Matthias Raunhardt

- Leading globally distributed and cross department teams with an extended team size of >50 employees - Establish business plans and technology roadmaps together with product and senior management - Define, measure and report KPIs for projects, enabling teams and functions to measure and improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness - Leading strategic project to implement IoT into our products - Leading supply chain project for outsourcing and improve manufacturing and logistics efficiency

- Led cross-functional, multinational teams of >20 members and 5 subcontracted companies - Executed risk analysis and implemented lessons learnt for risk mitigation and process optimization - Performed technology management protecting company IP - Collaborated with marketing & sales for acquisition of new projects Results: Successful delivery of the first cutting edge terminals for the newest generation of communication satellites, and acquisition of a new strategic project for telecommunication.

- Managed and led seminal technology development project - Supported sales department for project proposal and acquisitions - Headed the development and production of optoelectronic and -mechanic systems for high-tech industry - Supervised specialists for assembly, integration, testing of complex systems Results: Successful project closure of a novel high-power laser diode and successful completion of the concept phase of an innovative communication module.

• Developed and realized of a novel laser system and vacuum spectrometer for high-resolution spectroscopy and mass spectrometry of gas samples • Tutor for the lecture “Introduction to Statistics and Analysis of Experimental Data”, as well as coaching of students • Elaborated numerical simulation models and analysis of experimental spectra Results: This worldwide unique laser spectrometer allowed for the first time investigations on the structure and dynamics of Helium dimer, Ammonia.

Developed and documented a novel design for thermo-optical switches in thin polymer films as well as elaboration of a test station for whose characterization.

exchange studies at: - UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles - CBS - Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen - Fudan University, Shanghai - FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração, Sao Paulo Awarded with Cum Laude honours for exceptional performance.

Experimental Physics, Photonics, Electronics