Torsten Kurz

Business Development in Germany for foreign companies: Sales of (customized) electrical products for companies who like to market their products in Germany without the need to establish an own office, i. e.: - Since 2012 low and medium voltage transformers and chokes for industrial use - Since 2017 Electronic Manufacturing Service for control units in harsh environment - Since 2017 Embedded Software Development for industrial and automotive use

Senior Key Account Manager in an automotive sales division of a LCD manufacturer. Budget: 35 M€/a with responsibility for European tier-1 suppliers and contact partner for Volkswagen group. Turnover 130 M€ with 1,000 employees. Scope of duties: Submission of offers and monitoring of projects under consideration of TS16949 and ISO14001. Negotiation of contracts (frame conditions, consignment stock, quality agreements). Attendance during customer audits at our factories. Tracking of projects.

Sales Engineer for interference suppression filters at Tesch GmbH, Wuppertal (belongs today to Pikatron GmbH). Assistant of the proprietor Klaus Tesch until his retirement 1994. With a new General Manager I became team leader and Sales Manager for the discrete business division EMC (= electromagnetic compatibility) with power of attorney and responsibility for development and sales (roughly 2.5 M€). Customer acquisition and support directly or via sales representatives, depending on the turnover.

Radio engineer on a short wave radio station at Kigali/Ruanda of the Deutsche Welle. Main task was maintenance of short wave transmitter in a three-shift-system with the support of local work forces

Advanced technical college for communications engineering at GHS Paderborn, Dept. Meschede. From October 1984 until February 1985 internship at the High Frequency Department of the Voice of Germany (Deutsche Welle). Theme of degree dissertation: software for controlling a Rohde & Schwarz receiver.