Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Muschert

Responsible for the worldwide sales organization distributed over locations in Germany, Switzerland, USA, Korea and China, restructuring of a sales organization from three business units into one global functional structure, continue to be responsible for the subsidiary in Stolberg as site manager

Return to Germany, responsible for the German site of the COMET AG (HQ in Switzerland), making RF power generators for plasma applications for the markets: Semiconductor, Flat Panel Display, LED, Laser and Medical (MRI), site run as business unit including M&S, engineering and manufacturing

Foundation of another daughter company (100% owned by Schneider Asia Pacific), establish a fully functional office with local staff to further grow the business in mainland China.

Expatriation to China, register a daughter company in Hong Kong (100% owned by Jos. Schneider), establish a sales structure for the Schneider Group to cover entire Asia, generate growth especially in Taiwan and Singapore with the help of a Taiwan local sales manager working from a Taiwan home office. Continue to manage the business in Korea and Japan by myself.

responsible for the implementation of a strategic marketing process and the development of business in new market segments as well as in new regional markets for optical and opto-mechanical components for machine vision, generation and implementation of business plans including new products and solutions, implementation and development of international sales channels particularly the development of the markets in Asia and Japan

Business segment program manager for the market segment ‚Optical Amplifier Test’ Worldwide marketing responsibility for this segment including the generation and implementation of business plans for this segment; coordination of the product managers and application engineers to generate complete solution for the application segment

Field sales engineer for optics & opto-mechanics, vibration isolation, test instrumentation for photonics, motion control components as well as custom specific systems for photonics - test & packaging as well as in positioning & alignment to industrial customers as well as to universities and research centers in the south of Germany and in Austria