Sebastian (Karl christoph) H.

machanical design engineer / keynote speaker

Fažana, Croatia

Experience

May 2025 - May 2025
1 month

Keynote Speaker

SIMULIA Regional User Meeting — EuroCentral 2025

Evaluation of the flow characteristics of components for exhaust systems in fuel cell applications

Apr 2025 - Present
4 months

Freelance engineer as lead engineer for nautical applications

ASB Glasfloor

  • Adapting a pool system with video floors for nautical use
  • Laser and bending parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • Building knowledge of requirements on ships and yachts
  • Coordinating with customers on site, clarifying, documenting the installation situation on a luxury yacht and defining interfaces.
  • Coordinating with suppliers
  • Organizing and leading project meetings with stakeholders
  • CAD software SolidWorks
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
3 months

Freelance engineer as sheet metal processing expert

HST Maschinenbau GmbH (Krones AG)

  • Current state analysis of the existing design and requirements
  • Creating concepts based on the current state analysis
  • Designing the sheet metal cladding for a new type of special machine based on the previously created concept
  • Laser and bending parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • Creating technical drawings
  • Creating detailed technical documentation for knowledge transfer and instructions
  • CAD software Solid Edge
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year 1 month

Freelance development engineer

Westfalia mh

  • Developing components and technologies for a new fuel cell system application
  • Creating the implementation plan and project documentation
  • Holding status meetings
  • Patent research on the state of the art
  • Preparing technical descriptions for the patent application
  • Developing prototypes and test modules
  • Laser, bending, milling and 3D printed parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • Simulations and real tests of the developed technologies
  • Flow and fluid mechanics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Materials science / materials engineering
  • CFD simulation (Simulia Experience Platform / SolidWorks)
  • CAD software SolidWorks
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
1 year 4 months

Freelance lead development engineer

ASB Glasfloor

  • Developing video walls and an LED ceiling to simulate and present PV modules
  • Implementing lessons learned from previous projects
  • Further developing and optimizing the assemblies
  • Coordinating with customers and suppliers
  • Organizing and leading project meetings with stakeholders
  • Developing innovations and new technologies
  • Laser and bending parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • CAD software SolidWorks
Apr 2023 - Nov 2023
8 months
Altötting, Germany

Freelance engineer as mechanical designer for process-technical machining and conveying systems in the wood industry

EWD – Esterer WD Altötting

  • Planning, development and design of conveying systems for unit goods covering the entire manufacturing process as a basis for construction
  • Creating execution plans and project documentation
  • Static and dynamic calculation and design of electromechanical drives, assemblies, custom and purchased parts
  • Close collaboration with sales, project management and simulation engineering
  • Creating bills of materials, manufacturing drawings, assembly and conversion drawings
  • Creating steel support, foundation and load distribution plans
  • Creating motor position and sensor layout plans
  • Preparing walkthrough plans and safety layouts
  • Defining machine and mechanization parameters
  • Integrating supplied components into the customer's existing setup and defining interfaces
  • Laser-cut and bent parts, turned and milled parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • CAD software: Solid Edge
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 3 months

Freelance engineer as mechanical designer for wet chemical cleaning systems - semiconductor industry

RENA Technologies GmbH

  • Development and design of wet chemical cleaning/process systems for silicon wafers
  • Calculation and design of electromechanical drives, assemblies, custom and purchased parts
  • Static and dynamic calculations
  • Further development of the modular and variant kit system
  • Laser-cut and bent parts, turned and milled parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • Creating and maintaining bills of materials, manufacturing and assembly drawings
  • Overseeing assembly and commissioning of the systems
  • Close collaboration with related departments and contacts for technical queries from customers and suppliers
  • CAD software: SolidWorks (until 07/2022)
  • Special project using Solid Edge (from 07/2022)
May 2021 - Oct 2021
6 months

Freelance engineer as lead development engineer

ASB Glasfloor

  • Development of a mobile interactive football cube using a modular kit system
  • Implementing lessons learned from previous projects
  • Further development and optimization of assemblies
  • Laser-cut, bent, turned, milled, and 3D-printed parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • Developing a cable installation concept for a plug & play solution
  • Coordination with customers and suppliers
  • Organizing and leading project meetings with stakeholders
  • Developing innovations and new technologies
  • CAD software: SolidWorks
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
10 months

Freelance Mechanical Engineer for production process optimization in a pharma GMP environment

QIAGEN

  • Production optimization for PCR tests
  • Analyzing dedicated mechanical production process steps for cycle time and stability
  • Developing assembly tools (concept, design, prototyping, commissioning)
  • Conducting meetings with international sites (English-language design reviews)
  • Coordinating and aligning with manufacturing teams and project management
  • 3D-print-assisted component development (Prusa i3)
  • Laser-cut, bent, turned, milled, and 3D-printed parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • Material procurement and supplier selection
  • Tolerance chain analyses and feasibility studies
  • Recommendations for automation equipment specifications
  • Conceptualization and development of solutions for CAPA investigations
  • GMP-compliant documentation of developed tools (standard operating procedures (SOP), maintenance and service plans, technical documents)
  • Support for design reviews as well as IQ and OQ of complete systems
  • CAD software: SolidWorks
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
2 months

Freelance engineer as specialist in plant design (medical technology) for a heart catheter cleaning system

Vanguard AG

  • Troubleshooting
  • Analyzing temperature and pressure behavior of the system
  • Developing and implementing solution strategies
  • Reengineering assemblies of the system in CAD
  • Revising circuit diagrams and P&ID diagrams
  • Further development and optimization of assemblies
  • Process optimization of the cleaning system
  • Supporting system qualifications (IQ, OQ, PQ)
  • Technical assessment of the current system status, further actions and recommendations in a comprehensive final report
  • CAD software: SolidWorks and EPLAN P8
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
10 months

Freelance engineer for the development of a fully automated packaging line (semiconductor industry; polysilicon manufacturing

Alztec GmbH

  • Development of a fully automated packaging line for polysilicon
  • Cleanroom requirements
  • Cutting and sealing technology
  • Development of a toggle joint mechanism for the sealing process
  • Rotary indexing table with rotary feedthroughs
  • Filling equipment (ultra-pure polysilicon)
  • Weighing technology (load cells)
  • Vacuum technology
  • Protective gas atmosphere
  • Development of laser, punching/bending parts, turned and milled parts
  • Welded assemblies according to DIN EN ISO 3834
  • Prototype construction and commissioning
  • CAD software Autodesk Inventor
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
7 months

Design engineer and project manager

Alztec GmbH

  • Designing and developing automation systems in the automotive sector
  • Creating inquiry documents and obtaining offers for subcontracting
  • Coordinating various suppliers
  • Planning the electrical and control system for production logistics in the automotive sector
  • Leading project meetings
  • CAD software AutoCAD Inventor
May 2018 - Mar 2020
1 year 11 months
Mühldorf, Germany

Lecturer

VHS / ABH-Mühldorf

  • Electrical engineering with a focus on energy and building technology
  • Mechatronics
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
10 months

Bid manager (technical inside sales)

Belimed GmbH

  • Developing the bid strategy
  • Creating offers for customers
  • Determining costs
  • Commenting on the URS
  • Creating deviation lists
  • Technical clarifications during the bidding phase and beyond
  • Organizing required approval documents
  • Preparing cost estimates / pricing strategies
  • Performing capacity calculations
  • Acting as the interface between field sales and technical development
  • CAD software AutoCAD Inventor
Sep 2017 - Present
7 years 11 months
Mühldorf, Germany

Freelance lecturer for industrial technicians and masters as well as technical business administrators

IHK-Akademie Mühldorf

  • Design engineering
  • Production engineering
  • Manufacturing technology
  • Technical communication
  • Machine tools
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
1 year 8 months

Project manager and designer (electrical and mechanical)

Belimed GmbH

  • Project management for the further development of a category of medical large-chamber cleaning systems according to ISO 15883-7
  • Concept creation to implement standard requirements
  • Chamber temperature profiles to determine and optimize the system's temperature behavior
  • Mathematical models and lab tests to determine concentration and layering of detergents
  • Reduction of detergent and media consumption
  • Space and flow optimization of the ventilation system of the entire plant
  • Coordination of the entire development project
  • Execution and monitoring of modifications to the test systems
  • Review and approval of circuit diagrams and creation of nameplates
  • Commissioning and qualification of medical cleaning systems
  • Form postponement (supply chain management)
  • CAD software Autocad Inventor + EPLAN P8
Nov 2014 - Jun 2016
1 year 8 months

Project manager design (electrical and mechanical)

bmTEC GmbH

  • Electrical and mechanical planning of contract projects
  • Development of automation systems
  • Selection and specification of purchased parts
  • Support during assembly and acceptance of finished machines
  • Performance qualification
  • Commissioning (FAT, SAT)
  • Troubleshooting
  • Structure and process optimization in production and organization
  • Form postponement (supply chain management)
  • Project management and reporting
  • Technology and innovation management
  • CAD software SolidWorks
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
7 months
Landshut, Germany

Bachelor thesis – housing development for lithium-ion cells

Technologiezentrum Energie (TZE) Hochschule Landshut

  • Development of the housing for optimized lithium-ion cells for the Munich-Garching research reactor (neutron beam diffractogram)
  • Development of the manufacturing process for Li-ion cells
  • Conceptualization of the manufacturing process and work steps
  • Development of tools for production steps
  • Deep drawing technology
  • Sealing, punching, and cutting technology
  • Pipetting
  • Ultrasonic welding
  • CAD software SolidWorks
Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
7 months

Main internship during studies

FMS-Systemtechnik GmbH

  • Project support for automation systems
  • Support in coordination and communication of mechanics, electronics, and programming areas
  • Involvement in the design and development of robot-based handling machines
  • Filling technology (lithium-ion cells)
  • Weighing technology (load cells)
  • Vacuum technology
  • Protective gas atmosphere
  • CAD software SolidWorks
Sep 2012 - Oct 2012
2 months

Mechatronics technician for air conditioning and refrigeration technology

Horn Klima- und Kältetechnik GmbH

  • Installation, commissioning, and maintenance of air conditioning and refrigeration systems
Feb 2009 - Jul 2009
6 months

Mechatronics Technician

W. Haldenwanger GmbH & Co. KG - technical ceramics (Morgan Advanced Materials)

  • Planning and manufacturing of electromechanical and electronic systems
  • Industrial furnaces, hydrostatic press
  • Assembly, maintenance, troubleshooting and servicing of systems
  • Turning, milling and welding work
  • Troubleshooting
  • Control cabinet construction
  • PLC programming
  • Electro-pneumatics
  • Automation technology
Sep 2006 - Jan 2009
2 years 5 months

Apprenticeship as a mechatronics technician

W. Haldenwanger GmbH & Co KG

Sep 2005 - Aug 2006
1 year

Apprenticeship as an energy and building services technician

Elektro Strasser

Summary

Software skills

  • EPLAN P8
  • CFD-
  • SolidWorks 2 years
  • SolidWorks simulation
  • Solid Edge 1 year 7 years
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • CFD simulation
  • EPlan P8
  • Autodesk
  • Inventor
  • 5 years Solid Edge
  • 2 years

Industry experience

  • Teaching in special/mechanical engineering ~ 7.5 years ~ 6 years
  • Medical technology / pharma ~ 4 years
  • Architecture / nautical ~ 2.5 years Battery / energy semiconductor industry ~ 2 years ~ 2 years

Languages

German
Native
English
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2018 - Present

Hochschule Rosenheim

MBA&Eng · Industrial engineering · Rosenheim, Germany

Sep 2010 - Oct 2014

Hochschule Rosenheim

Bachelor of Engineering · Mechatronics · Rosenheim, Germany

Sep 2009 - Aug 2010

Berufsoberschule Altötting

Technical college diploma, focus on technology · Technology · Altötting, Germany

...and 3 more

Certifications & licenses

Mechatronics skilled worker

W. Haldenwanger GmbH & Co KG

Basic service training large washer (Belimed internal)

Electrical design EPLAN P8

Electropneumatics (BBiW Wacker Burghausen)

GMP basics (Belimed internal)

Basics of robot programming (KUKA)

Customer-oriented communication (Wilson Learning)

SolidWorks advanced course sheet metal design

SolidWorks advanced course welding design

SolidWorks CFD simulation

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