Marek Kovacevic

Director, Lean Agile Center of Excellence at HARMAN International - Automotive

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Experience

  • HARMAN International (Full-time · 14 yrs 9 mos)
    • DIRECTOR, LEAN AGILE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE - AUTOMOTIVE
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

      ▪ Chairman of HARMAN Automotive Center of Excellence with focus on business agility ▪ Partner with Transformation Office to accelerate business transformation in agile methodologies e.g. SAFe ▪ Evaluate industry operating model benchmarks and collaborate with Automotive Engineering Excellence and technology leaders for defining implementation roadmaps ▪ Lead a cross functional team of engineers, architects, and technology leaders with expertise in SAFe Agile practices ▪ Influence and steer the strategy to enable better agile delivery capability and agile governance, reducing waste and shortening cycle times for efficiency ▪ Serve as a thought leader capable of coaching, influencing, and advising at various levels and contribute to growth of Agile leaders in various roles across the organization ▪ Own the Agile Training and Coaching strategy to align and provide training needed to support transformation efforts ▪ Lead Communications and related activities for Agile Transformation efforts ▪ Drive results and track effectiveness with performance metrics, targets, and outlook to drive continuous improvements for Automotive Engineering ▪ Cultivate and grow engineering excellence concepts into a mature state of work (processes, tools, capabilities) for implementation readiness

    • SENIOR MANAGER - ENGINEERING SOFTWARE AUTOMOTIVE
      Oct 2018 - Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos

      ▪ Sr. Engineering Leader of Software Engineers and Product Owners within DC (Online-Services, Cloud, CI/CD, Routing, Traffic, Map etc.) ▪ Process and Cost Optimizations for developing, producing and releasing of Data Bases and Software Location Based Services Applications on Embedded Systems ▪ Introducing and embracing Agile Development Techniques for Engineering activities for R&D ▪ S/RTE (Scrum Master of Scrum Master) for ART1 (MapViewer, Visualization, UI/UX) with a size of 120 FTE (Architects, Product Owners, Engineers) ▪ Escalation management and Taskforces at BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen/Audi and other customers e.g. Toyota/Hyundai etc. ▪ Budget Overview about spendings on Engineering efforts with External Suppliers e.g. HCS, Luxoft etc. ▪ 6Q Product Roadmap Definition (Aha) for Future Products within Location Based Services as part of Digital Cockpit – Automotive Labs ▪ Defining and driving Investments for sustainable Technologies with cross functional teams ▪ Collaboration with HARMAN and SAMSUNG Product Management ▪ Embracing Mindset for Innovations and Design Thinking for Product Development ▪ Market and Competitor Analysis for Strategic Adoptions and Execution ▪ Designing Product Requirement Documents (PRD) and MRDs for Space-1 and internal Products – IVI – in-vehicle-infotainment, V2X, AR and IOT

    • MANAGER, OEM NAVIGATION DATA BASE PRODUCTION
      Apr 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Head of Production for Navigation Databases (NDS) in multiple Projects across OEMs (DAI/NTGx, BMW/NBTEvo, MGUx, AUDI/MIBx, TOY/CY1x etc.) ▪ Deployment of Maps for ADAS, HD content and dynamic live data ▪ Scaling further Production Centers to Europe and Asia (CHN, SK, JPN) ▪ Establishing Teams and train Engineers producing DBs according to lifetime ▪ Consulting activities in front of German OEMs and TierX supplier ▪ Reducing Production Time, Testing Time and Release Process up to 90% ▪ Introducing Cloud-DevOps, CI/CD, KPIs and SaaS to continuously optimize costs ▪ Strong relation to CPM/BU and Sales Divisions für Pricing and Product Definition (cross sell) for Linux/QNX and Android applications ▪ Temporarily Ownership of Three-Party-Meeting with Raw Data Supplier e.g. HERE, TomTom etc. ▪ Team Size: ~50 FTE (Germany, Europe, Asia)

  • SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER / ARCHITECT at Siemens
    Jul 2008 - Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    ▪ Definition of Requirements for a Self-Service WebPortal for entire Siemens ▪ Investigation in External Companies for collaboration and Engineering Activities ▪ Designing Infrastructure, Applications, and issues withing multiple divisions ▪ Prototyping and Offering ARES to external customers e.g. BBC, Gerling, Nokia ▪ Maintenance of Web Services and distributed Databases ▪ Involving 2nd Level Support for 24/7 maintenance and point for ticket inflow ▪ Adding Change Requests, Size Estimation and Realization with External Companies ▪ Creating Design and Test-Specification of Use Cases to be implemented ▪ Consultant and firefighter on 3rd Level for Issues and Migration topics

  • IT Consultant at HEC GmbH
    Sep 2005 - Jun 2008 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    ▪ Support in the domain of File and Hosting Services at Siemens ▪ Migration and Transformation of File Spaces and Home Drive Data ▪ Restructuring the Server Landscape to fit to current and future demands ▪ Consolidation of old OS-System Machines e.g. NT4 ▪ Automating Request Management for Access Rights and new Hosting Space ▪ Setup of Databases Servers using SQL/Exchange and IIS 6.0 ▪ Collaboration with Specialist to Optimize Space and reduce Costs ▪ Design of Web-User Interfaces (UI) for internal automated Web-Portal

  • SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR at Siemens It Services And Solutions
    Sep 2003 - Aug 2005 · 2 yrs

    ▪ System Administrator for File Space and Application Hosting ▪ 2nd Level Support and Maintenance for File Service and Server ▪ BackOffice activities with several Teams in the Request-Chain ▪ Monitoring of Server Landscape and Health-Issues ▪ Hardware Exchange in case of failure, RAID Set up and Backup ▪ 24/7 Service with external Suppliers e.g. Cisco, Intel etc. ▪ Updating Microsoft Operating System against Vulnerabilities