I’m an interim manager and quality consultant with more than 15 years in the automotive, agricultural, and railroad vehicle industries. I have managed quality in greenfield and brownfield projects, system quality, production quality, suppliers quality as well as customer quality.

Below you will find some pictures and brief descriptions of quality management topics and products from my professional life.

I am always open to discussing and helping with quality management. Feel free to call me or drop me an email.

I am also an enthusiast in the biomedical sector. Since 2018, I’ve been driving patient-led gene therapy research as the Chairman and Co-Founder of Asgent.

I joined this greenfield project at the prototype stage to qualify European suppliers for BMW car seat production. My role covered supplier audits across fabrics, plastics, foams, and bonding technologies. I set up the initial quality system, created incoming inspection documentation, and supported the build of the first prototypes—standard and M-Performance seats—using parts from China. Several European suppliers were successfully qualified and prepared for serial production sourcing.

Managed the internal quality department. Monitored and reduced non-conformity costs. Defined and executed component reuse and rework. Designed an automated scrap monitoring system.

Tens of thousands of products were made each day and distributed to over one hundred fifty locations worldwide.

When you sit in the car and look at your speedometer in classical instrument panels, it is covered by a transparent cover. This “glass” is actually plastic made by injection moulding.

Because you have it in front of you all the time, it must be optically perfect, dust-sealed, and resistant to cleaning and scratching for the life of the car.

I oversaw the quality of the internal moulding process, mainly for VW Group cars and Toyota.

When you look at your navigation unit/radio/entertainment system in the car, you should be able to see the screen clearly regardless of environmental light—day or night.

This is often enabled by backlighting of the LCD displays. Even distribution of light across the entire display is made possible by a lightguide—a plastic rectangle beneath the display that distributes light from LEDs around the sides and enables uniform backlighting.

The tools used for these components are highly specific, with polished surfaces containing thousands of tiny protrusions. Display backlighting consists of many layers, such as diffusion foils, light conductors, and polarised foils.

Do you like chrome plating around dials or piano-black glossy lacquered surfaces? For quality control it is bit of challenge.

It is difficult to see faults before the plastic chrome-plating process. Once chrome-plated, previously undetectable faults become visible.

This is a challenge for visual quality checks. Strict adherence to standards helped significantly.

Imagine your car has a problem caused by a fault the size of an atom. In electronic components such as memory chips and microprocessors—which power many automotive electronics—this is possible.

Being part of the supplier quality team for electronic components meant a steep, hands-on learning curve in materials physics and electrical engineering.

During my university studies, I never thought I would work with Fourier transformations, PNP interfaces, triple integrals, etc.

I gained experience in circuits and PCB designs, and used electron microscopy to investigate faults at the nanoscale. This area of quality management includes 8D problem-solving for electronic components, fault investigation, metal deposition, semiconductor manufacturing processes, and extremely high cleanliness standards.

Managed project quality for a new SUV dashboard under an extremely short timeframe to SOP. Coordinated a wide range of international companies (Italdesign, KTM, Seat, VW) and tooling suppliers from China, Austria, Poland, Italy, Czechia, Spain, and Germany.

Released all production tools for plastic components and foaming tools, set up and tuned milling equipment, defined critical and functional characteristics, and created the production control plan and incoming material inspection requirements.

Oversaw all materials and product testing (e.g., airbag tests, PV tests). All machines and production equipment were handed over to the production plant. The product was ready for serial production.

It is satisfying to see the car on the street with interior parts you helped to build.

Quality consultant during the start of a new production line for optical bonding of navigation units for Fiat, VW, Škoda, and Seat cars.

Optical bonding connects the display to touch-sensitive glass with a silicone interlayer. It is a technically demanding process requiring high cleanliness standards.

As a result, the navigational screens had improved visibility in bright sunlight, better contrast, and greater durability.

Any faults in the optical bonding process are very costly, as no rework is possible and the bonded components (display and touch glass) are the most expensive parts of the navigation unit.

From component introduction to production line planning, production control, and electronic component supplier claims management.

Over 7 years as an external consultant for an instrument panel producer, I gained hands-on experience in almost the entire production process.

As an external consultant, I contributed to the start of a new navigation production line.

I worked on defining technical requirements for components, optimising the production line, creating process FMEA and control plans, validating the optical bonding line, and final production line approval.

Supplier quality for new component introduction in serial automotive production.

Guided new suppliers (including those outside the automotive sector) in understanding and meeting automotive requirements.

For example, when producing a new navigation unit for a car that will be on the market in 3 years, you must ensure your supplier can deliver the correct specifications, quantities, and quality on time—before production starts.

Quality management provides many useful tools to achieve this.

As Interim Customer Quality Engineer, I specialised in resolving quality issues and restoring customer confidence for products such as current collectors, pantographs, and controllers for trains.

I led crisis management, coordinated corrective actions with internal departments, prepared PPAP and FMEA documentation, and managed customer audits.

Worked with clients including Bombardier and Alstom, ensuring strong business relationships were maintained.

Turbocharging technology has increased automotive efficiency and reduced emissions.

In a greenfield plant, as a Quality System Engineer, I created the first integrated management system within the entire Honeywell group. This merged ISO/TS 16949, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 standards.

Within one year, the system was certified by both certification authorities and customers.

A precise technology for producing metal parts in multiple steps in one process.

As Quality Manager, I managed the transformation from electrotechnical to automotive standards. Achieved ISO/TS 16949 certification and began automotive production for customers such as Toyota, Kia, and Ford.

Quality manager in production of construction machinery frames, safety cabins, and agricultural hay or straw balers.

Oversaw processes from raw sheet metal and steel profiles to complete painted and assembled cabins.