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Stefan Meier
Mechanical Engineer FH/STV Burgdorf/Switzerland
M.S. Mechanical Engineering Oregon State University/USA
Born on 18 th October 1974 in Switzerland
Mittelstrasse 30b; 3613 Steffisburg, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)79 538 71 48
http://www.stefweb.ch
sm@stefweb.ch
Objective
□ Apply the theoretical knowledge and professional experience in order to develop systems and/or
managing projects in a leading position.
Skills
□ Strong analytical skill paired with systematic thinking
□ Good capabilities seeing problems in an overall view based on a broad background
□ Initiative in projects added to a big work perseverance
□ Good social skills and interaction capabilities with people as leading person
Professional Experience
today–03.07 Teamleader Armoured Vehicles with RUAG Land Systems AG, Thun
(Responsible for 14 Employees)
Technical Project Manager Armoured Engineering Vehicle S/NL
01.05-02.07 System Engineer Armoured Vehicle Laying Bridges Fin with RUAG Land
Systems AG, Thun
12/02-06/04 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Mechanical Components (Junior and Senior
Level) and Optimization Methodologies (Graduate Level).
02/02-08/02 Research Assistant with the “Institute of applied Lasertechnology” at the
School of Engineering, Burgdorf
04/01-08/02 Project manager in own web firm as work student
03/99-06/01 Employed project manager in a web firm as work student
06/97-09/98 Internship as a mechanical designer with DUAP AG, Herzogenbuchsee
Fields of Interest
Momentary Project Management in distributed Development Teams
Focus
Early Stage Product Development / Business Generation
New Business Generation and Development
Development Process and Social Effects in Development Organizations
M.S. Thesis Method to define relative importance of customer requirements in a collaborative
11/02-09/04 engineering environment. Hereby the negotiation process and the joined finding of
the agreement had to be considered as well as social effects among the deciding
stakeholders.
B.S. Thesis Developing of a pre-process quality measurement system on an automated Laser
10/01-01/02 welding plant based on an empirical database.

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Education
02.10-10.10 Leadership 2 – Management Training for Department Heads with RUAG
Business Training
11/02-06/04 Master of Science at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA.
Major: Mechanical Engineering, Minor: Business Administration.
Overall Grade Point Average 3.76/4.0.
11/98-02/02 Dipl. Ing. FH at the Applied University of Burgdorf, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Major: Mechanical Engineering
07/91-05/95 Wirtschafts-Matur at the Gymnasium Burgdorf
Portfolio
Technical Project Manager Armoured Engineering
Vehicle S/NL
System Engineer for the Armoured Vehicle Laying
Bridges Fin
Internship with DUAP AG Herzogenbuchsee
(Switzerland) as a Mechanical Designer.
My main-assignments were:
Design of an electromagnetically controlled presuction-pump
for the high-pressure-pump of the
Common-Rail. The parts of my responsibility are
encircled in red.
Laser welding with a Nd:YAG-Solid-State-
Laser and six-axis-robots
My assignments were:
Examining joints with different settings, set up a
database, defining the appropriate quality criteria’s
and how to measure them.

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Metallurgical Pictures of joints
For my B.S.-Thesis and in my employment as
research assistant, I made over 350 metallurgical
pictures of joints.
The settings and measurements were catalogued in
a Database.