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Eau Claire, Wi, Us

Minnesota, United States

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

• Analyze market data and intelligence to clearly inform executive management and manufacturing about trends, projections, and competitive advantages. • Lead discussions with customers, engineers, and executives to ensure the business is capturing the right market opportunities.• Actively create and pursue sales agreements and pricing negotiations for early development and mass production phases of the product lifecycle.

Shoreview, Minnesota

• Effectively led teams of engineers, team leads, sales personnel, production managers, and materials planners to design build, and deliver highly customized backup power systems for a wide variety of industry applications. • Successfully managed priorities of up to 30 projects at a time, each with $50k to $1.6M budgets and aggressive timelines in a highly competitive industry.• Initiated and delivered a $1.6M project to design, build and install a highly customized, fully integrated switchgear and master control system to a large waste water treatment plant. Resulted in a second project of the same value being awarded to the team.• Led a $1.1M project to design, build and deliver an extensive control system and dual switchgear lineup for the backup power system at O’Hare International Airport. Executed below budget and on time.

Fridley, Mn

• Lead the North America campaign repair program for the AvK brand of generator ends within the Cummins Generator Technologies group. • Led teams of field technicians, customer technicians, fabricators and engineers and managed project budgets to properly execute multiple campaign repair efforts in the field lasting from 1 week to 3 months, depending upon complexity.• Worked cross-functionally with the global leadership team based out of the UK to execute the group’s common goals in North America.• Led the initial interaction and helped in the partnership discussions with a third party armature works company to have them become the “Cummins Preferred” field repair firm for generator ends.

Fridley, Mn

• Evaluated problems, analyzed product performance data, and developed creative solutions by applying deep product engineering knowledge, problem analysis skills, and technical abilities. • Created a new common process within a new issue tracking system for the global Service Engineering team and delivered training to team members in India, Asia Pacific, and Europe. • Served as a team member on multiple new product development projects and was responsible for developing field service materials, analyzing prototypes for ease of serviceability, and leading small teams to monitor new product introductions to the market.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Designed four pneumatic de-kerf machines to remove problem slag from billets exiting the casting machine’s torch cutting section. Advised millwrights on the fabrication and installation of the devices. • Monitored failing production machine components and managed a group of steel union millwrights to ensure repair efforts received proper priority and labor to keep the steel mill in operation.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.89 Gpa

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.25 Gpa