JB Enterprises - Johan Bezem

Interim Management & Consulting

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Johan Bezem

Marienst. 7 / 35606 Solms / Germany / +49 172 5463210 / administration@bezem.de

October 2024 – today: Toshiba Railway Europe GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany – Embedded software developer
Responsible for design and development of software modules for a new locomotive, initially as a software project manager, later asked to take responsibility for the area of functional safety.

September 2022 – June 2024: ARRI AG, Munich, Germany – Embedded software developer, DevOps engineer.
Responsible for design, enhancement and operation of the development infrastructure for around 200 engineers in software and FPGA development, testing and production.

As integrator responsible for the "Mini LF" software releases, version 7.3 delivered successfully in october 2023.
As integrator responsible for the "ALEXA 35" software releases, version 1.3.0 delivered successfully in july 2024.
Created and documented a series of development scripts, continuously in use by almost all developers.
Worked up and documented all integration steps in full detail, thereby reducing the training time for my successor to 2 hours.

September 2020 – September 2022: ARRI AG, Munich, Germany – Embedded software developer.
Responsible for development and enhancement of software modules for a new generation of professional film cameras, as well as for the maintenance of existing camera software releases.

As integrator responsible for the "Mini LF SUP 7.0" software release, delivered successfully in Q2 2021.
Development of a virtual web client to monitor the built-in web server.
Development of a memory supervision process.

November 2017 – June 2020: Valeo peiker Telematics GmbH, Friedrichsdorf, Germany – Technical Project Manager Software.
Responsible for telematics projects for various automobile manufacturers as software project manager leading a global team with up to eight locations, three continents.

Productive from day one; contributed to a successful RFQ resulting in a nomination
Coordinated development between Germany and China to a successful SOP for a Chinese OEM
Taken over an ailing project for a Japanese OEM, on explicit request by my customer

January 2011 – October 2017: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany – Embedded Developer, Trainer, Coach, Project Manager Software.
Initially as developer, later also as software project leader, responsible for the software for switches' modules for various German, French, Swedish and Chinese automobile companies. Additionally, active on customer request as trainer for team members in all associated development centers.

Created an ISO-26262 CPU self-test for multiple processor types in assembler
Within 6 weeks productively taken over the assignments from a colleague who already left the company
Taken over two parallel projects near SOP and developed to a successful production start
Brought three projects to successful SOPs as software project manager

July 2010 – December 2010: Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe, Langen, Germany – Software Manager Integration and Release Management.

Created, discussed and agreed an integration and release concept with more than 10 contributing companies

January 2009 – December 2010: B.Braun Avitum AG, Melsungen, Germany – Embedded Software Architect.

Developed and successfully deployed a scenario for migration from CVS to SVN

May 2008 – December 2008: Delphi Deutschland GmbH, Wiehl, Germany – Software Project Manager and Embedded Software Architect.

December 2006 – April 2008: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany – Software Project Manager

May 2006 – January 2007: Siemens VDO, Wetzlar, Germany – Embedded Software Architect, Team Leader

February 2005 – April 2006: Delphi-megamos GmbH, Wiehl, Germany – Software Quality Assurance and Embedded Software Architect.

April 2004 – January 2005: Siemens AG, Vienna, Austria – Embedded Software Configuration Manager.

January 2004 – March 2004: IBM AG, Mainz, Germany – Embedded Software Developer

October 2003 – December 2003: BMW AG, München, Germany – Process Analyst.

June 2003 – September 2003: Siemens AG, Regensburg, Germany – Team Leader Software Integration.

January 2000 – May 2003: CSK Software AG, Frankfurt, Germany – Operations Manager, refer to my CV.

August 1999 – December 1999: CSK Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany – Project Manager.

May 1999 – July 1999: BancTec GmbH, Langen, Germany – Database Developer

March 1998 – April 1999: Mannesmann VDO AG, Wetzlar, Germany – Requirements Manager.

May 1997 – February 1998: TMS GmbH, Hildesheim, Germany – Network Engineer.

June 1990 – April 1997: Blaupunkt GmbH, Hildesheim, Germany – Developer, Team Leader, Project Manager.

Developed a preemptive, real-time operating system, and deployed it in three generations of infotainment systems

Technical University Eindhoven, Diploma: Engineer EE, comparable to MSc, 1988.

Latest update: 2025-01-29.