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Name David Wendorff
Email david@wndff.de
Summary Leverage AI for flexible automation in industrial manufacturing 🦾

Work

  • 2024.09 - present

    Hannover, Germany

    Postgrad Reasearch Assistant
    match - Institute of Assembly Technology and Robotics
    I am working as a research assistant in the team of Prof. Dr. Annika Raatz. My work focuses on the following topics:
    • Human-robot collaboration
    • 6D pose estimation for industrial use cases
    • Methods for intuitive robot programming
  • 2023.02 - 2024.08

    Hannover, Germany

    Student Assistant
    match - Institute of Assembly Technology and Robotics
    Complete revision of the course 'Simulation of Robotic Assembly Cells'. Creation of setups in KUKA.Sim 4.1 and Visual Components 4.8 and transfer to a real robot (KUKA KR6). Supervision and review of student reports over two semesters.
  • 2020.10 - 2021.09

    Hannover, Germany

    Student Assistant
    IFA - Institute for Production Systems and Logistics
    Support of Mr. Tim Kämpfer in the project 'Logistics-oriented Product Portfolio Evaluation' for the optimisation of lot sizes in cooperation with industrial partners using the software KNIME.
  • 2019.06 - 2020.10

    Hannover, Germany

    Working Student
    MTU Maintenance
    Supporting the Team of Digital Transformation Managers in the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul 4.0 Division of the company-wide Digital Transformation Program.
    • Data Science
    • Developing web-based protoypes
    • Flask, Plotly, Dash, SQL
  • 2014.06 - 2019.03

    Hannover, Germany

    Student Assistant
    match - Institute of Assembly Technology
    Development and supervision of the basic lecture 'Handling and Assembly Technologies' over several semesters. Construction of the processing cell for the practical course 'Robot Based Assembly Processes' consisting of a Siemens PLC, KUKA and ABB robots as well as various peripheral components.

Internships

  • 2022.06 - 2012.11

    Hannover, Germany

    Engineering Intern
    Continental
    Implementation of use cases for the Continental specific SCADA system within Tire Building for Maintenance and Engineering purposes.
    • Condition Monitoring
    • SCADA
    • Figma
  • 2016.09 - 2017.02

    Munich, Germany

    Engineering Intern
    BMW Group
    Creating process and assembly documentations for production partners in India and Brazil. Consolidating part lists from SAP data and different other data sources. Creating and maintaining the intranet page of the department.
    • Project Management
    • CAD/CAM
    • SAP

Education

  • 2019.10 - 2024.08

    Hannover, Germany

    Master of Science, Production and Logistics
    Leibniz University Hannover
    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
    • Specialisation in 'Technical Logistics and Supply Chain Management'
    • Student research project: Development of a User-friendly Interface Between Human and Machine using Augmented Reality
    • Master Thesis: 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects for AR-Based Programming by Demonstration with the HRC-Hub
  • 2013.10 - 2020.01

    Hannover, Germany

    Bachelor of Science, Production and Logistics
    Leibniz University Hannover
    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
    • Bachelor Thesis: Computer Generated Training Datasets as a Basis for Object Recognition with Artificial Neural Networks
    • Activities and societies: hatch, first semester tutor for the Production and Logistics program, tutor for the bachelor project autonomous LEGO robot

Certificates

Python (Basic)
HackerRank 2022-08-02
M001: MongoDB Basics
MongoDB University 2020-06-01

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Skills

Automation
KUKA KRL
ABB RAPID
Siemens TIA
Visual Components
CAD
3D printing
Programming
Python
Go
Linux
Git
Docker
Databases

Interests

Activities
Bouldering
Trekking (Scandinavia)
Traveling (SEA)
Science Fiction
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James S.A. Corey
William Gison
Danial Suarez