Horst Rieche

Experience

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  Dieffenbacher

  Apr 2011 - Dec 2013

  Project Engineer

  Engineer ­Design and planning of plants in the field of gluing systems ­Quality control, risk analysis for machines, technical design, and management of SAP Material Management system Provided customer support Service deployment and setting up of gluing systems, across Europe and in Turkey

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  Kronospan

  Jan 2014 - Apr 2014

  Internship: Quality Assurance and Process Optimization

  Technologist focused on Quality assurance and process optimization ­Worked with FMEA methodology in order to identify errors in production Environmental management Developed a structure for procedures and workflows to optmize document workflow

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  Sabbatical

  Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

  Sabbatical North America

  Culture and Language Course

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  Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt

  May 2015 - Oct 2015

  Internship: Process Optimization and Documentation

  Internship focused on process optimization ­Consulting and supporting companies to restructure processes in compliance with legal requirements ­Document management ­Customer support, customer analysis and administrative activities

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  Fraunhofer Institute for wood research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI

  Jun 2016 - Jan 2019

  Quality Manager and Auditor

  Auditor with QMR certification in compliance with EN ISO 9001:2015 ­Performing third party audits with focus on Systems, Processes and Products across Europe ­Quality management activities: Advising and consulting customers regarding process optimization, continuous improvement and material compliance according to standards ­Practices with plant optimization: adoption of Lean principles and identification of bottlenecks in the Supply Chain Executing project management activities: planning and follow-up of audits, timetables schedules, milestones for completion as well as detailed Audits’ report analysis Show less

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  ETAS

  Feb 2019 - now

  Quality Manager for SaaS and Automotive Diagnostic Software Solutions.Data driven qualityQuality responsibility for Over-the-Air Services and E2E-Solutions (Vehicle - Cloud/Backend).Adapting and standardization of engineering processes in an agile environment. Implementation of Continuous Quality and moderate release reviews. Design automated processes in collaboration withproduct owners and software engineers for a “built-in quality”. Enabling teams for Docs-As-Code approach.Conduct of Technical Risk Analysis and FMEA/FAM for automotive security products.Maintenance and improvement of the QMS. Supporting teams in a transformation process regarding quality topics and tool setup. Show less Working in an agile organization with an agile mindset. Optimization and automation of processes in an cross-functional and collaborative environment. Develop solutions for documentation processes with the docs-as-code approach; Sphinx and Python. Automation of processes with CI/CD tools, like Jenkins.Prototyping of web applications (MEAN-Stack) for content delivery and content management with focus on UX. Working with tools like Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket (Git). Implementation of agile artifacts in our team, like the daily standup, retrospective, review and a servant leadership mindset. Show less

  • Quality Manager

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Content Delivery and Process Engineer

    Feb 2019 - Aug 2022