Thomas Schwander

Retired Manager at Tesat Spacecom GmbH & Co, KG

Stuttgart Region

About

Experience

  • Recreational Facility Management at My Home and Garden Unlimited ...
    2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Tesat Spacecom (Stuttgart Area, Germany)
    • Design for Manufacturing and Test
      Jan 2012 - 2020 · 8 yrs 1 mo

      Industrial process management, continuous improvement programs, idea management, analyses, statistics dfm/dft, design for 6-sigma (green belt), CTO staff, coach, trainer

    • Manager Test Services
      Jan 2007 - Dec 2011 · 5 yrs

      Head of central test department for satellite communication equipment with 5 sub groups. Functional test on component-, equipment-, and system level, environmental tests like EMC, vibration, shock, HALT, as well as complete satellite payload AIT.

  • Manager Optical Communications Products at Bosch Telecom
    Jan 1997 - Dec 2007 · 11 yrs

    Head of Research & Development of Optical Communications Products for Space Applications. Product management for space borne laser equipment as highly reliable pump sources and ultra-stable reference lasers for LIDAR, gravitational interferometry, etc., Subcontractor Management

  • Several positions in research and development at Bosch Telecom and Predecessor Companies like ANT Nachrichtentechnik GmbH
    1980 - 1996 · 16 yrs

    fiber-baser optical communication theory and technology, simulation of field-propagation in planar optical waveguide structures as field transformers and wavelength multiplexers, design, manufacturing, and test of opto-electronic semiconductor devices on InP, band-gap engineering, strained-layer quantum well high speed modulators