Thomas Oehler

Project Manager at HITACHI Rail.

Stuttgart Region

About

Project Manager with experience with MS project & other planning Tools. Manager of international teams; Project management of HW and SW projects. Multiculural expertise (France, India, China, USA, Denmark, Romania, Switzerland) Specialties: Management of several HW & SW Projects and complex railway systems in national and international markets. Highlight: PIO of frontier connecting ETCS L1 (limited supervision) line between Switzerland and Germany. Management of several national and international HW & SW Projects (inklusive intensive customer management) for security and defence projects for Thales defence and security systems. Highlight: PIO of centralized digital communiction system for ZRF Saarland (coordination of all rescue services & emergency calls in Saarland) Management of several HW and SW projects (Telecommunications Corporate market) for Dialogic Management of complex SW maintenance project in Telecommunication sector (Carrier market) for Alcatel-Lucent.

Experience

  • Project Manager at HITACHI Rail at Hitachi Rail
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Several development projects managed in local and international environment. Highlight: Beine Part of a great team to achieve PIO of ETCS L1 (limited supervison) for DB/ SBB border connecting line from Basel to Lake Constance.

  • Project Manager at Thales Transportation Systems
    Jan 2013 - May 2024 · 11 yrs 5 mos

    Project management for the development of hardware and software products and complex railway systems for several rail customers.

  • Program Manager at Thales
    Apr 2009 - Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Program Management for Radio communication equipment with responsibility for budget, timeline and quality from the planning phase up to to delivery of the last device. Projects varied form development of single boards with FPGA in an embedded system up to radio communication equipment which had to be planned from Software, Hardware (elctronic, mechanic and high frequency transmission) and system perspective. Since 2010 I was handling customer projects for the delivery of emergency call centres for police, fire department and ambulance coordination. These call centres are used to introduce TETRA radio communication in emergencey call centers.

  • Program Manager at Dialogic
    Jul 2008 - Mar 2009 · 9 mos

    Responsible for project management for Dialogic Diva HW and SW products.

  • Alcatel-Lucent, Germany (14 yrs 9 mos)
    • Project Mananger
      2003 - Jun 2008 · 5 yrs 6 mos

      I was in charge of several maintenance projects with different SW-base in an international project team. My responsibilities were to plan corrections and improvement of packages and tests to provide the customers corrections on schedule according to the agreed SLA (Service level agreements) and the rules of CMMI-level 4. I was also controlling and supporting the acceptance phase and volume deployment of the larger development projects. The customers I was responsible for are German Telekom (DTAG), local Carriers, city networks and a telecommunication network of the German army.

    • Development engineer for switching systems
      Nov 2000 - Nov 2003 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Handling and generation of fault reports in the area of „Call Handling/Supplementary Services“. In November 2001 I started coordinating the tests for several projects. I had to devise different tests and track the progress and time reliability in different locations. (Germany, India, China, Turkey, Belgium)

    • Service engineer for switching systems
      May 1996 - Nov 2000 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Internal qualification tests (IQT); Creation and execution of automatic tests; Support during system integration in several subsystems. On-Call support for customers