Professional Insights

Professional Insights

Key Facts

  • 1967: born in Speyer (Germany)
  • 1987: Abitur at Hans-Purrmann-Gymnasium in Speyer (Germany)
  • 1988-1994: Studies of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
  • 1994-1995: Exchange with the University of Coimbra (Portugal)
  • 1995-2002: Work at Siemens in Munich (Germany) and Beijing (China)
    • Firmware for mobile phones
    • Commissioning of internet gateways for mobile phones
  • 2002-2004: MBA Studies at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
  • 2004-2010: Work at HACH Lange in Berlin (Germany)
    • Project Management in the development of electronic devices for water quality measurement
  • 2010-2013: Work at Philips & Neusoft Medical Systems (PNMS) in Shenyang (China)
    • Project Management in the development of high-voltage generators for CT
  • 2014-2019: Work at Philips in Shenyang (China) and Hamburg (Germany):
    • Project Management in the development of high-voltage generators and cables for CT and x-ray
    • IT migration from legacy PLM systems to a modern cloud-based PLM system (Windchill cPLM)
  • 2019-2020: Work at joimax® in Karlsruhe (Germany):
    • Project Management in the development of medical devices for endoscopic spine surgery
  • 2020-2021: Work at Collins Aerospace in Heidelberg (Germany):
    • Technical Project Management for avionics and mission systems
  • since Oct 2021: Work at Fresenius Medical Care in Schweinfurt (Germany) in a hybrid working model:
    • Technical Project Management in the development of hemodialysis machines
    • Agile Project Management with several teams in Azure DevOps
    • Development of complex evaluations and visualizations for Azure DevOps

Knowledge

  • Agile Project Management in Azure DevOps
  • Data Visualization with Grafana
  • International and intercultural experience
  • Management of distributed teams (USA, India, China, Germany)
  • Probability-based risk analysis (decision tree)
  • Progress tracking with critical chain or critical path approach
  • Development of an online Project Information System (PIS) with HTML visualization of milestones and tasks
  • Process Breakdown Analysis and Root Cause Countermeasure (RCCM)
  • Design, development and production of:
    • medical electronic instruments
    • high-voltage generators for medical applications
    • electronic and electro-optical measurement instruments
  • DICOM test environment for work lists and PACS
  • PTC Windchill cPLM
  • Linux system administration (Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Courier-IMAP, OpenVPN)

Certifications

Some Impressions

Firmware development at Siemens (1998)
During a training course at Siemens (2000)
TD-SCDMA Firmware Team at Siemens in Beijing (2001)
Development Core Team at PNMS in Shenyang (2012)
Lunch with PNMS colleagues in Shenyang (2014)
Lunch at Philips (2014)
In front of Siemens in Mch-G (2001)
In the office at Philips (2018)
In front of the entry to joimax® in Karlsruhe (2019)

International Experience

On job assignments and during academic studies, I have had the pleasure to work or study in the following locations:

  • 12/2010–07/2014: Shenyang (China)
    • Philips, long term delegation (LTD) to the joint-venture PNMS
    • Philips Shenyang Office
  • 07/2002–06/2004: Singapore (Singapore)
    • MBA Studies at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
  • 07/2001–01/2002: Beijing (China)
    • Siemens Ltd., long term delegation (LTD)
  • 08/2000–11/2000: Beijing and Shanghai (China)
    • Siemens AG, commissioning assignments
  • 04/1994–05/1995: Coimbra (Portugal)
    • Academic exchange program “Erasmus”

A detailed CV or work references are available on request.