Director DMD Customer Programs

• Jan 2023 - Present

JR e powertrain engineering and consulting

• Jan 2023 - Present

Chief Engineer, eAxle, EV Powertrain Development and System Integration

• Feb 2017 - Jan 2023

Focus on NEV, New Energy Vehicles, HEV , PHEV , BEV , FCEV ; Powertrain Development and System Integration for GWM, Wey, Haval and ORA brands and BMW-GWM JV Spotlight. Concepts, requirements engineering, design, development, verification and validation of electric drivetrain and subsystems: Inverter, Motor, Transmission, drive shafts elastic mounting system. Vertical and horizontal physical integration, mechanical: NVH, lifetime; also electrical and thermal together with HV battery, charging and thermal management components. Review and validation of SoRs and DVPs. Particularly development of simulation and analysis models, implementation of virtual engineering methods and tools like FEA, MBS, and multi-physics electrical - mechanical - thermal simulations, across system and abstraction / discretization levels. 1D - 3D - modelica; towards CPS with SYsML - FMI coupling. Scouting market and trends to support technological road maps and next generations of powertrains. Technical lead of eAxle team for Spotlight platform development. Show less

Head of Engineering and Profit Center Leader

• Nov 2014 - Dec 2016

Providing expertise and state-of-the-art application engineering services, including CAE supported design, in-vehicle or on-site vibration and acoustic measurements with multi-channel portable, dynamic data acquisition system. Leading a team of product application engineers and key account managers, to ensure projects and sales targets are reached. Focus on business development and bonding new customers in the newly defined strategic areas of automotive, agriculture and construction machinery, utility vehicles, railway, elevators, power generation and transmission, windpower. Show less

Manager Technology Development New Regions

• Nov 2011 - Oct 2014

Developing innovative suspensions and vibration control systems, mostly based on rubber-to-metal and hydraulic components, dedicated to safety, comfort and efficiency in railway vehicles, mobile machinery and powertrain. Strengthening engineering capacities and capabilities, and supporting business development in China, France and Spain. Deputy Engineering Manager in Switzerland, directly in charge of Engineering and Application Team in China. Leading multinational and interdisciplinary teams and projects; from acquisition, requirements check, design, CAE, initial sampling, testing, validation and certification, industrialization and afters-sales support. Show less

R&D - CAE Manager

• Sep 2007 - Aug 2011

Founded and built up the CAE Team within the new ZF Engineering Centre in Shanghai. Providing Engineering Services and technical support acrossall products: transmissions, steering, chassis and suspensions systems and applications: automotive, off-highway and industrial. Business development for simulation activities within ZF in China and APAC. Working with Automotive OEMs on new developments projects. Recruiting, training and coaching the team members: zero to five. Budget planning and controlling within the department. Show less

R&D - CAE Engineer - Noise & Vibration, strength and durability

• Aug 2002 - Sep 2007

ZF Corporate R&D center; Transmissions & Drivelines, CAE, Durability - Noise & Vibration Group- Analysis and reduction of vibrations and noise in transmissions and drivelines of passenger cars, heavy trucks and coaches, agriculture and construction machinery, railway, marine propulsion systems. - Later focus on NVH of new developments in premium and sports car segments: CVT, 6 and 8 gears AT, 7 DCT - PDK, and first hybrids: P2 AT, P2 DCT.- Defining validation process and steps with application and testing departments, participating in vehicle driving tests and comfort assessments. - Strength and durability analysis of parts and components. - Regular use of several CAE and CAD tools like ProEngineer and Solidworks. For FEA: Ideas (NX), Permas, Abaqus. For MBS, Multi-Body-Simulation: Simpack, Adams and Itisim, SimulationX. For systems and controls: Matlab - Simulink, Dymola, Amesim. For TVA, Torsional-Vibration-Ananlysis: FVA Dresp, DNV-GL Nauticus. - NVH measurements and analysis: LMS, Rotec, NI Labview, IMC Famos. - Design and analysis of bolted connections acc. VDI 2230, and other machine parts like shafts, bearings, etc. - Software development of ZF internal analysis tools using Fortran, C/C++, C#, MS .NET. - Focus on acquisition and effective completion of new modelization tasks, achieving customer satisfaction; providing engineering services, internal consulting. Show less

R&D - Mechanical Engineering Intern - Components development and testing

• Jan 2001 - Jul 2002

Master Thesis: development of innovative semi automated application system for fluid sealing on gearbox housings (01-07 2002).Internship: testing and improvement of fasteners and bolted connections (02-06 2001).

Production Intern

• May 2000 - Sep 2000

Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks. Implementation of FIFO in warehouse. Assembly line and heavy truck HVAC EOL testing. Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks. Implementation of FIFO in warehouse. Assembly line and heavy truck HVAC EOL testing.

Engineering Intern

• Jan 1998 - Mar 1998

Manufacturing of special tractors for the vineyards. Components design 2D-3D, metal parts manufacturing, tractor assembly line. Manufacturing of special tractors for the vineyards. Components design 2D-3D, metal parts manufacturing, tractor assembly line.