Islam Rashwan

• Led high-severity incidents and responses during major project outages, quickly assessing customer pain points, operational impact, and project criticality, particularly in SOP-phase and customer-critical programs (e.g., Daimler Truck, HELLA, Aptiv).
• Established an incident response plan, defining immediate actions, dependencies, and required resources.
• Acted as the single point of command during escalations, coordinating engineers across multiple domains (SW Integration, Requirements, Test, Customer Support).
• Created stakeholder maps, clarified communication paths, and implemented RASCI to structure accountability across teams.
• Coordinated daily task lists, assigned responsibilities, and ensured alignment between engineering, support, and management.
• Protected engineering teams from external noise/stress and delivered transparent updates to stakeholders and leadership until resolution and recovery.

• Created a new service "Software" from concept to commercial product, driving its full lifecycle.
• Identified target customers, analyzed sales orders, and mapped gaps to refine the product vision.
• Consolidated insights into a cohesive product concept and value proposition.
• Defined end-to-end building blocks for requirements, development, testing, and commercial strategy.
• Built a detailed Gantt timeline (Microsoft Project) and managed execution via JIRA EPICs across Kanban workflows.
• Initiated and led a joint collaboration with Mega Software Center for multiple car brands, pitching the concept via PoC to establish a strategic partnership.
• Engaged major car manufacturers to validate the concept, complete business-case elements, and secure recommendations.
• Used SharePoint as a centralized, version-controlled repository to document and track project progress.

Project Manager / Crisis Delivery Lead (2024–Current)
Aptiv Program:

• Managed a high-stakes customer program with full responsibility for planning, risk, budget, and delivery.
• Coordinated cross-functional engineering teams and aligned internal and external stakeholders.

HELLA Program:

• Took over a critical SOP-phase project under tight deadlines.
• Led root cause analysis, resolved issues, and served as primary customer interface.

Mercedes-Benz / Kostal Bulgaria Auto – Project Manager (2023–2024)

• Ensured software compatibility across multiple stacks.
• Steered distributed development teams, tracked milestones, removed blockers, and implemented corrective actions.

Mercedes-Benz – Project Lead (2022–2023)

• Acted as primary customer interface, created project plans, monitored execution, and handled unplanned demands using Agile methodologies.

AUTOSAR Trainer (2017–2021)

• Delivered MSR4 AUTOSAR fundamentals training to engineers and customers.
• Developed interactive training methods, mentored new trainers, and supported technical and delivery skills.

Daimler Security Development/Integration

• AUTOSAR Crypto Stack configuration.

Vector Autosar Coach:

• Manage Customer Needs/Requests [Kickoff meeting].
• Coach customer technically in area of Autosar4 to get project best example.

Daimler Battery Management Project:

• Integrated SWCs, Arxmls using Continues Integration concept “CI”.

Bosch/Gateway Project:

• Developed three Component for Dynamic Routing Gateway ECU.
• Defined feature test concept.
• Monitored and maintain quality standards.

BMW Electric Vehicle Project:

• Assigned to be responsible for safety Feature.
• Designed and develop CDD in C Programming Language and integrated it in MSR4 BSW Package.

BMW Automotive OTA Project:

• Did code review for complete project SWCs and Cdds.
• Designed each component on Enterprise Architect (EA).

Core Integration Competencies:
AUTOSAR Classic stack, SWC integration, ARXML handling, CI pipelines, architecture validation, security stack configuration, customer coaching on integration topics.

Valeo Egypt – Software Developer Valeo Egypt – Senior Software Developer

• Technically led the Jaguar Semi Autonomous Driving Project.
• Implemented and tested embedded software features.

Core Developer Skills Highlighted:
C programming, embedded systems, AUTOSAR basics, versioning, test/report creation, ADAS development, sensor integration, protocol stack development.

• Developed features for the LTE UE protocol stack with a focus on cell search algorithms using C language.