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Ihringen, Germany

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Experience

Jan 2014 - Present

Senior Consultant

Freelance Senior Consultant

Position summary
Senior Consultant at Freelance Senior Consultant
Industries
Professional Services
Business areas
Strategy
Jan 1999 - Dec 2023

LITEF GmbH (Northrop Grumman)

Position summary
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business areas
Operations
Product Development
Quality Assurance
  • Quality Process Engineer Black Belt (2010–2023)

  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (2007–2010)

  • Production Engineering Team Leader (2000–2007)

  • Development Engineer (1999–2000)

  • Implemented and maintained ISO 9001/9100 quality management processes

  • Led cross-functional teams in production engineering and process optimization

  • Designed and executed Six Sigma projects to reduce defects and improve cycle times

  • Developed engineering solutions and prototypes in communications engineering

  • Coordinated requirements engineering, verification, validation, and system testing

  • Participated in EASA audits and hardware/software certification according to DO-178 and DO-254 standards

Jan 1988 - Dec 1999

Senior Engineer

University of Wuppertal

Position summary
Senior Engineer at University of Wuppertal
Industries
Education
Telecommunication
Business areas
Product Development
Project Management
Research and Development
  • Led research and development projects in communications engineering
  • Supervised graduate students and managed laboratory operations
  • Published technical papers and presented at conferences
  • Collaborated with industry partners on engineering innovations

Industry experience

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Experienced in Aerospace and Defense, Professional Services, Education, and Telecommunication.

Aerospace and Defense
Professional Services
Education
Telecommunication
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Business area experience

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Experienced in Product Development, Operations, Quality Assurance, Strategy, Project Management, and Research and Development.

Product Development
Operations
Quality Assurance
Strategy
Project Management
Research and Development
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Skills

  • Creation Of Interactive Dashboards And Reports With Power Bi, Power Platform, Power Bi Embedded

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Python And R / Shiny

  • Development Of Kpis And Trend Analyses

  • Adaptation Of Visualizations To The Customer'S Corporate Design

  • Querying Various Data Sources And Databases In Different Data Formats

  • Development Of An Analytics Platform In The Azure Cloud With Fabric

  • Database Queries With Sql And Pl/Sql

  • Development Of An Analytics Platform On Databricks

  • Integration Of Gis Data Into Reports

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Sap/R3 And Sap S/4hana

  • Basic Knowledge Of Abap

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Microsoft Dynamics 365

  • Very Good Experience With Azure And Aws Cloud Platforms

  • Very Good Experience With The Cloud-Based Snowflake Data Platform

  • Integration Of Power Bi With Microsoft Dynamics And Sap Applications

  • Creation Of Data Models In Snowflake

  • Extensive Experience With Power Query, Dax, Dax Studio, Direct Query

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Sql Queries (Ms-Sql, Mariedb, Snowflakesql)

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Statistics And Machine Learning

  • Creation Of Etl Pipelines With Python, Talend, Power Shell And R

  • Gathering Business Requirements (Requirements Engineering)

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft 365 (E.G. Excel)

  • Ms Bi Technologies (Ms Sql Server, Ssis, Ssrs, Power Bi, Visual Studio With Datatools, Dataverse)

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Data Quality And Data Cleansing

  • Experience Conducting Proof Of Concepts

  • Version Control With Git / Github

  • Very Good Experience With Power Bi Permission Models / Access Concepts (Row-Level Security And Object-Level Security)

  • Training Employees In Power Bi

  • Business And Process Methods: Bpmn Modeling

  • Lean Six Sigma

  • Requirements Engineering

  • Value Stream Mapping

  • Business Process Engineering

  • Balanced Scorecard (Bsc) And Key-Performance-Indicator (Kpi)

  • Statistical Process Control (Spc)

  • Brainstorming

  • Quality Function Deployment (Qfd)

  • Planning And Conducting Workshops And Training On Spc In The Automotive Sector

  • Workshop On Lean Six Sigma In The Paper Industry

  • Training Green And Black Belts

  • Training On Minitab Software

  • Training On R

  • Workshop On The Newly Created Problem-Solving Process

Languages

German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Dr.-Ing. · Communications Engineering

Certifications & licenses

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Experience

Total positions 3
Experience in Aerospace and Defense 25 y
Avg length 16 y 7 m
Longest experience 24 y 11 m

Expertise

Recent roles Senior Consultant, Senior Engineer
Main industries Aerospace and Defense, Professional Services, Education
Main business areas Product Development, Operations, Quality Assurance

Qualifications

Highest degree Doctorate
Certifications earned 1
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Friedbert is based in Ihringen, Germany.

Friedbert speaks the following languages: German (Advanced), English (Advanced).

Friedbert has at least 39 years of experience. During this time, Friedbert has worked in at least 2 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 13 years and 11 months. Note that Friedbert may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Friedbert would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior Consultant, Senior Engineer.

Friedbert's most recent position is Senior Consultant at Freelance Senior Consultant.

In recent years, Friedbert has worked for Freelance Senior Consultant and LITEF GmbH (Northrop Grumman).

Friedbert is most experienced in industries like Aerospace and Defense, Professional Services, and Education. Friedbert also has some experience in Telecommunication.

Friedbert is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Operations, and Quality Assurance. Friedbert also has some experience in Strategy, Project Management, and Research and Development.

Friedbert has recently worked in industries like Aerospace and Defense and Professional Services.

Friedbert has recently worked in business areas like Operations, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.

Friedbert holds a Doctorate in Communications Engineering.

Friedbert has 1 certificate: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Friedbert will be available full-time from November 2026.

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