Responsible for the German-Dutch cooperation for companies, research institutes and governmental authorities in the fields of innovation and technology.providing knowledge about innovation, technology and scientific developments between the Netherlands and Germany.Connect potential collaboration partners abroad by innovation missions, workshops, matchmaking events and seminars.

Responsible for expanding SFC´s business outside Germany for the Defense & Security business by setting up and rolling out business strategies.Responsible for all activities in regards to military and intelligence projects within the European countries, and Israel.Identify business opportunities and initiate strategic partnerships with military and governmental end-users and commercial businesses. Handle new customer relationships, including project acquisition and contract negotiations with governments.

Identified innovative technologies and develop cutting-edge products for pilot training (“Leave the beaten path”).Identified and analyze potential market growth opportunities.Executed business case assessments and provide the Lufthansa-Group board of directors with decision-making information.Setup strong cooperation with industrial partners and develop strong alliances.

Directed the creation of new aviation division by identifying business opportunities for product introductions in aviation. Oversaw all activities regarding product design, prototyping, qualification and production.Handled new customer relationships, including project acquisition and contract negotiations with airlines, aircraft manufacturers and aviation seat suppliers.Directed the entire aviation product life-cycle from concept definition to product design and qualification. Performed customer acquisitions, managed all resulting aviation projects and coordinated all activities between suppliers, internal engineering organization and customers.

Consulted challenging projects in the aviation, reciprocating engine and automotive industry.

Managed the project for validating the next-generation software tools and coordinated the rollout within the BMW group.

Spearheaded multi-national project team, creating detailed project planning with milestones, well-defined tasks, project risks, client sign-offs, project specifications and reporting to communicate project progress to upper management.

Created and coordinated the process to handle design changes of gas- and diesel engine developments within engineering, production and after-sales services.

Successfully harmonized the configuration management activities within aircraft development to structure all engineering activities.

Coordinated the development activities within the A350 aircraft development between engineering and suppliers to deliver an customized aircraft towards airline customers.

Advised Airbus on customization organization by mapping involved actors and processes, defining roles and responsibilities, and creating and implementing performance measurement tool to establish common way of working during aircraft development phase of A350XWB aircraft.

Mapped and analyzed quality processes within all aircraft production programs of Airbus and established single best-practice for quality issues within aircraft production by implementing a new Airbus procedure.