New business aquisition for Merseyside and North West England

• Management and organization of the company service engineers. • Organization of planned maintenance, scheduled repairs and emergency call-outs covering automatic and manual doors, windows, roller shutters and sectional doors.• Dealing with Councils, Schools, Facilities Management Companies and Private Companies on national contracts.• Man-management and development of personnel.

Leading UK manufacturer of blast cleaning equipment, paint booths and abrasives.• Field based sales to existing customer base and development of new business. • Provision of technical support and general advice to customers.• Giving equipment demonstrations, commissioning & repairs. Improved existing product and technical knowledge of the principles of corrosion and surface preparation.• Dealt with primarily with SME’s, although also with sole traders and various public companies, As example EDF Energy where I successfully built an excellent relationship. • Sold the company’s fast moving products such as portable machines, spares and PPE.

UK and International supplier of abrasives and leading edge environmental & recycling technology• Started my career within the Dirk Group as Sales Order Clerk. • Promoted to Office Manager Level and managing a team of five employees. • Promoted to Sales Manager to oversee all existing and developing new client relationships within the U.K • Promoted to Special Projects Manager and worked on extensive ‘sewage sludge stabilization’ trials in the UK and Europe and finally spent three years solely managing a profitable project expanding in Portugal. • Gained additional responsibility for ordering raw materials, managing daily production schedules, controlling sub-contractors, dealing with safety, quality and liaison with our client and their sub-contractors.• Successfully developed and supported the business during its launch of ‘sphere of sewage treatment’. Liaising with the development team to manage short and standard contracts with large corporations within the U.K such as Anglian Water, United Utilities, West of Scotland Water, Yorkshire Water and Southern Water. • Responsible for Safety, Quality, Client Management, Sales, Personnel Management, Maintenance, Equipment and Materials Purchase and whatever else was required to deliver successful projects.