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since Jul. 2023

Project management & consulting

Managing Director

• Consulting and project management for the IT and renewables sectors.
• Concept development for smart-grid-components such as independent homes, smart charging infrastructure or microgrids.

gridX

Jan. 2020 – Sep. 2023

Electricity utility, sector-coupling, energy-market, B2B, Software, API integration, SmartDistricts

Product Owner Smart Districts & Team-Lead TPM

• Managing the development of products for the renewable energy, SaaS and IoT sectors, and their application at customer locations.
• Leading negotiations with multiple customers about feature-developments including energy-market interaction through virtual power plants, cascading energy management systems, graphical user interfaces or sector-coupling to generate maximum value and impact with minimum development efforts.
• Successfully plan the development and delivery of features for smart-district projects (including SmartQuart) with a development volume of > 4 mil. €.
• Managing customer relations, external as well as internal project management and coordination with the introduction of new project management guidelines for increased quality and enhanced communication between teams.

RHEINMETALL

Nov. 2017 – Dec. 2019

Automotive sector, materials development

Manager Development of Metallic Materials

• Management of product development projects from material development to industrialization of plain bearings for automotive and industrial applications.
• Revision of budget-tracking in the team and projects.
• Accelerating development by standardized testing and documentation procedures, and intro-duction of SCRUM for the testlab.
• Solving product-manufacturing problems in Germany and India.
• Development of novel Al-based alloys for plain bearings.

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Nov. 2017 – Dec. 2019

Material’s and Process-development for researchand industrialization

Research assistant / Post-doctoral researcher

• Investigation of oxide dispersion strengthened materials, and their production and application in metallic protective layers for thermal barrier coatings.
• Doubling the fatigue strength of thermal barrier coatings through the development of alloys and manufacturing processes.
• Accelerating production of novel oxygen separation membranes through the development and application of a layer-selector program.

Education and Qualifications

• PhD in Engineering, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum
• Master in Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig
• Six Sigma Green Belt, University of Georgia
• Project-management (comparable to Project Management Professional (PMP) or Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition) qualifications), TÜV Nord Akademie & HiTeC
• Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense Specialization, HEC Paris