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Springfield, Illinois, United States

Business development, account management, and market penetration activities with a focus on growing brand awareness and penetration within the Construction and Industrial landscape.Identify and track upcoming sales opportunities and influence customer specifications to differentiate ABB and to increase market share in the commercial, and industrial market segments.Perform take-off's and develop cost effective proposals from project plans and specs and negotiate and secure project orders, provide value engineering suggestions; provide full packages to differentiate from competition utilizing full product breadth such as UPS, Paralleling switchgear, ATS etc.

Greater St. Louis Area

Ensure the timely and successful delivery of solutions according to customer needs. Manage and develop account with emphasis on Power Distribution, and Control and Automation.- Strategically involved in customer operations to aid in identifying customer objectives, requirements and preferences. - Identify and provide reliable solutions for all technical issues to assure complete customer satisfaction through all the stages of the sales process- Assist in the design and development of new products and tools necessary to facilitate sales

Springfield, Illinois, United States

Responsible for collaboration with customers and industry experts to efficiently solve business needs/problems with unique and innovative system designs and solutions. Communicates with suppliers to discuss material specifications, clarify and develop bills of material, negotiate pricing and identify alternatives for special or custom orders. Develop/deliver order status reports, proposals, submittals and documentation.- Strategically involved in customer operations to aid in identifying customer objectives, requirements and preferences. Actively engaged as a project manager on projects varying in size and scope

Springfield, Illinois Area

Primary technical resource for the field sales force with a focus on Schneider Electric (Square D) Products - Responsible for actively driving and managing the sales process- Work in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical advisor and product advocate- Identify and provide reliable solutions for all technical issues to assure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the sales process. - Perform technical/ product training for sales people, estimators, and engineer- Assist in the design and development of new products and tools necessary to facilitate sales

Jacksonville, Illinois

Full responsibility for design and construction of startup food processing manufacturing facility to support relocation of existing manufacturing lines. Direct all phases of project, prepare estimates, develop budgets and schedules, assembly preliminary Lean design, and oversee all construction and manufacturing functions.

Key Largo, Flordia

Managed and coordinated all aspects of construction project to expand reliability of 138kV substation for high voltage electrical construction company.

Delta, Utah

Oversaw upgrade of 500kV HVDC Converter. Performed job quantity tracking, and maintained continuous job safety and quality control on project valued in excess of $35 million. Responsible for project controls including scheduling, procurement, and cost reporting.

Ogden, Utah

Directed team of field engineers in completing two concurrent design-build 345kV substation upgrades for $100-million high-voltage electrical project. Coordinated subcontractors and performed all estimating, budgeting, procurement, job billing, scheduling, and cost reporting.

Aurora, Nebraska

Provided field engineering, material procurement coordination, daily job progression tracking, scheduling, and estimating for design-build package of 113-million gallon ethanol plant.

Master’S Degree, Systems Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Building Construction Technology

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi, Purdue Grand Prix