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Thomas Grasse

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Last update: 10.04.2024

IT Consultant

Company: Exercim Oy
Graduation: Computer Science
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | Finnish (Elementary) | English (Limited professional)

Attachments

PMP Certificate Thomas Grasse.pdf

Skills

project management, product management, ERP, CRM, PLM, project management, product management, PMI, PMP, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Software Development, Java, C, C++, Jira, Confluence, Atlassian, Product Development, Product Lifecycle, German, Finnish, MS Office, MS Project, DOORS, Android, Kotlin, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot

Project history

12/2017 - 09/2019
Product Manager
HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH (Industry and mechanical engineering, 5000-10.000 employees)

HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Immenstaad, Germany
The HENSOLDT simulation program delivers training solutions for civil and military applications.
As a product manager I'm responsible for the mobile simulation products for both areas. I
created a complete new, tablet-based product to augment the existing training solutions for
personal learning. I established a partner and customer network.
* Being accountable for commercial product success
* Establishing and maintaining supplier and customer network
* Driving marketing activities
* Maintaining product roadmap
* Leading product development to achieve customer requirements

07/2017 - 11/2017
Project Manager
Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)

Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH, Bremen, Germany

This position aimed to lead the Rheinmetall Electronics work share of the German
army's' D-LBO procurement.

* Leading the inter-company project team of 20 people
* Coordination of the research & development activities
* Development of the inter-company collaboration platform for classified content

10/2015 - 06/2017
Project Manager / Sales Manager
HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)

HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Immenstaad, Germany
The HENSOLDT simulation program delivers training solutions for civil and military applications.
I had 2 roles. As a project manager I delivered simulator solutions in the international market.
You can see an example here: https://youtu.be/db1ee7BK6kc. As a sales manager I was
screening the market for proposal requests and prepared the proposal documentation in
conjunction with experts.

* Leading project teams of 10 people + subcontractors
* Conducting budget, schedule and scope management
* Managing sub-contractors, coordinating deliveries and integration
* Managing the creation of technical and commercial proposals
* Negotiating contracts with customers

11/2013 - 09/2015
Sub-Project Manager
HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)

HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Immenstaad, Germany
The company was named Airbus Defence and Space by that time. Airbus' Border Security
covered large scale surveillance, intelligence, communications and response solutions. My
responsibility was the development of the land surveillance system element and its adaption to
the Saudi Arabian border protection procurement. I was partly dispatched to Saudi Arabia.

* Leading the development and integration team of 40 people distributed to 3 sites
* Ensuring deliveries of the land surveillance solution for system integration and
verification
* Ramping up development team for the realization of functional extensions

01/2013 - 10/2013
Subsystem Manager
HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)

HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Immenstaad, Germany
For this position I was transferred for the Joint Venture Emiraje in Abu Dhabi. The JV was the
contracting partner for the UAE Army's Command and Control procurement. As the subsystem
manager for the system management element, my work covered the realization of monitoring
and sustainment functionality. The procurement was cancelled by the buyer.

* Planning of the subsystem development with design, acquisition / implementation,
integration, verification, installation and acceptance
* Conduction of operational analyses for the determination of customer requirements

09/2010 - 12/2012
Deputy Lead Solution Architect
HENSOLDT Sensor GmbH (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)

HENSOLDT Sensor GmbH, Immenstaad, Germany
The company was publicly known as Cassidian by that time. The Ministry of Interior of Saudi
Arabia procured a vast integrated border protection solution. During the solution definition
phase, the design office was located in Saudi Arabia. My responsibility focused on the project
management part of the design work und the integration of work results incl. document
management. The team achieved 2 important design milestones and readiness for
implementation.

* Leading the system design team of 15 people in absence of the Lead Solution Architect
* Negotiation of system requirements with the customer

01/2009 - 08/2010
System Engineer
HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)

HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Immenstaad, Germany
The company's' name was EADS Defence & Security by that time. In the Avionics business,
EADS had created various versions of mission management computers for military helicopters.
The product versions were branched and the individual branches had become disconnected. My
work comprised the creation of common baselines for requirements and design, to get all
product versions back to one implementation core.

* Analyzing requirements
* Synthesizing system architecture

11/2005 - 12/2008
System Engineer
Jeppesen GmbH (Transport and Logistics, 1000-5000 employees)

Jeppesen GmbH, Neu-Isenburg, Germany
Jeppesen produced aeronautical charts as paper products. In order to make the change to
digital products the company founded the Advanced Business Development organization, which
researched digital applications of the existing products are the derivation of complete new
applications. My work covered the elaboration of Electronic Flight Bag functions into aircraft
cockpit procedures.

* Acquisition and execution of public funded research projects with coordination of all
project partners
* Being company representative at Bund der deutschen Luftfahrtindustrie (BDLI)
* Definition of product requirements in conjunction with the Product Management
* Ensuring product approval by application of the standards: DO-178B, DO-200A, ARP
4761 und ARP 4754

10/2004 - 09/2005
Research Associate
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI) (Internet and Information Technology, 50-250 employees)

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI), Darmstadt,
Germany
IPSI researched in the field of mobile communication middleware for disaster relief applications.
I helped in prototype implementations and completed my thesis.

* Responsible for the design and implementation of a communication middleware for
application in emergency response

10/1996 - 12/1996
Service Technician
Maintec GmbH (Internet and Information Technology, < 10 employees)

Maintec GmbH, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Maintec was a service provider usually for small enterprises to sustain IT availability. One big
customer was Akzo Nobel, where 2 employees were on-site permanently.

* Provided technical services for small enterprises
* Provided network management service for Akzo Nobel, Obernburg

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