Professionally focused on Sales, Sales Management, Product Management, Project Management. and all phases of Industrial Management. Proven, effective, sales and management professional, with a track record of success inOEM, B2B, and End-User sales in the machine-tool/tooling/machining industry.•Demonstrated ability to manage and promote technical products and services.•Demonstrated ability to build and manage national and international sales organizations.•Successful organization and management of distribution networks.•Creative, ingenious, and relevant branding and marketing skills, demonstrated repeatedly in the metalworking industry.Uniquely qualified to assist foreign companies wishing to establish a presence in the Americas. Extensive knowledge of, and contacts in, the industrial infrastructure of the Americas. For the last thirty-plus years, I have worked in management, sales, and marketing. Prior to that, I worked as a machinist, toolmaker, and field-service technician.Classically trained machinist, toolmaker, and armorer, involved in all phases of manufacturing: Production, prototyping, gauge-making, fixturing, field-service, troubleshooting, supervision, management, and consulting.Certified as a Manufacturing Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. (CMfgE)Involved in creating new Standards, for the ASME, and in improving the understanding and accessibility of industry Standards that affect the machining industry.Former Chairman of ASME B5/TC45 Committee on Machine/Tool Interfaces.Former Member of ASME B5 Committee on Machine Tools.Former Member of ASME B5/TC54 Committee on Gauging.I speak atrocious Spanish, and enough German dialect to get by socially and technically, as well as that form of English peculiar to Chicago.Please, if you wish to contact me to sell Chinese-made products, don't. If you are a headhunter, please don't contact me until you have read my profile.