Personal Details
- Name: Klaus D. Wolfer
- Day of Birth: 18th December 1963
- Nationality: German
- Adress: Trollingerweg 6, 74354 Besigheim
- Phone: on demand
- Email: info@klauswolfer.de
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Professional Profile
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Areas of expertise:
- Strategic thinking & entrepreneur spirit
- Creative solution design and selling
- Product & solution management
- Guerrilla marketing & networking
- Customer problem analysis and abstraction
- Bid & subcontractor management
- International project teams
- Consulting
- Social skills
- Intercultural experience
- Highly creative in continuous improvement processes and idea development.
Specialties
- eKanban solutions
- Maritime Safety & Security solutions
- Emergency Call Handling Systems
- Security solutions in general
Work Experience
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since June 2011
Product Manager
Thales Defence & Security Systems, Full-Time
- Communication System for Civil Security
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April 2010 - May 2011
System Architect
Thales Defence & Security Systems, Full-Time
- Solutions for Civil Security
- Bid & Proposal Management
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2008 - March 2010
Bids & System Design Manager
Thales Maritime Safety & Security International, Full-Time
- VTS/CoSS Solution Architect
- Marketing/Sales & Consulting
- Bid & Proposal Management
- System Design
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2003 - 2008
Bids & Product Manager
Barco, Full-Time
- Maritime Surveillance & Security Writing winning proposals for CSS Portugal, Port of Antwerp, MRCC Ostend, VTS Wintam and more...
- Airside Slot Capacity Assistant (ARCAS) Selling ARCAS (slot management solution ) as product manager to Munich and Duesseldorf Airport.
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1998 - 2003
Member of the Management Board
Orthogon, Full-Time
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Head of department Manufacturing Information Systems (MIS)
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2001 - 2003
Product Manager
Orthogon, Full-Time
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Product Manager ARCAS - Airside Slot Capacity Assistant
- Marketing, Acquisition, Sales and Consulting
- Partner Management
- Complete preparation of winning bid for MATCHBOX Tender (Fraport AG)
- Product Development & Management
- Sales & Partner Presentations
- Installation/Integration and System site acceptance
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1998 - 2003
Product Manager
Orthogon, Full-Time
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Product Manager IKS - Integrated Kanban System
- Marketing, Acquisition, Sales and Consulting
- Solution Design & Development
- Partner Management
- Sold to Magneti Marelli, Pirelli, Flextronics, Hansa, Daimler ...
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1992 - 1998
Project Manager, Developer, Marketing, QA
ISA Systems GmbH, Full-Time
- ESPRIT MUSSELS (eKanban for Pirelli, UK)
- ESPRIT IKS (Integrated Kanban System) for Magneti Marelli, Italy
- ESPRIT DISCO (Distributed, multi-site production control system) for Magneti Marelli, Italy
- BMBF TUDOR (Informationsystem for Skilled Workers)
- BMBF PLANLEIT (Toolbox for graphical Control Center/Leitstand)
- Siemens ATC Kasachstan (Electronic Data Display, Recording & Replay)
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1989 - 1991
SW Developer
ISA Information Systems GmbH, Part-Time
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1986 - 1989
SW Developer
Fraunhofer for Economy and Organisation (IAO), Part-Time
Technical Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite Extensive experience Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, VBA
- DOORS Moderate skillset Requirement Management Tool
- JIRA Moderate skillset Issue & Bug Tracking Tool
- Microsoft Project Moderate skillset Project Management Tool
- Paint.net/Gimp Moderate skillset Graphic Tools
- Wordpress Extensive experience CMS for professional websites
- PHP/mySQL/HTML/CSS Moderate skillset Web Programming Tools
- Viewlet Builder Moderate skillset Screencasting Tools
Trainings
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2009 - 2012
Thales University
- How to create a business case
- Winning Bids
- System Engineering Passport
- Ethics
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2005 - 2007
Cipers Training & Coaching
- Strategic Selling
- Presentation & Negotiation
Education
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1983 - 1989
University of Stuttgart
- Computer Science
- Economics, Marketing & Strategic Business Planning
Hobbies
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Specific
- Chess, Geocaching, Reading
- Sports: Biking, Swimming, Jogging, Hiking
- Travelling