Gerhard Dörflein

Responsibilities: - Support of development projects and product launches - Analysis of product and process capabilities - Evaluation and improvement of test strategies - Cost and quality impact analysis of change requests - Statistical yield analysis and definition of improvement measures - Support customer order fulfilment - Analyze and manage production and quality issues - Manage industrial transfer activities - Identify and implement cost reduction and quality improvement measures

Responsible for whole research and development department of the Business Line Sensors within BU Automotive. This means: - development budget planning and tracking - Competence management - Process-, IP- and package roadmap definition and management - Execution of new technology and product development projects - Improvement of time to market and development efficiency

Responsibilities: - Execution quality of the product development project of the market sector Sensors. - Recruiting, leading and training of project assistants, project leaders and program managers. - Controlling- and measurement of project execution quality. - Improvement of time to market. - Contiunuous improvement and deployment of existing development processes and tool infrastructure. - Project portfolio, resource management and staffing.

Program manager automotive technology development. I am responsible for business cases, controlling and alignment of several international subprojects. Target is to develope new profitable products within committed timeframes.

Definiton of semiconductor packaging roadmads and technology requirements. Start of development projects or IP-sourcing to fulfil the roadmap targets.

Ressource manager of an engineering team that was responsible for the integration and ramp up of new semiconductor technologies and ASICs. - Hiring of new team members and team integration. - Team and task planning - Definition and adaptation of new business processes

Production-, test- and design-stability analysis of high frequency ASICs. Start and controlling of optimization measures to increase and stabilze product yields.

Software Development, Customer Training and Support

Solid state semiconductor quantum hall characterization of GaAs-structures

Applied Physics (light scattering and reflection of polymers)