Cristian Laiu

CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA Name: Address: Phone: E-mail address: Date, place of birth: Nationality: Marital status: Laiu Cristian Timis, Giroc, str Macilor 69, ap18, zip-code: 307220 --October 19, 1984, Timişoara, Timiş. Romanian Married WORK EXPERIENCE Period Role Main activities and responsibilities 2022 July - Present Entrepreneur and Business Owner of Lokitech Engineering firm Providing consulting services to Automotive companies and support with a vast variety of activities. My automotive experience is enabling me to fulfill several roles within a project, with focus on System and SW disciplines as well as technical and management level. Throughout my experience in the automotive industry, I was one of the decision makers of quite a few projects, having defined the project strategy, technical and business-wise. Roles in IPF Project (BMW): • Safety safety engineer having the responsability of writing requirements with emphasis on the HW – SW interface. Roles on HCP (High Performance Computing) and BCMs (Body Control Module) projects: • PO (Product Owner) on Functional Safety focused SW team for a High Performance Computing project. Period Role Main activities and responsibilities • Functional Safety engineer, having as main responsibility requirements analysis from the OEM and performing decomposition at system level. • Functional Safety manager: in addition to coordination, analyzing new requirements for a series project, completing the safety case. • Error manager: centralizing safety related errors at project level, leading to OEM sharing/explaining sessions. 2022 July - Present System engineer (Marquardt Schaltsysteme) Responsible for leading the development of the overall RnD of complete products with a focus on System discipline. Leading Hardware, Software, Functional Test, Mechanical and System Engineering teams in order to complete given projects. Period Role Main activities and responsibilities Responsabilities while in this role include: analyze the customer requirements and actively engage the customer in order to provide the best on-point solutions from an extensive existing product portofolio; analyze OEM standards and match product specifications and capabilities with the standard requirements and find the most suitable solutions together with the team where improvements are needed 2021 October – 2022 July Project Manager Cluster Instruments (Continental Automotive BU UX) Period Overall responsible for 2 running projects (full digital clusters) in parallel, Role coordinating RnD and Plant, for Stellantis OEM. Main activities and Main focus points: planning &tracking, schedule, budget, customer negotiation. responsibilities 2015 – 2021 October Technical Project Leader and Product Architect (Continental Automotive BU VNI HMI) As a Technical Project Leader, I have had the responsibility for leading the development of the overall RnD of complete products. Leading Hardware, Software, Functional Test, Mechanical, Display Technology and System Engineering teams Leading the development of complete products, from the acquisition/quotation phase until start of production. For series projects I have led several product optimization activities, through redesign to cost. Coordination of 6 projects throughout my experience, for 3 OEMs, introducing a new business model for an OEM project. Actively quoted projects: 12. Period Role Main activities and Responsibilities As a Product Architect I developed analog clusters, digital clusters, secondary displays and silverbox (basically an onboard computer with cluster and radio functionalities). I was tasked with analyzing the customer requirements and finding the best solution in the BU HMI portfolio which would match the customer needs and be competitive from price perspective. Intensive discussions with the customer for possible technical solutions for hardware, software and mechanics. As an architect, I was leading a team composed of electrical, mechanical and software architects. 2009 ~ 2015 Hardware engineer (Continental Automotive BU ICV) As a hardware engineer the main focus was the development of products from hardware perspective. Based on customer requirements, I was responsible for testing and design of digital tachographs, testing and designing of tolling and telemetric units from electrical perspective. Design electronic circuits considering the automotive standards. Draw schematic using specific tools (Zuken CR5000), simulate electronics circuits using LT Spice and Orcad, calculate worse case situations using Mathcad. Owner of BOM generation from the schematics I designed, searching for the best priced components to reach a competitive BOM. Design and execute specific hardware tests on different product types. Offer support for verification/validation and software departments in testing and implementing of their software and tests. Offer support for production of products that I am responsible for designing. Period Role Within my last project, I was the hardware architect in charge of designing the Main activities and main functionalities of a tolling and telematics unit. Responsibilities I shared management responsibilities with the discipline technical leader, such as: planning and project control. Period 2008 ~ 2009 Main activities and Test engineer on production line (Flextronics) Responsibilities Responsible for ICT testing machines. Responsibilities extended to understanding the tests that were performed using ICT machines on different products. Responsibility also shared with technicians of maintenance of the machines. Period Role 2008 (March –July) Main activities and Instrumenting Diploma Project within Siemens VDO Automotive Srl. Timisoara. Responsibilities Thesis name: "Auto headlamp using switch mode power supplies and power LEDs." Period Role 2006 (June ~ October) Main activities and Summer practice (Siemens VDO Automotive Srl) Responsibilities Hardware development related to signal lamp light flashers. Additinal tasks related to hardware design activities; measurements, validations, tracking results. EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2006 ~ 2007 Technician (Siemens VDO Automotive Srl Timişoara) Benchmarking diferent automotive stages, layout generation using tools like Eagle, PADS. Switchbox build-up and prorotyping activities related to test and validation phase. Generating technical documentation and performing quality tracking of the main activities. Period 2008 ~ 2010 Name of the institution Graduated "Facultatea de Automatca si calculatoare”- Sectia AES (Automotive Embedded Software). Type of qualification awarded Master’s degree Period 2003 ~ 2008 Name of the institution Graduated "Facultatea de Electronica si Telecomunicatii – Sectia Electronica Aplicata, Sectia Electronica de Putere". Type of qualification awarded Diploma Engineer Period 1999 ~ 2003 Name of the institution Graduated "Colegiul National Henry Coanda – sectia service tehnica de calcul". Type of qualification awarded Technician, Euro Level 3. PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES MOTHER LANGUAGE OTHER LANGUAGES Romanian English Excellent Reading skills Excellent Writing skills Excellent Verbal skills German Low Reading skills Low Writing skills Medium Verbal skills Team work. Excellent and durable relationship developed during the time I worked with the colleagues from Siemens VDO and Continental Automotive. ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Collaboration with multiple external locations subcontracted by Continental, together with an international teams setup. I can characterize myself as being dynamic and I have the proper knowledge to TECHNNICAL SKILLS AND organize cross-projects international teams in an efficient manner having a COMPETENCES ballanced time-quality-budget structure. Technical training made me familiar with the very latest versions of Windows®based software and utilities and Micrsoft® Office programs. (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Microsoft Project Planner) Other tools/programs I am familiar with: DOORS, Code Beamer. Programming languages: C#, C. Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, ASPICE Overall interaction with all the parties involved in a product development have resulted in a complete and complex view of an entire product development; knowledge of software, hardware, mechanical, production, technologies in a technical view. From the administrative perspective, fully knowledgeble on budgets, processes, planning and schedules, tracking, team staffing. I have 3 patents released and approved under my name. All related to lithium PERSONAL SKILLS AND battery charging. Patents were applied to products in automotive market running in INTERESTS the field. As per personal interests, mounteneeting and rock climbing are 2 of my favorite recreational hobbies, together with olympic weightlifting. Running is also one of my hobbies. I participated in multiple mountain marathon contests. Game development is also a passion of mine. I learned C# and Unity in order to develop my own video games. As a passion project I am working currently on an RTS game.