Dr. Christian Messerschmidt

Handling programs which are driving company revenue above €500M/year . Planning of R&D budget of >€35M/year . Senior interface to Tier-1 customer on critical negotiations and projects . Managing a team of 5 project managers (on 3 continents) developing key components for Tier-1 customers . Project teams sizes in excess of 200+contributors . Regular status reports to upper management including Management Board

Handling programs driving company revenue up to $300M+ Management of the largest group of Program Managers in the company (8 direct reports in Germering and Graz) Project team sizes >200 headcounts Proposals for product pricing to the SVP Mobile Systems Senior interface to Tier-1 customer on critical negotiations and projects

Handling programs driving company revenue up to $300M+ Management of the largest group of Program Managers in the company (6 direct reports in Germering and Graz) Project team sizes >200 headcounts Proposals for product pricing to the SVP Mobile Systems Senior interface to Tier-1 customer on critical negotiations and projects

Leadership of multi-site project teams in the delivery of custom and non-custom integrated circuits for Tier-1 customers Full project ownership and GO-TO person for all internal teams regarding your project Establish and track complete project plan and key milestones, project budget and resources. Review product profitability (gross margin) and derive corrective actions when product is in production

Leadership of multi-site project teams in the delivery of custom and non-custom integrated circuits Full project ownership and GO-TO person for all internal teams regarding your project Establish and track complete project plan and key milestones, project budget and resources. Review product profitability (gross margin) and derive corrective actions when product is in production Ensure that safety requirements are met (ISO26262) Ensure that security requirements are met

Leadership of multi-site project teams in the delivery of custom and non-custom integrated circuits for Tier-1 customers Full project ownership and GO-TO person for all internal teams regarding your project Establish and track complete project plan and key milestones, project budget and resources. Review product profitability (gross margin) and derive corrective actions when product is in production

Head of the R&D department for Security Devices 12 direct reports Establish project-oriented working style in the company Development of security solutions for high security (bank notes, cards) and brand protection Development of first- and second-level security elements, i.e. visible to the eye or visible only with additional devices, e.g. polarizers Work closely with business development teams, marketing and international customers to ensure that project requirements and objectives are clear

Leadership of multi-site project teams in the development of DDR3 DRAMs Head of the "DDR3 Family Team" - planning of future DDR3 projects while maximizing re-use and synergies Full project ownership and GO-TO person for all internal teams regarding your project Communicate status at bi-weekly project steering meeting to executive team

Responsible Manager for the technology development within a new DRAM project Successful development of the new 90nm Dual-Workfunction technology featuring W-gates Managed first-ever 300mm technology development project 8 direct reports GO-TO person for all technology aspects of the project

Responsible for monitoring defect density measurements during the development of a new technology node Structurally debug issues found in connection with the new technology node Establish best methods for defect detection at several points of the manufacturing process

Atomic Force Microscopy: Kinetic studies on self-assembled monolayers

Research during the Ph.D. thesis

Atomic Force Microscopical research of structured surfaces

Synthesis and characterization of modified porphyrins

Biochemistry, Spanish