Stuart Ringwald Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Formed Ionthis to be a cradle to grave full-service contract manufacturer. We can manufacture from a completed design/ drawing or complete the design ourselves from sketch on a napkin. We work with our customers through design, prototyping, small production runs to establish the market and then into full production.• Manage sales of new and existing customers• Manage engineering of new products or DFM of current products from our customers• Manages manufacturing of the components within the factory which includes purchasing procedures and requirements, mold design, production procedures, inspection procedures and packing• Train Ionthis Technicians to oversee the production and audit the factories• Production includes but not limited to Custom Machining, Sheet Metal, Die Cast, Extrusion (Heat Sinks & Pipes) or Plastic Component, Enclosure or assembly designs including product including machining, PEM/Fastener installation, Powder Coating, Plating (anodizing, Chromate, Alodine and so on), silk screening/engraving, partial and full box build including retail packing.• “Cradle to Grave” means as your product matures, we will continually give you suggestions, (process changes, material changes, sub-assemblies) to reduce your cost giving you an improved sales advantage, not force feed the customer only one process• Markets are components to Cable Television, Wireless, Computers, Digital Components, LED Lighting, Medical Equipment, Valve components & Custom Racking and Shelving

Houston, Texas Area

Global Sales Manager/Hydrocarbon Markets, July 01-Jan 05Managed both domestic and international sales & service teams. Duties include international sales and marketing, application engineering and service. This involves establishing market goals, sales budgets, bonus programs, managing inside sales and proposal generation, target projects and establish market pricing for sales and P&L responsibilities. The primary goal was to bring the product sales direct to the customer and technically bring the current outdated technology and designs to equal and surpass to competition’s technology.• Initiated design improvements within the Wedgeplug product line to improve service life and meet the customer’s requirements.• Increased sales of The PV HF products from $5M to$ 7M Annually• Increased the severe service valve product line sales from $1M to 5.5M annually • Established an effective direct and a rep sales network throughout North and South America, China and Europe

Houston, Texas Area

Sales/Technical/Business Development Manager, Apr. 98 – July 01 (Tyco Valvtron, Houston Texas)Directed domestic and international sales and marketing, application engineering and service teams for the Valvtron severe/critical service ball valve line. This involves establishing market goals, sales budgets, bonus programs, managing inside sales and proposal generation, target projects and establish market pricing for sales and managing engineering and service needs as they relate to the customer. This also includes technical assistance for the relocation/consolidation of the Valvtron manufacturing and engineering from Houston to a sister company in Pennsylvania.• Increased the Valvtron market share of critical valves in the Gasification Process Valve market from 15% to 40%• Increase Valvtron market share of critical valves in the Delayed Coker Process Valve market from 10% to 40%• Trained personnel and systems needed to shift from manufacturing and engineering the Valvtron Product in Houston to Pennsylvania• Established and trained a dedicated “Valvtron” engineering department within Yarway• Managed and closed the largest order in Valvtron’s history, $8.5M for Shell/Fluor/Canada/Heavy Oil Cracker• Key projects managed and closed: Hungary/MOL/Coker/$1.2M, NJ-FW/Venezuela-PDVSA/Coker/$1.2M, Houston-Kellogg/Singapore/Gasf./$700K, Houston-Bechtel/Baytown-Exxon/Coker/$1.7M

Houston, Texas Area

Business/Technical Development Manager, May 95 - Mar. 98 (Tyco (Keystone) Valvtron, Houston Texas)Sales Manager for Asia/Pacific, South Africa, Middle East, Canada, Key Accounts in Europe, Houston E&Cs and the Gulf Coast. Responsible to set goals of the local representative and coordinated key project throughout the world for Valvtron Manufacturing/Sales and set market prices that would stimulate growth while maintaining profitability. Additional duties included providing technical assistance to Engineering to develop products to meet the market demands• Increased annual sales in S. Africa from $20K to $300K, Canada from $100K to $500K, Australia from $200K to $800K and Houston E&C from 100K to $1M.• Key projects managed and closed: Lurgi-Germany/Trinidad/DRI/$1.2M, Voest Alpine-Austria/Venazuala/DRI/$1.5M, Contrina/PDVSA/-Venazuala $1.3M/Coker, Bukaka-Indonesia/$700K/Fly Ash, Walsh Const./$1M• Developed new products for markets in FCCU, Fly Ash handling and Delayed Coker by learning the processes in detail.

Singapore

Operations Manager Asia/Pacific, May 94 - Apr. 95 (Keystone Valvtron, Singapore)Responsibilities were to establish and grow sales and service of the Valvtron product in the Asia/Pacific region including to establish and train new distribution and representative network and find, establish service centers to support the product line, identification/target of new markets, projects and customers, project tracking (identify, manage, track and close) and to provide service on key accounts.• Increased sales from $200K to $2.2M• Trained sales representatives in SE Asia, China, Japan, India and Australia• Established lines of communication with the factory and the individual country representatives• Key projects managed and closed: Chiyoda/Tonen-Japan $1.3M, MHI-Japan $400K

Houston, Texas Area

Engineering/Technical Services Manager, Jan. 94 - May 94 (Keystone Valvtron, Houston Texas)Manager of Inside Sales, Field service, and the Engineering Teams. Responsible for inquiry/quotation/application review, application engineering product design (design, material & metalized coating selection) costing/price, order review/entry and design input & output in engineering.• Streamlined inquiry to quotation submittal from 3 weeks to 1 week,• Established ISO procedures for quotation and order processing for sales• Implemented Contract review for order/project processing reducing processing time and errors

Houston, Texas Area

Engineering Manager, Jan. 92 - Jan. 94 (Keystone Valvtron, Houston Texas)Manager of the Engineering and Service Team. Responsible for all design and manufacturing engineering and to resolve customer field problems• Managed design teams to produce new designs targeting Delayed Coking, FCCU and Gasification Industries• Streamlined order/design processing within engineering on projects from 5 weeks to 4 days.• Assisted to streamline the manufacturing and assembly process including design enhancement to reduce manufacturing cost• Established a framework for standard product.• Established and trained sales and manufacturing on the Valvtron product