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Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Erlangen Area, Germany

• Driving the R&D post-merger integration and change management by planning and executing the merger of an 800+ people R&D organization.• Building technology roadmaps for streamlined innovation frontloading, planning and execution.• Driving the digital transformation by implementing a holistic data collection architecture for Fitting Software and consumer apps as a basis for data driven product development processes.• Creating easy access to high quality data to various stakeholders by implementing automized data pipelines (using Spark) and teaching colleagues in data analytics tools such as Python, Databricks & PowerBI. • Project lead for multiple ForeFront projects leading highly skilled development teams developing edge technologies. Apply Design Thinking development to synchronize market and technology requirements.• Building a partner network to drive outside-in innovation

Erlangen Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Trend and opportunity scouting for new solutions driving the future value of hearing solutions. Linking these findings to the company Innovation Strategy.• Headed 8 Innovation projects involving internal and external stakeholders, 5 of these projects were initiated by me. • Created a clear product vision, delivered a consistent concept and reduced the component complexity by 50% as project manager for the re-design of a key component in the largest product business segment. • Streamlined and standardized global competitive intelligence processes, increasing efficiency by 40% and maximizing business impact. • Initiated and implemented a centralized web-based data base for effective information and knowledge exchange being used by 500+ employees today.

Erlangen Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Creation of a business potential analysis for hearing aid applications within the Internet of Things (IOT). • Delivered an IoT strategy and convinced management to start two innovation projects in this direction.• Demonstrated strong strategic & analytical skills and was hired full-time after the completion of the MBA-program.

Trondheim Und Umgebung, Norwegen

Design of a cooling system for high torque electric motors in close cooperation with an electrical engineer.The task included:- Modeling the problem analytically to identify the key design parameters- 2D and 3D CFD-simluations- Development of an experimental model- Experimental verification of the numerical simulations

Thailand, Bangkok

Working in a company with 30 Thai employees, creating CAD-models and circuit diagrams of machinery parts. Learning some Thai and spending time with the employees in my spare time.

Freiburg Und Umgebung, Deutschland

Design, fabrication and characterization of an micro-coil array for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) within the Micro-MR Project.

Deutscher Rollsport Und Inline-Verband (Driv)

Participation in European and World Championships

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business, Management, Marketing, Strategy

International MBA program tailored for engineers and scientists. Management, Business and Marketing courses combined with an in-company.

Master Of Science (Msc), Sustainable Energy Engineering, Excellent (A)

Activities and Societies: IAESTE Norway, DAAD ScholarshipSpecialization in Fluid Mechanics & CFD Simulations - CFD simulation in MATLAB.

Master Of Science (Msc), Sustainable Energy Engineering

Activities and Societies: IAESTE Sweden

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Microelectromechanical Systems Engineering, Excellent (1,5)