Mumin Gulmez

• Leading Midea’s European Refrigerator R&D organization and serving as the Director of the Global Built-in Technology Competence Center

• Driving global built-in strategy, technology roadmap, and design standards for EU, US, and APAC markets

• Managing €10M+ R&D budget and multi-year platform roadmap.

• Steering the Küppersbusch, Teka, and Midea product family and coordinating the cross-brand Built-in Steering Committee

• Managing Europe–China product development alignment, and accelerating the global built-in strategy

• Establishing new BI modules to be used across global platforms

• Leading a multi-national engineering team and building new capabilities in BI product planning, module innovation, and user-centric design

• Led the European R&D team for refrigerator development, with a focus on built-in platforms and EU-market adaptation

• Coordinated cross-regional development projects with China headquarters and global platform teams

• Defined technical solutions, certification strategy, and product optimization for the European market

• Contributed to the setup of MERC’s engineering processes, lab, and early competence center structure

• Leading a cross-functional team as Development Lead for a new platform of Built-In SBS Refrigerator, which sells in the US and EU market

• Leads the detailed design and development activities for a project of varying scope (e.g., detailed needs analysis, development, identification of appropriate design and delivery platform, timing, facilitator profile, budget, etc.)

• Supports the Sr. Manager, Senior Performance Solutions Lead, Audit in identifying and engaging required resources

• Provides background and contextual information for the assigned project team

• Ensures the timely and appropriate engagement throughout the end-to-end design and development cycle

• Leads the project team in identifying the most appropriate modality

• Assume the Project Manager role for smaller projects to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and meet the business needs

• Ensures alignment with key stakeholders and ensures compliance with Global design and development architecture and standards as well as the measurement requirements and takes corrective action as necessary

• Improvements in refrigeration and airflow system

• Development of new features and functionalities

• Prepare experiment set up, plan a test plan, execute the test plan, evaluate the test results, and report with the required conformity documentation

• Performing the certification processes according to the US, EU, AU, and other countries' standards

• Ratio, quality improvement, energy optimization, and benchmarking activities

• Adaptation products to new requirements of market demands, regulations, and BSH internal rules

• Support to the project teams regarding lab and certification relevant activities, as a project team member

• Responsible for the project of remote access vending appliance with clouds as a sub-leader

• Design and preparation of the prototype of the appliance

• Analysis of problems in fluid mechanics, mixing, and cooling

• Automate and improve existing appliances

• Product concept, prepare, schematic and maintain BOM

• Patent and legal applications

• Advertising and marketing solutions for companies

• Website design and small business inventory management software

• Mobile applications and security system installation