Experience

thyssenkrupp Materials Processing Europe

• Germany
• Fabricated Metal Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Quality Management (IATF 16949 / ISO 14001 / ISO 50001 / ISO 45001)

  • Dec 2005 - Present

  Ensuring certifications and further development of the corresponding management systems including establishing CO2 sustainability reports. Direct reporting to the head of the Management Board. Ensuring certifications and further development of the corresponding management systems including establishing CO2 sustainability reports. Direct reporting to the head of the Management Board.



thyssenkrupp Steel Europe

• Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Head of Total Quality Management (TQM)

  • Oct 1997 - Mar 2002

  Development of the company towards business excellence using the EFQM model. Direct Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Development of the company towards business excellence using the EFQM model. Direct Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.



thyssenkrupp Steel Europe

• Leiter der Anschubgruppe "Werkstoff Stahl"

  • Oct 1995 - Mar 1997

  Steering of a 12-member expert group consisting of internal Thyssen Stahl AG works council members/supervisory board member of Thyssen Stahl AG and external IG Metall representatives to generate measures and ideas for holding jobs/creating new jobs (including market analysis/business plans). Direct Reporting to the Executives for Technology and for Human Resources and to the Chairman of the General Works Council.

• Mitglied McKinsey-Kernteam (ETHOS)

  • Oct 1993 - Sep 1995

  Increase in earnings at Thyssen Stahl AG through operational excellence (Ertragssteigerung bei Thyssen Stahl durch Operative Spitzenleistung - ETHOS). Reduction in general costs by 40 percent (including staff) and meeting corresponding technical and benchmark cost targets. Direct Reporting to the Executive for Technology.



Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH

• Germany
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Nov 1987 - Oct 1991

  Investigations on the kinetics of reactions between gas impingement jets and flowing liquids at 293 Kelvin (cold model) and 1873 Kelvin (hot model). Subproject of a priority program by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with Professor Dr. Dr.h. mult. Hans-Jürgen Engell (Chief Executive/Director of MPI Eisenforschung). Discussion in the steel making committee of the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute (VdEh) to optimize the mathematical modeling of the steel converter process (BOF). Investigations on the kinetics of reactions between gas impingement jets and flowing liquids at 293 Kelvin (cold model) and 1873 Kelvin (hot model). Subproject of a priority program by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with Professor Dr. Dr.h. mult. Hans-Jürgen Engell (Chief Executive/Director of MPI Eisenforschung). Discussion in the steel making committee of the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute (VdEh) to optimize the mathematical modeling of the steel converter process (BOF).



University of Kentucky

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 1985 - Oct 1987

  Graduate studies in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science with degree Master of Science (M.S.). Research and teaching assistant. Kinetics of the reduction of ferrous oxide from liquid slags by CO gas at elevated temperatures between 1873 Kelvin and 2073 Kelvin. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-Project with advisor Professor H. Alan Fine (PhD M.I.T.) Graduate studies in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science with degree Master of Science (M.S.). Research and teaching assistant. Kinetics of the reduction of ferrous oxide from liquid slags by CO gas at elevated temperatures between 1873 Kelvin and 2073 Kelvin. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-Project with advisor Professor H. Alan Fine (PhD M.I.T.)