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Learning Hub Webinars Holistic Engineering Management in Electronic Design

Holistic Engineering Management in Electronic Design

You Own the Whole Process. Your Tools Show Only Part of It.

Requirements are defined in spreadsheets and documents. Design happens in one tool, while reviews happen in email and meetings. External consultants, custom IC partners, mechanical engineers, and procurement stay aligned through exports and file transfers.

When something fails in the field, the answers are scattered. The engineer who knew them may have already moved on.

You carry the risk for delivery and quality, but you cannot always see where the process stands.

What This Webinar Explores

How Electronics Teams Manage the Full Development Lifecycle in One Workspace

In this session, Olaf Zinke follows a product development from its first requirement through to field returns. We look at the full development process from an engineering leader's point of view, and show where structure and shared visibility change the outcome.

We will walk through:

  • Capturing customer requirements, then linking them to design blocks and team members so nothing is missed at kickoff

  • Bringing external consultants and custom IC partners into the work with controlled access that protects your IP

  • Making design reviews and process steps repeatable and visible with prebuilt and configurable workflows

  • Catching electrical, mechanical, and supply chain issues during co-design, before they become re-spins

  • Using complete design history to speed up testing, certification, and field-return investigations, even after key people leave

Who Should Attend

This session is for engineering managers, VPs of engineering, and design leads who are accountable for delivery, quality, and risk across an electronics development team.

PCB designers, mechanical engineers, procurement specialists, and manufacturing stakeholders will also see where their work connects to the wider process.

If your team already designs in Altium Designer, you will see how Altium Agile Teams adds structure, shared visibility, and access control across the full development process.

Streamlining Team Collaboration

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Holistic Engineering Management in Electronic Design

Created: June 30, 2026
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See how engineering leaders gain the visibility and control to deliver on time, with less risk
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  • Hosted by Olaf Zinke - Senior Product Marketing Manager
    00:52:37 • Jul 8, 2026
    Hosted by Olaf Zinke - Senior Product Marketing Manager
    00:52:37 • Jul 8, 2026

    See how engineering leaders gain the visibility and control to deliver on time, with less risk

  • Présenté par Majdi Thouabtia - Field Application Engineer
    00:35:13 • Jul 16, 2026
    Présenté par Majdi Thouabtia - Field Application Engineer
    00:35:13 • Jul 16, 2026

    Découvrez comment les leaders en ingénierie gagnent en visibilité et en maîtrise pour respecter les délais, tout en limitant les risques

  • Präsentiert von Martin Malenica - Field Application Engineer
    00:32:05 • Jul 16, 2026
    Präsentiert von Martin Malenica - Field Application Engineer
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    Erfahren Sie, wie Engineering-Manager die nötige Transparenz und Kontrolle erlangen, um Projekte termingerecht und mit geringerem Risiko abzuschließen

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    Presentato da Francesco Cecchetti - Field Application Engineer
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    Presentado por Natalia Coria Perez - Field Application Engineer
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You Own the Whole Process. Your Tools Show Only Part of It.

Requirements are defined in spreadsheets and documents. Design happens in one tool, while reviews happen in email and meetings. External consultants, custom IC partners, mechanical engineers, and procurement stay aligned through exports and file transfers.

When something fails in the field, the answers are scattered. The engineer who knew them may have already moved on.

You carry the risk for delivery and quality, but you cannot always see where the process stands.

What This Webinar Explores

How Electronics Teams Manage the Full Development Lifecycle in One Workspace

In this session, Olaf Zinke follows a product development from its first requirement through to field returns. We look at the full development process from an engineering leader's point of view, and show where structure and shared visibility change the outcome.

We will walk through:

  • Capturing customer requirements, then linking them to design blocks and team members so nothing is missed at kickoff

  • Bringing external consultants and custom IC partners into the work with controlled access that protects your IP

  • Making design reviews and process steps repeatable and visible with prebuilt and configurable workflows

  • Catching electrical, mechanical, and supply chain issues during co-design, before they become re-spins

  • Using complete design history to speed up testing, certification, and field-return investigations, even after key people leave

Who Should Attend

This session is for engineering managers, VPs of engineering, and design leads who are accountable for delivery, quality, and risk across an electronics development team.

PCB designers, mechanical engineers, procurement specialists, and manufacturing stakeholders will also see where their work connects to the wider process.

If your team already designs in Altium Designer, you will see how Altium Agile Teams adds structure, shared visibility, and access control across the full development process.

Author

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Olaf Zinke is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Altium, where he focuses on tools and workflows for managing the electronic product development process. He brings more than 30 years of experience across the electronics industry, beginning as an IC design engineer developing mixed-signal automotive chips, then moving into electronic design automation (EDA) as a specialist in analog/mixed-signal verification, where he helped architect Cadence's Virtuoso AMS Designer simulator and contributed to the Verilog-AMS language. Over his career, he has held engineering, product marketing, and technical sales roles at Cadence, Synopsys, ON Semiconductor, and Vishay across North America and Europe. Olaf is the author of The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS (Springer) and holds nine patents. Having worked every stage of product development, from circuit design and verification to marketing and customer engagement, he offers a uniquely holistic perspective on the challenges engineering managers face today.

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Majdi Thouabtia’s background is in electrical engineering, with several years of experience in hardware development and technical project management. He has worked across the full hardware lifecycle, from EMC-compliant circuit design and PCB layout to prototyping, testing, and production. Throughout my career, Altium Designer has been a key tool in his daily work, so he is especially proud to now be part of the team behind it.

Before joining Altium, he contributed to projects in the EV charging and IoT sectors, leading development efforts and collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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Martin Malenica has a masters in electronic and computer engineering at the University of Zagreb. His previous experience consists of multiple embedded systems positions at robotics start-ups (Gideon with USD 35m in Seed and Series-A funding) and SMEs. His engineering strengths lie in system architecture, PCB design and embedded programming. Aside from engineering, Martin has spent the last 1.5 years working at a leading European management consulting firm, where he focused on strategies to support large OEMs and Tier-1s regarding the current semiconductor shortage across the whole EMEA region. Martin has practical experience within AD, but also a good understanding of competitor tools, especially on the procurement and supply chain side, like Everstream, Resilinc, Silicon Expert, Z2Data etc. Martin Joined Altium in 2023 as part of the Technical Sales team in Germany.
 

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Francesco holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from EPFL, Switzerland. He is currently part of the Field Applications Engineering team at Altium. During his studies, his primary focus was on bioelectronics and the microfabrication of biomedical implants. After graduating, Francesco transitioned into a technical sales role with a global supplier and manufacturer of custom magnetics, where he was responsible for both technical and sales discussions, serving as the liaison between design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and customers.

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Natalia holds a Master’s in Electronic Design and brings nearly 15 years of experience in hardware design, testing, and field applications engineering. Her expertise includes high-level hardware architecture, schematic capture, board bring-up, and debugging. Comfortable in the lab and in customer-facing roles, Natalia has spent the last three years providing technical guidance in PCB and 3D design for Additive Manufactured Electronics (AME). Her role includes pre and post sales support, along with onboarding training for new users.

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