• Lead international projects & conduct competition landscape analysis (technical, commercial) in automotive industry
• Analyze customers? current and future needs for new product development and global strategy alignment, e.g. elaborating properties requirements for new products
• Align external customers? ideas with internal capacities
• Execute projects and account for the life cycle of product, e.g. idea generation, prototype, trial and production and to-customer delivery
• Coordinate projects between different stakeholders, e.g. engineering, customer, production, quality and controlling
• Promote and influence introduction of new products at customers and distributors by maintaining and developing professional network within the product business
• Provide technical expertise, product knowledge to customers
• Establish and execute product qualification plan & alignment
• Collaborate with marketing to create compelling sales materials and participate in industry events and conferences

Success/Outcome

• 20% increase of product sales
• Product qualification released by 2 Tier ones
• 6 new product-trial requests from customers

• Conduct structural reliability (Weibull analysis) and calibrate benchmark of pressure vessels and piping system
• Design experiments, validate simulation and create technical reports and test protocols for customers
• Assess risk with solution-oriented proposals and clear communication

Success/Outcome

• Lead 3 projects as a vice-principal investigator in a tenmember team, i.e., cost control, resources & tasks allocation
• Establish internal registration database and archives
• Give lectures to undergraduates on (on request)
• Work closely with the customer support and technical teams to ensure customer satisfaction
• Supervise 12 under-/post-graduates for their dissertations

Success/Outcome

• Perform material characterization & chemical analysis of selective laser melted components and process optimization
• Coach postgraduates on data treatment and operative tasks

Success/Outcome

• Promote products in conference and trade shows
• Lead and coordinate with technicians for know-how transfer

Success/Outcome