Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Data Literate Manager & Agile Servant Leader Ernst holds a data analytics PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. During his industrial PhD, Ernst worked for an AT&T Laboratories Cambridge spin-out. Later on AT&T Laboratories Cambridge became Microsoft Research UK. In parallel Ernst enrolled in entrepreneurship studies at Cambridge Judge Business School before joining Siemens Healthineers in 2003. Building software products and solutions with cutting-edge technologies and building new internal businesses or spin-outs and spin-offs with such innovative software products and services became a passion of Ernst from there onwards... ...from his first role as a software engineer during his industrial PHD at a Microsoft Research, UK spin-out and later on back in Germany as well from his first role at Siemens as product manager responsible for soft copy reading including computer aided detection within syngo imaging product line in the healthcare domain, towards developing digital strategies within the Siemens Healthineers’ corporate strategy team until today, as the Director of MACHINUM product family development in the smart manufacturing / industry 4.0 domain. Experiences: digital transformation, agile transformation, IoT, Director Software R&D, SW program management, operations with P&L responsibility, corporate digital strategy development & execution, service & after sales business management, innovation management, solution and service project management (service preparation and service operation, category B customer projects), maintenance operations and processes, PM@Siemens project management (category A and B customer projects), product management and development, product marketing, customer advocate, VIP innovation key customer responsible, "deal closer" in contract negotiations, integrative character
Digital Strategy Execution + Agile | LEAN | DevOps Transformation + Intrapreneurship - implementing the business unit's digitalization strategy - managing a portfolio of industry software projects including AI | ML projects - Senior Software R&D Manager
Digital Strategy Execution & Development + Internal Audit (IMT) - responsible for digital transformation and service 4.0 of after sales global customer care (GCC) - responsible for phase out project management - overseeing and developing GCC's digital project portfolio and digital offerings - drive business excellence - business unit's head of internal audit and IMS (integrated management system)
Corporate Digital Strategy Development + LEAN Strategic Methods - developing Siemens Healthineers digitalization strategy - drove and facilitated Implementation of Siemens Healthineers' digitalization strategy with various LEAN start-up business model consulting projects and associated digital offerings on the Siemens Healthineers cloud-based digital ecosystem platform - implementation of various clinical digital twin technology prototypes and set-up of corresponding clinical collaborations with end-customers - driving strategic initiatives and driving strategy into action
Digital Business Model Innovation - executing strategic and special projects of the board - head of business innovation strategy group of the CTO within Siemens Healthineers corporate strategy - responsible for a portfolio of strategic and special projects (e.g. unleash artificial intelligence for multiples scleroses treatment, pharma alliances)
focus area of this assignment: leadership, lean management, lean transformation, team development, project organisation and project management, general management and operation of a simulation, development and test center, plant maintenance - overall P&L responsibility for PM@Siemens Turnkey B-Project with 100' € business volume, 70 employees - prototype and develop digital plant service and operation technologies&solutions, such as condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, plant-wide ticketing system with seamless connection to legacy IT systems, digital plant KPI dashboards, business statistics, digital surveillance systems
PhD in digitalization - quantitative statistical optimization algorithms, operations research, deep learning, AI, software engineering, data analytics, algorithm design & signal processing, space-time processing, adaptive algorithms, genetic and evolutinary algorithms with adaptive character, as well as neural networks
focus area of this assignment: system engineering and software engineering of WiMAX broadband internet access systems, plus coding and design of network management software suite prior to my PhD at Cambridge University.
AT&T sponsored research position at the DTG (Digital Technology Group) at Computer Laboratory in Cambridge.