Dr. Lukas Kurtz

• IT project lead in a large scale cross departmental change project with a considerable IT portion (agile; SCRUM; Teamcenter; web technology) • Rollout manager of the complete R&D IT machinery required to set up a new manufacturing partner for BMW's Mini • IT project manager ensuring a tax law compliant EDI data exchange with BMW's procurement partners • IT maintenance manager of the BMW Group's B2B Portal

Requirements manager for car navigation systems • Customer: Volkswagen AUDI AG • Targeted markets: CN, JP, KR, TW • Achievements: Built rapport with the customer; in charge of media handling; power management, encryption, address book; added special value to the project due to the personal experience about the Japanese market and its customers' requirements

• Freelance IT consultancy • Specialty: Japan related projects and customers • Customers: Automotive, public sector • Projects: Conceptual work for web and portal solutions; change management

• CAD application engineering for PCBs and chip development projects • Achievements: Successfully co-established a design joint venture in Tokyo for specialty DRAMs used in game consoles; kick started and managed the IT on-site; ensured the CAD function for development projects and supported the communication between CAD specialists, manufacturing and the development engineers at both JV partners • Sizing: 2 Japanese sites; server Farm; about 50 JV employees with 5 ffor CAD & IT; 3 yrs @Tokyo

Strategic technology consulting // Safety critical embedded systems // SPICE // CMMI // IEC 61508 // Requirements Management // Test Management

Fundamental research in theoretical ultra-fast photochemistry, quantum computation, inverse problems // Development of solution algorithms and implementation in C/C++, Fortran, Perl // Publications and lectures

Undergraduate studies in Economics

Theoretical molecular physics and Quantum Computation Thesis: "Direct and Inverse Algorithms for Characterizing Molecular Reaction Surfaces"

Major in theoretical physics and mathematics