Daniel Marin

Background

About Daniel Marin

Senior IT manager with 15+ years in global automotive and industrial environments.Led the technology carve-out of Phinia from BorgWarner, 215 applications, four data centers, two cloud providers, separated from the parent ecosystem in two quarters with no production impact and no loss of critical team members through 18 months of transition.Currently responsible for manufacturing, aftermarket, and quality IT at Phinia across 30+ plants on four continents. Run the Industry 4.0 Steering Committee and own the carbon reporting tools tracking power, gas, and water across the global plant network.What I've actually built and shipped:· The IT backbone of a newly independent $4B company — operating model, ESB strategy, data strategy, IT/OT convergence roadmap — in two quarters· A real-time production data platform on MQTT, NiFi, and Kafka feeding OEE, FTPR, and FTQ at 15-minute intervals across four continents· An Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration of the real-time production system — 55TB, 69 billion records, 8 sites — that ended vendor lock-in and saved six figures EUR per year in licensing· A predictive warning system that cut unplanned downtime 7% across the global plant network· Carbon reporting tools at 30 plants so emissions could be measured rather than estimated· UiPath RPA across 18 customer portals and 200+ specs covering 12 plants — engineer-hours per year automated· Multi-million EUR annualized savings from vendor renegotiations after several tried to reset us to parent-company rates post-spin-offThe work I'm proudest of isn't on this list: 22 engineers I mentored from intern through Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Principal Engineer, Product Owner, and BRM over six years — with no notable attrition in a competitive Bucharest talent market.Executive education at Oxford, MIT, Columbia, and Dartmouth. Executive MBA in progress (ROCA / UQAM, AMBA-accredited).