Senior Consultant

• Apr 2021 - Present

Serial Life Program Manager

• Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

Managing the serial life of covers, foams and mechanisms for Faurecia Automotive Seating regarding new design styles, engineering change requests (internal and external), capacity changes and plant transfers - Responsible contact for all program requests from customer (JITs) - Generating costing and planning with the core team for change requests, new design styles and capacity changes and providing commercial offers to the customer - Managing international located core team (Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Purchasing, Design & Development) to test, implement and industrialize changes related to the program - Matrix organized team located in France, Portugal, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Tunisia, Morocco (Covers, Cushion, Backrest, Headrests, Armrests, Mechanisms) with customers in France, Germany, Czech Republic and United Kingdom - Planning and tracking of all activities to reach milestones from first prototype trials, validation of parts and product, material procurement and validation, until industrial ramp up and SOP - Responsible for the programs K0 + HK0 (Peugeot Expert & Traveller, Citroen Spacetourer & Jumpy, Toyota Proace), P1UO (Opel Grandland X), T9 (Peugeot 308)

Plant Program Team Leader

• Apr 2019 - Mar 2020

Leading and coordinating activities in the plant regarding industrialization of new programs and engineering change requests (machines, tools, setup, production trials, PPAP, quality assessment, health and safety conformance, operator training, manufacturing documentation, instructions, BOM, maintenance, ramp up, customer visits) - Faurecia Bragança is producing full exhaust systems for various vehicles (hot ends, middle lines, muffler and cold ends) with highly automatized production lines focused on bending, forming, cutting and welding of complex geometry steel parts - Interface between production plant and program management to achieve all milestones and to build up the production system within time, quality and cost requirements in the plant environment - Responsible for programs: VS20 (Daimler V-Class, Viano, Vito), EP6 (PSA 208, 308, 508, C4, DS3, DS4, DS5)

Master Thesis Student

• Dec 2017 - Aug 2018

Master thesis student at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials in cooperation with DB Instandhaltung (German train company) - Developed a manufacturing system for a light-weight crash bumper focused on new material regulations used for the German high-speed train - Researched available manufacturing and material technologies to design a new manufacturing process in compliance with changing fire-resistance regulations to answer make-or-buy decision

Jigs and Tools Trainee

• Feb 2018 - Apr 2018

Industrialization and visualization of KPIs in the department (process modelling, data collection, automation, application) in the Airbus factory Bremen (A320, A330, A350, A380, A400M) - Leading the project of “Visualization of manufacturing and maintenance orders” from research, collecting data (SAP, VBA, Macros), data science, until generating a full visualization application - Full responsibility for all project related tasks: Initiation, planning, execution, monitoring Industrialization and visualization of KPIs in the department (process modelling, data collection, automation, application) in the Airbus factory Bremen (A320, A330, A350, A380, A400M) - Leading the project of “Visualization of manufacturing and maintenance orders” from research, collecting data (SAP, VBA, Macros), data science, until generating a full visualization application - Full responsibility for all project related tasks: Initiation, planning, execution, monitoring

Research and Technologies Composite Manufacturing Trainee

• Mar 2017 - Sep 2017

Research and development of manufacturing technologies for carbon fiber reinforced plastics for aeronautical applications (A350, A380, Eurofighter Typhoon) - Diverse tasks from research and development of new manufacturing technologies, planning and testing of new applications in the plant, reporting of trials, industrialization of new technologies - Examples: Big Data, NDT Automation, VR, RTM Sensor improvement Research and development of manufacturing technologies for carbon fiber reinforced plastics for aeronautical applications (A350, A380, Eurofighter Typhoon) - Diverse tasks from research and development of new manufacturing technologies, planning and testing of new applications in the plant, reporting of trials, industrialization of new technologies - Examples: Big Data, NDT Automation, VR, RTM Sensor improvement

Student Research Assistant

• Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

- Study and data analyses of worldwide patent databases to make trends visible (semantic, content, statistical) - Organization and support of the study course “Methodical inventioning” - Research and data collection for scientific papers inside the institute - Study and data analyses of worldwide patent databases to make trends visible (semantic, content, statistical) - Organization and support of the study course “Methodical inventioning” - Research and data collection for scientific papers inside the institute

Working Student

• Oct 2015 - Mar 2017

Quality inspection (weekend shift) in the Mercedes-Benz factory Bremen of chassis defects and paint finishing (light tunnel) - Rework of defects in a continues production line with tooling and painting equipment (C-Class, GLC-Class) Quality inspection (weekend shift) in the Mercedes-Benz factory Bremen of chassis defects and paint finishing (light tunnel) - Rework of defects in a continues production line with tooling and painting equipment (C-Class, GLC-Class)

Production Worker

• Jun 2011 - Nov 2014

- Between 2011 and 2015 during five semester vacations working as an operator in the Mercedes-Benz plant Bremen - 24 weeks of full-time assembly experience in a continues production line in the most productive plant of Mercedes-Benz (C￾Class, GLC-Class, E-Class, SL-Class, SLK/SLC-Class, engine, undercarriage, interior, windshield) - Between 2011 and 2015 during five semester vacations working as an operator in the Mercedes-Benz plant Bremen - 24 weeks of full-time assembly experience in a continues production line in the most productive plant of Mercedes-Benz (C￾Class, GLC-Class, E-Class, SL-Class, SLK/SLC-Class, engine, undercarriage, interior, windshield)

Production Trainee

• Aug 2011 - Oct 2011

- Manufacturing (Metal forming, joining, disjoining, coating), measurement and commissioning of high precise parts out of diverse alloys- Quality inspection, maintenance and repair of machines and parts - Manufacturing (Metal forming, joining, disjoining, coating), measurement and commissioning of high precise parts out of diverse alloys- Quality inspection, maintenance and repair of machines and parts