Experience

Heraeus Electronics

• Germany
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Manager APQP EU & US

  • Jan 2018 - Present



Fujikura Automotive Europe

• Spain
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Apr 2015 - Dec 2017

  - Project Manager, driving a multi-location team to provide on time solution and technical support required to grow our customer. (Wolfsburg development center & East European/North Africa manufacturing facilities).- Responsible for driving the discipline both at customer and within Fujikura to meet aggressive program timelines.- Ensure that the program activities follow all processes and procedures of Fujikura and the customer.- Continuously maintain the highest degree of customer service, throughput, quality, cost reduction and productivity.- Support Quality activities with Fujikura teams and customer builds.- Identify, assign and track issues for team members, escalating to management as appropriate.

• Plant Manager

  • Jan 2013 - Mar 2015

  - Managing 2 Plants (Dej A & Dej B) with > 2300 employees, producing wiring harnesses for VW Group (VW, Seat, Audi, Skoda). - Opened Dej B (4650sqm) in January 2013 and in only 5 months finalized all transfers, running the factory with > 900 employees.- Preparing Dej A and Dej C for a startup of three major projects in 3 years – VW Golf Sportsvan, VW Touran and Audi A8 requiring a headcount of over 2800 employees by end of 2015 and over 3500 by end of 2016.- From October 2014 till March 2015 I was already working as an ex-pat Project Manager in Wolfsburg CSC office.



Delphi

• United Kingdom
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  - Managing a plant with over 750 employees in a busy work environment, producing wiring harnesses for Opel Insignia. - Acting as Project Manager for transfers between Sannicolau Mare plant and Moldova Noua satellite facility- Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures. - Creating, managing and analyzing performance data and other information. - Ensuring that capacity and capability are continually planned and controlled. - Encouraging, identifying and developing best practice strategy. - Ensuring compliance to all Environmental Health & Safety goals & objectives. - Working closely with the mother plant, especially Plant Manager, Financial Manager, Engineering Manager and HR.



BOS GmbH & Co. KG

• Germany
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Quality Manager

  • Aug 2010 - Dec 2010

  - Managing >30 personnel within the quality department, supplying automotive parts(sun protection, roof shading, luggage cover, load restraint system, load through devices, armrests)to several customers(GM, Volvo, Jaguar, BMW, VW group, Daimler, Ford, PSA, Renault).- Prepare and present customer presentations regarding quality issues. - Interface with senior management to develop short and long term organizational goals and objectives.- Involved in all phases of APQP including prototype build, pre-launch and launch of mass production.



Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Inc.

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Manager

  • Sep 2003 - Aug 2010

  - Managing department of >70 personnel supplying automotive wiring harnesses to Honda and Suzuki car manufacturers in the UK, Turkey and Hungary. Also supplied wiring harnesses for a short period of time to Toyota car manufacturer in France.- Interface with senior management to develop short/long term organizational goals and objectives. Plan and manage the establishment of departmental budget in line with the business goals and objectives.



Delphi

• United Kingdom
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Department Coordinator

  • Oct 1998 - Sep 2003

  - Managed and supervised incoming and final quality inspectors and coordinated inspection activities.- Led team of quality engineers and quality technicians who monitored reliability, in-process quality, and process capability.- Provided feedback to the plant on defect amounts and trends. - Coordinated and led the quality problem preventing and solving team using the quality tools.- Implemented action plans in order to achieve the quality objectives.- Planned and performed internal system, process and product audits.- Responsibility for Customer Satisfaction (including travels to customers for meetings, presentations of strategies and objectives) Opel, Mercedes Benz, Bosch, Behr.- Have led the plant to QS9000 and ISO/TS16949 certification.