Mike Heltemes Email & Phone Number

Brown Deer, WI

Brown Deer, WI

• Create ‘Engineered to Order’ customer quotations
• Project manage custom orders to ensure timely deliveries that meet customer expectations
• Research new solutions to meet unique customer needs
• Provide technical support for the sales team

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Develop new and manage existing OEM accounts to meet sales revenue and profit margin goals
• Pursue sales leads and opportunities with new and existing customers
• Create estimates, proposals and new project technical requirements
• Provide technical support for the custom integration of product in multiple OEM markets
• Manage products and projects during development and through production release
• Partner with other sales team members to assist as technical expert during the… Show more

• Design and develop the electronics portions of Point-of-Purchase displays
• Generate product requirements documentation
• Circuit design, prototype creation and testing
• Responsible for safety and emissions compliance of product
• Sourcing and managing prototype subcontractors for printed circuit board layouts, custom cable designs and manufacturing
• Create the software and manufacturing test plans for Taiwanese and Chinese subcontractors

• Create new development and requirements documentation for all market segments
• Manage products through the development process
• Responsible for the OEM market segment of sales
• Create product estimates and proposals
• OEM and Commercial market trade show coordination
• Product forecasting, budget management

• Perform all sales and sales engineering functions for the OEM market segment
• Develop project estimates and customer quotations
• Create technical documentation and Excel based technical sales tools to aid in the sales process
• Coordinate and attend annual trade show
• Manage products during and after development

• Provide technical support for the OEM Sales Manager
• Create project development and product cost estimates
• Be the technical point person for all OEM customers
• Resolve the more challenging customer application and integration issues for all market segments

• Manage a project development team that consists of multiple engineering disciplines
• Set new standards for flexible, multi-use project components in products
• Develop products that are still actively sold
• Create the CRM product configuration tool rules and implement them for the sales team
• Responsible for all corporate Y2K compatibility efforts

• Manage a team of embedded software designers
• Coordinate development schedules with other engineering discipline managers to meet project goals
• Perform hiring/firing duties
• Lead technical advisor during patent infringement investigation
• Create Excel based bill of materials generator for configurable product based upon some basic inputs
• Create and introduce interactive, flexible, production serial communications test protocol embedded in all commercial products

• Design electronic circuits, write embedded software, develop mechanical designs and lay out circuit boards
• Create assembly, dimensional and schematic drawings
• Experience with safety, emissions and immunity compliance
• Write flexible, menu driven OS called ‘Easy Key’ for all commercial LED signs. This is still in use today.
• Expand serial communications protocol for implementation into all new product designs
• Assist with the integration of products in customer… Show more

• Install and trouble-shoot tramp metal detectors and weigh scales that are used on conveyors in the mining industry