FMEA Experts in Munich

• Management of internal and external optics, electronics, and software developers and the subproject managers throughout the entire development process up to handover to production
• Conducting RfP and contract negotiations with German, Chinese, and Japanese manufacturers and tracking the agreed deliverables
• Conducting quality gates throughout the development process
• Responsibility for meeting commercial, technical, and schedule requirements (resource and budget planning)
• Continuous monitoring of potential project risks during all phases
• Ensuring compliant development (RoHS & REACH) and documentation for worldwide CE marking
• Project status reporting to upper management and the company board
• Central point of contact for third-party contractors and their coordination in the project

• Insourcing a system-critical IT application to meet regulatory requirements in payment transactions
• Preparing project plans, cost estimates, and schedules for project phases
• Capturing and documenting processes
• Identifying critical paths in processes
• Preparing management documents and committee materials
• Methodology: Waterfall project management, risk and control assessments
• Tech & Tools: Project management software

• Designed and implemented a new user support tower organization as part of the global IT transformation initiative.
• Created an operating and control model for the central service desk, including downstream support units (field service, VIP support, service points).
• Performed a comprehensive as-is analysis of existing service desk and field service structures and developed a target architecture based on ITIL 4 and SIAM.
• Defined roles, responsibilities, and governance mechanisms for internal IT and external providers.
• Prepared the blueprint document Service Management & Governance Handbook (User Support) to standardize global service processes (incident, request, problem, change, knowledge, ITSCM, CSI).
• Developed a KPI and SLA framework to measure service quality and performance in global user support.
• Defined the reporting and review structure (operations meeting, service review meeting, management steering board).
• Prepared RFP documents for the external tendering of L1/L2 support services, including definition of scope, governance model, process requirements, tool integration (ServiceNow), and KPI/SLA sets.
• Supported procurement and legal departments in evaluating and negotiating vendor proposals and assisted in vendor selection and contract finalization.
• Oversaw the handover to operational support, including knowledge transfer, training of provider teams, and establishment of a continuous improvement process (CSI).
• Methods / framework / tools: ITIL 4 / ITSM, SIAM, IT4IT, ServiceNow, Jira, BPMN, operating model canvas, KPI & SLA design, governance & performance management

• Safety concepts: high-level safety philosophies, active & passive fire protection philosophies and HSE management plans
• Project & engineering management
• Explosion protection & area classification (ATEX)
• Active and passive fire protection system design
• Evacuation & escape route planning
• Lead risk assessment workshops (HAZID, HAZOP and SIL)
• Fire & explosion risk assessments (FERA) and quantitative risk assessments (QRA)

• Pre-assessments and review of functional safety status for ADAS ECUs and body controller components
• Conduct functional safety audits
• Review the functional safety status of the E3 1.2 in a pre-assessment
• Document interviews
• Document findings and generate internal reports

Methods:

• ISO26262
• Automotive SPICE Level 2, 3
• Agile methods, SAFe

Tools:

• DOORS
• Enterprise Architect
• JIRA & Confluence
• IQ-FMEA
• Isograph

• Experienced project and product manager with strong technical expertise and a special strength in managing technological innovations and complex projects. • Specialized in leading digital development and transformation projects, including change management and process optimizations.

• Responsible for modeling budget planning using machine learning and/or AI methods
• Rolled out a new planning tool for all major divisions in the ES department
• Led budget optimization programs in the ES area
• Prepared final budget cut decisions at HAL/BL level

• Development of iOS apps in Swift
• AI-supported SW development using Vibe Coding with Claude Code
• Web applications through Vibe Programming
• Use of Swift, Xcode 15, Claude Code, Proxmox, GitLab, Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Doors, ClearCase
• Use of MS Project, OpenShift, Docker, Project Server, PageMaker, CRM, MS SQL Server
• SW techniques: UML, BPMN 2.0, ERD, client/server technology

• Responsible of managing project business case and cash-flow (from 2023-10)
• Responsible of Housing Task Force that focuses on supplier as well as project management in terms of all aspects of a business, from timing to costs (2023-06 to 2023-10)

• Technical control, planning, and coordination of safety-related development activities for an embedded battery management system (ASIL-B to ASIL-D) across all project and series phases
• Coordination of interdisciplinary work packages between hardware, software, and system development as well as external suppliers for module and series management
• Management of development, evaluation, and maturity level assurance of safety mechanisms (diagnosis, monitoring, degradation) for series release
• Active risk, problem, and escalation management when facing target conflicts between safety, cost, schedules, and series readiness
• Stable, release-ready series safety architecture with no major findings
• Significantly increased planning and decision-making security in module and release committees
• Sustainable improvement of coordination and control processes between system, HW, and SW teams

• Introduced an integrated approach for structural damage detection across concrete, steel, and glass using advanced technologies such as LiDAR and thermal imaging. Highlighted cross-material interactions to enhance diagnostics and enable predictive maintenance.

• Developed an NLP-based medical note simplifier that transforms complex clinical instructions into plain, child-level English. Applied prompt engineering with Flan-T5 transformer models to extract patient-relevant actions and rephrase them into clear to-do items. Built dual Flask and Tornado backends with a printable web interface.

• Tested Body Control Module (BCM) software using dSPACE, Control Desk and EXAM in GHIL (Gesamt HIL).
• Led a team of 8 engineers and managed end-to-end software execution for each release, from requirement analysis to final validation and release.
• Coordinated with function specialists to analyse requirements and derive test cases.
• Developed test specifications and maintained bidirectional traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Automated test cases and built library functions using EXAM (Audi and VW customer-specific tool for test automation).
• Organised GHIL testing activities for both manual and automated test execution.
• Evaluated and analysed test reports generated from night runs in EXAM.
• Identified software and GHIL issues based on report analysis and created bug tickets for traceability.

• Facilitation and training of Design-FMEA/DFMEA and Process-FMEA/PFMEA with APIS IQ-FMEA license or Plato e1ns Software including Boundary Diagram
• Facilitated projects mainly in English for Tier1 or OEM:
• Process-FMEA high performance E-drive (Rotor + Stator) (BMW) from 2024-05-01 to 2025-03-31
• System-/Design-FMEA Industry 4.0 digitalisation product from 2022-09-01 to 2023-02-28
• Design- & Process-FMEAs locking and camera systems from 2022-09-01 to 2023-09-30
• Process-FMEAs aviation/aerospace components from 2022-09-01 to 2025-05-31
• Process-FMEA roof systems/sun roofs from 2022-01-01 to 2024-01-31
• System-/Design-FMEA steer by wire from 2022-01-01 to 2023-06-30
• Design-FMEA actuators from 2021-03-01 to 2021-08-31
• Design-FMEA drive by wire system from 2020-03-01 to 2021-12-31
• Design- and Process-FMEA dashboard/IP assembly from 2020-02-01 to 2022-10-31
• Design-FMEA high voltage connector for battery management system from 2020-03-01 to 2020-04-30
• Design-FMEA interior door panels from 2020-02-01 to 2025-04-30
• Design-FMEA domestic appliance from 2019-08-01 to 2020-02-29
• Design-FMEA cobot transmission from 2019-02-01 to 2023-12-31
• Design-FMEA E-drive from 2018-09-01 to 2019-01-31
• Design-FMEA convertible roof system (AMG) from 2018-07-01 to 2019-03-31
• Design-FMEA electrical wheel hub motor from 2017-04-01 to 2018-06-30
• Design-FMEA motorbike frame (BMW) in 2017-06-01
• External member in FMEA circle of experts of a Tier 1 from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
• Design- and Process-FMEA E-axle gearbox from 2016-01-01 to 2018-06-30
• Design-FMEA seating system (AMG) from 2014-11-01 to 2014-12-31
• Design-FMEA electromechanical rolling stabilizer (BMW, Bentley, Porsche, VW) from 2014-09-01 to 2016-06-30
• Requirements analysis Li-Ion battery system from 2014-08-01 to 2014-09-30
• Further facilitation of FMEAs for car body, climatization, roof, light, fuel, gas, ignition systems, plastic moulding, heating systems, ship & stationary engines, turbochargers, reactive power controller, control units, high performance engines, mechatronical chassis actuators, e-mobility and e-drives in marine, motorbike, automotive, rail, aviation/aerospace & energy for customers such as Webasto, McLaren, Ferrari, MAN, Changan, Audi and others.