Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
Vehicle Performance Engineering is responsible for setting the performance targets for our vehicles and mobility products, to ensure they deliver consist great experiences for our European customers. My main areas of focus are: - Understanding evolving customer values and changing expectations across Europe - Converting these into targets for the development of our products and services through a customer centric process - Vehicle development and validation, from concept studies to after sales performance - Deployment of latest technology, data science, digital tools and evaluation methods - Bringing research with EU institutions and innovation with suppliers into our development process - Creating a vibrant working experience for my team, with a strong focus on learning within a safe and collaborative environment
Value Chain Innovation Group
Was responsible for heading up Chassis development and Vehicle Dynamics Simulation within the Vehicle Dynamics Dept at IDIADA. Oversee development of new services for customers based all round the world. This covers not only the business development but technical R&D and implementation studies. Also responsible for Project Management of various customer programmes, coordinating various technical teams of people within IDIADA and abroad,
Responsible for overseeing all vehicle dynamics simulation and research activities within the department. Key contributor to vehicle development programmes, involved at all levels from concept design and evaluation to proving ground and public road subjective and objective testing. In addition to these activities, conducted and managed research programmes, both internally and with local Universities. Research findings were given by authoring technical papers, magazine articles and giving presentations at conferences. At this time I sat on the IMechE editorial board for the Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics At the same time, a large part of my job was commercially orientated and was heavily involved in developing the vehicle dynamics’ business. This required me to visit customers, many of whom are based in Europe, the East and Far East to negotiate proposals and formalise the technical workscope and commercial terms. Required to run projects successfully to budget and to tight timing restraints. During, and at the projects’ completion, was responsible for preparing and writing reports.