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India

Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Lead a department of 90 engineers with annual budget of ca.€20M, catering to over 6 traction battery development and industrialization. Major deliverables also includes ensuring future growth demands and skill retention.Leadership• Team Development: Ensure necessary competency, resource and morale across different cultures through long-range planning, recruiting, salary bonus planning, development of associates and leadership continuity ensuring a low attrition rate (< 2%).•… Show more Lead a department of 90 engineers with annual budget of ca.€20M, catering to over 6 traction battery development and industrialization. Major deliverables also includes ensuring future growth demands and skill retention.Leadership• Team Development: Ensure necessary competency, resource and morale across different cultures through long-range planning, recruiting, salary bonus planning, development of associates and leadership continuity ensuring a low attrition rate (< 2%).• Delegation: Successfully mentored 7 senior project managers and 6 team leaders in achieving timeline and budget targets, clear risk management and effective reporting for clear management decision-making.International Relations• Conflict Management: Establishing clear processes, mindset and clarity in communication of deliverables and requirements between associates, suppliers and production locations, spanned across various cultures.• Process Improvement: Fulfilled the lead role in localization of components including industrial capabilities and successful service-level agreements with divisions in HQ and vehicle projects through daunting pandemic conditions and Chinese quarantine restrictions.Innovation• Technology upgrading: Developing new traction battery hardware and a software architecture to ensure competitiveness and ensuring realistic evaluations for implementation across 4 vehicle projects.• Standards definition: Formulating and establishing new performance, quality and safety standards with government authorities through participation in established working groups. Show less

Munich Area, Germany

Lead the concept and industrialization of an all-electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain architecture with a team of 12 CoC experts for the compact class segment, producing a system using the latest generation of components.Technical Leadership• Concept Creation: Define technical variants through in-depth understanding and vehicle performance evaluations, creating product metrics for commercial evaluations, risk evaluations and industrial planning.• Requirements Specification:… Show more Lead the concept and industrialization of an all-electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain architecture with a team of 12 CoC experts for the compact class segment, producing a system using the latest generation of components.Technical Leadership• Concept Creation: Define technical variants through in-depth understanding and vehicle performance evaluations, creating product metrics for commercial evaluations, risk evaluations and industrial planning.• Requirements Specification: Creating clear, precise and measurable requirements for enhanced transparency and change management towards fulfillment of product targets and technical regulations.Project Management• Supplier Management: Interfacing with multiple suppliers for each component module, ensuring deliverables across project timeline and identifying risks with subsequent technical and/or commercial countermeasures.• Industrialization: Monitoring and clear reporting of serial development activities, aiming towards a high level of maturity towards industrialization in various production locations for a lean market roll-out. Show less

Beijing City, China

Establish a technology center in China for BMW R&D to investigate local market trends, regulations, and innovations, thereby creating clear regional requirements and finding strategic value-chain potential for electric and autonomous vehicles.Technical Scouting• Vehicle Benchmarking: Conducting in-depth benchmarking of competitor vehicles, including high-voltage measurements and testing to determine comparative characteristics and KPIs.• Cost-Engineering: Complete break-down of… Show more Establish a technology center in China for BMW R&D to investigate local market trends, regulations, and innovations, thereby creating clear regional requirements and finding strategic value-chain potential for electric and autonomous vehicles.Technical Scouting• Vehicle Benchmarking: Conducting in-depth benchmarking of competitor vehicles, including high-voltage measurements and testing to determine comparative characteristics and KPIs.• Cost-Engineering: Complete break-down of sub-components for technical and commercial evaluation estimates to identify efficiency potentials for modular systems through local sourcing.Customer Analysis• Traffic Big Data: Applying data acquisition through real-time monitoring of vehicles and data evaluation using customized Python routines to analyze vehicle usage and traffic behaviors.• Drive Events and After-Sales Support: Conducting drive events with volunteers for new drive-assist and electric powertrain functions to determine first-hand customer needs and reactions. Liaison between development and dealerships for field issues and finding countermeasures. Show less

Munich Area, Germany

BMW AGComponent Lead Engineer (Munich, GERMANY | Paris, FRANCE | Katowice, POLAND)Developed and successfully industrialized a range extender electric motor and power electronics control system for the first serial production electric vehicle of the BMW Group.BMW Sauber Formula 1 TeamVehicle Dynamics and Software Engineer (Hinwil, SWITZERLAND)Developed Software Programs (C++, C#) for multi-body simulations and conducted design validations through virtual dimensioning of… Show more BMW AGComponent Lead Engineer (Munich, GERMANY | Paris, FRANCE | Katowice, POLAND)Developed and successfully industrialized a range extender electric motor and power electronics control system for the first serial production electric vehicle of the BMW Group.BMW Sauber Formula 1 TeamVehicle Dynamics and Software Engineer (Hinwil, SWITZERLAND)Developed Software Programs (C++, C#) for multi-body simulations and conducted design validations through virtual dimensioning of the F1 race car correlating to performance on qualifying and race setups.BMW AGContract Engineer for Durability Test BenchesDeveloped virtual durability testing methodologies to replace traditional data acquisition and testing, which needed more iterations and cycle times. Show less

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Certificate, Autonomous Driving

Master'S Degree, Automotive Engineering & Mechatronics

B.E., Mechanical Engineering