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Leitung eines strategische Grossprojektes in Mexiko Werktransformation von reinem Herstellungswerk zu einem Forschungspartner, Werkslayout, Organisationsentwicklung, Produktportfolioerweiterung, Erweiterung Maschinenpark

Leading a small team of operational excellence consultants guiding internal customers in optimizing safety and reliability as well as facility management cost of physical assets generating products worth €11.7bn (2014) by operating more than 100 production units in 30 countries around the globe.

Bayer MaterialScience AG gave me the opportunity to do a full time M.B.A. remaining an employee with the company.

Functioned as the Executive Assistant to the Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) Global Innovation Council and BMS' Executive VP and Head of Innovation. Jointly secured a €130m R&D loan by the European Investment Bank. Co-developed a customized project management training concept for more than 500 innovation project leads complementing the roll-out of a new stage-gate process.

Management of ten global and regional projects to realign BMS's polyurethanes business.

----- working place: Leverkusen (Germany) ----- member of a central support unit for the Downstream Businesses within Bayer MaterialScience across the business units Polyurethanes, Polycarbonates and Coatings Adhesives and Specialities

----- working places: mainly Shanghai (China) temporarily Dormagen (Germany) and Bangkok, (Thailand) ----- process control technology (PCT) project engineer; responsible for the PCT related planning, engineering and construction of core units within the MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanates) facility.

----- working place: Uerdingen (Germany) ----- trainee

----- working place: Villach (Austria) ----- research in the field of diamond like carbon (DLC)-films for the application in high voltage power semiconductor devices

----- working place: Villach (Austria) ----- support of projects in the metrology department

Core GPA of 3.66 (top 2% of intake), Dean's List and Beta Gamma Sigma Lifetime Member Courses: Business Strategy, Non-Market Strategy (Business, Governments and Society), Pricing, Market Intelligence, New Product Development, Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Operations Management, ...

Grade: 'very good'