Leading the research and development area with 60 employees and multicultural development teams spread across the world in the locations Lyss (CH), Munich (DE) and Pune (lN).Responsible for the budget, roadmap and the strategic elaboration and development of new products fulfilling the future demands of the TCMS and Brakes market.Responsible for hiring new employees, ensuring knowledge management and introducing a positive learning culture based on trust, a solution oriented mindset, appreciative and critical feedback, skill retention and employee development.Achievements:Successful scaled Agile transformation (Scrum, SAFe essential & portfolio).Successful development of a Safety Portfolio up to SIL 4 (EN 50129 / 50128 / 50126).Successful development of a Cybersecurity Portfolio up to SL 2 (lEC 62443, TS 50701).Successful migration from proprietary solutions to standardized technologies (including OPC UA, TSN, Syslog ...). Process optimization through digitalization and automation (DevOps) with a long-term reduction of maintenance efforts and time-to-market . Successful co-definition and execution of the strategy to unify TCMS and SysControl Brakes electronics with focus on scalability, synergies, innovation and easy maintainability and longevity. Establishing a "digital mindset" with the development of a "DigitalTwin" of the TCMS portfolio, usable in overlying systems for TCMS and brakes.

Acted as Senior Scrum Master for two Scrum Teams (18 developers and 2 product owners) in the area of ATMs and value added card and digital payment solutions:- Agile coaching of the development teams and product owners about agile methods and their application (Scrum, Kanban, scaled agility with SAFe, optimization of the generation of value with effective prioritization)- Agile coaching of the development teams about technical best practices (refactoring, TDD, BDD, living documentation)- Servant leadership and coordination support between teams during the sprints and program increments of a release- Continuous improvement through effective retrospectives, including team building activities- Effective agile planning using visual methods like Kanban Boards and Release Burndowns

Successful Head of software developement having introduced an Agile mindset, Test-First and Clean Code and Successful Scrum / XP implementation bringing success to the company through the quality of tools developed and delighted users.- Responsibility of a team of 10 software engineers and a pool of international development partners- Yearly definition of the software roadmap and management of the according budget of the department- Refactoring of multiple legacy systems adding value and reducing maintenance costs- Coaching of the development team and the stakeholders for being highly adaptable to new environments and demonstrating ability to achieve goals on time and on budget- Responsibility for the technical knowledge management strategyMajor achievement: extended the product portfolio and the features of the Selectron Toolchain to anticipate future trends.- Creation of an IEC61131-3 applications simulator (T2 qualification)- Support of condition based monitoring, predictive maintenance and cybersecurity- Creation of a complete qualified toolchain for developping IEC61131-3 applications up to SIL4 in the different languages FBD, ST, SFC ( code coverage, static analysis, requirements tracing, profiling, metrics... )- Integration of the whole toolchain with Matlab / Simulink / PLC Coder for model driven development

- Successful takeover to Selectron of the strategic CAP1131 tool (1 million lines of legacy code) previously developed by a partner: refactoring, modernization and qualification of the tool on the highest level T3 for the use in safety related projects according to IEC61508 and EN50128.- Successful introduction of an agile development process for safety projects and for the development of safety related products.- Reduction of the maintenance costs and regressions of the Selectron software products by 40% in 3 years through systematic application of a test first approach, automation of tests, test driven development and continuous integration.- Reduction of the reaction time to changing customer needs and requirements from 24 weeks to 8 weeks through definition and implementation of short iterations of 2 weeks supported by continuous feedback of the end users.- Delivery of innovative products and functionalities better in line with customer needs through introduction of behavior driven development and living documentation.- Efficient modernization and migration of the Selectron software products from MFC to Qt and .NET/C#/WPF.

- Evaluation, Integration and Development of New Technologies (Ethernet, Linux, C#, ...) and Products (Switch, Router, HMIs / Displays, Tools for customers, ...) - Migration of current technologies and concepts to the new ones- Project Management- Improvement of Software Development Processes

- Object Oriented Analysis and Design applied to the development of the PLC operating system, embedded firmware, device drivers, tools and plugins (UML, Rhapsody).- Programmation in C, Java (Eclipse, static code analyzers: PC Lint, Klocwork, Cantata++, SWT, Subversion)- Definition of a tool-chain and related process for Safety software development (EN50128 SIL2 and IEC61508 SIL3).- Test Manager for an anti-skid/slip module qualified on SIL3: definition of a test plan and strategy, definition of a test specification, implementation of unit, integration and system-tests and documentation for the certification authority.- Requirements (specification of new features, analysis of customer needs and defects) and Project manager (release planning, presentations of the new features and products) for the software tool to program the PLCs.- Coordination of an international (English, German, French) pool of vendors/suppliers of software development tools.

- Validation of the complete product portfolio of PLCs (programmable logic controller) dedicated to the train business.- Specification, Planning and Implementation of Acceptance Tests.- Development of Test Systems for testing Hardware in harsh environments (shock, vibration and type tests) according EN50155 standard and for the production line (incoming components inspection)- Development in C and IEC61131-3 languages (grafcet, ST, FBD).

Selectron Systems AG was a company of Schneider Electric until 2009.

Definition and implementation of a monitoring and alarm system for the GPRS / UMTS Core Network.