Michael Schöffler

Available as consultant
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Consultant and System Architect for Industrial Internet of Things
Consultant and System Architect with focus on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Education background in computer science (BSc, MSc) and electrical engineering (PhD). Long experience with programming languages, audio digital signal processing, real-time applications, connected manufacturing, and software architecture.

Experience

AB Tetra Pak
Lead Analyst
Nov 2022 - Oct 2024
Lund, Sweden
Full time
- IT Service Architecture for Tetra Pak's Data Integration Platform (DIP)

Expertise areas: system & software architecture, packaging machinery (prepress, printing, lamination, coating, slicing, spoolers), Open Source Software Compliance
Methods: Requirements analysis & engineering, architectural fits, Threat & Risk analysis, SCRUM, Software architecture workshops
Technologies: arc42, AMQP, Azure Enterprise Scale, Azure IoT Edge, Azure DevOps, C# .NET Core, Git, EUROMAP, MQTT, OPC UA, RabbitMQ, Sparkplug B, Unified Namespace
.NET
Open Source
Azure
Workshop
Compliance
RabbitMQ
Architecture
MQTT
UNS
Bosch Rexroth AG
System Architect for Connected Assembly and Logistics
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
Stuttgart, Germany
Full time
- Software architecture coordination at business unit "Assembly Technology"
- Cross-departmental consulting and support for Software-related topics (Open Source Software, IT-Security, product development process, product quality,...)
- Innovation & advanced development of business unit SW portfolio
- Coordination of internal and external SW collaboration activities
- Project lead

Expertise areas: industrial domain, joining and tightening, mobile industrial robots (AGV/AMR), software architecture, system architecture, real-time, transfer systems, Software security, Open Source Software Compliance
Methods: ATAM, requirements engineering, SCRUM, software architecture workshops
Technologies: Angular2+, arc42, Azure DevOps, C/C++, C# .NET Core, ctrlX Automation, Git, Java, Python, TypeScript
.NET
Java
C++
Scrum
c/c++
Git
Product Development
Python
System Architecture
Open Source
Robert Bosch GmbH
Research Engineer
Mar 2016 - Jun 2019
Renningen, Stuttgart
Full time
- Research in the areas Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Software-defined Factory
- Concept, design and implementation of cyber physical systems to increase ramp up times, flexibility and performance of industrial applications
- Participation in the public-funded projects BaSys 4.0 (BMBF) and ReCaM (EU)
- Committer/Contributor of the open source project Eclipse BaSyx
- Participation in several Industry 4.0 activities at VDMA, VDI and Plattform I4.0, especially on the topic "Asset Administration Shell"

Expertise areas: cyber physical systems, IIoT, manufacturing, process automation, real-time, robotics
Methods: requirements engineering, design of experiments, Google Ventures Design Sprint, project management, research, SCRUM, software architecture workshops, user studies
Technologies: Angular2+, Asset Administration Shell, BPMN, C/C++, C# .NET Core, EtherCAT, Java, oneM2M, OPC UA, Python, SERCOS, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)
.NET
Java
C++
Implementation
Project Management
Python
Networking
Industry 4.0
Research
International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
PhD Student
Dec 2011 - Feb 2016
Erlangen, Germany
Full time
- Dissertation "Overall Listening Experience — A New Approach to Subjective Evaluation of Audio"
- Design, implementation and result analysis of listening tests and experiments focusing on auditory perception
- Realization and pushing of novel listening experiment methods, in particular web-based and Virtual Reality-based listening experiments
- Implementations of prediction algorithms for audio quality

Expertise areas: auditory perception, digital signal processing, machine learning, quality perception, research, Virtual Reality, web technologies
Methods: academic writing, hypothesis testing, listening tests, Design of Experiments
Technologies: C/C++, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, JQuery Mobile, JQuery UI, Keras, Matlab, Python, UML
Java
C++
jQuery
c/c++
HTML5
Implementation
Processing
Python
UML
MATLAB

References

Education & certificates

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
PhD / Dr.-Ing. (Electrical Engineering)
2017
Perceptual Audio Coding
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Master of Science (Computer Science)
2011
Computer Science
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
2009
Computer Science

Languages

English
German
Swedish

Preferences

Full time
Remote work
On site work
Right now
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
Austria
Switzerland
1,250 SEK/h