Alex Schoenfelder is Lumentum’s Senior Vice President and General Manager, Lasers. He joined JDSU in February 2001, holding a variety of executive product management positions. During Schoenfelder’s time at JDSU, he has collaborated with customers to develop product strategies, roadmaps, and new solutions to serve a wide range of industries that included Optical Communications, Commercial Lasers, Renewable Energy, and Consumer Electronics.
Prior to JDSU, Schoenfelder held a variety of research and product line management positions at SDL, Inc. from 1995 to 2000 until the company was acquired by JDSU. He began his career as a research scientist at Fraunhofer IAF in Freiburg, Germany.
Schoenfelder holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. He also is responsible for more than 50 international published papers and patents.