Professional Experience:December 2014:My latest job is in Corporate Development at Homag Group AG, Schopfloch, Germany, since June 2014. Before that I have worked at Novellus Systems, Inc./LAM Research, Inc. in San Jose, California, USA, from June 2011 to March 2014 as Project/Program Manager Business Operations (3 months internship, 8 months part-time in parallel to my studies and 21 months full-time).From October 2007 until September 2010 I have worked as Specialist in Value Managemet at Festo AG & Co. KG in Esslingen Germany. Right before that I have done a 6 months internship at Festo in the same department that included writing my Bachelor Thesis.This gives me a total of approximately 6 years of industry work experience.Areas of experience:- first experiences in company strategy development, monitoring of strategic progress, leading workshops, preparation of management team conferences, management board assistance- product development processes (incl. target costing process) in the mechanical engineering industry for systems and components- product cost monitoring along the development process (incl. management reporting)- product cost calculation and optimization- value analysis, value stream analysis and product cost optimization workshops- responsibility for product configuration and bill of material- interface from business operations to departments like engineering, supply chain management, product support and manufacturing- first experiences in supplier negotiations