Editing Curriculum Vitae (CV) (section)

== <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Professional Experience</span> ==

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| style="width: 250px;" | '''since May 21, 2012'''
| [[File:DLR-Logo.svg|200px|right]] '''Research Group Leader''' {{footnotesize|(since January 1, 2014)}}<br /> and '''Research Engineer'''

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'''German Aerospace Center (DLR)''' <br />Institute of Space Systems, Bremen, Germany<br />Department of Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems

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<u>Roles:</u>
* '''Head of GNC Appliances Group''' {{footnotesize|(since January 1, 2014)}} <br />Technical and administrative management of a research group (permanently established organizational unit) consisting of 5 team members with the main focus on holistic research, design, development, simulation, implementation, test, and verification of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) appliances for space applications.
** responsible and independent professional representation of the whole subject area &ldquo;GNC Appliances&rdquo; for the entire department, both internally and externally
** overall technical and scientific responsibility for all group activities
** partial disciplinary management responsibilities towards employees: goal agreements; appraisal interviews; business travel permits; holiday/flextime permits; right to make suggestions for further training measures; involvement in hiring processes (job descriptions, requirements for applicants, selection of candidates); right to have a say in decision processes to extend or terminate employment contracts and the payment of allowances/bonuses
** planning and assignment of tasks to individual team members
** coordination and monitoring of the implementation of research and development projects and tasks; assumption of overall professional responsibility for all project and work package managers within the group
** planning of professional development of the research group
** independent initiation, preparation, and planning of new research projects and projects with national and international partners in science and industry
** accountability for scientific results and their dissemination
** coordination of knowledge management
** ensuring occupational health and safety in the area of responsibility
* '''Deputy Head of the GNC Systems Department''' {{footnotesize|(ex officio since January 1, 2014)}}
* '''Head of the Hardware-in-the-Loop Technology Laboratory''' {{footnotesize|(since February 14, 2014)}} <br />Laboratory for developing and testing GNC sensors, electronics, hardware, and embedded software in distributed real-time simulations.
* '''Deputy Head of the GPS/INS Test &amp; Verification Facility''' {{footnotesize|(Dec. 1, 2014 to Feb. 29, 2016)}} <br />Facility for test and verification of GPS and inertial navigation sensors; equipped with a 3-axis rotation table, thermal chamber, and an L1/L2/L5 GPS constellation simulator.
* '''Department IT Manager''' {{footnotesize|(since June 7, 2013)}}
* Further '''project-related roles:''' see section &ldquo;[[#Research_Development_Experience|Research &amp; Development Experience]]&rdquo;

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<u>Fields of Work and Expertise:</u><br />systems engineering; simulation &amp; verification of GNC appliances; software engineering for GNC systems; embedded systems development; real-time data acquisition and handling;
distributed reliable systems design; reliability and fault tolerance; model-based design, code generation, and verification; lab setups and software toolchains for development and verification; IT infrastructure planning and administration

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<u>Projects:</u> see section &ldquo;[[#Research_Development_Experience|Research &amp; Development Experience]]&rdquo;
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| '''since February 1, 2023'''
| '''René Schwarz Information Technology &amp; Engineering Services'''<br /> Sole Proprietor (secondary occupation)
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