Senior Program Manager & Process Optimizer
Process optimizer & Program Manager with 20+ years in automotive industry, production launches and global plant structures. Since 2024 increasingly focused on Generative AI, Healthcare Automation, data analysis, AI-driven process optimization and telemedicine workflows. Operates a self-hosted on-premise LLM infrastructure on a heterogeneous multi-GPU cluster: two production RAG systems with around 42,000 embedded chunks (COBOL legacy corpus and a document/mail knowledge base), 130,000+ routed requests and 463M processed input tokens in 14 days. Solid expertise in Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL with pgvector, hybrid retrieval and reranking, GPU load management and document AI (OCR/vision LLM).
Principal Consultant / Managing Director
Consulting and interim management in the automotive industry, healthcare and other sectors. Focus areas: program management, production launches, plant management, supplier development, cost reduction, process optimization, AI implementation and AI-driven process automation.
Practice IT, Digitalisation and Back Office
Set up and maintained the IT of a private practice for naturopathy, TCM and pain therapy, in parallel with the role at The Implementers GmbH. Responsible for digitalising practice workflows, integrating medical devices, billing and document processes as well as website and back office.
Praxis für Schmerztherapie & TCM, Olga Schiffer MSc
Leading a cross functional team for transfer and relocation of various tools and processes incl. painted parts. This includes supplier development in Valencia for the Ford C344 Launch.
Leading a simultaneous development team based in Bratislava till the successful Launch for the Hyundai Kia in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Germany. With the responsibility for profit, timing, quality and customer satisfaction.
Supporting a 408 people plant in crisis management with focus on production, technique, and launches and restructuring the supplier base with the focus on customer PPM, scrap and efficiency.
450 people automotive process and assembly plant for seating components and sunshades. Leading Operations (incl. production, methods, industrialization, quality and outbound logistic) with 80 employees and 12mil€/ano turnover, for Sunshades and seat back-panels with the focus on safety, scrap and efficiency.
Leading a cross functional European team with the objective to stabilize a 250 people process and assembly plant before the closure with the focus on customer PPM, scrap and efficiency.
Leading and restructuring the departments Methods, Industrialization, Maintenance and Launch with 50 people in a 500 people automotive headliner plant.
Black Belt projects with focus on optimization of product development process and program management. Implementation of management information systems, PM trainings, change process optimization and development resource planning.
Project Engineer Electrical / Electronics
Support of VW complete seat team with focus on the seat controller and all electrical and electronic components and wires harness routing incl. trouble shooting. Evaluation and test drives with and without customer with focus on seat function and comfort.
Building up new department "Interior Testing" incl. design and procurement of test machines. Creating test plans for various European vehicle interior projects, budget planning, supervising vibration measurements, durability tests and legal homologation tests. Extension of seating test lab to a full interiors system test lab (incl. FMVSS 201 FMH).
Part time job: QM system support VDA6.1, QS9000, design of test fixtures, test execution and evaluation.
Backoffice Assistant – Management Consulting
Prepare, format, and update presentations, proposals, and project documents. Assist with the preparation of reports, analyses, and workshop materials. Maintain and organize client and project data. Support invoicing, time tracking, and monthly reporting.
UEL University of East London / ELBS London
Bonner Autohaus GmbH (Vertragswerkstatt der Daimler-Benz AG)
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium der Stadt Bonn
EU AI Act Explained: What You Need to Know About the New AI Regulation from August
Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras (IBM)
Google AI Essentials (Specialization, 5 courses)
Google Prompting Essentials (Specialization, 4 courses)
Generative AI-Powered Solutions for Modern Healthcare (Specialization, 9 courses)
Toyota Boshoku Business Practices (TBBP) - Solving Problems The TB Way
Build Intelligent Agents using DeepSeek & N8N
Python for Everybody (Specialization, 5 courses)
Advanced Workshop QM per DIN EN ISO 9001:2008
KMU-Berater Bundesverband / Gemeinschaft zertifizierter Unternehmensberater
Strategy for Success (EKS Success Strategy)
KMU-Akademie e.V. / Cord Tepelmann, UnternehmerCoach
English in Management and International Business
Internal trainings for project engineers - seats
Environmental Simulation of Vibration and Shock Loads (Shaker Course)
Prince Automotive / Johnson Controls (on-the-job)
Training for internal Audits according to VDA6.1 and QS9000 and BOS
GFQ Akademie GmbH (firmeninternes Seminar bei Johnson Controls)
VDA6.1 and QS9000 new demands to the Automotive Industry
Institut für Rhetorik und Kommunikation, Bornheim bei Bonn
Medical Device Act, EU Directives, CE Marking
Managing the company with key performance indicators
RKW Rationalisierungs-Kuratorium der Deutschen Wirtschaft e.V., Bayern Büro Nürnberg
DGQ-Auditor / Lead Auditor (DIN EN ISO 10011-2)
DVS Welding Courses: Gas Welding (G-Schw) and MAG Thin Sheet Welding (MAG-St D)
Azure OpenAI / EU-gehostete Cloud-Modelle
Caddy Reverse Proxy & Security-Hardening
Embeddings & Cross-Encoder-Reranking (bge-m3, Cohere)
LLM-Evaluation & Benchmarking (Ground-Truth-Harness)
LLM-Serving (llama.cpp, vLLM, ollama, TEI)
Lokale Telefonagenten / Local Phone Agents
Narkosemonitor-Anbindung GE / Mindray inkl. EKG-Daten
Neurofeedback-Systeme (Messung und Protokolle)
OCR & Vision-LLM (PaddleOCR, DeepSeek-OCR, Qwen-VL)
OpenEMR (Praxis- und Klinikinformationssystem)
Quantisierung & Modellauswahl (Qwen MoE, Gemma, MedGemma)
RAG & Hybrid Retrieval (Vektor + BM25, RRF)
React + TypeScript (SPA, Live-Monitoring)
qEEG-Messung und -Auswertung (19-Kanal / 2-Kanal, Normdatenbank-Abgleich)
Pallas Athene Medal for final exam and best of term (1998)
Best of term for the education to a Car Mechanic (1995)