Pinnacle Converting Equipment, Inc. manufactures converting equipment for a wide variety of industries. Located in Charlotte, NC, we are a designer and builder of custom converting equipment solutions for utmost manufacturing productivity. Our expertise focuses on challenges in web handling that include slitting, sheeting, core cutting, impulse sealing, unwinding, rewinding, laminating and stacking. In order to provide a solution to your manufacturing needs, our staff will ask the right questions that will allow us to design the best converting machine that will implement your goals.Our team of converting specialists consists of Machine Designers, Control Engineers, Machinists, Welders, Painters, as well as Electrical and Mechanical Assembly Technicians. Production is predominately in-house, which achieves rapid response to customer’s needs while producing productive, reliable, and versatile machine solutions and services to maximize value to our customers.My role here at Pinnacle Converting is to bring awareness to the market of the vast and extensive custom converting machine building we are capable of. If there is a Converting project that we can help you with we would love to hear from you!

Helping Manufacturing and processing plants achieve Value Add cost savings with Expert repair and refurbish of industrial electronic & automation equipment.

Key Account Manager for National Accounts for the Commercial Specialty Tire Division.

CIMTEC Automation is a leader in full-service, customized industrial automation services and products, offering a full range of automation services – from diagnostic services to complex automated control systems design to supplying automation parts to industrial companies from many different industries.*Sales support and development of automation customers for the U.S. and abroad. *Increase sales to new customers and to industrial distributors throughout the U.S. *Managed the Internet marketing campaigns through Sugar CRM.

Reporting to the company’s president recruited to lead new account development and account servicing throughout the United States and Canada. Facilitate product presentations to both new and potential customers and suppliers. Collaborate daily with the president and sales manager to provide field perspective and strategies to increase sales and optimize marketing programs. • Achieved record of outstanding sales through cold-calling, sales presentations, trade shows and on-site customer training. • Created new account revenue growth in existing and new markets; • Delivered on customer requirements by leading development of unique and customized new products to meet individual customer applications.

Tapped to lead a cross-functional supplier commodity team and cost savings strategy development and execution.Served as Account Manager for electrical commodity suppliers; coordinated a total annual spend of >$35M. Secured a 5% annual cost reduction through negotiations with Powertrain Electrical suppliers.• Directed team to deliver a 3% reduction in commodity costs; worked seamlessly with manufacturing team of engineers and project managers to trim costs.• Cut costs by $1.76M through a 2.97% reduction in 2000.• Slashed expenditures by $1.8M through a 3% reduction in 2001.• Led market-testing initiatives of vendor products to ensure the best price and quality.• Performed extensive market analysis on a broad range of suppliers for each commodity including electrical and electro-mechanical products for Company’s Powertrain group. Introduced overseas purchasing and low-cost country manufacturing. • Played a significant role serving as a key member of the warranty reduction team recognized for decreasing waste and cutting warranty costs by 3% within two years.

Provided leadership to a 12-member supply chain team charged with optimizing the product supply and inventory warehouse. Maintained the MRP raw material ordering system to increase accuracy of ordering / release system and reduce waste. Managed a $50M purchasing budget.• Trimmed suppliers and inventory items 25% to achieve a $100K year-over-year cost savings.• Trained supply chain and other users throughout the plant on the SAP software.• Led six-member cross-functional team of accounting, finance, logistics, and purchasing professionals to resolve AP issues and supplier discrepancies. • Improved the timeliness of payments to supplier resulting in the negotiation of favorable shipping and payment terms.

Purchasing for the Taft, LA chemical facility.