Michael Becher Email & Phone Number

Bremen, Germany

Responsibility for all Orion ESM programme procurement activitiesLead the Orion Programme Procurement Team Senior management interface towards Orion/MPCV industrial partners

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Munich

• responsibility for the procurement and development activities of the European industries contributing to the Sentinel 4 mission; (more than 15 subcontracts; budget > 80M€)• day to day management of the subcontract execution; interface to the contracting European Space Agency (ESA)• management and lead of the related industrial project organisation (5 to 7 subsystem / procurement managers)

Munich Area, Germany

• general management and lead of the Satellite System Engineering organisation ( 30 employees) and activities at Astrium site in Ottobrunn• project and proposal support for the "European Satellites Navigation System" projects• resource planning; competence analysis and introduction of training plans• organisation and execution of hiring campaigns • coordination, execution and analysis of project audits; identification of quality issues within the development processes and introduction of improvements

Munich / Manching

• programme management responsibility for A400M Mission Systems projects (navigation, low level flight, "Defensive Aids library generation and verification environment")• contract and work share negotiations with customer, suppliers and EADS partners • definition and planning of programme / contract targets in matters of orders and revenues• quality, budget and schedule control of the supporting competence centres• planning and execution of price audits• risk and opportunity management with respect to technical, financial and contractual aspects • development of technical and commercial resolution plans with the A400M programme organisation• customer and industrial partner liaison (OCCAR, BWB, BMVg; Airbus Military)Achievements:restructuring of the A400M navigation and low level flight projects and successful negotiation with Airbus and the national customer

Friedrichshafen

EADS chief engineer responsible for the development of technical concepts, definition studies and the development process within the frame of the proposal preparation for NATO AGS technical management and negotiation of the technical proposal with the contributing EADS partners (Airbus, Defence Electronics, Defence & Communication Systems, Military Transport Aircraft Military Air Systems), the joint venture partners and the NATOleadership responsibility for the technical programme team staffed by four direct and up to fifteen indirect team membersconduction of technical investigations into feasibility of solutions and gap analysis (NATO AGS Risk Reduction Study)negotiation of EADS strategic and work share interests with the international joint venture partners (Thales, Northrop Grumman, Indra, Galileo Avionica, General Dynamics Canada) elaboration of airworthiness certification concept alternatives for the envisaged mission aircraftAchievements: successful acquisition and accomplishment of the “NATO AGS Risk Reduction Study”successful negotiation and preparation of the technical proposal for the NATO AGS Design & Development contract

Ottobrunn

project responsibility with respect to performance, cost, quality and schedule for the development of the "Defensive Aids Subsystem" for the military transport aircraft A400Mnegotiation and analysis of the projects customer requirements definition and implementation of the project management handbook and the technical development processcustomer liaison and interface to partners and suppliers industrial leadership for a A400M support system (PFMSE) working group together with the A400M customers

Munich Area, Germany

wireless system integration & verification responsibility of the Nortel Networks product portfolio at a major customer; responsibility for the following system verification & acceptance tasksintroduction of Network Services System (NSS) Software GSM12introduction of the base station subsystem (BSS) software V12.4GPRS end to end network performance analysisintroduction of SB 6.0 software for the Nortel Intelligent Network platform "Service Builder" customer interface for the verification & acceptance activities; coordination of the tests at the customer test lab and the "live network"leadership of the integration & acceptance organisation (up to 17 engineers)resource, cost planning / control and task coordination with the design- and support units of Nortel Networks in France, Great Britain, USA and CanadaAchievements: organisation and accomplishment of the GPRS end to end performance test campaign

Munich Area, Germany