Dr. Jakob Karner

Lead and coordinate plant operations, Responsible for production - technical unit - supply chain & project management, Plan and manage plants budgets, Form strong and collaborative site leadership team with a "can-do culture", Plan and manage the strategic development of the site with a focus on continuous productivity improvement, Set plant objectives in the frame of the Octapharma global strategy, Sponsor major plant projects, Responsible for steering and prioritization of plant projects and initiatives

-Provide technical project management to the industry -Develop digitalization concepts and deliver optimization projects -Consultancy in project management methodology and PMO implementation -Helping costumers to qualify and validate systems -Support in contract and claim management

Department head and disciplinary lead of corporate project management team (Project Managers of different seniority levels); Lead of several project management departments across Europe (at different production sites); Project Director for large investment projects (>100MioEUR); Budget responsibility; Support of steering, prioritizing & selection of projects; Trouble shooting, mentoring and project management on demand; Supplier management, contract management; Owner of corporate Project Management standard

Managing up to four int. projects simultaneously, Program core team member for Engineering, Leading cross-functional teams in the EU (up to 18 people), Directing external consultants in technical and operational projects, Implementing a new corporate Project Management standard & PMO structure, Responsible for financial planning, contracting, project sourcing and documentation, Responsible for identification of best practice examples, developing engineering concepts, feasibility studies and business cases

Technical lead for largest project within the Biosurgery franchise, Engineering support for diverse pojects (R&D and Operations), CAD responsible person for R&D Biosurgery/Devices Vienna, Development and optimization of medical devices, CAPEX responsibility for hardware aspects and outsourcing projects, Test method development and verification, Project and resource planning, Documentation and risk management

Development of rehabilitation device (exoskeleton), Motion analysis and EMG characterization, Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation, Testing and verification, Lecturing and managing of student projects, Project reporting and scientific writing

Development of high tech prosthetic and kinematic systems (single parts and complex assemblies), Concept generation and optimization, R&D project manager, UMFMEA, Management of 3rd parties and contractors, Transfer from development into mass production

Within this work, I developed a passive exoskeleton for the upper extremity with gravity compensation. Design parameters were derived from motion analysis in combination with a musculoskeletal model (IK, ID and static optimization). Testing and verification with EMG measurement accomplished my work.