Frank Kittmann

- Strengthened project management across four Agile Release Trains (ARTs), 4 teams, and 500+ developers in order to establish transparency and process quality - Enabled rapid feedback loops using effective tools that allowed development teams to focus on delivering features and reduce both cost associated with development and issues reported by customers - Provided strategic guidance on priorities and execution, contributing to successful customer releases and consistently high customer satisfaction

- Led the integration of multiple work streams to align with customer delivery goals, leading a high-performing, cross-functional team of 18 members and coordinating global efforts of 80+ employees - Drove cross-organizational collaboration and ownership, establishing a streamlined delivery pipeline to meet product milestones, mitigate risks, and enhance program visibility - Established focus and accelerate the product increment by strategically combining work packages towards customer delivery expectations

- Led a org-wide transformation initiative to achieve customer centricity nd operational agility, securing new customer contracts and reducing operational inefficiencies by consolidating teams and optimizing workflows - Developed a transition roadmap and executed a Value Stream Analysis that reshaped the product line around key business goals - Build and optimized a Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) including Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD)

- Established the core development team for the Surround View driver assistant system and ensured the creation of a market-fit product with innovative unique selling points for a successful customer launch - Led a team for high performance systems visualization team for high end market - Received CES Innovation Award for the Transparent Hood, Transparent Trailer and Transparent Vehicle technology - Responsible for the strategy, roadmap and product portfolio and gain buy-in from stakeholder and leadership

- Responsible for Volkswagen Application of the Surround View product - Earned customer trust by successful execution of application workshops involving approximately 100 variants within one year - Influenced the customer and the organisation by introducing a variant management concept for faster deliveries - Proposed and launched successfully a Holistic Engineering Platform including Variant Management to maximize the efficiency of each project in the business unit Automotive

I am a major contributor to the Instrument Control Software for LINC-NIRVANA, an astronomical interferometric camera, which will be installed at the Large Binocular Telescope. ICS is required on all levels of the instrument hierarchy, from unit- to system level; it forms the core of all control tasks which are essential to the instrument: adaptive optics, infrared camera control, and fringe tracking. LINC-NIRVANA depends on the proper implementation of the Instrument Control Software.

For the research project LINC NIRVANA I was responsible for expanding the flexure tracker functionality and the integration and commissioning of the Fringe Tracker and LINC NIRVANA at the MPIA and at the LBT.

Development of an in-gripper-sensor system to support manipulation processes of an autonomous mobile robot with a grappler (Care-O-bot -II). The project group of the Institute is developing a service robot, with which people can communicate, interact and cooperate.

Msc in Network Centered Computing / Cybernetics Thesis: Evaluation and Implementation of 3D-Visualisation-Methods for Remote Control of Mobile Robots