Requirements / Functional Safety / Model Based / System and Software Engineer

5/2020 – 4/2021

Stakeholder Requirements Analysis, System Requirements Specification with DOORS NG, System Architecture with Rhapsody SysML, Functional Safety Requirements Specification, Preparation of the Safety Case, ISO26262 ASIL B / ASPICE CL2 project.

ISO/IEC 15504, Iso 26262

6/2019 – 2/2021

Requirements Engineering
Product Management

Confluence, JIRA, IREB

Change-Request-Management, Product Owner, Requirement Analyse

11/2018 – 11/2019

● Customer: Chinese OEM
● Documentation of process, methods and tools for system/software engineering (MBSE, MBD, MAAB, MISRA, AUTOSAR), supporting/management processes (ASPICE) and functional safety (ISO2626)
● Preparation of requirements, development and test examples based on Electric Powertrain (BMS, VCU, MCU) with IBM DOORS, Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow, BTC EmbeddedTester, Lauterbach, dSPACE HIL
● Training, coaching and mentoring of a team of more than 50 engineers (ASPICE, ISO2626, IREB, ISTQB)
● Review of work products and regular ASPICE and Functional Safety (ISO2626) assessments.

Modellgetriebene Entwicklung, Projektmanagement - Softwaretool-Beratung, Projektmanagement - Softwaretool-Schulung, Automotive functional safety professional (AFSP), ISO/IEC 15504, Automotive Open System Architecture, Technisches Testing

6/2017 – 6/2019

Customer: German Tier 1 Supplier
● Stakeholder requirements review, clarifications of requirements with stakeholders, management of stakeholder requirements in IBM DOORS
● System and software requirements engineering in IBM DOORS using an ASPICE compliant process, support to system design engineers and functional safety manager
● Functional safety requirements engineering according to ISO26262
● PR and CR management
● Review of system and software design, review of test specification

Softwareanforderungsanalyse, Software Architecture, Software Design, System Analyse, System Architektur, System Design, Systems Engineering, Requirement Analyse, Change-Request-Management, Automotive functional safety professional (AFSP), ISO/IEC 15504, Automotive Open System Architecture

12/2016 – 6/2017

● Customer: German OEM
● Scope: Formal specification and verification of safety requirements and system testing at HIL level
Semi-formal specification (Requirements Models)
● Formal specification (Requirements Patterns)
● Formal verification to prove requirements correctness (Model Checking)
● Structural test coverage of requirements (Automated Test Generation)
● Minimise all manual steps (Automatic Test Execution)
● Observing system behaviour in all execution steps (Real Time Test Observers)
● dSPACE HIL, Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow, dSPACE TargetLink, BTC BTC EmbeddedSpecifier, BTC EmbeddedValidator, BTC EmbeddedTester, dSPACE AutomationDesk, dSPACE ControlDesk, dSPACE Configuration Desk

Modellgetriebene Entwicklung, Technisches Testdesign, Technisches Testing

11/2014 – 11/2016

● Customer: German/Japanese Automotive Supplier
● Task: Model based development and unit testing of the main and safety microcontrollers software
● Standards: AUTOSAR, ISO26262 (ASIL D), ASPICE
● Tools: Doors, Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow, SystemDesk, DaVinci, TargetLink, EmbeddedTester, QAC.
● Duration: 24 months
● Team Size: 6 software engineers

Softwareanforderungsanalyse, Software Architecture, Software Design, Modellgetriebene Entwicklung, Automotive functional safety professional (AFSP), ISO/IEC 15504, Automotive Open System Architecture, Embedded Software, Technisches Testdesign, Technisches Testing

6/2014 – 12/2014

● Customer: German Automotive OEM
● Task: Automatic Test Case Generation for TargetLink and ASCET code
● Standards: ISO26262 (ASIL B)
● Tools: EmbeddedTester, dSPACE TargetLink, ASCET
● Duration: 6 months
● Team Size: 3 software engineers

ISTQB, Testen

5/2014 – 12/2014

● Customer: German Automotive OEM
● Task: Back to back testing
● Standards: AUTOSAR, ISO26262 (ASIL B)
● Tools: Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow, TargetLink, EmbeddedTester.
● Duration: 6 months ++
● Team Size: 4 software engineers

Modellgetriebene Entwicklung, Automotive functional safety professional (AFSP), Automotive Open System Architecture, Technisches Testing

11/2013 – 11/2015

● Customer: German Automotive Supplier
● Task: Advance formal verification of main and monitor safety code
● Standards: AUTOSAR, ISO26262 (ASIL D)
● Tools: Matlab, Simulink, EmbeddedTester.
● Duration: 24 months
● Team Size: 5 software engineers

Modellgetriebene Entwicklung, Automotive functional safety professional (AFSP), Automotive Open System Architecture, Technisches Testing

3/2013 – 3/2014

● Customer: German Automotive Supplier
● Task: Unit and Integration Test of Rhapsody models and generated code
● Standards: AUTOSAR, ISO26262 (ASIL B), UML
● Tools: IBM Rhapsody, IBM TestConductor.
● Duration: 12 months.
● Team Size: 5 software engineers

ISTQB, Software Architecture, Modellgetriebene Entwicklung, Automotive functional safety professional (AFSP), Automotive Open System Architecture, Technisches Testing

1/2010 – 2/2013

Responsible for managing and coordinating BTC-ES products support activities at
worldwide level: that include European, Asian and American customers.
● Coordinating the support teams in different locations. Implementation of the customer problem tracking concept.
● Communication of the relevant customer request and problems within the marketing and sales and product management periodical meetings.
● Informing customers about request resolution planning and content of new releases.
● Supervise the support and engineering teams into development of plug-ins and scripts for better integration of the products into the customer process.

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), 1st Level Support / UHD, Technischer Support

1/2008 – 2/2013

Independently perform different customer-oriented marketing and sales activities.
● Preparation of generic marketing presentation, demonstrations and concepts for conferences or specific to some customer specific needs.
● Preparation of technical whitepapers and application notes. Maintain and extend the customer contact network.
● Proposing and preparing quotations for product and services sales inline to the customer needs. Tendering the order process until the final delivery of the products or start of services.
● Supporting the technical evaluations on the customer side or discuss of the technical requirements in the case of services. Organize on site customer meetings whenever required. Travel availability for more than 50% of the work time.
● Communicate of the relevant customer request to the product management.

Salesforce.Com, Product Owner, Business Development, Marketing, Vorverkauf

6/2007 – 12/2007

● Product management for the BTC products EmbeddedValidator and EmbeddedTester.
● Perform different product management tasks like collect, analyze and plan product features.
● Actively placement of the products within the customer and industry partners.
● Contributing to company strategy to define product long term visions

Product Owner

1/2007 – 12/2007

● Provide on-site and remote customer consulting and technical solutions in different services
projects (automotive, aerospace, medical, railway)
● Integration and customizations of the BTC products into customers development process.
● Analysis of the current process and propose process improvements solutions.

It-Beratung

1/2007 – 12/2007

● Provide on-site and remote customer consulting and technical solutions in different services
projects (automotive, aerospace, medical, railway)
● Integration and customizations of the BTC products into customers development process.
● Analysis of the current process and propose process improvements solutions.

It-Beratung

1/2006 – 12/2007

Project leader of for Software Technology Breakthrough
● Focusing the fast introduction of new technologies like model-based development, autocoding, automatic testing into production projects with the goals to increase efficiency and quality
● Responsible for organizing the budget and development team, definition of the research topics and requirements for product development.
● Actively involved in the roll-out of the solution within the projects team, offering technical support.
● Defined the metrics and analyses for measuring the gain in efficiency and quality by introducing the new technologies.
● Provide inputs to the quotation teams in terms of possible cost savings.

Modellgetriebene Entwicklung, Projektleitung / Teamleitung

6/2003 – 12/2004

● Responsible for the Lights Systems Generic Development.
● Managing and planning the development team across customer projects.
● Review of development specific work products.
● Defining the strategy for the generic solution considering the new trends like AUTOSAR and model-based development.
● Part of the team supporting the audits for CMM and CMMI levels.
● Providing recommendations and proposals for process improvements.

Projektleitung / Teamleitung

10/2000 – 5/2003

● Developing automotive generic software for BCU (body control unit) functionalities like power mirrors, lights, window lifter, central locking, alarm, battery management.
● Responsible for all development work products like specification, design, coding, testing.
● Interest in introducing new technologies like model-based development and autocoding, being the first one to use automatically generated code for production projects.

Embedded Software