Wolfgang Schestak

Experience

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  Siemens

  Oct 1996 - Dec 2000

  Supervision of the EDI interface between SAP system of sales and logisticsClose interaction with sales and order management Smooth introduction of new devices in productionTraining of production employees and generation of assembly manualsConsultant for the SAP introduction in production areas

  • Systems Engineer for SAP and EDI

    Feb 2000 - Dec 2000

  • Production Engineer for notebooks

    Oct 1996 - Jan 2000
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  Fujitsu

  Jan 2001 - Mar 2020

  Analysis and documentation of market and customer requirements in the EMEIA region based on commercial figures.Collaboration with R&D departments for successfully implementing market requirements into innovative and sustainable products.Provisioning of relevant documents like roadmaps and pricelists to sales.Presentations at local and international customers. Definition of the global software and hardware portfolio for Thin Clients in close cooperation with our software partner Unicon and Fujitsu Japan.Creation of market requirement documents for Thin Client portfolio elements.Presentations for local and global customers. Extension of Fujitsu's CELSIUS portfolio based on market requirements.Ensuring technology leadership with innovative products and close cooperation with technology suppliers AMD, Intel, and Nvidia.Strategic and technical consulting of key customers. Autonomous management of complex workstation projects.Accountability for development schedule and budget.Conflict management and functional leadership of core team. Development and certification of new workstationsTechnical alignment with in-house product management, AMD and Intel.

  • Senior Product Manager Thin Clients & INTELLIEDGE IoT solutions in Category Management

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2020

  • Senior Product Manager Future Client Computers

    Sept 2010 - Mar 2016

  • Product Manager CELSIUS Workstations

    Jun 2003 - Aug 2010

  • Project Manager CELSIUS Workstations

    Jan 2002 - May 2003

  • System Engineer CELSIUS Workstations

    Jan 2001 - Dec 2001
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  FCCL GmbH

  Apr 2020 - Mar 2024

  Always keeping things in perspective and making decisions based on many factors and often conflicting requirements is essential in product management. In addition, distinct intercultural competence is required if the team is international.I work with colleagues and customers from Europe, Asia (China, Taiwan and Japan), as well as from the USA in various companies; Well-known names are the technology leaders AMD and Intel as well as Lenovo and Fujitsu - always with the aim of meeting market requirements in the best possible way and not requesting anything impossible from development, as well as maintaining the high motivation of my team.For me, that is what makes product management so appealing - especially in a fast-moving industry like IT, which is currently struggling with many challenges: market fluctuations due to Covid19 and availability issues are just two of them. The goal remains, however, to define products that will meet market requirements perfectly, to guide their development and then to place them successfully at our customers.In specific, I will reach this target with:Sales support and consulting at common end-customers.Market-driven definition of global requirements with Fujitsu and Lenovo.Coordination of development departments at FCCL and Lenovo, as well as of technology partners in China, Japan, Taiwan, and the USA. Show less

  • (Senior) Product Manager for Workstations, Thin Clients, Certifications and Customer Engagement

    Nov 2021 - Mar 2024

  • (Senior) Product Manager FUTRO Thin Client Software, Ecosystems, Certification & Customer Engagement

    Apr 2020 - Oct 2021