Rico Freund

• Building the Business Capability Map in SAP LeanIX – for portfolio, investment and rationalisation decisions across business and IT landscape. • Establishing IT cost transparency based on the TBM taxonomy: mapping GL accounts to cost pools and linking IT spend to applications and business capabilities. • Driving application portfolio rationalisation, from legacy decommissioning to the structured assessment of non-standard applications. • Shaping the EA tool strategy and architecture governance for the BU.

• Translated price and cost management requirements into data model, process and interface design – my entry point into architecture work. • Built a cost-tracking solution covering procurement and sales cost components, integrated into the existing system landscape. • Result: transparent cost drivers as a basis for EBIT and cash-flow steering.

• Led global Lean Six Sigma Black Belt projects for Column-Electric-Power-Steering systems across Hungary, China and Mexico – targeting scrap, cycle time and process capability at series production sites. • Selected and scoped the improvement project portfolio together with OU management. • Conducted comprehensive technical assessments and applied analytical methods to support data-driven decision-making and sustainable change implementation. • Coached and mentored over 20 Lean Six Sigma practitioners.

• Designed C-EPS product components and managed design and change processes at system level. • Managed suppliers against schedule, cost, quality and technical specifications. • Led prototype builds, validation tests and product optimisation projects. • International assignments: Shanghai, China (6 months) and Puebla, Mexico (3 months).

Internship as Mechanical Engineering Trainee at Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics (LAT): • Prototype testing of alternator units (motor control, current and torque measurement, data acquisition) and real driving emission (RDE) measurement campaigns.

• Maintenance, diagnosis and repair of motor and armoured vehicles, aggregates and construction machinery.

• Diagnosis and repair of mechatronic vehicle systems (combustion and alternative drives) – chassis, drivetrain, electrical and electronic systems.

Executive management programme bridging engineering, strategy and finance. • Master thesis: Developing a Business Capability Map for a Department of a Tier 1 Supplier in the Automotive Industry (Grade: 5.5) • Focus areas: Digital Transformation, AI & Machine Learning, Corporate Finance, Strategic Management, Global Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, Power and Leadership

• Financial foundation for cost-to-EBIT work – cost accounting, investment appraisal and company valuation – complemented by corporate strategy and the St. Gallen Management Model.

SeoulTech's International Summer School STISS is a short term program designed to learn Korean and experience Korean culture and lifestyle during the 2-weeks intensive language course with a variety of extracurricular activities.

Semester abroad at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology • Specialisation: Remote Area Power Supply, Advanced Thermo-Fluid Mechanics, Engineering and Enterprise

• Specialisation: Integrated Development and Production, Thermal Renewable Energy • Bachelor thesis: Power-to-Gas - Development of a multifunctional catalyst for CO2 methanation (Grade: 6.0)

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