Dr. Fatih Özel

• Managed innovation through stage-gate system • Planned, initiated, monitored & executed international digital projects • Led project teams from Germany, France, Spain, USA and China to achieve project objectives • Developed and presented decision papers for management

• Led the entire project lifecycle from initiating to closing stages for complex mid-term cooperative automotive & Drone & GNSS projects • Conducted strategic market analyses and initiated business cases to drive outside-in innovation for new product development • Implemented waterfall/agile (Scrum) techniques and led internal/external teams in multicultural environments for achieving project goals • Developed and executed key strategic actions to enhance project management processes

Thesis: “Achieving a Technical Transition from Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles to Battery Electric Vehicles in the Automotive Sector in Europe: Challenges and Strategies”

Thesis “A Study of Justification of Automation in the Context of Lean Engineering by Developing a Method”

Thesis: “Assembly-line balancing in Temsan Limited”