Business Unit leader with strategic and profit/loss responsibility for aftermarket activities related to furnace (reheat, heat treat, and specialty) business. Managed team of engineers and technicians, including hiring, staff evaluations, and project assignments. Aftermarket activities included spare parts, furnace studies, field services, training, revamps and automation upgrades. Responsible for lead gathering and evaluation, proposal and estimate development, negotiation, order booking, and project management/execution. Streamlined order processing and developed common approach across business units. Developed marketing materials for technologies and highlighting innovations in process control and equipment automation. Managed projects with teams comprised of staff from multiple departments and competing activities. Published in several trade journals, conference proceedings.

Product Manager focused on pro-active promotion and development of Continuous Galvanizing Furnaces and Roller Hearth Furnaces in North America. Visited current and prospective customers to develop new opportunities. Responsible for developing proposals and cost estimates based on customer specifications. Supported active new furnace projects with process analysis, combustion system sizing and troubleshooting, and product surface condition investigations. Represented Drever at AIST and Galvanizers Associaton conferences.

Department manager with profit/loss responsibility for aftermarket activities related to furnace (reheat, heat treat, and specialty) business. Managed team of engineers and technicians, including hiring, staff evaluations, and project assignments. Aftermarket activities included spare parts, furnace studies, field services, training, and revamps. Responsible for lead gathering and evaluation, proposal and estimate development, negotiation, order booking, and project management/execution.

Continued work as Project Engineer in Technical Services department. Added process development responsibilities, including new process model for reheating tunnel furnaces, aluminum melting, and charcoal-making. Awarded a patent (20060280670) for Method and Apparatus for Producing Charcoal. Published papers on reheating tunnel furnaces in 2 international steel conferences.

Project Engineer in Studies & Analysis Department. Executed engineering studies, furnace sizing analysis in support of proposals, presented operator training seminars. Performed computer-based process analysis calculations for steel reheat furnaces, aluminum melting and heat treating furnaces, and glass melting furnaces. Ran Computational Fluid Dynamics (Fluent) and Finite Element Analysis (Algor) to study furnace and component designs. Rebuilt existing and developed new in-house computer analysis tools for furnace simulations, including automation of time and labor-intensive iterative work.

Technical Leadership Program (former Edison Engineering Program) including extensive technical and leadership training while working through rotations in:Generator New Products - Developed Rotor Heat Transfer ModelGas Turbine Combustion - Assisted in Dry Low NOx Combustion Development, Testing, and TroubleshootingEngineering Finance - Developed Cost Tracking Database and Currency Hedge PracticesCombined Cycle Systems - Developed Lab Experimentation and Model for Water/Ammonia Mixture Boiling