• Leading an organization of 100+ solution architects, implementation consultants and software engineers.
• Engaging with high-level customers and maintaining strong trustful relationships
• Strategic and tactical decision making to align consulting capabilities with internal goals and current and future market needs.
• Definition of performance goals and metrics, behavioral standards and culture.
• Coaching of practicing and becoming leaders

• Oversight of status and purpose of multiple complex PLM projects at a global enterprise account. Leader of a group of project managers responsible for those projects.
• Support and guidance of project-level activity to ensure the overall program goals are met. 
• Providing decisionmaking capacity that cannot be achieved at project level.
• Provide project managers with a program perspective when required.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of processes that enable and ensure knowledge sharing and increase organizational performance for an effective and efficient operational environment

• Project manager and management advisor at a large PLM project at a leading innovator and manufacturer provider of power generation technology
• Project manager and advisor to senior management for a large PLM project at one of the leading plant manufacturers set in a complex organizational environment
• Leader of a management consulting project at multiple business units of a DAX 30 Industry leader to verify and optimize the corporate PLM strategy

Review and approval of all desktop hardware request globally

Projects (in reverse chronological order)

PLM Deployment in Europe

Project Manager responsible for the deployment of a new BOM management tool (UGS-PLM Teamcenter Enterprise) at all European PD locations (~1500 seats)

Overall European Project responsibility including:

• Communication to internal and external stakeholders
• Development and execution of project rollout schedule
• Development of deployment methodology tailored to specific local requirements for:
  • Data Migration
  • User training
  • Detailed Rollout Schedule

Development and implementation of suitable metrics and subsequent monitoring and reporting of project progress

Costed BOM Development

Overall responsible for the development of a tool for the cost analysis of Bills of Materials in real time in an UGS Teamcenter and UGS SRM environment

• Determine functional scope in cooperation with stakeholders from USA, Europe and Asia
• Interface Planning
• Planning and controlling the activities of technical resources
• Global implementation planning and execution

• Responsible for the definition and documentation of business requirements for the enterprise wide engineering change process.
• Lead a team of employees and consultants, and integrating their efforts with the overall team implementing a SAP/ERP solution.
• Negotiation with process owners and other important projectstakeh olders

• Responsible for all Driver Information System Projects with General Motors. 
• Lead three cross functional project teams located in US and Mexico through development phase towards product launch in US, Canada and Mexico

• This position entails leading a team of internal and external business and IT consultants in re-engineering and document internal business processes in the areas of business development, quoting, order fulfillment and post-delivery in order to enable configuration and launch of the SAP R/3 system.

• Responsible for customer related activities targeted to promote the value proposition of the then newly formed Visteon Automotive Systems before the IPO, during transformation of a product-oriented organization with a single customer into a multi-customer focused organization. 
• Winning supply contracts with VW, Steyr Motorentechnik

• Developmental assignment with direct line reporting employees. 
• Leadership responsibility for all timing and releasing activities of Ford's automotive components division (ACD) in Germany

• Product development and launch responsibility for the electrical content for the Ford KA. 
• Dual reporting relationship to Vehicle Chief Engineer and PD Engineering Manager.