Gérard Andreas Kirfel

(100 Program Managers, Lead Engineers and Systems Engineers in 9 countries) Portfolio of 150 simultaneous projects, 750mio€ TTO/a, Project Budget total: CAPEX 35mio€/a, tooling 30mio€/a and R&D 25mio€/a Elaborate a business division with potential of >300mio€ TTO/a, invest 30mio€ Establishing of the new organization CPS as Kiekert’s customer interface Restructuring the rhythm of projects to increase accountability and bring the decision authority to appropriate expert and management levels

(9 Program Manager, 3 countries) 30 simultaneous projects, 250mio€ TTO/a, 70mio€/a project investment Launching of 6 major and pioneer projects Successful handling of escalation management up to customers’ upper management, Kiekert’s Chairman and Board Process chain optimization based on best practices and lessons learned with implication into industrializing functions and change management

(230 Employee, 3 countries) Planning of Budget, Personal and Strategy Cause measures to assure quality in business processes, production and software development Reporting to the business owner and chairman of the board Implementation of the new testing strategy for software Interim Management of quality department as well as several sections

(6 Employee, locally) Establish of the section “Improvement Projects” Increase of failure transparency by implementation of Q-Charts incl. control loops (reduction of failure rate up-to 50%) Development of a new software testing strategy in an agile environment (350 developer + 70 tester effected)

Optimisation of the software-configuration process for petrol system incl. implementation lead for a software tool (reduction of configuration effort > 20% for 25 employee) Conception and implementation of variant-reduced product generations to achieve cost-down (fuel dispenser 36%, parking field devices 20%)

Erweiterung einer Anlage zum laserunterstützten Metall/Kunststoff-Fügen

Kosten- und Verkaufspreiskalkulationsprojekt bei der Rittal GmbH & Co.KG in Herborn und Springfield OH (USA)

Projektunterstützung bei Standortauswahl, fabrikplanerisher Konzeptgestaltung, Prozessauslegung und Prozessoptimierng

Gleichteilstrategiekonzept bei gleichzeitiger Designdifferenzierung der Frontklappe, Konzept zur Hybridbauweise von Tank- und Frontklappe

Unterstützung der Lehrtätigkeit

Grundpraktikum