Thomas Passon

Engineering Application Lifecycle Management Lead

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Experience

  • ZF Group (Full-time · 7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Engineering Application Lifecycle Management Lead
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

      - Managing the divisional ALM strategy and roadmap in cooperation with all engineering stakeholders - Representing the divisional Engineering interests in central projects and initiatives - Defining the Engineering ALM strategy for system selection, adaptation and integration including interfaces and data architecture - Developing standards and solutions to implement division- and product line-specific requirements in ALM environment - Managing upgrades, and continuous improvements in ALM system productivity performance - Reporting to global management on ALM tool development

    • Senior Electronics Design Engineer
      Aug 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

      All responsibilities from the Electronics Design Engineer role, with additional focus on: - Strategic process development and optimization for product lifecycle management in hardware development to enhance operational efficiency - Ensuring cybersecurity for hardware interfaces by analyzing PCBs for vulnerabilities and implementing necessary security measures - Development and management of project timelines, along with tracking and ensuring the successful achievement of milestones and objectives

    • Electronics Design Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      - Lead Project Engineer for braking electronics in Tier 1 customer projects - Coordination and resource planning for braking electronics circuit and PCB development - Technical and commercial solution judgement in hardware development - Large scale circuit design, analysis, and integration under aspects like EMC and DFM - Product care for plant and international customers, starting from concept to series production - Conducting and participating on cost reduction programs with global electronics suppliers - Applying Automotive SPICE standards in project execution to ensure process quality and compliance

  • Mentor at Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH - Make Your School
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Lead and instruct students in electronics and programming and fostering students’ technical skills and creativity as well as serving as a dedicated mentor

  • voestalpine SIGNALING (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Master thesis - Research and development (Hard- and software)
      Mar 2018 - Aug 2018 · 6 mos

      - Development of an electronic function test - Maintaining and developing Linux-based systems - Hardware analysis - Developing PCB's in Altium - Software development in Python

    • Working student - Research and development (Hard- and software)
      Apr 2017 - Feb 2018 · 11 mos

      - Development of embedded systems in C/C++ - Maintaining and developing Linux-based systems - Developing PCB's in Altium - Analog and digital signal processing

    • Bachelor thesis - Research and development (Hard- and software)
      Oct 2016 - Mar 2017 · 6 mos

      - Development of a web-based hardware diagnosis - Maintaining and developing Linux-based systems - Programming a single page app with a graph-tool, based on JavaScript - Programming a very efficient server backend in Golang for an embedded system - Read and write high-speed data from and to a FPGA

  • Industrial electronics technician (Power distribution plants / Networks) at KEVAG
    Jan 2012 - Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    - Fault clearance for broadband cable networks - Switching operations in the distribution grid - Carrying out quality checks - Assembly, disassembly, and maintenance of grid-connected systems