Dirk Schindler

One Planet - One Sky - One Universe

Immenstaad, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Open minded and ambitious working on a vision of sustainable future aviation (civ, mil, drones) solutions in the world. Thank you for the motivating work on such great projects like SESAR, Skyways amongst others. Great spirit in those teams and across Airbus is helping a lot! Also thank you to the feedback and contributions from outside of Airbus, which is very much appreciated at any point in time!

Experience

  • Programme Manager Detect & Avoid Radars at HENSOLDT
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Airbus (7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Product Manager Air Operations
      Feb 2018 - Feb 2024 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      Coordinating the development of the product Family Fortion®1Sky Control / 1Sky Tower and 1Sky UTM. Aiming at cloud-based solutions for modern ATM (Air Traffic Management) and also UTM (Unmanned aircraft system Traffic Management), which are scalable from local drone test stations up to country-wide Air Surveillance and Coordination Centres. Core aspects are adhearance to current legal and airworthyness regulations, safety analysis and measures, utilization of international relevant standards plus implementation of sustainable Interfaces between existing ATM/ATC (Air Traffic Control) Systems and growing UTM-Services, as well for Military / NATO but also for zivil use. - Chair of WG-105 SG3 "Unmanned Traffic Management" EUROCAE (in 2019). - Member of EASA UTM Expert Group, working on Aceptable Means of Compliance (ACM) und Guidance Material (GM) in 2021. - Since Juli 2021: Point of contact for NATO/EUROCONTROL ATM Security Coordinating Group (NEASCOG) within Airbus Defence and Space (DE).

    • Project Lead for the Skyways Operation Centre
      Aug 2017 - Feb 2024 · 6 yrs 7 mos

      My current tasks: - Projekt Leader for the Skyways Operation Centre, which is the ground station of the Skyways System of Systems at Singapore (see links below). - Expert in Air Policing and Air Safety questions and concepts.

    • Technical Manager at Air Operations
      Aug 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr

      My Tasks: - Technical Management of the development for the Skyways ground station "Skyways Operation Centre" (SOC) at Singapore. The SOC contols all UA flights and comunicates via existing ATM-Interfaces to external entities e.g. CAAS (Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore). - Operational Expert in SESAR 1 WP11, in the topic civil-military coordination. - Development of the CAPS (Collaborative Airspace Provision Service) application, for improving Mission Planning whilst utilizing near-real-time data like airspace Reservation data plus flight plan data from Eurocontrol (i.w. from NM (Network Manager) and/or LARA (Local And Sub-Regional Airspace Management)).

  • Technical Manager and Operational Expert at Airbus Defence and Space
    Oct 2006 - Jul 2016 · 9 yrs 10 mos

    Until December 2011 working as System Engineer at the Mission Planning Ground Station (OSS – Operations Support System) for helicopters of the German Armed Forces (UH-Tiger, NH-90 and CH-53). Acting as team leader, responsible work package leader, and Sub-Project Leader. Intense experience in development following DO278-B, standard for ground systems. Since January 2012 contributing as operational expert to SESAR (Single European Sky ATM (Air Traffic Management) Research) work package 11.01. Key aspects: - Interconnecting ground stations of military platforms (rotary wing, fixed wing and transport aircraft, fighter aircraft, RPAS/UAS) to the ATM-network (Eurocontrol). - Evolving concepts for improved coordination between civil and military flights across Europe (and beyond). - Development of homogenous functions and processes for modern Wing Operation Center(s) (WOC) in close liaison with Eurocontrol (CMAC, Civil-Military ATM Coordination). From August 2016 participating as Operational Expert (focusing on safety) in the development of the Skyways Operation Centre, which is the ground support station for a parcel delivery system based on drones (UA) at Singapore. Highlights: + Delivery of all SESAR 1 documents in TQB (Time, Quality, Budget) according to contract. + Provision of a mission planning station prototype in TQB to validate new and efficient processes for Civil to Military coordination via B2B-interfaces to Eurocontrol (SWIM, System Wide Information Management) + Award winner of the SWIM Master Class 2014 in the category "Applications", providing CAPS (Collaborative Airspace Provision Service Application) a software tool with an airspace-cooperation-support-function.

  • Consultant at ARITHNEA GmbH
    May 2004 - Sep 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Consultant, author and project manager for Web Based Training Modules (in the frame of computer aided training and education at the German armed forces). Furthermore, consultant in content management (Typo 3).

  • Studium der Wirtschaftsinformatik at Universität der Bundeswehr München
    Sep 2000 - Apr 2004 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Siehe Ausbildung!