Thorsten Harder Email & Phone Number

Tegerfelden, Ag, Ch

Winterthur, Zh, Ch

- Plan and initiate the R&D of the product portfolio for the new rapidly developing segment Hydrogen mobility & Energy. -Lead the Hydrogen Mobility & Energy focus group activities to comply with the requirements of the business along the entire value chain including marketing planning, standardization/modularization, value engineering, localization strategy and volume ramp up planning and much more…. -Initiate and close the acquisition of the expert know how from an external company to improve the value of core products delivered to the HME market

Winterthur, Zh, Ch

Product manager Systems Division:- Manage 8 compressor product lines produced in Switzerland, India and China, selling to the segments Refinery, Petrochemical, Industrial gas, Gas transport and storage, Upstream Oil & Gas and Hydrogen Mobility & Energy- Lead the market intelligence teamwork as a base for mid-range business planning- Lead market and product requirements specification work for new product development & improvement together with customers, sales and technical teams- Lead re-definition of global product development processes and tools including introduction of R&D road map planning & program management- Lead the definition of product management organization (with 4 new product managers), processes, tasks roles and responsibilities and launch the product management organization within the organization- Identify and assess new market potentials, and propose the product and go to market strategy- Initiate and lead product development cooperations with universities including the acquisition of third party R&D budget funding- Initiate and lead cooperation (technology evaluations and contracts) with startup companies- Lead business development for new Hydrogen economy market segment management approaches, depending on the cultural specialities.

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Markets: Medium voltage converters for large offshore wind turbine generatorsMedium voltage converters for connection of ships to shore or industrial grids -Support management with business cases descriptions as decision base for R&D projects. -Specify market requirements and translate them to product Software and Hardware requirements for R&D projects-Gather market intelligence for existing and new markets to support strategy planning-Specify product positioning including the patent strategies, value proposition and update of marketing material accordingly-Train technical sales and go to market strategy-Specify value based product pricing and cost targets to meet the target profitability-Specify business processes according to the needs resulting from changing business models (e.g. product change management, product data management, HW/SW Release management process)-Trigger organizational improvements of PM and R&D interfaces-Specify and/or lead productizing of product (documentation, engineering templates, software structure) to maximize the product engineering productivity and reduce product costs -Develop business plan for investment in new product manufacturing facilities-Lead the organization to develop new cross division business models to enable additional profitable business at minimum time to market, minimum R&D costs and maximized company profitability

Zurich, Zh, Ch

-Sales manager managing Marine product sales channels technical, commercial & legal aspects -Support and development of Marine MV Drives sales channels with training, product presentations, brochures, pricing tools and end customer meetings-Support of product management with Market analysis and requirements-Preparation of sales offers. Negotiations with internal and external Marine customers. Support of sales for other industries such as cement, mining, water treatment

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-Service engineering within a professional power plant service organization -Supporting all electrical systems including generator, excitation system, gas turbine starter, HV breaker, step up transformer, PLC, Plant monitoring and diagnostic systems, protection systems

Zurich, Zh, Ch

-Product development in a state of the art development process environment-Control algorithm SW System simulation (Matlab /Simulink) -Control algorithm implementation (C/assembler) on real time microcontroller-Control software R&D project management leading a team of 5 R&D engineers -Sales support-Training of customers and new colleagues -Expert level trouble shooting at customers of several industries (Oil and gas, Hoist systems, Test stands, Marine propulsion, Metal mills)

Configuring computers in a Novell NetWare environment, Windows NT, Unix database system, AS400, Linux, analysing and fixing system errors.

Configuring computers and network systems. Providing on-location customer service(In administrative offices, bank offices, Insurances).Analysing and fixing system errors.

Servicing power generation plant on German warship.Operating the plant control systems of the power systems

Diplom (Fh), Dipl. Elektroingenieur (Fh)

Exchange Program 2 Quarters

Pc Wartungstechniker, Berufsausbildung

Kommunikationselektroniker, Berufsausbildung

Fachochschulreife