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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Application Engineers at AMETEK are responsible for selecting the correct existing technology or modify existing model numbers as required to meet customer requirements and specifications. Additional responsibilities include:- Prepare sketches for new product designs.- Provide revised dimensional drawings for modifications to standard equipment.- Select required components and update Bills of Materials (BOMs) for new/revised products.- Provide certifications as requested by the customer. - Support Project Quote Specialists and Customer Support Advocates with production issues.AMETEK is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions, specializing in the design and manufacture of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, used to solve our customers' most complex challenges with specialized technology in two niche markets:- Electronic Instrumentation including the design and manufacture of advanced analytical, test and measurement instrumentation for the energy, aerospace, power, research, medical and industrial markets.- Electromechanical Devices providing automation and precision motion control solutions, and highly engineered electrical interconnects, specialty metals and thermal management systems.The company was founded in 1930 with headquarters in the United States. AMETEK has over 220 sites worldwide at more than 150 operating locations in 30 countries and over 18,500 colleagues. AMETEK has been ranked as high as 402 on the Fortune 500. The firm has also consistently been on the Fortune 1000 rankings list as well as the Fortune Global 2000 and has an annual sales over $6.0 billion.Websitehttps://www.ametek.com/careersIndustryAppliances, Electrical, and Electronics ManufacturingCompany size10,001+ employees4,550 associated members AMETEK is the parent company of Magnetrol International, Orion Instruments, Grabner Instruments, Messtechnik GmbH, AMETEK MCT, Sensor Technologies, among dozens of others.

Brookfield, Wi, Us

ANDERSON PROCESS, Lombard, IL January 2021 – Present Application Engineer – Inside Sales Department The application engineers work directly with customers or the outside salesmen, to provide system quotations and technical support for industrial market applications. Application engineers review bid documents and drawings, analyze system requirements, research best pump/motor options for system conditions, select accessory equipment, identify compatible material types, determine required assembly hours and calculate overall system pricing.• Review customer specifications using bid documents, flow diagrams and P&IDs, to identify the system requirements.• Evaluate system requirements and design points (flow, head, viscosity, specific gravity, temperature, etc.) to determine the best pump design (centrifugal, gear, lobe, peristaltic, vane, etc.) and model for best efficiency and lowest cost.• Compare pump media (fluid) with pump material options for chemical compatibility.• Visualize and draft the general system layout to provide an overview of the system for the CAD Designer to create. • Identify accessory items (base plates, pulsation dampeners, meters, valves, filters, hoses, piping, control panels, motors, etc.) to make a complete package system.• Navigate vendor website and/or contact vendors for product information, pricing, and lead times.• Used Profit 21 ERP system to create part numbers, set cost/list prices and generate quotes for packaged pump systems.• Lead/participate in Project Meetings with application engineers, project managers, salesmen, operations personnel, and customers, to provide technical input on new complex pumping system requirements or troubleshooting existing systems.• Act as a Project Manager after receipt of order, to coordinate with outside sales, purchasing, engineering drafters, assemblers, shipping and operations managers to ensure that the project is progressing as scheduled.

Aurora, Illinois, Us

HIDROSTAL PUMPS LLC, Aurora, IL 2016 – 2020Application Engineer – Inside Sales Department (3 months) Transitioned to Application Engineer when the Aftermarket Parts, Replacement Pump, and Project Job desks were combined into a general Sales Department. • Experienced in fluid dynamics related to horsepower, efficiency, flow, total dynamic head, viscosity, specific gravity required to compare system requirements against potential pump curves to find the best fit.• Familiar with many pump-related systems including controls, motors, and piping.• Filled all roles related to Parts and Pricing Analyst below. Parts and Pricing Analyst – Aftermarket Parts (4 years) Solely responsible for the company’s $2 to 3-million aftermarket parts sales. Working directly with the company authorized distributors and direct accounts, the Aftermarket Department provides saleable repair parts needed for preventative maintenance or to bring a failed unit back into service.• Provided phone/email support to internal/external customers and interpreted the descriptions of items needed for repair.• Skilled at researching itemized bill-of-material and pump cross-sections to identify replacement parts for existing pumps.• Experienced with using Odoo ERP system to confirm inventory levels/evaluate lead times, create quotes, and process replacement parts orders.• Updated the existing product profit margins and modified part descriptions for hundreds of products to ensure they remained within the approved strategy and clearly described the parts application.• Reviewed blueprints and compared them to existing part measurements to confirm form/fit/function.• Initiated, designed, and executed the Rebuild Kit Project for over 150 product models. These kits included multiple levels intended to be used for a minor or major repair of both bearing frame and immersible pumps. Each kit combined 15-25 items under a single part number, reducing research time by over 90%.

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GRUNDFOS, Aurora, IL (formerly Yeomans Chicago Corporation) [2010 -2015]The $4-billion parent company of the $24-million Grundfos Chicago is a global leader in advanced pump solutions and a trendsetter in water technology.• Parts and Pricing Specialist – Aftermarket PartsLead pricing specialist for the company’s 3-man $6-million aftermarket sales team, which provides saleable repair parts needed to bring a failed unit back into service.o Proficient at providing phone and email support to internal and external customers regarding pump system components and providing technical support related to replacing/upgrading these systems.o Experienced with bill-of-materials in electronic/paper/microfiche format for sales orders up to 120 year old and proficient at finding the original part numbers by matching descriptions against pump cross sections.o Skilled at cross referencing obsolete part numbers to current production numbers, by manipulating material codes using resources including Visual Manufacturing, SAP ERP & engineering blueprints. o Experienced at evaluating and setting the selling prices of parts to the company’s approved pricing strategies using SAP ERP (MM/SD/CRM).o Redesigned the existing manual method for setting prices and converted it into an efficient, easy to use, electronic method that reduced the processing time by 25% and provided a reproducible document.o Restructured the process to extract and analyze the existing pricing levels of thousands of part numbers, by evaluating the current cost-to-price ratio (margin) against the approved strategy to determine the correct selling price. This process resulted in the correction of almost 5,000 mispriced parts, avoiding a potential loss of profit of over $600,000 in 2015.o Team Lead for the 5-S program (Sort, Set-in-Order, Shine, Standardize & Sustain), a Lean Manufacturing philosophy, resulting in a plant score improvement from 1.9 to 3.7 (5pt scale) in 14 months.

• Peacetime duties and positions [2002 – 2010] o Squad Leader & Communications Supervisor for the Battalions 10 person Communications Platoon [2008 – 2010] * Supervise/lead the training of the squad in communications skills and radio operations. * Support command tactical field exercises as the Communications Supervisor for the Combat Operation Center. Responsible for the quality and proper procedures for all communications in and out. o Squad Leader & Lead Petty Officer for Detachments 8 person Evaluation Squad [2007 – 2008] * Oversaw and processed the training, tracking, creation and review of Performance Evaluations for over 180 detachment members in Det 0825. o Department Head for the Administration Departments 2 personnel [2003 – 2005] * Managed the processing of all administrative paperwork, personnel updates, Plan of the Month updates and distribution and evaluations using Microsoft: Word, Excel, and Access for a detachment of 60 personnel for Detachment 1625.

Lisle, Il, Us

NAVISTAR INCORPORATED, Warrenville, IL [1998 - 2008]The $12 billion parent company of International Truck and Engine Corporation, a leading producer of mid-range diesel engines, medium trucks, heavy trucks, severe service vehicles and a provider of parts and service sold under the International(R) brand. Subsidiaries include IC bus and Navistar Defense.•Project Manager - Supplier Scorecard Project [2006 – 2008]The project leader for a company wide supplier rating system, developed to align over 1700 suppliers with Navistar’s business goals. The project was intended to promote the continuous improvement of the suppliers’ ability to provide parts to our Truck, Engine and Parts divisions through quantitative ratings and goals. o Increased supplier effectiveness by 12% since its launch in June 2007 by working with the suppliers and increasing their awareness of Navistar’s expectations, measured by a monthly point rating. o Sole contact for over 600 external users and dozens of internal users for all supplier issues including User ID failures, new User ID set-up, and supplier score disputes.o Developed the full time position of a Scorecard Analyst by identifying and documenting all steps required to complete the positions daily requiremnents.o Developed all procedures for receiving, logging, distributing supplier disputes to the business teams and the tracking new User ID creations and password resets.o Identified the need for 11 system upgrades and enhancements needed to improve the systems efficiency and accuracy by analyzing the incoming violation disputes and recognizing inconsistent data.o Facilitated close to 50 Scorecard User Group and Development meetings (ranging from 7-20 people) used to identify and resolve user or system issues.o Provided 3 formal internal training sessions for new users including the creation of several training guides in PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat.

Lisle, Il, Us

NAVISTAR INCORPORATED, Warrenville, IL [1998 - 2008]The $12 billion parent company of International Truck and Engine Corporation, a leading producer of mid-range diesel engines, medium trucks, heavy trucks, severe service vehicles and a provider of parts and service sold under the International(R) brand. Subsidiaries include IC bus and Navistar Defense.• Pricing Manager - Product Support Team [Sept 2004 – Jan 2006] Managed the existing pricing levels and set new pricing levels on all newly launched engine parts (within the first 5 years of service) for the Service Parts Group. Performed 2 price book & 2 price bulletin reviews yearly used to evaluate the current margins and to recover supplier price increases for over 8,000 part numbers. o Created Dealer Net pricing for hundreds of new International part numbers and adjusted thousands of existing prices by applying the current cost and packaging charges to the pricing strategies (profit margins) including multiple pricing levels by purchased volumes. o Identified the opportunity and implemented over $10 million in strategic market accepted pricing adjustments throughout 8 pricing reviews through data analysis of thousands of pricing records.o Evaluated the existing pricing strategies for dozens of part number Item Codes and modified the margins and pricing levels based on the current market and competing suppliers.o Streamlined the process for Price Book review and converted it into an efficient, easy to use electronic method that was adopted by two other Pricing Managers.

Lisle, Il, Us

NAVISTAR INCORPORATED, Warrenville, IL [1998 - 2008]The $12 billion parent company of International Truck and Engine Corporation, a leading producer of mid-range diesel engines, medium trucks, heavy trucks, severe service vehicles and a provider of parts and service sold under the International(R) brand. Subsidiaries include IC bus and Navistar Defense.•Sales Support Manager - Cross Reference [Feb 2002 – Jan 2004]Identified cross-reference relationships between a supplier part numbers and one of Navistar‘s 5-million part numbers. Superseded supplier part number needed to be linked to the correct Navistar part number to ensure the newest number was received by our dealerships. o Researched Excel and Access spreadsheets, with hundreds to thousands of part numbers, for matches to Navistar part numbers using manual research via internet searches of supplier websites and comparing physical measurements against technical blueprints.o Initiated 5 SAS programs designed to compare lists of unknown supplier part numbers against known supplier part numbering formats used to identify a cross reference relationship to a Navistar number.

Lisle, Il, Us

NAVISTAR INCORPORATED, Warrenville, IL [1998 - 2008]The $12 billion parent company of International Truck and Engine Corporation, a leading producer of mid-range diesel engines, medium trucks, heavy trucks, severe service vehicles and a provider of parts and service sold under the International(R) brand. Subsidiaries include IC bus and Navistar Defense.•Technical Parts Support Analyst [Oct 1998 – Feb 2002]Help desk operator receiving phone calls and emails from International Dealerships in need of assistance identifying part numbers needed to repair customer trucks. o Processed 60-80 incoming emails and phone calls daily from International’s Dealerships.o Researched part numbers by interpreting the dealer’s description and location of the part, accessing the truck chassis’ build list and identifying the requested part numbers. o Used blueprints and technical drawings to match dealer’s descriptions of requested parts.o Performed 3-4 engineering “changeovers” weekly, by comparing alternative engineering codes against the vehicles current engineering codes to identify the part numbers needed to meet the customer’s order.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Duties while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2006o Direct Turn-Over Clerk for the Alfa Repair Shop at Battalion HQ in Al Asad, Iraq. * Managed the ordering, tracking and distribution of repair parts for mission critical vehicle repairs for a fleet of over 180 vehicles o Lead Mechanic for one of the battalions 2 Convoy Security Teams for almost 10,000 miles of escort missions throughout northern, central, and western Iraq. * Directed a team of 2 mechanics responsible for the vehicle maintenance of the teams five HummVee’s (HMMWV) and two 7 ½ ton tactical (MTVR) security/escort vehicles.* Conducted all field repairs of mechanical breakdowns during missions for hundreds of civilian and military tractor trailers and escort vehicles in hostile territory.* Driver for almost 10,000 miles through hostile territory during day and night-time operations.

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FIRESTONE/BRIDGESTONE TIRE AND SERVICE Bolingbrook & Naperville, IL [Aug 1997 – Oct 1998]Bridgestone, the world's largest tire maker with $30 million in revenue in 2008, is also known for their non-tire products include building materials, sporting goods, industrial rubber products and switches.•Service Manager Managed a service shop of 9 technicians in daily operations at one of Corporate Firestones top 3 producing service centers in the Chicago land area. o Supervised all vehicle repairs, ordered and maintained inventory levels, set work schedules, and provided customer service.o Increased shop sales by 8% by performing vehicle repairs and by assisting the salesmen daily with the more complex vehicle repair sales.o Received A.S.E. Master Certification as an Automotive Technician from the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE).o Trained technicians on complex or difficult vehicle repairs. o Experienced at the use of micrometers, calipers and other various mechanical measuring devices.

Anderlecht, Région De Bruxelles-Capitale, Be

MIDAS MUFFLER & BRAKEAddison & North Chicago, IL Midas, Inc., the parent company for Midas International Corporation, is one of the world's largest providers of automotive service, including exhaust, brakes, steering, suspension, and maintenance services with more than 1,800 franchised and company-owned Midas locations in the United States and Canada.• Shop Foreman Performed as a vehicle technician during most of the day but supported the Shop Manager in daily operations including: sales, billing, customer service, opening/closing shop, and supervision of up to 5 technicians. o Performed vehicle repairs including: brake, exhaust, suspension and steering componentso Completed the shops MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) for required yearly auditso Supervised the set-up and designed the lay out of 2 new Midas shops in the Chicago land areao Assistant Project Manager for a joint venture between Amoco and Midas

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Industrial Management & Applied Engineering

Associate’S Degree, Engineering Science (Aes)

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Emphasis On Mechanical Engineering

Education record

Diploma, Automotive, Deisel And A/C Repair