Krzysztof Kowalski

Program Manager at Philips

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

About

Experience

  • Philips (Full-time · 10 yrs 5 mos)
    • Program Manager
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Senior Project Manager
      May 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs

      Philips Engineering Solutions is your R&D and engineering partner in bringing your innovations to the market. By working both within Philips as well as for external medical and high-tech companies, we can keep our expertise at a world-class level. With our 1000 engineers and technical consultants, we are big enough to take on complex innovation challenges. And small enough to easily find each other, ensuring a smooth end-to-end development process that your complex medical or high-tech innovation requires. We continue where others stop, to make innovation work.

    • Project Leader
      Feb 2016 - Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos

      I led cross-functional, multi-site teams comprising approximately 50 technical experts to deliver ready-to-integrate connectivity components aligned with the HealthSuite Reference Architecture. These efforts supported the expansion of Philips’ solution portfolio and accelerated time-to-market for connected products and solutions, ensuring the company’s continued competitiveness in the healthcare technology sector. The delivered software components were classified as Software Safety Class A and managed under a medical-class project framework. Additionally, I spearheaded the transformation of early connectivity activities from a predictive to an adaptive (agile) delivery approach, enhancing flexibility, collaboration, and responsiveness across teams.

  • Prodrive Technologies (Rejon Eindhoven, Holandia)
    • Account Manager
      Dec 2013 - Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      I was responsible for a certain set of existing customers. I spent organized effort into maintaining and increasing customer satisfaction. I served as an escalation level whenever standard product management was not functioning properly. I was responsible for all commercial matters. Additionaly I was coordinating issues related to QLTC and customer requests including: • delivering requirements analysis • describing impact • estimating cost, resource and time • resource planning and management • status reporting • ensuring on time completion while remaining within budget • achieving objectives by consistently delivering solutions

    • Product Coordinator
      Nov 2011 - Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      I was responsible for life cycle management of products developed by Prodrive. I acted as a chairman of product teams. I monitored and discussed issues related to a product with customers. I was responsible for planning, monitoring and eventually solving issues and performing upgrades of products on a request of a customer

    • Project Engineer/ Business Development
      Jun 2010 - Nov 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

      I worked in a Digital Design Group developing products from specification agreed with a customer, electrical design, to a proto qualification. In addition I was responsible for building and maintaining a network and representing Prodrive in strategically relevant exhibitions.

  • Internship at DESY
    Jul 2008 - Aug 2008 · 2 mos

    I worked on the European X-Ray Laser Project XFEL. I wrote my thesis for the needs of DESY – Intelligent Platform Management Interface analyzer for collecting and storing data for the Control System based on Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA). http://xfel.desy.de/