Yann André

Director Technical Project Management

Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

About

Experience

  • Stellantis (Hybrid)
    • Director Technical Project Management & SW Releasing
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

      • Leading Software Technical Project Managers located in Poland, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, USA, and Morocco. • Leading SW release engineers and Dataset managers in Germany and Poland • Leading external employees for TPM Backoffice activities, in Morocco. • Responsible of the SW Technical Project Management of body controllers (new programs on STLA Brain EE architecture, and “in flight” programs on AEE2010 and NEA EE architecture) • Covered features: Body, Climate, Propulsion, Infotainment, ADAS. • Achievements: build new SW TPM organization. Hire high experienced/skilled project managers. Transfer experience of "in-flight" projects into the new STLA Brain EE architecture, and vice-versa. Increase ownership at project management level. Empower the TPMs in R&D organization.

    • Manager SW Application Platform
      Jun 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs

      • Leading 2 teams of SW developers, located in Poland & France (Body, Climate) • Leading one team of SW release engineers and Dataset managers in Germany (Body, Climate, Infotainment, ADAS). • Responsible of the Technical Project Management of Application SW (Body & Climate) • Achievements: creation of the organization, from scratch. Establish first Application SW Development in Poland. Establish SW Release process in SWX. Establish Technical Project Management in Application SW. Reduce the lead time / aging of the issues in Application SW.

  • Continental (Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany · On-site)
    • Head of SW Project Management - BU VED
      Jun 2019 - May 2022 · 3 yrs

      • Business unit Vehicle Dynamic (VED) • Leading 5 department leaders, together 30 SW project managers in Germany. • Functional lead of about 70 SW project managers worldwide (Mexico, US, Hungary, Romania, India, China, Japan). • Achievements: transformation of the organization. Reduction of the customer escalations. Reorganization the SW project management footprint. Simplification of the release processes. Reach Automotive SPICE level 2 in SUP.8, SUP.9, SUP.10 and MAN.3.

    • Department head of base software project management and workflow.
      Jan 2017 - May 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      • Business unit Vehicle Dynamic (VED) • Leading 10 software project managers and 3rd party SW suppliers. • Achievements: introduction of sprints in our R&D process. Creation of a new base SW project managers team in Iasi (Romania). Creation of the new 3rd party software supplier team. GitHub introduction on our SW platform. SW development of the next generation of one-box electronic brakes system.

    • Department head of software integration and workflow
      Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs

      • Business unit Vehicle Dynamic (VED) • Leading 8 software testers, software integrators and software project managers. • Achievements: establish the new role of software integrator in the business unit. First final customer releases on the new software platform. Worldwide roll-out of Kanban.

  • Embedded Software Ingenieur at ALTEN
    Jan 2001 - Dec 2002 · 2 yrs

    • ABS software developer. • Achievements: Application of the customer requirements (PSA, Renault). ABS base developments (partial brake in curve, µ-split braking, reverse driving recognition, …).