Experience

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  NI (National Instruments)

  • United States
  • Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Field Applications Engineering Section Manager, NI Test & Measurement at Emerson

    • Oct 2020 - Present

    As an experienced FAE Manager I drive the development and growth of a team of trusted technical advisors that help ensure customer success and positively impact territory revenue growthPriorities for my role include:Coaching & mentoring a senior FAE team to assist in growing individual professional careers (immediate team engagement with quarterly coaching cadence)Developing a recruiting pipeline to fill the growing need for added field technical resources in my regionEnable the alignment of account objectives with NI Business Unit offerings and applications while facilitating effective FAE feedback to the to the various Business Units to help influence offering development

  • Senior Applications Engineering Group Manager

    • Oct 2008 - Oct 2020

    Successfully built a team from 3 RF Applications Engineers in 2008 to a group of 28 RF Applications Engineers and AE ManagersPrioritize opportunities coming from the sales force to determine technical feasibility and properly staff with systems engineering resourcesWork with management in R&D, Marketing and Sales to align efforts of RF Systems Engineers with the rest of the NI organizationInterview and recruit for RF and Communications Systems Engineering positions in the group by conducting phone screens, technical and behavioral interviews.

  • Senior Application Engineer

    • Apr 2001 - Sep 2008

    Work as advanced presales support with integrators and customers on Realtime & embedded FPGA, large channel count Dynamic Signal Acquisition (DSA) & RF and wireless applicationsMake recommendations on NI software and hardware architectures to provide innovative customer solutionsDevelop innovative proofs of concept and demonstration systems to show capabilities of NI platform to prospective customers in the areas of embedded control, DSA and RF/wireless testManaged the development of a 2 day course on advanced RF applications development using the NI RF platformTaught NI courses at customer sites to enhance customer knowledge on using the NI platform to develop automated test solutionsProvide usability and other NI product feedback to R&D and Marketing to improve product features and functionality

  • Technical Support Engineer

    • Jan 2000 - Apr 2001

    Support customers by resolving issues involving NI products including LabVIEW, Data Acquisition, PXI and VXI platformsEnhance customer knowledge on LabVIEW, Data Acquisition and VXI platforms by teaching week longcourses at both NI Corporate and onsite at customer locations throughout the U.S.Developed technical trouble-shooting content to better assist customers in resolving their technical issues.

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  Advanced Manufacturing Institute

  • Engineering Intern

    • Sep 1998 - Dec 1999

    Designed and developed board level hardware solutions for local Kansas companies.