Zürich Metropolitan Area
I am engineering leader with 20 years of experience in process automation, electrification, control systems, and end‑to‑end project delivery across Oil&Gas, Power and Process Industries. I have led multidisciplinary engineering teams in global environments, scaling organizations, implementing modern engineering practices, and delivering complex, high‑value projects. My expertise covers the full E2E cycle - from tendering and concept design, through detailed engineering and integration, to commissioning and lifecycle management. I have worked at ABB, GE, Alstom, and Ansaldo, combining technical depth with organizational leadership, talent development, and transformation. Key strengths: - Leading large engineering teams (local and global), - Process automation, electrification, systems integration, - Project and risk management (PMP certified), - Cross-functional collaboration with Sales, PM, Service, R&D, Portfolio, - Engineering strategy and cost optimisation, - Continuous improvement and digitalization, - Embedding cybersecurity practices into engineering and project execution, - Driving AI‑enabled initiatives to enhance efficiency in DCS engineering and products portfolio.
Leading an exceptional team of experts and specialists within Process Automation Division, helping customers operate in safer, smarter, and more sustainable ways
• Development, engineering and commissioning management of large, globally executed Automation projects, • Technical lead of first retrofit projects of Advant CCPP process control system to latest ABB 800xA, • Planning, supervision and coordination of multiple engineering teams, • Sales support with engineering estimates and risk analysis, • Business development and marketing support for power and process industries, • Support process improvements within engineering domain.
• Managed globally distributed process control engineering team, acting as SME, • Successfully expanded the team from 4 to over 30 highly skilled professionals, • Led the successful integration of globally distributed teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and customer service across multiple time zones and regions, • Setting strategies and direction for products and upgrades, • Accountable for resource planning to support key business projects and work packages, • Management of collaboration with internal and external R&D for interdisciplinary projects, • Monitoring of process improvements in engineering domain.
• Management of interfaces between R&D, service engineering and commercial teams, • Technical project responsibility for complete power plants scope (double‑digit million EUR projects), • Quality and knowledge management, • Accountable for end‑to‑end product development and lifecycle management, covering automation (SW/HW), auxiliary systems, and the full power train of the power plant. • Support R&D and Engineering organizations (i.e. products review, definition, improvements).
• Pioneered the engineering group, initially working alone to create its foundation. • Design, development and validation of advanced process control concepts according to electrical grid operational requirements, • Integration and validation of process control solutions for GT applications on various control platforms, • Evaluation and troubleshooting of field problems associated with process control applications.
• Double‑digit million EUR projects technical supervision and team technical lead, • Control software development and validation for LNG, Gas Pipeline, Gas reinjection and Gas refrigeration applications, • Process control systems development, testing and validation, • Functional safety systems engineering (including HAZOP reviews), • Engineering support for commissioning and field issues, as well as new product implementation, • Standardization of instruments for plant and auxiliary equipment.
• Global NPI projects (EUR 2-5M) technical management from concept to completion, • Design of automatic control solutions for variety of production processes, • Manufacturing processes concept studies based on product definition, • Processes development and optimization, • Feasibility studies, • Design of automatically controlled safety solutions.