Working With Me

My Guarantee For You

It is my objective to build lasting relationships with my clients. I intend to contribute to such an extent to your endeavor, that you want to keep me on board or return, when the time is right.

I aim to build sustainable, mutually fair business relationships, where both sides are fully satisfied and wish to continue working together. This intention is guided and enabled by my personal values.

Hire Me When

  • you are in need of a reliable senior engineer who does not back down from tough interdisciplinary problems.
  • you are in need of someone who can self-start and just works away without management overhead.
  • you need someone who can do both quick solutions and prepare for longterm scalability.
  • you need someone who thinks ahead and shares ideas on own initiative.
  • you need a methodical thinker, who introduces structure and clear reasoning.
  • you need someone who has seen research institutions, small, middle and large companies, multiple management styles in multiple cultures with very diverse people and teams.
  • you need someone with experience working with multi-location teams.
  • you need someone open minded and fun who introduces a great attitude and mood to your environment.

How We Can Work Together

To successfully work together, defining some agreements helps in order to meet all expectations. From my past I have learned, that at least four things should be defined for both sides not be disappointed:

  1. Task Description – It is crucial to define what is expected to be done. Assumptions and implicit expectations are a pitfall here. I have trained the skill of asking from various perspectives about a problem to help us avoid ambiguities.
  2. Reporting – We should agree on the form and the frequency of reporting. I am very flexible and I am happy to meet what you require to trust, that I work hard for you.
  3. Communication – Depending on the level of independence of the task, more flexible and / or immediate channels of communication might support our relationship. I will gladly adopt your style, be it email, instant messaging or video calls.
  4. Tools – For your hardware or software design certain EDA or SDK tools might be required. On a per case basis, we can review if there are particular needs and if there are license requirements.

Beyond that, integration into a team dynamic is one more point. You might want me to stay separate and work away on my task or you might want me to integrate myself in an employee-like way. I am very flexible and adapt to your needs.

How I Performed Well With Others

In my past, my superiors have quickly adopted trust with me as they saw, I can be assigned a task and results kept coming in. I had great experiences with reporting once or twice per week, in writing or by video call. Often I was given a new work package early in the week and reported on the progress at the end of the week. In between, communication happened as was needed, via email, instant messaging or scheduled video call.

This dynamic was agreed upon from the beginning of the business relationship and adjusted as current tasks required it.

I integrated myself well and soon more developers were in touch with me, to solve inter-disciplinary problems together.

Green Consulting

I operate in an environmentally friendly way. In particular:

  1. I guarantee, that more than 80 % of my commutes are done by bicycle, public transportation or shared car rides. Only occasionally do I commute with motorized vehicles alone.
  2. I compensate my carbon footprint of consumed electricity and business travel, when available.
  3. I act resource conscious. By this I mean, I use equipment until it does not fulfill its purpose any longer and not just when they are depreciated.
  4. I design efficient solutions not only good for performance, but also for lower energy consumption.
  5. I make environmentally cautious choices in all other aspects, e.g. when purchasing office supplies etc.

Conditions

When both you and me are interested in working together, I am flexible to adjust to your needs. The perspective I like to have in such a situation is: “What does it take to make this happen?”

  • Schedule
    • I will happily discuss short term, long term, part time or full time assignments. Just let me know how many hours you need.
  • Location
    • I operate primarily from my office near Oporto – Portugal and secondarily near Karlsruhe – Germany.
    • I am flexible and free to travel for temporary assignments on site.
  • Compensation
    • My expected compensation will reflect the value of the requested services.
    • Payment terms are adjustable under our mutual consent.
    • I would be very glad to receive your testimonial for my online presence.
  • Risk reversal
    • In a solution based contract you will only pay upon delivery.
    • In a service contract, I understand the risk of beginning a new relationship with a consultant and placing your trust in me. Thus, we can discuss options or your requirements to reduce your risk.
  • Relationship
    • I can operate all by myself or integrate myself into your team as an external consultant or in a well integrated employee-like fashion.