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Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Bethlehem, Pa

Landisville, Pa

Provided strategic and tactical direction for the company’s worldwide sales, marketing and business development efforts. Doubled sales over nine years through organic growth with new applications and market additions, value added products and services and contract research. - Re-structured and led senior staff meetings. - Led company’s government relations and advocacy efforts through changes to federal legislation and executive branch actions. - Grew federally sponsored research funding through work with DOD, NASA, DOE, NSF, EPA SBIR & STTR and ARPA-E programs. - Managed IP’s and teaming and partnership agreements, and supported new product development. - Led efforts to improve International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance processes.

Landisville, Pa

Recruited, trained and managed direct sales force, inside sales staff, project management, and marketing efforts. - Led website and collateral materials development, PR, sales forecasting, databases and trade show and conference participation. - .Instituted Salesforce.com CRM, sales pipelines, KPIs, leading indicators, territory objectives, sales process value stream mapping. - Assisted with cost reductions, process changes, LEAN manufacturing, ISO-9001 & AS-9100 quality systems and audits, continuous improvement, safety programs and new capital equipment justifications

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Led highly successful and visible non-profit organization dedicated to honor the contributions of Leonardo da Vinci, until merging organization with the Discovery Center of Science and Technology to become the Da Vinci Science Center.- Led marketing efforts, licensing, trademark and copyright management.- Developed and executed strategic plans. - Recruited members of the board of trustees, led governance and bylaw changes.- Managed projects, company finances, P&L, program development, operations, fund raising, and marketing.- Led site negotiations with pubic and private partners in Milan and Vinci, Italy, Michigan and Pennsylvania,.- Managed public relations and events in the US and Italy including tri-lingual media interviews with worldwide media. .

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Directed the start-up, product launch in North America for a US high-tech distributor of a set of thin film metrology instruments for a German company including laser based and spectroscopic ellipsometry and interferometry. - Hit break-even in 18 months and in less than 3 years US sales became the company’s most successful market outside of the home market. - Responsible for P&L, marketing, product market positioning & pricing, and technical sales. Directed technical service & installation, applications and support. - Managed trade shows, public relations, import, export and customs issues