Emad S.-Technical Project Lead & Management Consultant | HW/SW Product Development | Project Management | Functional Leadership | Agile
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Project Lead / AI Product & Strategy Lead
emireh GmbH
DOKKI
AI-powered digital health product development
- Shaped the product vision, requirements, priorities, and technical target architecture of an AI-powered solution for processing medical documents.
- Designed LLM evaluation, data processing, data protection/governance aspects, and subsequent product development; technical prototyping with Codex.
Product Owner & Technical Consultant
Enorise GmbH / End customer confidential
Digital Operations Test Bed
Product Owner until 06/2026; functional and conceptual consulting since 07/2026
- Provided functional leadership to an interdisciplinary hardware and software development team of up to 12 developers and testers for an industrial test bench solution.
- Translated customer requirements into technical implementation concepts; worked with subject matter experts on software architecture and overall system architecture and made product-level architecture decisions.
- Managed the roadmap, backlog, prioritization, acceptance criteria, and coordination between the customer, development, and suppliers for a hybrid solution combining test bench hardware/software and Microsoft Azure.
- Increased the requirements-based delivery rate by up to 100 % compared with the baseline, measured using formally accepted requirements; total project volume approx. 5 Mio. €.
- Since July 2026, providing functional and conceptual support to the new Product Owner in the further development of the project.
Project and Delivery Management
SEMYOU GmbH
Project and delivery management in customer engagements: SaaS rollouts for three customers, multiple live migrations (800+ active projects and approx. 4 Mio. processes per round), and international project management.
Project Manager, Product Owner & Lead Scrum Master
AUDI AG
Internal development software · CAE data management, requirements management, XiL data management
- Supported the transformation of a traditional software project into an agile setup with five Scrum teams; coached the teams and Product Owners and introduced clear roles and transparent backlogs.
- Managed the project across five teams with more than 20 developers; development portfolio with annual budgets totaling more than 750 Tsd. €.
- Managed requirements and priorities for CAE data management as Product Owner; enabled the production rollout of an XiL platform as Project Manager after several years of pre-development.
Development Engineer & Sub-Project Lead Occupant Safety
AUDI AG
Technical vehicle development, especially Audi Q4 e-tron
- Developed technical concepts and requirements, made system decisions, and coordinated simulation, testing, and development service providers for frontal occupant safety.
- Provided functional leadership to an external simulation/test team of up to five specialists and coordinated knowledge transfer to a Chinese development team.
Research Associate
Technische Universität München
Vehicle engineering, research and development projects
- Research and simulation of vehicle structures, crash compatibility and safety concepts in interdisciplinary development projects.
- Mentoring of 21 student research and thesis projects; teaching vehicle development and simulation.
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Experienced in Automotive, Information Technology, Education, Manufacturing, and Healthcare.
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Experienced in Product Development, Project Management, Information Technology, and Research and Development.
Summary
Experienced technical project lead and management consultant with a strong background in hardware and software development. Many years of experience managing complex development projects, providing functional leadership to interdisciplinary teams, designing technical solutions, and implementing product strategies. Combines technical understanding with a business perspective, structured problem analysis, and experience coaching agile development teams.
Skills
- Technical Strategy & Target Architecture
- Hw/Sw Integration
- Product And Requirements Management
- Functional Team Leadership
- Agile Transformation & Coaching
- Stakeholder And Supplier Management
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Requirements Management
- Architecture Alignment
- Jira
- Confluence
- Azure Devops
- Microsoft Azure
- Cae/Fem (Technical Background)
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Education
Technische Universität München
Dr.-Ing. · Mechanical Engineering / Automotive Engineering · Munich, Germany
RWTH Aachen
M.Sc. · Automotive Engineering · Aachen, Germany
Universität Teheran
B.Sc. · Mechanical Engineering · Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Emad is based in Essen, Germany.
Emad speaks the following languages: Persian (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced).
Emad has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Emad has worked in at least 6 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 3 months. Note that Emad may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Emad would be well-suited for roles such as: Project Lead / AI Product & Strategy Lead, Product Owner & Technical Consultant, Project and Delivery Management.
Emad's most recent position is Project Lead / AI Product & Strategy Lead at emireh GmbH.
In recent years, Emad has worked for emireh GmbH, Enorise GmbH / End customer confidential, SEMYOU GmbH, and AUDI AG.
Emad is most experienced in industries like Automotive, Information Technology, and Education. Emad also has some experience in Manufacturing and Healthcare.
Emad is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Project Management, and Information Technology. Emad also has some experience in Research and Development.
Emad has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Automotive.
Emad has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development.
Emad holds a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering / Automotive Engineering from Technische Universität München, a Master in Automotive Engineering from RWTH Aachen and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Universität Teheran.
Emad has 3 certificates. These include: Google Project Management Certificate, Professional Scrum Product Owner I, and Professional Scrum Master I.
Emad will be available part-time from November 2026.
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