About
10+years experience in the Automotive industry, working for top innovative companies, taking own part in supporting and pushing innovation and continuous improvement.
Tothal Engineering is a top-notch consultancy run by myself Alex Toth, experienced working in all phases of the product life-cycle, and customise Systems and / or Requirements Engineering to best serve your business' specific needs. Qualifications include, but not limited to, IREB Certified Requirements Engineering Professional, INCOSE Certified as Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP), Project Management Certification. The only sure thing you must know is what you'll get: the highest level of quality in any of the services we deliver!
As with all complex technical projects I place great emphasis on capturing the end user requirements and engaging with stakeholders to ensure that I deliver a system that exceeds my customer’s expectations. I am also proficient at leading engineering teams producing all aspects of technical and project documentation including project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules and specifications.
I have a passion for systems engineering where I am able to apply my technical expertise and project management experience to deliver engineering solutions across the product development lifecycle on-time, under budget and to the highest quality.
My philosophy is we don't just write requirements but create and increase value by using structured systems engineering and project management methodologies. Strive for and get a better product by writing the right requirements and making the appropriate engineering choices. That means total project costs decrease and a robust product meeting real expectations (not just some written requirements).
Important is to know that this site has no official relation with any of the current or past companies I was working for, whatsoever.
All opinions, materials, methods or information presented here are belonging to Tothal and / or are available for reference under the public domain or in the specialised literature.
Systems Engineering
Is the art and science of developing an operable system capable of meeting requirements within often opposed constraints. Systems engineering is a holistic, integrative discipline, wh [..]
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
It’s no secret that poorly understood user requirements and uncontrolled scope leads to many project failures. Many organizations are improving the methods they use to gather, analyze, document, and manage their requirements. Project teams traditionally document their requirements in a structured requirements specification.
- Requirements Planning and Management
- Requirements Elicitation, Documentation and Validation
- Functional Analysis
- System Architecture Development
- Risk Analysis
- Impact Factors identification and optimal solution choosing
- Requirements Configuration and Change Management
- Full Traceability creation and management
- A common understanding establishing
- Structuring to Manage Complexity, improve design, reduce ambiguity, errors
Project Management
- Dr Martin Barnes, APM President 2003-2012.
All teams need a leader. Having accentuated experience in multi-discipline project technical leading, with involvement in industrialization launch, supplier and customer facing, Tothal has the experience to deliver a course of action that manages risk, time, cost and quality; the leadership to maintain complete control and transparency across the process, and the passion and enthusiasm to drive value at every turn, from project inception to closure.
- Project start-up
- Planning
- Cost control
- Change control
- Risk, interface and issue management
- Resource Scheduling
- Monitoring and Controlling
- Document management
- Stakeholder identification and management
SE in context of overall project management.
Project management can be thought of as having two major areas of emphasis, both of equal weight and importance. These areas are systems engineering and project control. Note that there are areas where the two cornerstones of project management overlap. In these areas, SE provides the technical aspects or inputs; whereas project control provides the programmatic, cost, and schedule inputs.