Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
Offering more than 15 years of Test, Technical Marketing, Application and Sales Engineering experience in rapidly evolving high technology industries. Intercultural and international work experience on multiple levels, including a 3 1/2 years stay in the US for a major German semiconductor manufacturer. Technical expertise includes: More than 5 years of experience as a Test & Validation Manager for the Set-top-box middleware of a major European Pay-TV operator. 3 years of experience as Technical Marketing engineer on European level for a major Japanese Consumer Electronics manufacturer. 3 years of experience as product owner and technical interface to internal and external customers in US and Europe for several low-power and consumer memory technologies, profound knowledge and skills in technical customer support as well as system level integration and failure analysis. Professional expertise in PCB design, embedded software development from low level assembler up to high level object-oriented programming languages, script languages like e.g. Perl or Visual Basic. Languages: German -first language, English -fluent, French -basics Main professional goals: accomplishments & recognition Specialties: Technical Project Management, Agile Software Development & Test, Digital TV Broadcast, Smart TV & IPTV platforms, Consumer and Mobile Applications, DRAM Product Development, Consumer and Low-Power DRAM, customer support engineer, high and low level embedded software development for multiple ARM based application processors from Texas Instruments, Freescale, Infineon, Marvell, Samsung and Intel.
Managing two teams for Sky DE and Sky UK. The Integration & Test team in Munich and the TV Partner Support Services team in London.
Directly managing multiple test teams in an agile software development & test environment, for set-top-box middleware and application projects.
Direct responsible for the optimal as well as on-time execution of acceptance and functional tests of the Cisco / FUSION Middleware for Sky's digital set-top-box platform(s) in Germany Core competencies included... Project specific test planning and definition of test contents & packs, based on the technical product specifications. Definition, resource planning, coordination, continuous control and supervision of test campaigns, executed through an external test service provider. Close collaboration with Software Development and System Engineering departments on root-cause analysis and software bug fixing. Analysis and evaluation of test results, as well as preparation of test results to technical status and management reports. Such reports then being used as a basis for the approval and final roll-out process of the Cisco / FUSION Middleware on the entire satellite and cable based set-top box population from Sky Germany. Assessment of operational measures, known technical product characteristics and potential risks for the final product launch. Actively acting in the sense of a middleware "Release Manager". Transfer of known and customer-relevant application and software characteristics to Sky Germany internal as well as external departments, such as the FUSION Middleware development from CISCO. General definition, review and continuous development of software & hardware test concepts and test plans. Active participation in middleware and application projects (test lead and project management)
Technical Marketing Engineer with main focus on: External communication with major TV broadcasters and operators in Europe Technical project management for Smart TV applications Areas of responsibility: Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-T, -C, -S), IPTV (Panasonic Viera Connect) and Hybrid-TV. Covered European markets include The Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Turkey. Core competencies included... Identify major players (broadcasters, network operators, regulators, associations) on digital TV (terrestrial, cable and satellite) in assigned European countries, establish human network and clarify requirements Investigation of country specific Digital TV situation for each assigned European country Provide technical and commercial information to Panasonic Development, Marketing, National Sales, Product Planning and Customer Service in order to ensure proper product planning for the fragmented European market. Investigation of country specific IPTV situation for each assigned European country Identify and select important IPTV content partners together with Panasonic National Sales and Marketing Technical Project Management for Panasonic Smart TV applications (full life cycle from development to launch and maintenance)
Field Application Engineer within Sales & Marketing Organization for direct technical customer support Pre & post customer sales support for Qimonda's Graphic customers with focus on main customer NVIDIA Core competencies included... Technical support on system level for main Graphics customers such as NVIDIA Technical support on system level for US Consumer customers such as Thomson, Echostar, Sony (US), Western Digital, Seagate, LG, Apple, Microsoft Verification and qualification of Qimonda Graphics memory products in the application / on system level Technical leadership on system and DRAM component analysis of customer and internal failures Presenting to and training of customers on Qimonda DRAM technology Report and present customer status to the different business functions such as Project/Product Management, Design, Product Test, Application Engineering, Sales and Marketing Inter-department relationships with Sales, Marketing and Application Engineering Compile and manage customer specific technical documentation such as datasheets and application notes
Application Engineer for Mobile & Consumer DRAM products with main focus on internal and external customer support AE product owner for consumer DRAM products like e.g. consumer SDR and DDR2 based Multi-Chip-Packages Core competencies included... AE product owner for 75nm and 110nm low-power DRAM products like e.g. 256Mbit and 512Mbit low power DDR Technical support engineer for North American consumer & mobile customers such as Thomson, Echostar, Sony (US), Western Digital, Seagate, LG, Apple, SanDisk Technical support and relationship with Mobile & Consumer market enablers such as Intel, Zoran, Marvell, Samsung, TI, Nvidia, Infineon Direct root cause failure analysis in end applications Development and maintenance of ARM based memory test software for low-power DRAM products
Application Engineer with main focus on hardware and software tooling Core competencies included... DRAM product verification and qualification in the Mobile, Consumer and Graphics segment e.g. evaluation of products on system level, product analysis of customer and internal failures Software and hardware tool support for internal and external customers e.g. development of low-power DRAM test boards and interposers, development of ARM based memory test software for low power DRAM products