Rethinking and innovating mobility support for children and adults living with motion impairments.

Implementation of technical solutions within healthcare both in the US as well as in Germany. Improving lives of patients in the field of orthotics and prosthetics by providing fully integrated digital systems to the patient care centers. Facilitation of collaboration between teams, cross-functional departments, and with external partners.

Supporting the transition from traditional department structures and waterfall project planning into a lean engineering organization with interdisciplinary teams applying agile principles and scrum in hardware. Supervising new team members during growth of the engineering teams. Responsible for evaluating technologies, deriving system architectures, defining engineering requirements, and creating modular concepts of future-proof drinking water purifiers.

Professional and disciplinary leadership of the engineering team developing smart consumer products in collaboration with external partners. Responsible for building a strong internal hardware team of engineers and technicians in less that 6 months. Identifying necessary engineering skills, recruiting of new team members via structured (team) interview processes and defining roles within the new team setup. Project management, workpackage definition, and alignment of resources between cross-functional departments (business & product, scientific laboratory, and firmware & software).

Product development, hardware engineering, and mechanical design from concept phase to final design in collaboration with DFM partners. Leading the prototyping and testing activities, design of experiment (DOE), and performance validation of components and sub-systems. Reverse engineering, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), and risk mitigation by structured and objective evaluation of potential solutions.

Planning, coordination, and conducting of industrial & research projects together with industrial partners in the international aerospace industry (including China). Responsible for the experimental validation of innovative technologies applied to aero engine within the framework of international consortia. Coordination of a team performing acoustic flyover measurements to investigate modified civil aircrafts.

R&D, design, and experimental investigations of fluid machines. Development of data analysis methods and visualization of Big Data. Investigation of unsteady aerodynamics and acoustics using advanced signal processing techniques as e.g. statistics & multi-modal analysis. Application of high resolution multi channel analog digital measurement equipment and synchronization of distributed devices. Implementation of calibration routines, automatization tests, and device monitoring during operation.

Optimization of the processes within the maintenance of aero engines and industrial gas turbines. Blade repair development (fan and turbine) for a commercial engine.