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Southco experience:1980-1984 Engineering co-op student positions involving product/customer engineering, manufacturing, quality1984-1989 Product Engineering ; Applications/product experience 1989-1992 New Product Development; Extensive travel and exposure to customers, industries, markets.1992-1995 Chicago sales territory. Daily customer interface to design-in solutions, overcome problems, & develop/maintain customer relationships.1995-1998 Based in Melbourne, Australia. Managing Director of Australia sales and logistics operation. Responsible for Asia-Pacific distributors and sales/shipping facility in Seoul. Traveled extensively throughout the Asia-Pacific managing the business. 1998-1999 Facility Manager of Bridgeport NJ USA factory. 150-person 3-shift operation primarily involving plastic injection molding and highly-automated assembly.1999-2000 Business Manager with P&L responsibility for 40% of global business2001 Directed Demand Flow Technology implementation across the organization. Director of Global Quality. 2002 - 2003 Developed a technical training program relating to products & applications for customer service, engineers, and distributors. 2003 – 2005 Global Director, Product Management with responsibility for strategic life-cycle management of all products. Key areas of focus: pricing, new product development, optimization of operational and supply-chain resources, and synching where/how-produced with the needs of the business2005 - 2009 Director, Global Marketing & Product Management responsible for strategic allocation of worldwide marketing communications, industry marketing, e-commerce, and product management resources.2009 - 2011 Based in Hong Kong; GM, Transportation & Diversified Technologies in the Asia region as well as Manager, Marketing for the Asia region.2011 - 2014 Director, Technical Training2014 Business Development, Japan2015 - 2016 Business Development, Brazil2016 - Distribution Management, USA