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St. Albert, AB, CA

Alberta, Canada

Mill Sales Manager responsible for coordinating and leading Valmet's Mill Team offering consisting of complete product and service solutions for Pulp and Paper Mills in Alberta, Canada. Valmet products and service solutions cover the entire mill including; utilities, fiber line and pulp and paper making equipment and services.

North Vancouver, BC

• A Western Canadian based marketing company representing 10 companies across a multitude of industries.
• Carried out a complete overhaul of website, proposal and email formats, providing unified face of the company to prospective and current clients.
• Implemented new Customer Resource Management system to accurately track proposals and repair / rebuild projects within the company.
• Effectively managed new and existing relationships to create opportunities for revenue growth.
• Created stocking agreements with core customers to obtain and protect key business.
• Successfully managed and conducted all field trials of new equipment.

Vancouver, Canada

• A global equipment supplier in the Pulp and Paper industry with a particular emphasis on fibreline equipment.
• Set up coverage model of Western Canadian Territory.
• Worked with offices in the US to co-ordinate engineering and equipment supply projects.
• Helped to plan and supervise on-site maintenance of company equipment with our own personnel.
• Part of the startup team for the Oxygen Delignification system at Weyerhaeuser, Grande Prairie.

• The Oriented Strand Board (OSB) division of an international panel board equipment supplier.
• Created and led OSB aftermarket division to create a baseline of sales to combat cyclical nature of industry.
• Worked in the R&D dept. to develop new products using OSB to effectively increase our product base.
• Managed the Footner Forest Products equipment supply projects. o Co-ordinated internal and external engineering companies o Delivered the product on-time and under budget to construction site. o Worked with the mill’s.

Vancouver And Prince George, Canada

• A global equipment supplier in the Pulp and Paper industry with a particular emphasis on fibreline equipment.
• Assigned as “apprentice” to service group as a highly effective method of learning about the company’s products.
• Successfully managed and conducted all field trials and product validation projects.
• Progressed within two years from Application Engineer to Area Manager for all of Western Canada.
• Earned the highest aftermarket sales of any territory in Western Canada in 1998.

Logan Lake, BC

• An open pit copper mine in the interior of British of Columbia. Products include copper, gold, & molybdenum.
• Student Engineer position designed to familiarize me with the entire process.
• Major project consisted of a complete audit of the mill’s compressed air systems.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Physics, Math, Chemistry

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business, A

Ongoing distance education on various aspects of small business management and accounting.