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Responsible for leading, planning and tracking vehicle display and universal controller module life cycle from inception through introduction into the marketplace. Establishes product specifications and coordinates with various functions, including ICT, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sales to ensure successful product development and implementation. Provides technical/managerial leadership to explore and champion new product development programs, cost reduction target achievement and product improvement programs. Identifies, researches and resolves cross-functional team performance issues to ensure timely attainment of program objectives.

Munich, De

Accomplishments:• Led a project which cost reduced existing HVAC controller by 43% for Siemens Industry Europe. This redesign provided 1.4 million CHF (Swiss Franks) of savings per year. This controller was also introduced to the North American market. • Managed a team to add a lighting portfolio of products to the existing HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) and security portfolio of products for Americas region with single point integration capability.Responsible for leading global product planning teams to define a new generation of products, product slates, as well as global project teams. Collaborated and negotiated with marketing on project scope and functionality. Lead the collection and definition of requirements and project feasibility. Managed projects per company standards and product development process. Planned and estimated project schedules and resources. Tracked and monitored cost estimates with actual costs and made an appropriate adjustments as necessary. Communicated project status to all team members and stakeholders through weekly team meetings, monthly project reviews, and end of phase reviews.

Munich, De

Accomplishments:• Led a migration project to replace obsolete building level controllers with new generation controllers with $1M in profit in the first year with field jobs generating 50% profit margins. Completed project 2 months ahead of schedule. Was nominated with my Product Manager for Siemens Industry Project Leadership award in 2010.Supervised seven people - (3) Electrical Engineers, (2) Mechanical Engineers, and (2) Technical Writers.

Munich, De

Accomplishments:• Led to successful completion a key strategic project for Siemens Building Technologies to develop Ethernet building controller for a major pharmaceutical company. The aggressive schedule was dictated by the construction completion of a new pharmaceutical factory in Boston.• Successfully managed first, global, automation level project to develop a Power PC based networked HVAC controller for North America and Europe. Worked with global product planning teams to define a new generation of products, product slates, as well as global project teams. Collaborated and negotiated with marketing on project scope and functionality. Lead the collection and definition of requirements and project feasibility. Managed projects per company standards (CMMI3) and product development process. Planned and estimated project schedules and resources. Tracked and monitored cost estimates with actual costs and made an appropriate adjustments as necessary. Communicated project status to all team members and stakeholders through weekly team meetings, monthly project reviews, and end of phase reviews.

Munich, De

Accomplishments:• Developed a very unique, hardware/firmware FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) solution to retrofit Hands-Off-Auto (manual override) switches for an existing HVAC controller and implemented it in production, while project managing cross-functional team at the same time. This unique solution was also implemented in the next generation platform of global Siemens Building Technologies products. Provided technical leadership on hardware development, design, implementation, and testing of building control products. Served as a project manager and hardware designer on small projects. Authored development documentation including functional specifications, design specifications, and test plans as well as facilitated their reviews. Interfaced with marketing, firmware, software, manufacturing, purchasing, product inventory control, technical writing, training, national operation, and field support groups.

Munich, De

Accomplishments:• Successfully completed a project to develop a new line of thermostats. Designed an ingenious way of powering the digital thermostat from the existing controllers. These efforts resulted in two patents for this work (United States Patent Numbers: 5,816,492 and 5,934,554). Designed analog and digital circuits for high volume floor level embedded controllers based on Motorola 68HCxx microcontrollers. Responsible for design, component selection, building prototypes, testing, regulatory compliance, implementation into factory, and final release.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Master'S Degree, Computer Science