1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He is currently living in Japan and working as a Program Manager for XXXX under client XXXX in Japan; they are focused mainly on the automotive powertrain ECU software verification and validation. Previously, he was also doing Project Leader and Program Manager roles for the automotive fuel systems and design & development with XXXX. In the past, he also worked with a few vehicle projects with XXXX through XXXX and XXXX as an Intern. In general, he was working mostly on vehicle integration projects and aftermarket-related, powertrain-related issues. He has extensive working experience across Japanese OEM including XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, with strong proven customer management, project governance, and cross-functional collaboration with Japan and the offshore teams. He also handles a lot of profitability-related issues in his current projects and has handled a lot of change management topics as well from the delivery point of view. Also as a program manager, he’s taking care of lot of risk and change management at an organization level. He has a strong program delivery and bilingual collaboration with Japanese customers and a lot of automotive-related software and hardware experience. He has handled about 25 engineers in total.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be his knowledge within the automotive industry and good understanding of product development with respect to automotive. Apart from that, he has managed a considerable team size that honed his team leadership skills as well as other areas of management including scope, timeline, resource, and risk.
3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements?
He has more than 3-4 years of relevant experience in risk and change management; mostly having the title of program and project manager. His current and previous projects are all related to IT Automotive space and has great background with organizational change leadership along with consulting. He has also practiced his stakeholder management skills and has JLPT N3 and another certification in Japanese Language which is NAT Q2.
