Alexander S.-Start-up & Venture Consulting
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Experience
Start-up & Venture Consulting
immersive-people.com
- Full organizational setup and growth management
- Interim management
- C-level as a service
- Tech recruiting
- Founding support
- Fundraising support
Interim CPO/CTO Type 1 Audio-Haptics (founding member)
icon/incar
- Product management and strategy
- Business development and organizational setup for a technical product company
Senior Director Hardware Engineering
icongroup
- Prototyping consultancy
- Agile hardware/software development
Interim Management
2pm, Product & Project Management - Freelance and Consulting
- Interim management
- Training and consulting
- Case consulting
- Agile methods in hardware and product development
Senior Product Manager Vehicle & Hardware; Team Lead Smart Vehicle Engineering (interim)
unu motors
- Transferring the e-scooter prototype into pre-series and mass production
- Establishing and aligning agile methods in embedded vehicle engineering
- Evaluating the commonalities and differences between B2C and sharing scooters (B2B)
- Establishing the hardware product manager role in a software-driven environment
- Managing manufacturing quality at the Chinese production partner
- Preparing and supporting global support before release
- Establishing product communication for marketing and sales
- Supporting the change of production partner
- Implementing hardware order fulfillment in the warehouse
- Leading the cross-functional engineering team
- Cross-department sprint and quarterly planning (ME, EE & SW)
- Creating the technology and engineering roadmap
- Introducing agile methods in mechanical engineering
Hardware Product Manager
Native Instruments
- Evaluating ROI based on features
- Aligning HW with SW UX and supporting HW/SW integration
- Creating business cases for HW development
- Analyzing customer segments and defining personas
- Creating brand onboarding, upsell, and cross-sell strategies
- Exploring HW subscription models
- Leading the internal team of developers and designers
- Coordinating and aligning with the external development team of the ODM partner
- Controlling and managing the development budget
Products released to market: Traktor Kontrol S3, Traktor Kontrol S2, Maschine JAM End-of-life: Native Instruments Maschine MK2 & MK2 mikro Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S5 Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S4MK2 & S2MK2
Senior Hardware Project Manager & Product Lifecycle Manager
Native Instruments
- Project management for consumer electronics
- Managing the development of hardware products with external development partners (ODM & CM)
- Creating and maintaining the project plan, risk assessments, deadlines, and resource allocation
- Monitoring and communicating development progress, budgets, and product maturity in the development cycle
- Planning and controlling pre-series production together with the contract manufacturers
- Supporting manufacturing until stable series production is reached
- Hardware maintenance of products in mass production
- Building and establishing development processes with external development partners (ODM Taiwan/China)
- Translating classic project management methods and processes into an agile company context
- Projects/products: Maschine JAM; MCU platform investigation project; Smart-Fusion platform development; EOL product closing
Project Planner / Controller & PMO
Bombardier Transportation
- Electric traction motors / gearboxes
- Defining development lifecycle processes
- Process-driven gate planning for series development
- Project planning and documentation
- Project controlling and reporting
- Developing a standard document list with phase assignment in coordination with Design QA in the internal stage-gate process
Technical Project Manager & Project Planner/Controller
Bombardier Transportation
- Design of electric power and traction converters
- Leading a development team
- Process-driven qualification to series product
- Project planning, documentation, as well as project controlling and reporting
Documentation & Process Engineer, Primove Wayside
Bombardier Transportation
- Managing homologation and documentation processes
- Conducting stage-gate reviews
- Project documentation; time, cost, and resource planning
- Creating project plans and resource estimates
- Creating requirements and specifications documents
- Software-supported requirements management in DOORS
Industry experience
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Experienced in Manufacturing, Information Technology, Professional Services, Media and Entertainment, and Automotive.
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Experienced in Product Development, Project Management, Strategy, Operations, Production, and Quality Assurance.
Skills
- Proficient With All Ms Office Products, Especially Google Office
- Atlassian, Confluence, Jira, Asana, Miro
- Traktor, Maschine, Komplete And Many Other Ni Software
- Ableton Live, Logic Pro X, Adobe Photoshop
- Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer
- Vehicle And Motorcycle Restoration
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Education
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Diploma in Industrial Engineering - Mechanical Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany
Elisabethen-Gymnasium
University Entrance Qualification · Mannheim, Germany
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Alexander is based in Berlin, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.
Alexander speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary), French (Elementary).
Alexander has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Alexander has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 4 months. Note that Alexander may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Alexander would be well-suited for roles such as: Start-up & Venture Consulting, Interim CPO/CTO Type 1 Audio-Haptics (founding member), Senior Director Hardware Engineering.
Alexander's most recent position is Start-up & Venture Consulting at immersive-people.com.
In recent years, Alexander has worked for immersive-people.com, icon/incar, icongroup, 2pm, and Product & Project Management - Freelance and Consulting.
Alexander is most experienced in industries like Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Professional Services. Alexander also has some experience in Media and Entertainment and Automotive.
Alexander is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Project Management, and Strategy. Alexander also has some experience in Operations, Production, and Quality Assurance.
Alexander has recently worked in industries like Professional Services, Information Technology, and Manufacturing.
Alexander has recently worked in business areas like Product Development, Project Management, and Strategy.
Alexander holds a Master in Industrial Engineering from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
Alexander is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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