Dipl.-Ing. Michael Schiffer MBA
type: Person
given name: Michael
family name: Schiffer
job title: Senior Program Manager & Process Optimizer
description: Process optimizer & Program Manager with 20+ years in automotive industry, production launches and global plant structures. Since 2024 increasingly focused on Generative AI, Healthcare Automation, data analysis, AI-driven process optimization and telemedicine workflows. Solid expertise in Python, MySQL, RAG architectures, AI automation (local LLM, local agents) and healthcare operations.
birth date: 1972-04-14
birth place: Letmathe
nationality: Germany
address: PostalAddress
  street address: Weberweg 3
  postal code: 03130
  address locality: Spremberg
  address country: DE
has occupation: Role
  role name: Principal Consultant / Managing Director
  start date: 2010-01
  description: Consulting and interim management in the automotive industry, healthcare and other sectors. Focus areas: program management, production launches, plant management, supplier development, cost reduction, process optimization, AI implementation and AI-driven process automation.
  member of: The Implementers GmbH
has occupation: Role
  role name: Program Manager Insolvent Suppliers
  start date: 2009-07
  end date: 2010-06
  description: Leading a cross functional team for transfer and relocation of various tools and processes incl. painted parts. This includes supplier development in Valencia for the Ford C344 Launch.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Program Manager
  start date: 2007-12
  end date: 2009-06
  description: Leading a simultaneous development team based in Bratislava till the successful Launch for the Hyundai Kia in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Germany. With the responsibility for profit, timing, quality and customer satisfaction.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Operations Manager (Crisis Management)
  start date: 2006-09
  end date: 2007-11
  description: Supporting a 408 people plant in crisis management with focus on production, technique, and launches and restructuring the supplier base with the focus on customer PPM, scrap and efficiency.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Operations Manager
  start date: 2006-01
  end date: 2007-11
  description: 450 people automotive process and assembly plant for seating components and sunshades. Leading Operations (incl. production, methods, industrialization, quality and outbound logistic) with 80 employees and 12mil€/ano turnover, for Sunshades and seat back-panels with the focus on safety, scrap and efficiency.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Leader Taskforce "Red Adair"
  start date: 2005-08
  end date: 2005-12
  description: Leading a cross functional European team with the objective to stabilize a 250 people process and assembly plant before the closure with the focus on customer PPM, scrap and efficiency.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Technical & Launch Manager
  start date: 2003-09
  end date: 2005-08
  description: Leading and restructuring the departments Methods, Industrialization, Maintenance and Launch with 50 people in a 500 people automotive headliner plant.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Black Belt in Program Management Office
  start date: 2001-05
  end date: 2003-08
  description: Black Belt projects with focus on optimization of product development process and program management. Implementation of management information systems, PM trainings, change process optimization and development resource planning.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Project Engineer Electrical / Electronics
  start date: 2000-04
  end date: 2001-05
  description: Support of VW complete seat team with focus on the seat controller and all electrical and electronic components and wires harness routing incl. trouble shooting. Evaluation and test drives with and without customer with focus on seat function and comfort.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Test Engineer / Test Coordinator
  start date: 1998-02
  end date: 2000-04
  description: Building up new department "Interior Testing" incl. design and procurement of test machines. Creating test plans for various European vehicle interior projects, budget planning, supervising vibration measurements, durability tests and legal homologation tests. Extension of seating test lab to a full interiors system test lab (incl. FMVSS 201 FMH).
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Student in Testing
  start date: 1997-02
  end date: 1998-02
  description: Part time job: QM system support VDA6.1, QS9000, design of test fixtures, test execution and evaluation.
  member of: Johnson Controls
has occupation: Role
  role name: Backoffice Assistant – Management Consulting
  start date: 1997-01
  end date: 1998-01
  description: Prepare, format, and update presentations, proposals, and project documents. Assist with the preparation of reports, analyses, and workshop materials. Maintain and organize client and project data. Support invoicing, time tracking, and monthly reporting.
  member of: UB Dr. Hans Schiffer
alumni of: UEL University of East London / ELBS London
  type: EducationalOrganization
  location: London, UK
alumni of: Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln
  type: EducationalOrganization
  location: Cologne, Germany
alumni of: Bonner Autohaus GmbH (Vertragswerkstatt der Daimler-Benz AG)
  type: EducationalOrganization
  location: Bonn, Germany
alumni of: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium der Stadt Bonn
  type: EducationalOrganization
  location: Bonn, Germany
has credential: Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras (IBM)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: IBM / Coursera
  date created: 2026-01
has credential: Generative AI-Powered Solutions for Modern Healthcare (Specialization, 9 courses)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_healthcare
  recognized by: Coursera
  date created: 2025-10
has credential: Vector Databases for RAG
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: IBM / Coursera
  date created: 2025-05
has credential: Build Intelligent Agents using DeepSeek & N8N
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: Board Infinity / Coursera
  date created: 2025-05
has credential: MySQL for Data Engineering
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: Duke University / Coursera
  date created: 2025-05
has credential: Python for Everybody (Specialization, 5 courses)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: University of Michigan / Coursera
  date created: 2025-03
has credential: Google AI Essentials (Specialization, 5 courses)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: Google / Coursera
  date created: 2025-12
has credential: Google Prompting Essentials (Specialization, 4 courses)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: Google / Coursera
  date created: 2025-12
has credential: Introduction to AI (Google)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: Google / Coursera
  date created: 2025-12
has credential: Introduction to OpenAI Codex
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: ai_data
  recognized by: Scrimba / Coursera
  date created: 2026-01
has credential: Toyota Boshoku Business Practices (TBBP) - Solving Problems The TB Way
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: Toyota Boshoku
  date created: 2025-10
has credential: Value Stream Engineering (4 days)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart
  date created: 2012-10
has credential: Design and Process FMEA (5 days)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: Gabor Kulsar / Magna Steyr
  date created: 2013-11
has credential: Advanced Workshop QM per DIN EN ISO 9001:2008
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: KMU-Berater Bundesverband / Gemeinschaft zertifizierter Unternehmensberater
  date created: 2013-02
has credential: JCI SixSigma Certified Black Belt
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: Johnson Controls
  date created: 2001-01
has credential: EOQ Quality Systems Manager
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: EOQ / DGQ
  date created: 1996-01
has credential: DGQ-Quality Manager
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: DGQ Bonn
  date created: 1995-10
has credential: Quality Techniques II
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: DGQ Bonn
  date created: 1996-04
has credential: DGQ-Auditor / Lead Auditor (DIN EN ISO 10011-2)
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: DGQ Bonn
  date created: 1996-05
has credential: Internal Auditor of Quality Systems
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: DGQ
  date created: 1996-05
has credential: Medical Device Act, EU Directives, CE Marking
  type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
  credential category: quality
  recognized by: MUS Fortbildungsseminar, Köln
  date created: 1996-10
has credential: EOQ Quality Auditor
knows about: Access
knows about: AutoCAD 3D
knows about: BugZilla
knows about: C
knows about: C#
knows about: CATIA V5
knows about: Claude Code / Codex
knows about: DotProject
knows about: GPT-OS:20B / Qwen etc.
knows about: Linux
knows about: Lokale Telefonagenten / Local Phone Agents
knows about: Lotus 1-2-3
knows about: MS Excel
knows about: MS PowerPoint
knows about: MS Project
knows about: MS Word
knows about: Matrix One
knows about: MySQL
knows about: N8N
knows about: Ollama & LM Studio (lokale KI)
knows about: OnShape
knows about: Pascal
knows about: Postgres
knows about: Python
knows about: SAP
knows about: Sherpa
knows about: VB.NET
knows about: Visual Basic
knows about: Windows (bis 11)
knows about: eGroup
knows about: eRoom
award: Pallas Athene Medal for final exam and best of term (1998)
award: Best of term for the education to a Car Mechanic (1995)

EOQ Quality Auditor
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: quality
recognized by: EOQ / DGQ
date created: 1996-06

VDA6.1 and QS9000 new demands to the Automotive Industry
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: quality
recognized by: Technische Akademie Wuppertal (TAW)
date created: 1997-05

Training for internal Audits according to VDA6.1 and QS9000 and BOS
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: quality
recognized by: GFQ Akademie GmbH (firmeninternes Seminar bei Johnson Controls)
date created: 1998-01

Measurement device studies
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: quality
recognized by: Johnson Controls (on-the-job)
date created: 1998-01

REFA Basic Certificate
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: quality
recognized by: REFA-Verband Köln
date created: 1996-09

Work System Design
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: quality
recognized by: REFA-Verband
date created: 1996-11

Certified Program Manager (PMU / JCI)
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: management
recognized by: Johnson Controls
date created: 2002-07

Certified SME Restructuring Consultant
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: management
recognized by: KMU-Akademie e.V., Hamm
date created: 2010-03

Managing the company with key performance indicators
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: management
recognized by: RKW Rationalisierungs-Kuratorium der Deutschen Wirtschaft e.V., Bayern Büro Nürnberg
date created: 1996-10

Strategy for Success (EKS Success Strategy)
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: management
recognized by: KMU-Akademie e.V. / Cord Tepelmann, UnternehmerCoach
date created: 2010-04

Environmental Simulation of Vibration and Shock Loads (Shaker Course)
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Technische Akademie Esslingen (TAE)
date created: 1999-01

Training in Test methods and procedures
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Prince Automotive / Johnson Controls (on-the-job)
date created: 1998-08

CANoe Hands-on Workshop (1 day)
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Vector Informatik GmbH, Stuttgart
date created: 2000-09

English in Management and International Business
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Organization
date created: 2001-02

Internal trainings for project engineers - seats
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Johnson Controls
date created: 2000-01

TPG Microsoft Project Info Day
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: TPG The Project Group
date created: 2012-10

DVS Welding Courses: Gas Welding (G-Schw) and MAG Thin Sheet Welding (MAG-St D)
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: DVS / Handwerkszentrum Bonn
date created: 1993-04

Data Protection 2012
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
date created: 2012-09

2x 3 days courses for Teambuilding
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Organization
date created: 1996-01

Rhetoric and Communication (Diploma)
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: Institut für Rhetorik und Kommunikation, Bornheim bei Bonn
date created: 1996-11

GDPR Live Webinar
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: eRecht24
date created: 2018-07

Siemens NX Viewer / 3D Tool V12
type: EducationalOccupationalCredential
credential category: misc
recognized by: The Implementers GmbH (on-the-job)
date created: 2017-11

German
type: Language
alternate name: Deutsch

English
type: Language
alternate name: Englisch

French
type: Language
alternate name: Französisch

Spanish
type: Language
alternate name: Spanisch

Polish
type: Language
alternate name: Polnisch