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• I was laid off in the recession of 2009 and searched for a job hard that summer. My wife and I had decided prior to having children that one of us would stay home to best raise our 4 boys until they were teenagers. My wife landed a great job, so at that time I moved into this role full-time. I kept active with volunteering and service activities including these listed below. • Board Member: Royals Blue Line Club (501-C3): Active at large director for three years in all aspects including leading the end to end process and implementation of the club’s largest fundraising event for two years resulting in a year over year increase of 25 percent total attendance and 18 percent dollars raised through successful project management.• Committee Member: Strategic Objective Action Planning, Performance Excellence, and Continuous Improvement for the South Washington County School District. Selected and participated as a contributing member of teams working directly with the Superintendent addressing systematic processes for continuous improvement throughout all aspects of the district. Team presented definition and graphic for continuous and performance improvement, shared results of action step analysis and proposed future recommendations.• Committee Member: K-12 Advocacy, Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion program. Selected and participated as a contributing member of team working to establish the beginnings of a new K-12 advocacy structure for Spanish Immersion program within the parent teacher student organization (PTSO) (501-C3).• Coordinated and coached off-season hockey teams in multiple seasons for my sons in the ESP Select Hockey League.

• Management and project coordination of Construction and Client Services Department including identifying, targeting and hiring additional human resources for business opportunities.• Corporate marketing efforts including standardization, new marketing literature creation, and the coordination and promotion of annual industry technical conference for two years resulting in 38 percent increase in attendance.• Key Account Management for existing clients including 3M Company and Xcel Energy by growing engineering services sales within existing business sectors.

• Integral to specific team sales efforts for primary manufacturer contributing to an average yearly sales growth of 22 percent in power user sales, 19 percent in overall primary manufacturer sales, and 12 percent in overall company sales.• Provided power quality expertise through key account management and consulting with utility and industrial consumer customers by developing power quality strategies for reducing overall costs while providing a positive return on investment for customer.• Led sales efforts for the following products lines: American Power Conversion UPS Systems and Data Center Infrastructure components, Total Protection Systems TVSS/Surge Suppression, S&C Electric Low and Medium Voltage UPS Systems.

• Developed and implemented territory strategic plan resulting in growth of company from inception to profitability in second year and yielding a yearly gross profit growth average of 41percent.• Provided management direction, oversight and training to sales personnel to effectively grow business and sell power quality and energy savings products to utility, distributor, contractor, OEM, and end-user customers.• Developed solid business partnerships with key customers by managing account relationships through successful navigation of complex business environments; negotiating issues with customers, peers, partners and manufacturer executives using a win/win philosophy; positioning end-to-end solutions and articulating primary customer strategies to senior manufacturing executives.• Diversified sales representation of manufacturers from one to five in five years as manufacturer representative and master distributor. Products lines included: American Power Conversion and Best Power UPS, Surge Suppression and Data Center Infrastructure components, Eaton/Innovative Technology TVSS/Surge Suppression, Powersmiths harmonic cancelling and energy efficient transformers, Power Survey capacitor systems, Smart Power Systems and Oneac power conditioners.

• Promoted and managed high visibility multi-discipline Engineering projects including estimation, coordination, delegation and implementation.• Managed and coordinated Power Quality laboratory testing. Coordination, testing, training, data analysis, troubleshooting, reporting and recommendations for worldwide facilities.• Provided engineering and coordination of electrical systems on projects for production, laboratory and office environments.• Researched, designed, and implemented Lighting Energy Reduction projects in a office and manufacturing plants and resulting in utility rebate and attractive ROI savings.• Power distribution engineering and design from medium voltage point of entrance down through 5VDC.