Paragon Stairs, a successful and fast-growing company in Collegeville, PA, is the premier manufacturer of the largest selection of straight and spiral stairs in the world. Since 1947, Paragon has provided over 50,000 homeowners, contractors, and architects across continental North America with premium products and best-in-class services. Paragon’s in-house engineering team and friendly, SMA certified sales agents collaborate to bring customers both in-stock and custom product lines through the most consultative sales experience in the industry.

“For over ten years, SS Industries has enjoyed a reputation both locally and nationally as a leading provider of building materials best known for outstanding design and fabrication. SS Industries has been consistently recognized for exceptional business and service, winning consecutive spots on the Inc. 5000 list in 2016-2018 and the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Soaring 76 Award. Paragon Stairs is the largest spiral stair manufacturer in the country and we recently expanded into sliding barn doors and hardware with White Shanty. Our in-house sales, engineering, and production teams all work together to provide the highest-quality building materials direct to customers across North America.”

Monitor and maintain national outsourcing network.

Craft-Maid Kitchens manufactures high-end hand made custom kitchen cabinetry sold exclusively through independently owned dealer network. They employ approximately 80 employees out of Reading, PA.· Oversaw a team of 12 project managers.· Managed Customer Service department.· Responsible for all costing and new product specifications and pricing.· Responsible for high rate of throughput and monitoring of each project’s status.· Eliminated bottlenecks as orders moved through the order processing cycle.· Developed and maintained a national dealer network. · Personally handled price negotiations.

Sproule Manufacturing Company produces high temperature pipe insulation. Manufacturing locations in Devault, PA and Houston, TX. · Oversaw all sales and business development decisions. · Orchestrated new product rollouts including cost analysis.· Developed national distributor multi-tiered pricing levels.· Personally handled national contract negotiations. · Held P & L and budget responsibilities. · Initiated and sustained end-user’s engineering specs on both a plant-by-plant and national basis. · Designed and implemented national advertising program. · Developed all sales tools and literature to support distribution network. · Monitored production schedule and ongoing inventory levels. · Produced and maintained Material Safety Data Sheets.