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Midwest

Began managing the technical support, sales and customer support for four brands of capital equipment for TPS which are BLUE M oven company, Tenney Environmental, Gruenberg Oven company, and Lindberg Light Industrial. As growth and additional acquisitions occurred ( first two years) my focus was redirected and centered on the Tenney and Lunaire brands. In.

Midwest

Manage the technical support, sales and customer support for five brands of capital equipment for SPX’s TPS Div. (BLUE M, Tenney, Lunaire, Gruenberg Oven and Lindberg Light Industrial). Primary responsibility is providing technical support and managing a representative sales force covering the Midwest and Great Lakes territories for products serving the.

Siemens -Dematic-Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Put together the WAND installation exit plan. Worked to identify and solve issues with a 116-unit deployment of extendible conveyors previously sold to UPS. At the time the customer had enough issues that a future order of 550 units ($17M) was in jeopardy. In 3 weeks put together the team to execute the mitigation of the problems and the team was awarded.

Siemens-Dematic-Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Was nominated to serve on Siemens corporate “Best of the Best” Benchmarking Team to develop business improvements. Identified the installation risks on the Royal Mail WAND (London) project ($140M) and was assigned to manage the entire installation process at WAND. This project was estimated to be 18 months behind schedule with contractual liquidated.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Managed the testing of the APPS (Advanced Package and Parcel Sorter) program to the successful completion of the USPS qualifying in-plant test. Put together plan to teardown, transport and rebuild the competitive APPS- ($6M system) in NYC, NY. to continue competitive testing. Successfully managed APPS teardown and installation phases on schedule and within.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Was hired as a Project Manager on a $200M program for the delivery of 173 flat mail sorting machines to the USPS. The programs success secured orders for 362 additional machines, which made the program size greater than $750M. Responsibilities were to assist the Program Manager on any issue that required management attention while focusing on primarily the.

Holland, MI

Responsibilities included managing large scale projects spanning all of Thermotron’s product lines. This required working closely with customers, engineering, manufacturing, and the management team to provide innovative product solutions for the aerospace, automotive and electronic manufacturing industries that aligned with Thermotron’s core business.

Holland, Michigan

Increased sales by product positioning strategies and adding several new complimentary features and products. Responsibilities included development, sales/profit maintenance, and the application of digital vibration control systems, the integration of electrodynamic vibration systems and environmental facilities to serve primarily the Aerospace and the.

Holland, Michigan

Experience in the use of both analog and digital measurement, control, recording and product protection systems as used on temperature, temperature/humidity, altitude, sand and dust chambers. Responsibilities included product development, sales, profit/loss responsibility, and application for new systems as well as the retrofit of existing facilities. Also.

Holland, Michigan

Job responsibilities included determining the mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems to best fit the customers test requirements. Laying out equipment needs, interpolating military and automotive specifications for various test chambers, while working closely with sales, engineering and manufacturing to see that the customer was satisfied.

Industrial Technology, B.A.S, Industrial Engineering

Industrial Electronics Technology, A.A.S, Industrial Electronics