Russell Mohr

• Standardization of the state-of-the-art for automated driving systems, safety in AI, functional safety and safety of connected vehicles
• Leading and coordinating standardization activities and providing consultation, training and guidance to product development engineering teams for compliance to safety and AV standards
• Leading compliance with ISO/PAS 8800 for Qualcomm
• Chair of US Technical Advisory Group (USTAG) for ISO TC 22/SC 32/WG14 (Safety and AI)- ISO/PAS 8800
• Led Clause 12 (V&V) and Clause 13 (Safety analysis) of ISO/PAS 8800
• US expert representative to ISO for ISO TC 22/SC 32/WG13 (Safety for driving automation systems) working on ISO TS 5083
• US representative in part groups 2 and 8 for ISO TC 22/SC 32/WG 8 working on ISO 26262-3rd edition
• Member of SAE On-road Automated Driving (ORAD) Technical Committee
• Member of SAE Ground Vehicle AI Technical Committee
• Representing Qualcomm in IEEE Automated Vehicles Decision Making WG

Led and established functional safety processes for FLIR to develop the industry's first safe thermal camera for ADAS and AD applications

• Defined safety strategies for FLIR's automotive projects and established functional safety processes according to ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
• Drove and managed functional safety engineering activities for systems, software and hardware
• Led the communication with customers and suppliers on safety development
• Collaborated with different teams, performed gap analysis and provided insight on system, software and hardware safety designs

Led safety-related activities (FuSa and SOTIF) for Samsung ADAS/AD projects at Samsung Smart Machines (disbanded) to ensure compliance of the projects with safety standards. These activities included:

• Defining safety strategies, and developing global safety processes to comply with A-SPICE, ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
• Management of functional safety (creating/reviewing safety plans, implementing and overseeing functional safety processes, training engineers and managers working on safety related items, promoting safety culture, etc.)
• Supervising and supporting functional safety engineering (deriving safety requirements and SW architecture with safety mechanisms for ADAS framework middleware consistent with system architecture and Adaptive AUTOSAR platform, performing safety analysis, and defining methods for software verification and testing to ensure safety)
• Tool classification for all SW tools developed by Samsung for ADAS/AD applications
• Supporting system safety engineering teams (reviewing HARA, system- level safety analysis, system safety requirement and system safety architecture design)

Led or supported software and system safety activities for autonomous vehicle software. These activities addressed FuSa and SOTIF and covered all phases of AV application software (perception, planning, control). Activities included:

• Establishing software safety processes consistent with ISO 26262 and SOTIF and meeting needs of NVIDIA agile software development
• Software library qualification for AV software
• Software tool classification and qualification based on ISO 26262 for all in-house and third-party tools
• Supporting software teams with their safety related challenges/ issues in requirement development, software architecture design, fault analysis, software verification and validation, tool evaluation/selection, etc;
• Failure analysis (FTA, DFA, FMEA) for AV software
• Involved and supported hazard analysis, functional and technical safety concept development, safety monitor development, safety process execution, work product reviews, and preparation for assessment

Led functional safety activities in Karma Automotive Powertrain to make the ongoing and future Karma projects compliant with ISO 26262 safety standard. Activities included:

• Management of functional safety (creating safety plans, training, establishing functional safety processes, promoting safety culture)
• Development of safety analysis such as HARAs, FTAs and DFMEAs
• Development of safety requirements and fault mitigation strategies
• Communicating safety requirements and mitigation strategies to suppliers and in-house teams, and reviewing and approving safety deliverables such as hardware and software safety requirements and designs;
• Development of DIAs with suppliers
• Reviewing suppliers' deliverable including their FMEAs, FMEDAs and FTAs
• Preparing safety cases for functional safety audit and assessment

Led the integration and release of Chassis Controller Module (CCM) global programs at GM. More specifically:

• Led Chassis Controller ECU programs to ensure all HW and SW requirements and deliverables are met on-time with high quality, and tracked and reported projects progress
• Gained practical knowledge of safety critical ECU (ASIL D) design (HW/SW), cyber security in ECUs, redundancy requirements, test and verification, and software roll-out
• Led resolution of vehicle, plant or customer issues relating to Chassis Controller release
• Prepared contingency plans and tracked and reported resolution progress
• Led engineering/technical support for part release, pre-production builds and product launch
• Chaired Chassis Controller Execution Team meetings and mentored other team members
• Supported engineering manager in defining, and prioritizing allocated resources to complete tasks

Led functional safety activities in the Electrified Powertrain of FCA

• Worked on developing functional safety processes consistent with ISO 26262
• Led a team of engineers to perform functional safety activities according to FCA functional safety process for ongoing/ future projects
• Led implementation of functional safety requirements for in-house developed software
• Derived top-level safety requirements and technical safety requirements
• Designed functional safety architecture for hybrid controller/ motor controller board of the future generation PHEV and EV projects
• Led development of safety case for on-going projects
• Led resolution of safety related issues reported in development, in plant or in field
• Designed and implemented functional safety algorithms for Fiat 500 BEV based on VDA EGAS three-level monitoring concept
• Designed and developed system remedial action (mitigation strategy) algorithms for Fiat 500 BEV
• Experienced in DOORS and requirement development, and FTA and DFMEA
• Experienced in V&V, calibration, testing, data acquisition and analysis