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Professional Career

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Terranet

 

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

09/2021 – 11/2023 (Terranet Tech AB, Lund, Sweden)

Managing Director

01/2023 – 11/2023 (Terranet Tech GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany)

 

Mercedes-Benz AG

Head of Navigation Maps, ADAS and Traffic Services

05/2016 – 09/2021
Digital Vehicle and Mobility
Böblingen/Sindelfingen (Germany)

 

moovel Group

Head of Mapping

10/2015 – 04/2016
Future Mobility (moovel GmbH), Stuttgart (Germany)

moovel

Head of Maps

04/2014 – 10/2015
Head of Product Development (moovel GmbH), Stuttgart (Germany)

Daimler Mobility Services

Head of Maps

05/2013 – 04/2014
Future Mobility Systems, Shared Mobility
Leinfelden-Echterdingen (Germany)

 

CloudMade Deutschland GmbH

Managing Director

10/2010 – 04/2013
Co-founder, Shareholder, General Manager
Stuttgart (Germany)

 

OneStepAhead AG

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

09/2001 – 10/2010 (9 years)
Co-founder, Shareholder, President
Stuttgart (Germany)

 

OneStepAhead AG

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

08/2001 – 11/2002
Co-founder, Shareholder
Stuttgart (Germany)

 

 

OneStepAhead GmbH

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Managing Director

01/2001 – 08/2001
Founder (Firmengründer), Managing Director (Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter)
Stuttgart, Germany

 

DaimlerChrysler AG

Manager Traffic Information Group

Manager Information Technology Group

04/1999 – 12/1999
Mobility Research Division
Stuttgart Untertürkheim (Germany)

 

Daimler-Benz (California, USA)

Project Manager & Research Scientist

10/1996 – 04/1999
Transportation Research Group
1510 Page Mill Road
CA 94304, Palo Alto, California (USA)

 

Daimler-Benz AG

Research Scientist

10/1990 – 10/1996
Daimler-Benz AG
Research Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Traffic Research Division
Stuttgart Area (Germany)

 

 

 

My Skills

Managerial Skills

  • Mastering a broad spectrum of executive functions, effective leadership and influencing skills
  • Excellent experience in international projects, solid experience in managing compelling IT projects
  • Strong ability to communicate confidently and persuasively with both partners and customers
  • Proven commercial negotiation skills
  • Solid leadership skills and experience building and managing a strong engineering team
  • Effective presentation and team building skills, with a passion for removing barriers to help people succeed
  • Highly successful in hands-on and agile management

Executive Skills

  • Mastering a broad spectrum of executive functions, effective leadership and influencing skills
  • Excellent experience in international projects, solid experience in managing compelling IT projects
  • Strong ability to communicate confidently and persuasively with both partners and customers
  • Proven commercial negotiating experience
  • Solid leadership skills and experience building and managing a strong engineering team
  • Effective presentation and team building skills, love to remove barriers from the paths of employees in order to help them succeed
  • Most successful in hands-on and agile management

Competencies

  • Good pulse of what is happening in the technology and consumer space,
  • Understanding social trends and what will make their way into the enterprises
  • Extremely high technical competence with a very strong and agile software background
  • Ability to achieve remarkable goals in a fast paced environment
  • Excellent conceptual skills with a keen perception and high level of creativity and ambition
  • Ability to take initiative and to work independently
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills
  • Solid written and oral communication skills
  • Very cooperative and supportive to colleagues and supervisors
  • Favoring multi-cultural work environments and diversity

Education

  • Agile and yet mature, self-confident and self-assured, with the ability to work well under pressure
  • Very capable, patient and responsible with great enthusiasm
  • Decisive but flexible, able to assess and analysis situations quickly
  • Very successful and productive in informal startup-like environments
  • Strong persuasion power in promoting new ideas, inspiring and motivating coworkers and managers

Proficiency

  • Experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities
  • Deep and strong experience in and with international research labs
  • Mmanagement experience as founder and manager of a start-up technology company, as well as in the corporate environment
  • Proven teamwork in multicultural and multi-ethnic environments

Patents

  • Method and mobile terminal for guiding a person carrying such a mobile terminal in public transport (DE 10 2015 009 337)
  • Method for operating a driver assistance system for a vehicle (DE 10 2016 015 402)
  • Method for operating an assistance system (DE 10 2016 015 149)
  • Method for navigating a person (DE 10 2018 009 629)
  • Method and device for navigating a pedestrian (DE 10 2013 221 714)
  • Indoor Position Determining method (DE 10 2019 004 107)

Languages I speak

  • German (native speaker)
  • English (highly proficient in spoken and written)
  • Turkish (native speaker)
  • French (very basic understanding)