Joachim Klenk

Bid management and presales support for automotive engineering accounts (€2.5M–€12M bid value). Technical lead for two competitive bids totaling €14.5M, coordinating a cross-functional team across sales, presales, engineering, and finance. Co-developed bid solutions incl. team structure, staffing, and financial model. Led a lessons-learned review after a near-miss bid, driving a documented improvement action plan and piloting new tooling for bid documentation.

Disciplinary management of a 25–35 person SAP consulting team (Logistics, Manufacturing, S/4HANA migration) in a Luxoft–DXC intercompany engagement. Rebuilt team trust after prior manager turnover; reintegrated a long-term bench consultant into an active project. Secured a customer project internally over an external freelancer. Owned governance for 20–30 consultants incl. budget and cost tracking, resolving a cross-entity budget escalation.

Managed a multi-stakeholder automotive ADAS account (Continental): ~20 concurrent engagements, €3.5M value (2023), up to 70 team members. Sole escalation contact; sustained high customer satisfaction through a major, controlled account ramp-down. Stabilized an underperforming two-person team; recovered an escalated fixed-price engagement (>€100K) via a negotiated settlement. Hired ~5, managed ~10 role reductions, and developed team members into leadership roles.

Administrative project management across 4 concurrent automotive ADAS engagements (ADAS SW integration, test automation, radar sensor development, data management). Owned budget, staffing, and customer PM alignment. Line Manager for 11 (hiring, transfers, compensation) and Direct Manager for 17 (day-to-day, onboarding, performance evaluation). Drove merit-based promotions. Progressively assumed full Program Manager responsibilities ahead of formal promotion in 01/2023.

First Project Manager role: led development of a SQL-based tracking database for a large-scale radar sensor validation project (5.5-person team, full delivery ownership), while supporting a multi-company customer taskforce with data tracking, analysis, and KPI reporting. Led a 9-person cross-functional team delivering a data analytics and reporting platform supporting ASPICE-conform development, establishing Agile project governance from kickoff through handover.

Primary interface between the customer (ZF) and the development team for feature requests on C.DATA, a sensor validation and cloud data-processing platform for ADAS. Owned the full feature lifecycle — requirements alignment, specification, dev oversight, test definition, UAT, and customer sign-off — and authored supporting documentation. Delivered multiple customer-requested features successfully into production.

Progressed from a planned Requirements Engineer role into Technical Project Lead within the same project. Owned the frontend workstream end-to-end (requirements, planning, testing, UAT), leading a 3–5 person team, and co-owned technical direction with the project architect. Acted as substitutional Project Manager and main technical contact. Delivered the product despite a scope explosion and CEO-level escalation by pivoting from Waterfall to Agile.

Supported 5 SW Project Managers on a large-scale instrument cluster program at Bosch (onsite): RTC process compliance, dashboards, SW Project Management Plan updates, and KPI-based quality gates. On the Brusa ICS project, resolved software quality issues via static code analysis (QAC), guided an India-based team on defect resolution, and authored ISO 26262 verification/qualification templates. Designed a company-wide document-review tool, later adopted on the flagship project.

Entwicklung eines Skelettierungsalgorithmus zur Porenraumanalyse von porösen Medien

(1) Ausarbeitung und Implementierung diverser Algorithmen zur Analyse von Filtermedien (2) Zusammenfassen der Programme zur Filteranalyse in einer zentralen grafischen Benutzeroberfläche (3) Anpassung des Programms meiner Bachelorarbeit an neue Anforderungen an die Beschaffenheit der Ergebnisstruktur und dabei die Datenstruktur durch Speicheroptimierung für die Anwendung mit großen Eingabeateien vorbereiten

Implementierung einer benutzerfreundlichen Anbindung an eine Audioschnittstelle des hochschuleigenen OpenSceneGraph-Projekts

Entwicklung dynamischer Blockstrukturen für die Strömungssimulation von Filtermedien

Entwicklung und Implementierung diverser Hilfsprogramme innerhalb der Simulationsabteilung mittels Fortran, QtCreator (C++-basiert) und Scriptprogrammierung.

Einblick in praktische Tätigkeiten in der Metallverarbeitung und im Qualitätsmanagement.

Schichtarbeit in der Metallverarbeitung

Verschiedene Aufgaben im Qualitätsmanagement.

Industriemathematik

Industriemathematik