Industry career

03/2015 – 08/2019 Becker Mining Europe GmbH

03/15 – 01/16 Head of Communications Department

  • Migration and development of the R + D department from South Africa:
    • Software development
    • Hardware development
    • Mechanical development
  • Supporting production at the Friedrichsthal site in building up knowledge about the Communications products (collision warning systems, personnel and material tracking systems, WIFI hotspots)

Professional successes

  • Building a powerful team
  • Development of sustainable know-how of (old) products at the Friedrichsthal site
  • Development of successful new products in the communications sector

01/16-11/16 Head of Development

  • Management of the development departments:
    • Communications
    • Automation
    • Hardware, software, mechanics
  • Restructuring of the “Automation” department

11/16-09/2019 Head of Automation, Power Distribution and Communications

  • Responsible for the following areas
    • Communications
    • Automation
    • ENDIS (ENergyDIStribution)
  • Management of software development, modern software development methods and tools, e.g. Bitbucket, GIT, Mercurial, JIRA, UML, SysML; introduction and use of SPARX Enterprise Architect
  • Head of electronics development, Altium, EMC and environmental tests, RED, approvals in explosion protection
  • Head of design, Autodesk, industrialization to China
  • Head of Service and Sales Support

Professional successes

  • Interface function to the sister companies in China, Australia, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Canada and Mexico
  • Transfer of industrialization and production to China
  • Development and introduction of “MineView – Digital Mine System”
  • Development of the Becker Group’s communications strategy
  • Successful new development of the PROMOS 4.0 and ENDIS 4.0 product families (new digitalization/I4.0 products from the Becker Group)
  • PROMOS 4.0 – fieldbus and automation system of the future (approx. 15 new components, hardware, software, mechanics)
  • ENDIS 4.0 – Energy distribution system of the future (modular energy distribution system, hardware, software, mechanics)
  • Various improvement projects in the areas of collision warning/detection, network technology, automation technology, energy distribution

09/2019 – 05/2021 Pedax GmbH

Head of Software and Electrical Design

  • Head of software development for reinforcing steel bending machines and systems at Pedax GmbH
  • Head of electrical design
  • Management of the two development sites Bitburg and Espergaerde

Professional successes

  • Merging of two independent development teams
  • Concept for consolidating the software and electrical equipment
  • Development of know-how for successful modularization/standardization of software and electrical design
  • Development of the I4.0 / cloud strategy (e.g. smart reporting, predictive maintenance, logistics with RFID)

06/2021 – 04/2023 Boldly Go Beyond UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Founder and managing director

  • Development of a safety localization and collision warning system based on ultrawideband
  • System design and modeling with UML incl. safety
  • Hardware, software and mechanical design
  • Functional safety together with Fraunhofer IESE