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Curriculum Vitae
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Born October 1st 1952, married, 3 children
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Education
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1959 - 1963
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Primary School in Vaihingen/Enz
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1963 - 1971
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Friedrich-Abel-Gymnasium in Vaihingen/Enz
Final qualification: Abitur
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1971 - 1972
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Military Service
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1972 - 1977
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Study of metallurgy at the University of Stuttgart
Degree: Diplom-Ingenieur (Metallkunde)
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1977 - 1980
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Postgradual thesis at the University of Stuttgart
Degree: Doctor of natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) (PhD)
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1977
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During postgraduate studies: 1-year attendance as visiting student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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On-the-job training and work practice
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Management of a 6-day seminar on structural ceramics at the Akademika Sinica in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China
Participation in the following internal and external seminars:
- Vacuum Technology (VDI Bildungswerk)
- Electrostatic Discharge ESD (Technische Akademie Esslingen)
- Refa basic course (REFA Verband) (Volkshochschule Freiburg)
- 6 day seminar on structural ceramics at the Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, PR China.
- Accounting (Volkshochschule Freiburg)
- Strategy and situation analysis (Strategic Management and Marketing Consulting GmbH)
- Auditing techniques (FMTÜV)
- Data processing with Open Access II (Volkshochschule Freiburg)
- Data processing with Windows Access (Eloquia Sprach & Computer Schule GmbH)
- Engineer responsible for test and measuring equipment: monitoring, planning, testing, documenting.
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Professional career
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1979 - 1981
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Max-Planck-Institut for Metallurgical Research in Stuttgart
Scientific Assistant (limited contract)
- Planning, conducting and documenting various public-funded research projects on optimisation of high-temperature ceramic materials.
- Supervisor for 3 permanent employees, responsibility for visiting scientists, postgraduates and undergraduates.
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1981 - 1983
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Aluminiumhütte Rheinfelden (Alusuisse)
Manager of Quality Assurance (18 employees)
- Responsible for casting and wrought ingot alloy production and a newly constructed (continuous-casting) foundry
- Establishment and implementation of a quality-assurance system for the new foundry.
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1983 - 1987
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Philips Electronics, Passive Components Division
Scientific assistant in the electro-ceramics group at the Philips Research Lab. in Aachen
- Development of ceramic multilayer capacitors with non-precious metal electrodes
- Selection of the ceramic material and definition of the manufacturing conditions on laboratory scale
10/84 - 05/86 Collaboration in a development team at Mepco-Centralab (Philips North America), Los Angeles, USA
- Implementation of above-mentioned findings on industrial scale.
06/86-06/87 Return to the Research Lab at Aachen and continuation of work as scientific assistant.
- Simulation: Definition of the maximal volume capacitance for optimisation of the dielectric ceramic layer thickness for a given rated voltage
07/87 - 12/87 Scientific Assistant at Elcoma, Philips BV, Eindhoven
- Study: Influence of processing methods on the dielectric ceramic-layer thickness in ceramic multilayer capacitors
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1988-1995
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Renker GmbH & Co KG, Freiburg
Manager R&D and Quality management with power of attorney (8 employees), since 05/95 also Quality Engineer.
- Initiation, planning, execution and assessment of development project and work on product modification for large-surface coating of flexible materials such as film, paper, fabric and fleece by physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating and lamination methods
- Monitoring of production in accordance with quality standards
- Definition of quality criteria
- Project management: creation and organisation of a quality management system to DIN ISO 9001 and its certification by the RWTÜV.
- Maintenance of QM system (audits, corrective and preventive measures, training)
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Since summer 96
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- Self employed as an engineering consultant for material technology, quality and environmental management
- Foundation of engineering consultancy (see project list)
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Specific Knowledge
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Languages
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- English fluent in speech and writing
- French and Dutch: good basic knowledge
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Computing
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- Good user knowledge of standard office software and data bases
- Knowledge of programming in Fortran
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Other
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- Various patents and patent applications
- Numerous publications in the scientific and technological fields studied.
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Memberships
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- VDI (Association of German Engineers),
- DGM (German Association for Materials Science),
- Member of the comitee on thin films,
- Member of the TÜV
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Reviewer
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- Honorary collaboration in the Review Commitee for Phase Diagrams of the NIST (National Bureau of Standards and Technology), Washington DC
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