Urs Polin

Licensed for ARB and VRB

Early retirement as a consequence of a covid pandemic related lay-off by the previous employer

Employed as Principal Engineer at Schindler Elevator Ltd., division Corporate Research & Development, dept. Drives, CH-6030 Ebikon http://www.schindler.com/com/internet/en/home.html http://www.schindler.com/com/internet/en/about-schindler.html priorities (abbr.): - design of drives (concepts, studies, design; presently on PTC Creo3) - supervision of prototype construction & testing - design and component industrialisation up to production readiness - product maintenance

employed as chief engineer at Buck Materials Handling Equipment Co. Ltd., CH-6343 Rotkreuz priorities: - technical expert (senior tech. staff member) - technical sales support, worldwide - project management - negotiating with internal and external customers/suppliers/partners - mechanical engineering, design, calculations (Autodesk Inventor 3D-CAD) - electrical hardware engg., control logic interfaces - documentation - quality control - world wide commissioning, customer training

employed as design engineer and project manager at Digitron Ltd., CH-6010 Kriens (ex Translift), priorities: - technical sales support, worldwide - mechanical engineering, design, calculations - project management - negotiating with internal and external customers/suppliers/partners - responsible for control logic interfaces - documentation - world wide commissioning

education of "mechanical design, basics" at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in CH-Horw for 6 winter terms (evening classes from 88/89 until 93/94)

short-term employment at Manitec AG, CH-6032 Emmen. priorities: - mechanical engineering

employed as mechanical engineer (internal position: assistant to the chief engineer) at the dept. for gondolas & chair lifts at Garaventa AG, CH-6410 Goldau, http://www.garaventa.com/ priorities: - mechanical engineering, design - calculations, intermediary with notified bodies - commissioning, mostly in deepest winter environments

employed as project manager, design & commissioning engineer at Bell Engineering Co. Ltd., dept. fibre cement technology, CH-6010 Kriens, today: http://www.fcmbell.ch/ priorities: - project management - mechanical engineering, design - world wide commissioning

employed as assistant engineer at the building technology departement of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in CH-Horw today: https://www.hslu.ch/ priorities: - supervising student essays at the college's laborotries - measurement and test engineering - assistant for industrial tests

employed as mechanical engineer at the workshops of the Romney, Hythe and Dimchurch Railway in New Romney, Kent, England, www.rhdr.org.uk (2 ½ months English language school in-between) priorities: - practice of the English language within my early professional skills - my second passion: steam railways

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in CH-Horw - then: Zentralschweizerisches Technikum - today: https://www.hslu.ch/en/lucerne-school-of-engineering-architecture/abteilungen/maschinentechnik/

"Elektromechaniker" was - at the time - an apprenticeship training program and contained a mixture of mechanical and electrical engineering.