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Burlington, Ontario

Aligning Carlisle's processes and people to ensure we provide our food industry customers with the most leading-edge visibility and traceability solutions.

Marketing of food safety and productivity technology for the food processing industry

• Providing technical and business expertise to EDC’s venture capital team• Analyzing company business plans, deciding on the viability of financial situation, market direction, growth prospects, technical capabilities, and team strengths• Forming consensus with team on whether to make an equity investment in companies• Business Development activities through industry networking and engaging in proactive discussions with prospects

• Analyzed customer requirements and proposed custom process control solutions for customers in the food processing industry• Increased efficiency of sales force by streamlining pricing and estimating software tools• Revamped and implemented year-end inventory procedures • Engaged with prospective customers at meat processing industry trade shows

• Key management and customer contact for global manufacturing and quality systems • Led a team of ten engineers responsible for process development and support of a key global customer account ($150 million in revenue)• Assisted in winning key customers by analyzing requirements, costs, and production capabilities, and presenting technical strategies to customer groups

• Co-ordinated prototype builds and the transfer of products to manufacturing control• Acted as key customer interface for engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing issues during the product development phase• Established project schedules and organized a geographically dispersed team in order to consistently meet and exceed customer expectations • Designed and implemented tooling for new processes or process improvements• Interviewed and mentored new employees

Mba

Mba Exchange Program

B.Eng., Electrical Engineering

• Thesis involved developing a robotic target tracking device using software-controlled optics