Brian Macmillan Email & Phone Number

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Tigard, OR

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Responsible for managing the 4Ps (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) for Brüel & Kjær’s range of LAN-based data acquisition, signal conditioning, and handheld measurement products.
• Setting pricing, reporting quotes and orders and monitoring discounting, to maximise ROI throughout my products’ lifecycles.
• Initiated monthly web meetings with global Key Product Drivers for both Analyzer Systems and Transducers & Conditioning areas.
• Work with Project Sales Office on high value opportunities and customised solutions based on my products.

Stevenage, United Kingdom

• Assessed customer measurement requirements and directly quoted Bruel & Kjaer offerings.
• Provided technical support to existing customers for sound level meters, PULSE data acquisition system, and modal analysis.
• Made product presentations at customer sites with sales engineers.
• Specified and created customised solutions based on PULSE to meet customer requirements.
• Designed and implemented UK web training seminars.
• Created and maintained a support section for local company web page.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Managed the core PULSE data acquisition software platform.
• Presented products to worldwide sales organisation and on-site to customers.
• Worked with R&D and sales organisation to set future product direction.
• Created sales and marketing material including product data sheets and web content.
• Product Manager for Vibration Testing at the beginning of Brüel & Kjaer’s co-operation with Vibration Research controllers and TIRA shakers.

Greater Detroit Area

• Made product presentations at customer sites in support of sales.
• Provided technical knowledge to sales engineers in preparing quotations.
• Managed the marketing, support and sales of Brüel & Kjær’s laser products in the US.
• Taught technical seminars (in-person and web-based) on lasers, material testing, and structural testing products.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Provided technical demonstrations to customers of products, mainly independently, but also with technical or key account support.
• Sold noise and vibration instrumentation (Ono Sokki, Larson-Davis, SONY Recorders, Vibration Research) in the Midwest United States.
• Prepared quotations for customers, provided forecasts to represented companies’ sales management, and provided installation and training to customers.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Phone support for general purpose PC data acquisition hardware and software.
• Technical assistance to sales on quotations.
• Provided application expertise for noise and vibration products.
• Worked with hardware design engineers and software programmers on future products.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Solved customers’ vibration testing problems by helping customers select and use piezoelectric accelerometers, data acquisition instrumentation and electrodynamic shakers.
• Visited with customers in pre-sales and support roles.
• Supervised the work of others involved in programming, testing, and order fulfilment.

Graduate Courses, Mechanical Engineering

Took graduate level Mechnaical Engineering courses at University of Cincinnati's Structural Dynamics Research Laboratory (SDRL): • FFT.

Bs, Engineering Mechanics, Graduate Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Co-operative education program at GE Aircraft Engines SAE Heavy lift competition, Senior-year Tau Beta Pi.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Soccer, Tennis, Marching Band