Experienced Senior Manager

8/2019 – offen

- Responsible Project Director for an Industrial Campus to set up highly automated battery production-, aircraft final assembly capabilities as well as infrastructure for flight operations in an EU country (~300MM€ CAPEX)
- Led extremely diverse teams to shape and implement an eVTOL Industrial Strategy: New Product Introduction, Design for Manufacturing, Green-Field Factory, Prototype Production, Production Testing, Certification
- Designed and now leading a PMO (5 Projects, 50MM€ CAPEX) to steer the industrialization program
- Led the development of a Test Campus for BaMery & Propulsion Tes=ng (~15MM€ CAPEX, Green- & Brownfield)
- Turned around the baMery factory development project with a 6-months recovery and achieved prototype SOP
- Governed 10+ Department leaders to achieve program milestones from the preliminary design review to SOP
- Coordinated the initial development of departments: Logistics, Academy, Production Planning & Control
- Driving company growth & professionalism activities: Business Processes, IT Systems, Hiring, Financing,
Fundraising, Business Planning, IPO Activities, Industrial Partnership Strategies, Continuous Improvement
- Named Inhouse Coach contributing to leadership development and people culture

Coach, Projektleiter Industrie, Projektleitung / Teamleitung

6/2016 – 4/2018

- Led & finalized localization negotiations with “Rosneft”(RN) as the JV partner to enable a strategic and opera=onal partnership for electrical propulsion and power electronics marine equipment
- Build & led a cross company team (GE, RN, JV) and established a collaborative team culture
- Enabled & drove the construction of a green-field factory to produce Azipods for icebreaker ships (33MM$ CAPEX) and the set-up of a localized supply chain for Azipods as well as for Electrical Equipment in Russia
- Coordinated the organiza=onal development of the JV (People, business processes, IT Infrastructure)
- Controlled & managed the JV business case and ensured compliance to the shareholder agreement
- Managed new product introduction introduction (supply chain, assembly & test capabilities) in France and
established a transfer of work concept to transfer assembly & test operations to Russia

Management (allg.), Projektleitung / Teamleitung, Projektleiter (Sonstige)

2/2013 – 6/2016

Led several opera=onal teams in 7 departments: Production, Testing, Quality, Logistics, Planning, Manufacturing Engineering, Fulfillment to deliver ambi=ous produc=on schedules (~ 200 M$ sales)
- Responsible for 10 assembly lines, test field and the warehouse (~15k part numbers)
- Held personnel responsibility of up to 300+ employees (0 electrical contacts) & managed ~5MM$ CAPEX
- Motivated & led the team to deliver the highest output (1200+) of Variable Frequency Drives for various
industries (Renewables, Industry, Oil & Gas, Marine) enabling 200+MM$ site sales p.a.
- Key enabler to fulfill a site unprecedent high volume customer order of variable frequency drives for the solar
industry (­20% Operator Capacity within 1,5 months, ̄65% Lead Time, ̄20% Labor Cost)
- Designed & implemented a streamlined organiza=on and successful collabora=on with the works council
- Improved operational performance for the delivery of customized Variable Frequency Drives (­8% On time
delivery, ­29% Quality, variable cost productivity ~2,8 MM$, 0 electrical contacts)
- Led the transfer of produc=on & supply chain of a customized Variable Frequency Drive for a marine application
from FR to GER and project management of immediate customer deliveries complying to DNV Standards
- Implemented a Kaizen Promotion Office to improve variable cost productivity & employee motivation
- Developed and led a Fulfillment Organization to improve on =me delivery, quality and variable cost productivity
as well as to recover cri=cal customer projects in production

Projektleitung / Teamleitung, Fertigungsoptimierung, Lagerleiter, Lean Prozesse, Management (allg.), Produktionsleitung, Qualitätsmanager, Test Management