The Management
Jens Fiedler, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing
Jens Fiedler joined u²t in October 2006 and is responsible for sales, marketing and program management. He has more than 15 years of experience within the fiber optics industry. He received his degree in electrical engineering (Dipl-Ing.) in 1994 at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Business and Technology and started his career at Siemens with the fiber optics group as Production Engineer. Starting in 1997, he had responsibilities in the areas of project and product management for various projects and products up to 10 Gb/s. From 2002 he headed the Concept Engineering department working on future technologies and rapid prototyping. Before he joined u²t he was director of Sales and Marketing at MergeOptics GmbH in Berlin.
Dr. Olaf Eggers, Finance Manager
Dr. Olaf Eggers is responsible for finance and managerial accounting at u²t. He has more than ten years experience in strategy development, business planning and financial administration of high-tech companies. At Schott Glas he was responsible for financial analysis in an international business development project with a multi-million-dollar budget. Prior to this he was a management consultant and was involved in the successful launch and investment of a new venture capital company in Berlin. Dr. Olaf Eggers studied business administration and mechanical engineering in Berlin and Vancouver and received a doctorate in innovation and technology management.
Dr. Carsten Schramm, VP Engineering
Dr. Carsten Schramm joined u²t in November 2000 and is responsible for the engineering division. This comprises the development of products and related processes from the conceptual design up to the launch in production. He has more than 20 years experiences in the development, qualification and production of leading-edge ultra high-speed photodetectors and photoreceiver for the opto-electronic market. Prior to working at u²t, he was with the Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik HHI as development engineer in various projects. The main duties were investigations of III-V materials, heterostructure analyses and the testing of fully integrated broadband photoreceivers. He received the diploma and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Martina Junge, Quality Manager
Martina Junge joined u²t in October 2006 as Quality Manager. With a degree in engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) she worked for several years as Project Leader for ISO 9001 implementation and as Quality Manager in international companies. Her last position was at Motorola Networks & Enterprise as Quality Management Coordinator where she also certified as Six Sigma Green Belt, internal quality auditor and supplier assessor. Working in quality assurance/management since 1989, Martina Junge is experienced in process optimisation, continuous improvement programs, auditing and reviewing processes, as well as in quality tools and techniques.
Jörg Dunzel, Procurement Manager
Jörg Dunzel joined u²t in August 2007 as procurement manager. He has about 20 years experience in logistics and strategic procurement as material planner, buyer, and commodity manager at Siemens AG, Communications and DeTeWe AG & Co.KG. Most recently, he worked as procurement engineer at Siemens Mobile and Siemens BenQ Mobile, respectively. He is a certificated Bachelor of Materials Purchasing and Logistics by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Berlin.
Heinz Kuntze, Production Engineering Manager
Heinz Kuntze joined u²t in September 2008 as manufacturing manager, responsible for production engineering issues. He received his degree as mechanical engineer, Dipl Ing (FH), in 1980 at the "Fachhochschule Nürnberg", and started his career in the Siemens energy and automation group, where he worked for 11 years as industrial engineer, in Germany and Brazil. He has planned and introduced production-lines in the areas of Hybrid- Technology, assembly-lines and injection - moulding and stamping-technologies too. He is trained and experienced in REFA and MTM. He managed various industrial engineering projects in Siemens plants in Asia and Latin America. In the following 16 years he assumed positions as production and logistics manager in Germany and Portugal for various German companies in the precision mechanics and optics industry. He headed the production department for the slide-projectors at "reflecta GmbH" , a management-buy-out from the AGFA-Company with 350 workers, and created the Logistics department for LEICA Portugal, introduced there the ERP-software SAP with the Material management and the production module.
Dr. Andreas G. Steffan, R&D Manager
Dr. Andreas G. Steffan joined u²t in 2002 and is now responsible for the research and development at u²t. This includes the concept design of new product, the evaluation and development of new markets and the work on funded research projects. Prior to his work as R&D manager he worked as a project manager on the development of new transmitters, receivers and test and measurement products, including modulators and pulsed laser sources. He studied electrical engineering and physics at RWTH Aachen, where he received his Dipl. Ing. and Dipl. Phys. degree. During this time he worked on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) waveguides, carried out at the Institute of Semiconductor Technology (IHT) in cooperation with AMO GmbH, Aachen. In 2002 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England. He is a member of the Institute of Physics (IoP), and received awards from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), Renishaw plc. and the Cambridge European Trust.
Peter Neumann, Director Supply Chain Management
Peter Neumann joined u²t in January 2011 as Director Supply Chain Management. He was born in Berlin, Germany and studied at the Technical Fachhochschule in Berlin where he did the Bachelor of communications engineering (Dipl.-Ing. FH). Peter Neumann started his career at Siemens as design engineer for software and hardware development for protocol analyzer. He worked several years for Infineon’s Fiber Optics Product Devision. There he gained a variety of experience being responsible for Product Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Program Management and Procurement for key components. From 2005 he worked with MergeOptics as Director Supply Chain Management where he was responsible for procurement, logistics and warehouse.
Mike Harnisch, Manufacturing Manager
Mike Harnisch joined u²t in April 2001. He was formerly with Bosch Telecom. Starting with a strong technological background he acquired a more than 10-years experience in production, testing and management issues. After 5 years at u2t covering testing and chip quality issues he acts now as manufacturing manager heading the production group.