Program Development Manager at Trimble (2025-09 – Present)
Strategic Program Portfolio Management, Operational Excellence & Cross-Functional Synergy, Technical Leadership & Team Development, Performance Monitoring & Risk Mitigation
- Lifecycle Leadership: Directing the end-to-end development process from initial requirements gathering and testing through to product release.
- Firmware & Software Oversight: Managing the lifecycle of firmware/software efforts with a focus on high-quality quarterly release cycles.
- Portfolio Strategy: Defining project scopes, goals, and deliverables for a diverse portfolio of R&D and product enhancement projects.
- Resource Optimization: Effectively managing program budgets, timelines, and resources to ensure organizational efficiency.
- Design Integration: Collaborating with production and service teams to ensure products are designed for manufacturability high production yields, and serviceability.
- Process Governance: Executing projects related to the "Development Gate" process and aligning project timelines with broader corporate release schedules.
- Professional Mentorship: Leading and mentoring teams of development professionals to foster a collaborative, operationally focused environment.
- Stakeholder Liaison: Translating complex technical issues and details into actionable insights for marketing and senior management.
- Global Collaboration: Working within international, multicultural environments to drive innovation in precision instruments and construction technologies.
- Data-Driven Analysis: Tracking and analyzing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions.
- Risk Management: Partnering with technical leads to conduct thorough risk assessments and provide regular performance reporting to stakeholders.
Regional Unit program leader: Eletre & Emeya EU/UK & NA projects at Lotus cars (2023-08 – 2025-08)
- End-to-End Program Delivery: Managed the successful execution of EMEYA & ELETRE projects from concept to market launch.
- Team Leadership: leading and managing a team of professionals, including engineers, project managers…
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Directed diverse teams of engineers and PMs to achieve complex project objectives.
- Collaborating with product development teams to bring the new lunch of Emeya to market.
- Financial & Resource Stewardship: Maximized ROI through strategic budget management, cost control, and optimized resources.
- Risk & Reporting: Developed proactive mitigation strategies and delivered data-driven progress updates to senior stakeholders.
Functional Owner: Project MIB3 TOP INFOTAINMENT at Volkswagen AG (2021-01 – 2023-07)
- TCs Execution: Field test, acceptance test, Full test, integration test
- Analyze test logs, specifications, and test script.
- Development/update of test-cases and specifications for manual and automatic testing.
- Network protocols and CAN, BAP, Flexray … communication and associated tools (Vector CANalyzer, Canoe…)
- Collaborate with development team, worldwide testing team and customer.
- Review of test specification & System Requirement Review
- Studying of failure models and effects analysis (FMEA and FMECA).
- Analyzing/understanding of related applications for troubleshooting and requirements.
- Design test specification and test strategy
- Practical Experience with development Scrum process.
- Managing QA team of 14 member in infotainment project.
- Co-ordination with Function Owners (FOs) and Component responsibilities(BTVs)
- Experience on validating Diagnostic (UDS) protocol over CAN
- Expertise in infotainment modules: navigation, connectivity, car play, Bluetooth, networking phone, media, eCall, online services, protocol analysis, coding, and configuration of the test environment, car functions, Comfort, Kombi zFas &BC
- Expert in flashing the cars (using ODIS, Canoe), coding and tickets creating and analyzing (ADO, KPM, CP tools.)
- Expert in system42, DOORS, KPM
- Monitoring the progress of activities assigned to team members via JIRA/KPM.
Software Embedded Engineer: ATLAS TITAN Project at Altran Tunisia (2017-06 – 2020-12)
- Development and validation of Infotainment Systems with focus on Networking (WLAN and data connection over UMTS).
- Focus: car connected, Networking.
