BI, Excel, Access, SharePoint
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
1 year 5 monthsRisch-Rotkreuz, Switzerland
Systems Engineering
Roche Diagnostics International
- Strategic consulting and operational support for restructuring in customer service and product development
- Introducing cross-functional systems engineering practices and data-driven processes in plant engineering for a medical analytics manufacturer and service provider
- Strategy consulting for the development and deployment of new laboratory equipment technologies
- Analyzing existing processes in development, cost management, and customer service
- Conducting structured interviews and data analysis to identify gaps to best practices
- Developing dashboards and KPIs for a data-driven approach to address stakeholder requirements
- Environment and tools: Google Office Suite, Smartsheet, Trello, Excel, Power BI, Retina (Code-Beamer)
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
3 monthsStuttgart, Germany
Systems Engineering and Processes
SMR
- Creating KPIs and metrics
- Analyzing processes and requirements documents for the development of camera-based mirror replacement systems for driver assistance in highly automated driving (ASIL B(D))
- Reviewing specification documents for consistency and uniformity
- Building dashboards for performance monitoring and process control for A-SPICE processes
- Natural language processing analysis using AI approaches to identify matches and inconsistencies in requirement texts
- Dashboards to monitor process progress and requirement coverage as a basis for decisions on further steps
- Environment and tools: camera-based mirror replacement system, MS Excel, Power Query and Power BI, DOORS (DXL)
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
1 year 8 monthsHamburg, Germany
Systems Engineering and Processes
Ibeo
- Process coaching and analytical support for integrating functional safety into the existing system
- Further development of a control unit for LiDAR applications and adapting it for new customers with integration of functional safety (ASIL-B)
- Analyzing processes, process and specification documents with a focus on integrating functional safety
- Implementing A-SPICE processes and creating metrics and KPIs
- Reviewing and restructuring specification documents
- Ensured integration of functional safety with safety concepts and traceable derivation of safety-relevant functions through sub-development processes
- Environment and tools: driver assistance system, PTC Integrity, MS Office (Excel), Power Query, Power BI
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
3 monthsMunich, Germany
Requirements Engineering and Data Analysis
Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles
- Introducing systems engineering concepts and requirements management with AI approaches
- Analyzing the existing approach
- Training and coaching employees on procedures and tool usage
- Developing required data structures for the new approach and AI approach, as well as corresponding KPIs and analyses
- Data-driven improvements to quotation and order processing
- Environment and tools: Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, DOORS (DXL)
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
7 monthsMunich, Germany
Requirements Engineering and Data Analysis
Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles
- Introducing systems engineering concepts and requirements management with AI approaches
- Analyzing the existing approach
- Training and coaching employees on procedures and tool usage
- Developing required data structures for the new approach and AI approach, as well as corresponding KPIs and analyses
- Data-driven improvements to quotation and order processing
- Environment and tools: Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, DOORS (DXL)
Summary
Project and program management, even under task force conditions; consulting and operational management for system development, stakeholder and requirements management processes, business, data, and financial analysis. For over 20 years in consulting and management, in various roles, open to new approaches and methods. Skilled in business, data, and financial analysis, maturity assessments, and improving software and product development processes with systemic thinking and an agile mindset. Comfortable with budget and personnel responsibility. Extensive experience in analyzing, developing, and improving processes and process performance, mainly in automotive, but also in other industries: such as IT services, defense, medical technology, logistics, aviation. All-rounder: strong conceptual and analytical skills, technical and commercial competencies in operational execution, proven conflict management.
- Process analysis and improvement, organizational and strategy development
- Stakeholder and product management
- Systems and requirements engineering
- Coaching and leading development teams, change management and team development
- Tech-savvy: expertise with applications for modeling, analysis, and visualization of data and relationships, business intelligence, value analysis
- Moderating workshops, intercultural experience
- Communicating technical and commercial initiatives to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Financial analysis and modeling, business case development
- Expert knowledge in DOORS, DXL, Excel, and Power BI (DAX, M)
For over 20 years in business analysis, requirements and stakeholder management for complex systems and IT solutions, systemic strategy consulting. Project management in an international environment with personnel and budget responsibility for IT infrastructure, system and software development, consulting and benchmarking. Analysis of development processes according to maturity models, coaching international development teams to achieve mature processes, also in agile environments. Creating KPIs for process control and analysis. Extensive automotive background with many years of experience in developing driver assistance systems, especially in areas with high integration of functional safety (ASIL): semi-autonomous and highly autonomous driving.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
AdvancedEducation
May 2013 - Oct 2015
TUM School of Management
Executive MBA, Digitalization · Munich, Germany
Nov 1984 - May 1990
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Diploma · Geophysics · Munich, Germany
Sep 1972 - Jul 1982
Gymnasium Pegnitz
Abitur · Pegnitz, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Financial Modelling and Valuation Analyst
CFI
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Certified Professional in Requirements Engineering
IREB
Applied Project Management Training for IBM WWPMM (World Wide Project Management Methodology)
IBM Training
Certified Systems Engineering Expert
Telelogic Academy
Certified Expert in Requirements Management Methodology
Provisional SPICE Assessor
Training and Certification for Solution Selling
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