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----About company—T-system--- TOP Project Product Manager Automotive ----
1.5 Hrs, Thursday , 25th July 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
T-system is IT service and consulting company, subsidary of Deutsche telecom.
its the largest german and One of the biggest European IT service providers.
HQ in Frankfurt.
T-systems is into –Manufacturing /Automotive, Insurance,Telecom, Transport,Utilities

For manufacturing you are in – Manfacturing automotive solutions , PLM, SCM.

-----------Myself and my motivation-----------From Career point perspective ------

- The reason I left Germany was because I wanted to learn about Korean , Japanese and Chinese work culture and wanted to know how business is done this part of the world. I have already worked in Korea for over 4.5 years , i have gained very good insights about the customers in korea and asisan region. how to find new business opportunities in Asian culture . At this point of time i want to leverage that experience and bring it back to Germany.

- T-system is largest IT service and consulting provider in Germany and one of the largest in Europe. I have also worked with similarly large organizations who have large footprint in the market ( Telecom company like SK C&C, Siemens, Samsung, etc..).I am quite keen on working for such an org. Im sure i can bring a lot to the table and would like to be contribute to its success.

- I have experience of working with global workforce by working in multi-national organizations. T-system is also a large organization with around 50K emloyees, So for me to collaborate and work with people of different nationalities is quite seamless

---------Personal perspective -------
- Having studied and worked in Germany before, I feel very comfortable settling back in
German work environment. I can also speak the language so it makes life a lot easier.

- Me and wife plan to stay in Germany for probably the rest of our lives, we have been married for over 3 years now and we plan to raise a family ..and we plan to do that in Europe
- We both can speak German we she is also quite familiar with German working style and culture so us to fit back in German work culture and environment is quite easy and seamless
- I have very close friends and family members staying in Germany and Austria.. So you know we already have the social circle to rely on.. we are coming into a very known environment.






------------ Experience ---- Project/Product Manager- Automotive- Manufacturing -

- I have over 10.5 years of work experience with most of my experience has been in IT services and System Integration specifically in Manufacturing Industry and Industrial automation. In different sectors like Solar with Solarworld AG, Automotive , Electronics, Oil and Energy. But mainly in discrete manufacturing . Majority of my experience in MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and MES integration with on Shop-floor and Business layer. Also Equipment integration and business layer integration. Also integration of MES with SCADA systems.

- I have a MESA certification for MES/MOM methodologies – So I consult the production sites and line managers about the “Best practices for MES” according to MESA and ISA-95 standards. At times about SEMI standards SEMI-E54 eg: master data management best practices

- Currently I work as Project and Product Manager for the manufacturing division with Samsung... I handle a team of 15 people ( its a group of multicultural people , distributed in diff geographic locations..). I handle 4 product category of their manufacturing plants.

- Consult the higher management and at CTO level in defining the IT strategies and product roadmap , particularly Manufacturing IT roadmap for next 5-7 years. which adds value to both the company and customers. Focusing on Process improvement and optimization, using latest technologies. Samsung has several products in its portfolio, my job is to see the way to link those products in the same category by using Technology (eg: MDM, EAI, Real Time BI).

- One my important roles is to expand the samsung portfolio for MES, by looking at new potential industries like Steel and Rolling Mills, Solar industry and leverage the MES expertise of Samsung and Miracom products. Typically in Vertical Integration and Production Optimization ( eg : SPC, APC, Predictive maintainence etc..)

- 2nd Important role is Bring out new initiatives and develop concepts to use new technology in the manufacturing domain, create business proposals and give them to clients for the MES solutions (Eg: Cloud based MES , Smart Manufacturing, Virtualization, thin clients , Big data, real time analytics, CEP for faster decision making, BRM , In memory data gird, Business process, ESB, etc .. ), To integrate our systems I started the initiative for Master Data Management

- Continuously improving and Evolving the existing products for global markets. To improve our current MES , PLM and SCM solutions and sell them as a unified solution .And migrating the legacy systems which includes Business process consulting, optimization and standardization, - Standardization of process across different production plants to have a maintainable and consistent product.

- interface or SPOC between project stakeholders, partners and Project engineering teams. responsible for Product and Product planning , project control ,execution and Monitoring the different stages of where the product has reached and project reporting . Once the project has been signed off, I am responsible to for end-to-end lifecycle of the project and monitoring its progress from the, conceptualization to Requirement elicitation phase, prioritizing the requirements ; Designing the product ; developing the solution ; under strict QA guidelines and then going through different Testing stages with a particular focus on acceptance testing ; creating Product licensing strategies; Finally staging the product and releasing/rollout and deploying this product to different customer locations worldwide. [ Focus is on Cost, Schedule, Customer Satisfaction and Quality] .

- Collaborating with different Subject Matter Experts of different departments like "Engineering", "Sales" in how the product can enter the market, how it competes with different products in the market, "Infrastructure teams", negotiating SLA's , finding the right hardware resources. Communicating with them continuously if there is any change request, change in project plans etc. Typically many SME's are also located in different geographic locations Negotiation with OEM's suppliers, Partners, reviewing the SLA's for our Products deployed on different production sites

- Setting up Create a clear communication channel between stakeholders, clients, partners and Engineering Teams.

-, conflict management and at times risk management which includes -(risk assment and risk planning in project planning phase, then risk resolution and risk monitoring in Project implementation phase.. and finally risk reporting in project reporting )

- Defining project guidelines (defining communication channel btween team leaders , Organizing and bringing up the team (which includes hiring people, marshaling resource, setting up MBO's for them, managing work between them and making sure a releasable product is produced ), within the project budget, scoping and timely execution the project.,

- Vertical integration of MES with ERP, SCM, CRM and PLM which follows strict
compliance and open standards eg: B2MML using XML etc.

Mentoring and Coaching the IT / QA teams about the best practices like (Scrum, Bug tracking system, SVN, testing methodologies etc..)
- Escalation Manager for Shop floor personnel and Line Managers - All escalated issues are funneled through me.

- SDLC /Agile Methodologies - Typically we use MS Project where i create work packages and milestones for every phase within a project. I also use Scrum (agile methodologies) for project management as most of our projects are time-boxed. Also at times Kanban especially in the Operations side.

- Verification of Technical Documentation - releasing and verifying technical (SRS, TRS , Design docs.., RFP, RFI's) documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line.

- Providing reports and feedback to management about the project progress., the weekly or bi-weekly releases and milestones reached. Create a clear communication channel between stakeholders, clients, partners and Engineering Teams.

- I have worked with several MES vendors like - Siemens Simatic, CamLine, Miracom (Korean), Solaroworld uses Camstar, NanoTrack. I have lead the product development for a in-house MES product from the scratch for Solar Industry.

------ Some of my work -----------
- Provide innovative new solutions for our customers using latest technologies to solve their existing problems. (Eg: BigData, virutalization , In memory data grids etc.. )
- Cloud based Saas and IaaS for MES
- Enterprise service bus , SOA , Real Time data anlytics using Open source technologies.
- Real time monitoring of Data centers and Client PC on the shop-floor or in a production plant. Collecting the metrics data or self defined KPI's and storing them , running specific queries on them to finally visualize them on dashboards for production people, higher management , etc. You can get alerts and notification is something goes wrong on the shop floor system and appropirate action can be taken, it supports high availability , security , for rich clients and thin clients, advanced plugin management system (APMS)
- OPC - open platform communications
OPC gets data from Process control devices like PLC, DCS .
Modbus, profibus (protocol )

---------------- Questions T-System ------------
- What particular product category is T-system focussing for Automotive sector ?
- Does T-system to expand its portfolio of Manufacturing in Automotive sector to some other sectors in manufacutirng like – Solar, Electronics etc.. ?
- Do you in house development of manufacturing and other intergration softwares or are they 3rd party ?
- I see you are partners with Apriso, I imagine they provide the MES , how does T-system fit into the picture ?
- So what level of support do you provide the customers ?(1,2nd or 3rd ? )

-------------- Salary Validation -------------- High 70's
Have over 10 year of experience , majority in MES and Industrial Automation and Process Consulting, in different IT sectors like Automotives, Oil and Energy as Lead MES consultant, Team Leader- Handled teams and projects with over 15 people geographically located.
Master Degree
I can speak 4 languages (English, German, Hindi and Punjabi and Bit of korean )
Bring a lot to the table with MES consluting, New initiatives , Worked with new bleeding edge technologies like Big data, Virtualization , Real Time analytics

--------Integration mechanism --------
- Interface centeric - using EAI tools
use SOA and ESB together or Manufacturing service bus with MDM
- Data centric approach - using ETL model
- Model centric - Using Business Process Management using Business Rules Modelling
SPC - statistical Process control - infrastructure tool for Production control quality in
Semiconductor industry.

------------------------------ JD -------------------------------------------
You are responsible for the vision and strategy and the content of our M2M products in the context of corporate strategy
➢ They coordinate with other product managers BPM (BRM) to ensure the optimal interaction of all products
➢ They evaluate and capture customer and market requirements and derive the technical requirements for product development
➢ You define the product roadmap and monitor the implementation by the product development
➢ They support sales and marketing by working out the customer-relevant features
➢ They serve internal and external users from product management perspective and perform topic-specific workshops
➢ Your Profile:
➢ You have your business computer science, computer science or business degree, ideally, successfully completed with a focus on software technology
➢ As a product or project manager with vision you have strategically managed several projects in the M2M and Internet of Things environment and successfully implemented
➢ Both the M2M market as well as the appropriate technical side is you familiar
➢ In addition, you have a thorough knowledge of concepts in the M2M area, Internet of Things, OSGi and Device Connectivity
➢ Project management tools are fully prepared and have very good presentation skills
➢ You are an assertive personality that can convince even before international customers
➢ In your career so far in the M2M environment you were able to build a good business network, are creative and enjoy working in a team
➢ Willingness to travel, flexibility and very good knowledge of English, we assume-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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- Creating one harmonized multi-site, multi-country MES template that spells out a consistent approach to MES that can be used
across plants by using Business Process Management and Business Rules Engine.
- Process consulting while integrating MES into the production environment.
- Supporting infrastructure related issues within the production environment also supporting local and remote teams . (eg: Server Issues, Database issues , network issues, Firewall issues , etc.. ) , most of my experience has been on Linux and Windows Servers and dealing with different databases like oracle, ms sql, mysql, postgresql etc..
- Analysis of existing process and improving the stability and efficiency of those processes.. increasing OEE...etc..
- Creating a generic MES template to Integrate the MES across different sites by defining certain best practices for the process and taking them from one project to another. Mainly focusing on re-usability of modules (Trying to move MES to cloud based MES, using concepts of big-data for MES, real time analytic etc.. )
-Analysis of requests and demands according P&I process . Business requirements specification and translation business requirements into application specifications
- Vertical integration of MES with ERP, SCM, CRM and PLM
- Single point of contact or Escalation Manager for Shop floor personnel and Line Managers - All escalated issues are funneled through me.
- I have worked with several MES vendors like - Rockwell, Siemens , GE,CamLine... etc..Created Generic/modular MES covering Quality Management, Labor management , Process Management , Product Tracking and Tracing , Data acquisition , Resource Management (recipes) ,Quality Management Performance analysis, Work In progress (WIP) , Material management Handing Production management , Production planning
- User principles of SOA, standardized B2MML, Business process mgmt and ESB for integration , Master Data managent (MDM)
- The idea was to increase productivity, lower the production cost , decrease the inventory , increase OEE ,
- Training the IT team , releasing documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line.

- Provide EMI and BI solutions for Production manager and Stakeholders respectively
- Work a lot with databases like MySQL, Ms-SQL, oracle , postgresql in different production environment.
- testing and final rollout of the MES on the shop-floor, providing innovative solutions for improving performance and stability of existing systems. (eg: Virtualization of testing , virtualization of Shop-floor.. )

------------- Standardization benefits of MES ----------
lowers cost of maintaining the IT systems, Improving quality control , Improving better visibility to shop floor activities(Real-time) , faster product development and delivery to market , improving OEE , Better collaboration , standarization of reporting, reduces Total cost of owernship (TCO) by connecting users, content and enterprise applications
eg:reduce cycle time and recipet of good in SCM

--------------- Risk Management -----------
1. Risk identification
2. risk analysis
3. risk mitigation plan
4. risk mitigaation plan implemneation
5. risk trakcing



-----------------JD-------
Tasks:
Control and / or support of the top deals and services with significant volumes from delivery
Quick checks of sales plans and guidelines for the definition of SI Solution (Delivery)
Drafting of the SI Solution (Delivery) in cooperation with the responsible, operational delivery units
Service, project and contract management of major strategic projects and services
Support and offshore projects / missions - Nearshore
What we expect from you:
You have a degree (technical) university degree with a focus on computer science or adequate qualifications and many years of experience in the described activity. You also have experience in consulting / sales consulting as well as in the management and implementation of major international projects in the field of IT. They bring a very good technological, business management and software development and integration know-how and, ideally, strong working knowledge of at least one of Automotive & Manufacturing core processes engineering, PLM, manufacturing, logistics, sales & after sales, or around M2M/Connected car with.

Their excellent expertise in the areas of Project Management and Solution Management, we assume as given. Your excellent presentation skills at management level as well as your very good professional, inter-disciplinary and goal-oriented leadership skills you have already made successfully demonstrated. You are also resilient and bring a willingness to frequent national and possibly international business trips. Very good command of English in written and complete your profile. Another foreign language is desirable.