Background of experience

20+ years of project and management experience in the automotive supplier area

• Focus on product creation process of components of electronics, mechatronics and complex plastic interior components.
• Restructuring, turnaround, M & A, process optimization and quality assurance.
  Customers, e.g. FORD, Jaguar Land Rover, VW, AUDI and various tier 1 system suppliers

Career

• Studies in electrical engineering / communications engineering
• Head of Department Electronics Development Measurement (1980-1990)
• Head of Department Electronics Development Automotive (1990-1993)
• Line test center automotive components (1993-2000)
• Director of Quality Automotive Components (2000-2003)
• Director of Business Development Automotive (2003-2007)
• General Manager Automotive Plastic Components (2007-2012)
• Self-employed interim manager (from 2012)

Core competence area

• Industries: mid-sized and corporate suppliers of plastic components, electronics, mechatronics and engineering
• Overall responsibility
• Post-merger integration
• Business process optimization and restructuring
• Project management
• Efficient and cost-optimized product creation process (PCP)
• Business Development
• Quality Planning and Securing
• Testing

Selected case studies

• Restructuring and post-merger
  Integration after bankruptcy at a
  Group-bound mid-sized
  manufacturer of interior plastic parts
• Introduction of an optimized product creation process for high-quality interior components
• Optimization of the quality organization with a mechatronics suppliers
• Process adjustments to the certification of a mid-sized foundry
• Restructuring with M & A process in an insolvent mid-sized manufacturer of special machines