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Greenville, South Carolina Area

Property and casualty insurance products from an independent agency. Commercial and personal, real property, automobiles,boats, and other possessions.

Greenville, Sc

Responsible for the management and sales at the Piedmont Manufacturing Division at Hall Industries, IncThe product is CNC machined industrial machine parts for various segments, including transportation, plumbing and valves, and packaging machinery.

Spartanburg, Sc

Co-Owner and VP. Created a line of retail beverages sold in the southeast through grocery stores chains and distribution to independent retailers. Responsible for all aspects of the business including brand management, marketing, sales, R&D, P&L, and manufacturing. The beverages are sold under the "Beacon Drive-In Iced Tea" brand.

Raleigh, Nc

Managed a staff of 40 including sales engineers, customer order engineers, electrical and mechanical drafters, and electrical test technicians involved in the design and manufacture of customized electrical equipment for medium voltage circuit protection, metering and control. Responsibilities included supervising order procurement, order engineering, maintaining the department work schedule, insuring quality of the departments output, Insuring compliance with ISO 9001 guidelines… Show more Managed a staff of 40 including sales engineers, customer order engineers, electrical and mechanical drafters, and electrical test technicians involved in the design and manufacture of customized electrical equipment for medium voltage circuit protection, metering and control. Responsibilities included supervising order procurement, order engineering, maintaining the department work schedule, insuring quality of the departments output, Insuring compliance with ISO 9001 guidelines including creation and maintenance of work instructions and processes.Led the MV switchgear department through organization changes, using principles of change management that combined application engineers from several product lines into a single group to aid in more competitive package proposals, as well as reducing costs through cross trained manpower. At this point my focus shifted to productivity in the Medium Voltage switchgear group.During the 1997 time frame I was tasked to be the key man from the Raleigh plant to work with a team to plan and execute the move of a product line of Medium Voltage outdoor circuit breakers from the Jackson, Ms facility. This involved the organization of thousands of mechanical and electrical drawings for design and previous customer orders, setting up engineering/drafting support in Raleigh, and transitioning the move of all necessary items to Raleigh.Evaluated, hired, and trained technical staff, and drafting managers.Accountable for the budgeting process for the product line, including salaries, materials, office equipment and supplies.Involved in the training of field sales personnel in technical details and pricing knowledge.Made customer calls with field sales persons as needed. Show less

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Represented Siemens as sales engineer to major architecture and design firms such as Fluor, Jacobs, and CH2MHill (Lockwood Greene) as well as industrial accounts in the upstate South Carolina territory. I was responsible for selling products such as motors, electrical control, circuit.protection and power distribution equipment, relaying, measuring and metering equipment to the assigned accounts. I gained experience selling complex, custom equipment, with long project cycles, as… Show more Represented Siemens as sales engineer to major architecture and design firms such as Fluor, Jacobs, and CH2MHill (Lockwood Greene) as well as industrial accounts in the upstate South Carolina territory. I was responsible for selling products such as motors, electrical control, circuit.protection and power distribution equipment, relaying, measuring and metering equipment to the assigned accounts. I gained experience selling complex, custom equipment, with long project cycles, as well as working with distributors and contractors on standardized products. Utilized team selling, as many of the large projects required management and input from multiple decision makers in different locations.During my time as an Account manager, I worked with Fluor purchasing and engineering management on a project to align Siemens and Fluor operations to present a partnership arrangement to Fluor clients for the electrical equipment needs for projects. The agreement included pricing, terms, deliverable commitments, and technical assistance to insure successful projects. The agreement was applicable to all Fluor locations requiring NEMA electrical equipment.I was able to exceed my assigned sales loading in each of my years in this position, and was given the National Salesperson of the Year (Gold Medal) award for my efforts in 1994. Show less

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Similar position to the ones held at Westinghouse, except the equipment area was low voltage metal enclosed switchgear and low voltage substations.While at Siemens-Raleigh, I led projects to create pricing programs for both internal use, and field sales use. The biggest difference was the internal program was PC based with more specification options, versus a field sales tool that would produce a good estimate price, with the idea of being a good way to involve the field salesman with… Show more Similar position to the ones held at Westinghouse, except the equipment area was low voltage metal enclosed switchgear and low voltage substations.While at Siemens-Raleigh, I led projects to create pricing programs for both internal use, and field sales use. The biggest difference was the internal program was PC based with more specification options, versus a field sales tool that would produce a good estimate price, with the idea of being a good way to involve the field salesman with the customers engineer. This program was successfully used for 6 years. Show less

Worked in customer order management by preparing proposal for equipment to meet customer specifications, order engineering, sales engineering, manufacturing support, order change management. Sales presentations on equipment in support of field sales persons. Developed and used product expertise in medium voltage switchgear, power transformers, unit substation design, relaying and metering.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Economics

Area of concentration - Accounting