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Responsible for all Automation vendor relationships and organic sales growth. Reported directly to Executive Vice President Served on multiple Manufacturer Distributor Councils Trained sales on SPIN selling process improving close ratio. Served on CRM development team Developed targeted sales plans for individual sale people. Plans were account specific and included types of opportunity and tactical strategy. Worked with all locations of Valin west of Colorado Provided content for Marketing to use on the monthly eNewsletters and Mobile Technology Vehicle Published articles in various trade magazines

Valin acquires Automation Controls November 2009 Maintained sales levels post acquisition after losing top 3 sales people and a top 3 vendor Managed 8 sales and applications engineers in California and Oregon Help monthly Territory Planning meetings tracking sale person performance to goal and monitored sales activity. Implemented sales and product training course for all new hires Provided input for customer stratification project Designed and implemented an Automation focus on the Valin Mobile Technology Vehicle including functional demos.

 Responsible for entire organization during Presidents 2 year leave of absence Managed all Outside Sales, Inside Sales and Applications Engineering with Engineered Services reporting into me Brought on new vendors that increased sales by $4M Increased the Value Added Assembly business to 30% of company sales Implemented CRM that had a 90% usage Worked with marketing on all projects including new website development and monthly e-news letters

 Grew company sales from by 30% while increasing the overall Gross Margin by 3% Prospected and developed key accounts that still account for over $6M in annual sales Recruited and trained 8 sales people

 Hired to develop sales channel for the West Coast and Tech market Established distribution network that grew sales in CA, AZ, NV, OR and WA Hired additional sales engineers in Northern and Sothern california Worked with German R&D to develop products specific for the West Coast and Tech market

 1992 – 2001: Organically grew company sales from $1M to $15M annually. $5M was my own territory, $5M in other regions and $5M from Value Added Assembly business 1998 -2001: Responsible for starting and growing Value Added Assembly business which resulted in acquiring Flexible Industrial an aluminum framing distributor and design/build company Recruited and trained Application Engineer staff that is still #1 on west coast Received company’s highest sales award four years in a row.