Elena Pancera

Director Project Management Office (PMO) - Bosch Mobility

Bosch Management Consulting (BMC) - technology consultancy https://www.bosch-management-consulting.com

Senior Project Manager – Driver Assistance Worldwide Project - Project initialization, definition of project scope, budget and project planning and controlling, responsible for the project budget - Quality management activities and stakeholder management to ensure customers' satisfaction - Headcount planning and contracting, communication strategy, risk management and impediment removal - International coordination, planning and initialization of the follow-up project

- Responsible for the development of systems new technical evaluation methods - Development of the vision, roadmap and strategy - Successful development and implementation of a proof of concept, which led to multiple patents

- Technical assistance to the Business Unit Leader and to the Head of Development for driver assistance business unit - Organization, moderation, conduction and tracking of top management meetings - Worldwide coordination of engineering location plan and headcount controlling

- Technical assistance to the Business Unit Leader and to the Head of Development for driver assistance business unit - Organization, moderation, conduction and tracking of top management meetings - Worldwide coordination of engineering location plan and headcount controlling

- Platform project manager radar hardware platform of long-range radar (LRR4) & mid-range radar (MRR rear) - Budget responsibility, assessment, monitoring & controlling, regular report to management & customers, stakeholder management, collaboration with customers to ensure customers' satisfaction - Resource management, procurement activities, quality & risk management - Cross divisional cooperation (development, plant, purchasing, sales, product management) - Successful start of production

Project Manager - Corporate Research - Manager of pre-development projects on antennas for automotive radar sensors - Antenna design, proof of concept and prototyping, antennas strategy development, radar signal processing and algorithms development, budget responsibility, responsible for cross-divisional cooperation - Project manager of a working package in a public funded project on antennas for automotive radar - Successful transfer of the pre-development projects results to series development

Young Professional Group Leader - Led a team of researchers, PhD & students with focus on high frequency antennas & algorithms, based on the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, for medical applications - Budget responsibility - Lecturer "Ultra Wideband RF System Engineering" KIT - Lecturer "Electrical and Electronics Engineering" Carl Benz School, KIT - Lecturer "Ultra Wideband Antennas" KIT & European School of Antennas

Vice chair of the Focus Area FA4 “Impulse Radio UWB systems” in the European COST Action ic0803 - Deputy of the German management committee member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action ic0803 "RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for emerging wireless technologies"

- Development of microwave components, systems and signals processing algorithms - High frequency metamaterials and high frequency antennas for medical applications - Teaching activities on antennas, microwave components and UWB components and filters - Supervised students on thesis projects

Academic researcher - PhD - Modelling & development of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antennas, microwave components, systems & signal processing algorithms, environment modelling, ray tracing & sensor data fusion, channel modelling, radar calibration - Experimental validation, proof of concepts demonstrators & prototypes - Teaching activities on antennas, microwave components & UWB components - Supervised students on thesis projects - Lecturer "Ultra Wideband Antennas", KIT & European School of Antennas

- Ultra-Wideband (UWB) signal processing, UWB technology and algorithms, UWB channel modelling, UWB microwave components modelling and development - Teaching activities on signal processing theory - Supervised students on thesis projects

Dissertation: "Strategies for Time Domain Characterization of UWB Components and Systems" Final grade: with distinction (mit Auszeichnung) Carl-Freudenberg Preis winner

110/110 summa cum laude