Görlitz, Saxony, Germany
⚡I have strong experience in R&D & business management, steering products towards success, Project Management and all functions within a business that develops and operates high-end technology products / offerings. I have created & co-authored several patent proposals for EV charging applications, lately for MCS. I provide leadership and guidance at various levels, job floor to strategy, start-up towards corporate, and sustainability, for remote & global teams to enable team growth, customer focus, team responsibility, and enable stakeholder management across various levels..🤝 As curious person, I like to think & go beyond as well as leading from the front.
● Lead R&D in Grid and Power Quality Solutions for eMobility & Hydrogen. ● Manage eMobility product line & other edge technologies. ● Create and deliver innovative, customer-focused products and solutions. ● Drive business success. ● Lead and inspire a multinational team across three continents. ● Hire, develop, and motivate top talent. ● Define and implement technology strategies within a global organization & partner network.
● Develop & Implement Technology Strategies: Align eMobility technology strategies with organizational goals. ● Drive Product Innovation and Growth: Oversee the creation of customer-focused products, contributing to business success and team alignment. ● Lead & Inspire Global Teams: Motivate diverse multinational teams, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
Lead verification and release testing teams across multiple global locations; Interface for development teams, release managers, product managers, and other internal/external partners • Represent testing globally and continuously communicate testing focus to all relevant internal and external stakeholders, align priorities • Taking care of testing strategy, methodology, approaches, test systems, and test coverage, drive and facilitate innovation • Responsible for Verification and Validation across all test levels • Guide and build multinational local/global teams with >15 different nationalities, motivate and inspire team members; hire new talents
• Global head of development program management department and responsible for ABB e-Mobility programs incl. all R&D Projects, managing multiple project portfolios • Leading a globally distributed team, department lead and line manager for >20 R&D project managers across multiple locations, coordination and alignment of various organizational areas within a very fastgrowing organization • Hiring and motivating new talents, building and growing teams, leading team leaders globally • Driving innovation for charging technology across HW, SW, power electronics • Supporting Leadership Team E-Mobility for strategic roadmap planning and, organization build-up
- Leading R&D Project Management department with cross-functional organizational responsibility within ABB E-mobility - Responsible for Product Development roadmap and planning of the global R&D organization, managing multi project portfolio - Leading and supervision of cross-departmental steering groups, leading from the front - Guidance and leadership for > 25 global projects and/or teams across various locations globally & all organizational branches, > 15 R&D Project Managers - Hiring new talents + building high-performing teams strengthening collaboration, transparency, focus and team responsibility - Creation of a project management and R&D organization that copes with high volatility, growth and fast-paced business, organization build up - R&D Management team member, occasionally deputy Global R&D Manager, leadership for various R&D operations topics - Support and advice for ABB E-mobility top-management - drive & facilitate innovation, authoring several patent proposals
- R&D Project Manager for High Power Charging applications within Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure of ABB - Leading of cross-functional and globally distributed R&D teams - Manage relevant technology within High Power Charging - Responsibility for manpower, budget and time lines - Guidance and supervision of up to 15 team members and sub-project leaders - Aligning of cross-functional management steering commitees with focus on project results - Cooperation with internal and external partners
- Project Leader for cross functional teams distributed over several locations with responsibility for manpower, budget and time for further development of sub-transmission switchgear - Guidance and supervision of sub-project leaders (up to 14) - Cooperation with internal and external partners New Gas Insulated Switchgear Technologies - High Voltage & High Current Applications - Electric Contacts
Project responsibility of various industry and research projects in the field of high voltage and high current applications as well as electric contacts. Leading an international team in a 4-year project. Further exemplary topics are (incomplete enumeration): - High voltage & high current engineering - Electrical Connections and Contacts in Electric Power Systems - Generation, transmission & distribution of electric energy - Power system components - Superconductivity & liquid nitrogen - Materials science -Standards & testing
Research stay at the Electrical Contacts Group, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes I to examine different research purposes, such as low-force motor with nm step size and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.