Experience

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  Onward Technologies

  • Rosemont, IL.

  • Sr. Account Executive

    • May 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Rosemont, IL.

    Cold call and visit potential customers for employee recruiting, contract employees and engineering services. Established a $200,000 pipeline for engineering sevices.

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  Arapc Food Group

  • Schiller Park, IL 60176

  • Operations Manager

    • 2012 - Oct 2013
    • Schiller Park, IL 60176

    This foray into primary packaging required wearing a lot of hats including: manufacturing, domestic & international purchasing, engineering, inventories, customer service, sales support, technical service, shipping & receiving, billing.

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  ARPAC LLC

  • Product Manager, Bundling Equipment

    • 2010 - 2012

    Teamed-up with outside sales and customers to determine requirements, quote machines and systems.Worked closely with engineering to improve and expand current machine product offering to land additional business.

  • Inside Sales Manager

    • 2007 - 2010

    Worked with Outside sales, Internal deppartments and customers to deliver projects to schedule. Created and processed Order specifications, updated system, managed customer machine check-outs.

  • Final Assurance Manager

    • 2004 - 2007

    Managed 7-10 Technicians testing packaging equipment and complete lines, including producing customer samples, demonstartions and training. Conducted and improved Fatory Acceptance Tests (FAT) for customers increasing customer satisfaction scores over 10%.

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  Pentair

  • Business Development / Project Management

    • 2003 - 2004

    Worked with the outside sales team to re-work quotations to help them close orders. Called on accounts myself, a highlight was landing a job with GE that we improved the design and reduced the cost and were able to move the assembly from China back to the US. I did program managing of key projects for customers like Dell, HP, Motorola.

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  IMS / Complex Tooling & Molding / Krasberg Manufacturing

  • Des Plaines & Elk Grove Village, IL.

  • Director of Mfg. / General Mgr. / Plant Mgr. / Sales & Quality Mgr.

    • 1996 - 2003
    • Des Plaines & Elk Grove Village, IL.

    Rose through the ranks and managed two mergers to run a highly profitable metal stamping, fabrication and assembly operation. During the journey achieved ISO 9002 certification, forged key relationships with the likes of Dell, HP, IBM and Bosch to improve sales, successfully implemented new manufacturing software, improved tooling set-up times by 35% and had fun doing it all.

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  ODM Tool & MFG

  • Sales Mgr.

    • 1994 - 1997

    Coordinated all sales activities, including managing new and existing accounts as well as cold calling, lead follow-up from periodicals and tradeshows. Landed several new accounts, including a fortune 1oo company and expanded business over 10%.

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  Tru-Die, Inc.

  • Plant Mgr.

    • 1993 - 1997

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  MacLean-Fogg Company

  • Production Control, QA Coordinator, Operations Manager, Overseas Manager

    • 1978 - 1990