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Minnesota, United States

Business Development Leader for wire and cable products for Creation. Support our growth in our Rochester, NY and Boise, ID facilities.

Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Lead the Strategy for the Industrial, Aerospace and Defense Market.-Work with customers to provide solutions to complex problems-Expert in Wire, Cable, PCBA's and total integrated solutions.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

-Celestica is a $6B EMS company and the Aerospace & Defense leader in production of outsourced electronics.-Key Solutions Lead on transferring customer internal production capabilities to outsource.-Worked with the M&A team to target potential acquisitions to expand revenue and capabilities.-Developed the strategic plan for converting capabilities and executing with customers.-Managed all the customer interface, data transfer, and financials for a major outsourcing project.-Worked and traveled with customers to production facilities in Toronto Canada, Kulim Malaysia, and Mexicali Mexico.

Maple Grove, Mn

-Global Leader for a multiple facility, Aerospace & Defense market with revenues in five Minnesota plants, Wisconsin, Mexico and in China.-Fully accountable for total profit and loss of the vertical market.-Leader responsible for the strategic vision for product engineering, supply chain management, quality, production, business development of the Aerospace & Defense market.

Blue Earth, Mn

- Leader for a multiple facility Aerospace and Defense division.- Managed and set the strategic vision for the entire organization of over 150 people.- Revolutionized the production floor from batching to cellular and one piece flow. Scrap, rework were reduced by over 150% and on-time delivery and profitably have soared.- Implemented a cohesive training program with the use of state of the art work instructions to reduce scrap and rework, while improving new employee learning curves.

Fairmont Mn

Nortech Systems, Aerospace & Defense is a manufacture of electrical circuit card assemblies, cable assemblies, fiber optics, harnesses, coaxial and higher level assemblies.- Directed the efforts for Outside Sales, Inside Sales, Program Management, Quoting, New Product Introduction and Design Engineering.- Plans, directs and coordinated the implementation of new products, processes, tools and fixtures into production utilizing lean expertise.- Led a cohesive team that purchased Winland Electronics and incorporated Aerospace & Defense customers within the facility.- A key strategic leader for the future of Nortech Systems, Inc.- Responsible for hiring, training and managing independent representatives and direct sales engineers to meet the company bookings and revenue goals.- Responsible for creating company goals, staffing requirements, quality policies, improvement plans, financial budgets and revenue, profit and loss results. - Hire, train and manage and motivate the internal Customer Management team.- Responsible for marketing plan, advertising, forecasting, quoting, customer service and overall presentation of the company.

Sales Engineer for manufacturer representatives and customers throughout New York, California, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and a key international customers and programs. From June 1993 to May 1997 sales has increased in the above territories from $3 million to over $6.5 million. Responsible for engineering electronic enclosure configurations, quoting and tracking all orders though the manufacturing process. Typical markets that are serviced are OEM's in the Industrial, Defense and Medical fields. Key customers in responsible territories are Hughes Aircraft Company, Raytheon, Hewlett Packard, AMPEX, Applied Materials, Lam Research, GDE Systems, Rockwell International, Lockheed Martin, Loral, General Instruments, ITT, U.S. Government (example: FAA, USCG, NAWC, NISE) and many others.