Expert Details
Digital Solutions, Mobility, AI, Autonomous Driving, Industrial IoT
ID: 739419
Germany
As the Head of Digital Solutions for a leading global supplier to the automotive and industrial sectors, his focus areas include IoT sensor technologies, new condition monitoring services, digital services, digital product twins and new mobility services. He is also responsible for the global steering of digital innovation roadmaps and strategies in collaboration with the regions and divisions, as well as steering the global digital solutions project portfolio and research budget. In his prior role as Head of Innovation Cluster. Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, he was responsible for identifying new innovative AI-driven product ideas, evaluating them, and turning them into products and digital services that generate value. Some of his major wins in this role include:
1. Formed and led a high-performing team of AI and machine learning experts.
2. Earned the appreciation and support of R&D departments and key stakeholders.
3. Conducted an AI benchmark and defined the AI innovation roadmap and strategy.
4. Built a strong AI project portfolio with clear business value through surveys, innovation workshops and in-house consulting.
5. Secured approval for strategic objectives and funding for AI project portfolio from key R&D stakeholders, including CTO and Head of Central Innovation.
6. Successfully launched and executed more than 18 innovative AI projects across Automotive, Industrial and Automotive Aftermarket divisions.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2006 | Degree: Doctor of Technology (DTech) | Subject: Computer Science, Pervasive Computing, Distributed Computing, Internet of Things (IoT) | Institution: ETH Zurich |
| Year: 2000 | Degree: MS | Subject: Computer Science | Institution: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Year: 1993 | Degree: 1993 | Subject: BS | Institution: Mathematics, Chemistry |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2022 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Head of Digital Solutions | Department: Advanced Innovation, Corporate R&D |
Responsibilities:Digital Solutions builds on previously established Innovation Cluster for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science and expands it to include additional focus areas such as IoT sensor technologies, new condition monitoring services, digital services, digital product twins and new mobility services.Focus has expanded from providing individual AI building blocks to designing and developing complete digital solutions, with AI and machine learning remaining key drivers of innovation. Expert also takes responsibility for the global steering of digital innovation roadmaps and strategies in collaboration with the regions and divisions, as well as steering the global digital solutions project portfolio and research budget. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2020 to 2022 | Employer: Schaeffler | Title: Head of Innovation Cluster Artificial Intelligence & Data Science | Department: Corporate R&D |
Responsibilities:Identified new innovative AI-driven product ideas, evaluate them, and turn them into products and digital services that generate value.Accomplishments: 1. Formed and led a high-performing team of AI and machine learning experts. 2. Earned the appreciation and support of R&D departments and key stakeholders. 3. Conducted an AI benchmark and defined the AI innovation roadmap and strategy. 4. Built a strong AI project portfolio with clear business value through surveys, innovation workshops and in-house consulting. 5. Secured approval for strategic objectives and funding for AI project portfolio from key R&D stakeholders, including CTO and Head of Central Innovation. 6. Successfully launched and executed more than 18 innovative AI projects across Automotive, Industrial and Automotive Aftermarket divisions. From a market and technology perspective, the focus was on embedded AI for mechatronic systems, virtual sensors, visual inspection, condition monitoring, and intelligent vehicle functions for electric and automated driving. In implementation, he put our focus on rapid exploration: evaluate new ideas through short feasibility projects with clearly defined problem statements and success criteria. Then support the business in turning proven ideas into products and digital services. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to 2020 | Employer: Schaeffler | Title: Director, Data Architecture and Engineering | Department: IT & Digitalization |
Responsibilities:Responsible for the design, development, and operation of the global Data & Analytics Platform on Microsoft Azure. This cloud-based Big Data platform has become a key technology for digitalization. It is used to develop and operate an ever-growing number of data-driven digital initiatives focused on optimizing end-to-end processes, exploratory data science projects, and driving digital business.Expert recruited and hired talent in a highly competitive market, at times beating out companies like Google and Facebook. He strengthened his team of data architects (who understand and model data) with experienced data engineers (who provide the business with integrated data) and Big Data DevOps engineers (who build and operate the underlying Big Data and analytics infrastructure in the cloud). In January 2020, the mature Digitalization department merged with our Corporate IT department, and Expert consolidated the data architecture and engineering services. He helped transition the Data Platform with the Enterprise Data Lake into a dedicated IT product with its own development team and handed over product responsibility to the Big Data architect. He also consolidated the Data Architecture and Governance function with a formal mandate. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2016 | Employer: MyOmega System Technologies GmbH | Title: System Principal | Department: |
Responsibilities:Principal System Architect. Security Specialist. Technical Project Manager. Reported directly to the CEO. Main responsibilities and contributions:• Project management and agile development (SCRUM). • System architecture for MYNXG IoT Gateway & Cloud solution. • IoT architecture descriptions for MYNXG Cloud services, applications, middleware, and security. • Innovative methods for securely linking IoT Devices to the Cloud based on the ETSI / 3GPP Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA) and Ericsson Authentication Federation Gateway (AFG). • Proposals for industrial research projects, publicly funded by BMBF and VDI: - IKoPA: Integrated communication platform for automated electric vehicles. - 5Gang: 5G for the Industrial Internet (5GII). • Intellectual property development and patent applications. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2014 | Employer: Von Braun Labs | Title: Chief RFID Scientist & Development Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Chief RFID Scientist and Development Manager. Reported to Technical Director/President. Leader of the RFID Group composed of RF, Electronics, Software, Standardization and Field Engineers, and Technicians. Major responsibilities and achievements:• National and international RFID project management. • RFID team management with sub-groups: Embedded Software, Infrastructure and Deployment, Homologation and Standardization. • Emerging technologies and strategic technology partnership development. • Representation of Von Braun Labs, and presentation of R&D, standardization and implementation projects to key decision makers at national (ARTESP, DENATRAN, Secretarias da Fazenda/ENCAT) and international (e.g., MINTRANSPORTE Colombia) government bodies and companies. • RFID thought leadership. Primary point of contact for ITS/RFID/IoT consulting and implementation projects. • Work in national and international bodies on RFID and ITS standardization. • Protocol conformance, performance, interoperability and multi-lane free-flow field testing of commercial RFID reader and transponder equipment, for ARTESP/ANTT Electronic Tolling and SINIAV Electronic Vehicle Registration systems. • Formally designated Project Coordinator for the development and implementation of the National Brazilian System for the Identification, Tracking, and Authentication of Goods in Brazil (“Brasil-ID”). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2014 | Employer: ABNT - Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas | Title: Head of Technical Commission | Department: |
Responsibilities:Associate Member of ABNT. Founding Member and Head of the Technical Commission ABNT/CE-21:031.07 - Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques - Security for Item Mgt., as part of the Brazilian Committee ABNT/CB-21 - Computers & Data Processing.Represented CPA Wernher von Braun (Von Braun Labs) and a number of Brazilian governmental institutions, including the National Transportation Department, the Federal Treasury and the State Departments of Taxation represented by their technical branch ENCAT, and the Transportation Regulatory Agency of Sao Paulo ARTESP. ABNT Expert and Head of the Brazilian Delegation to: - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 4 - Radio frequency identification for item management, special groups SG1 and SG3, and - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 7 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Security for item management. Member of the Special Standardization Commission ABNT/CEE-127, mirroring ISO/TC 204 on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), reactivated in April 2013. Co-author of the AES-128 Crypto-Suite new work item proposal (NWIP), and of the final Committee Draft ISO/IEC CD 29167-10, which was ratified in 2014 and published as International Standard in 2015: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Part 10: Crypto suite AES-128 security services for air interface communications. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Certified Lifebook Leader |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Member of Untrite Technical Advisory Board Member of metaphacts Customer Advisory Board Member of Stardog Customer Advisory Board Member of Denodo Data Virtualization EMEA Product Advisory Council |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| 9 patents. |