Experience

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  Fuji Electric Corp. of America

  • Northeast Region

  • Regional Sales Manager

    • Aug 2022 - Present
    • Northeast Region

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  Clayton Engineering Company

  • Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Application Engineer

    • Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
    • Greater Pittsburgh Area

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  Graybar Electric

  • Greater Pittsburgh Region

  • Sales Application Engineer

    • Jan 2011 - Jan 2019
    • Greater Pittsburgh Region

    Responsible for providing engineering, technical, and sales support for five district branches. Duties include high and mid-level automation project design, product specification, system trouble-shooting, application assistance, programming & configuration assistance, variable frequency drive (VFD) commissioning, trade show technical presentations, customer product training, internal sales force training, and new customer development.

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  Crescent Electric Supply

  • Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Automation Sales Manager

    • Feb 2006 - Jan 2011
    • Greater Pittsburgh Area

    Automation Sales Manager responsible for the administration of engineering and technical support to all branch accounts. In charge of engineering, design and start-up of automation projects. Promotion of automation product lines and Crescent technical capabilities as well as the organization of technical seminars. Duties also include the development of new general sales accounts. Initially responsible for the co-creation of the Pittsburgh branch. This function included the arrangement of the branch’s physical layout, core-team hiring, product-line acquisition, new customer development, and the promotion of the new branch location.

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  General Electric (Supply)

  • Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Automation Sales Engineer

    • Apr 1995 - Feb 2006
    • Greater Pittsburgh Area

    Charged with the management of the GE Supply automation business, including the development of new sales strategies to acquire, increase, and maintain new accounts. Responsible for providing engineering, technical, and sales support to GE sales force and customers for existing accounts. Organized branch trade shows. Taught product seminars and programming to customers and GE Supply sales force. Acted as technical resource for PC support to GE Supply staff. Six Sigma Green Belt trained.

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  Eichleay Engineers

  • Pittsburgh, PA

  • Senior Process Automation Engineer

    • Dec 1990 - Apr 1995
    • Pittsburgh, PA

    Senior Process Automation Engineer responsible for the development of Programmable Logic Control (PLC) logic, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Instrumentation and Control drawings, and some control panel design. Composed functional specifications, operating procedures, supervised field start-up, and wrote engineering man-hour estimates. Limited time spent generating Piping and Instrumentation drawings and specifying required instrumentation.Clients included: National Steel Corporation - Coke Battery, Lukens Steel - Continuous Caster, Westinghouse Electric - Reactor Coolant Pump Test Stand, NASA, BASF - Chemical Processing

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  Cintar Inc.

  • Pittsburgh, PA

  • Electrical Engineer

    • Mar 1987 - Oct 1990
    • Pittsburgh, PA

    Control Engineer responsible for the design of PLC control software, PLC system architecture, Hardware control circuitry, industrial control graphics, and data logging utilizing P & I drawings and control loop descriptions. Supervised and performed field start-up procedures. Organized and developed operating manuals as well as performed PLC and Control Graphics training seminars. Developed control software using Square-D, Allen-Bradley, Modicon, and General Electric programmable logic controllers. Spent some time with P&ID development.Clients included: ALCOA, US Filter, Westinghouse Electric, National Security Agency

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  General Dynamics

  • Greater Detroit Area

  • Electrical Engineer

    • Sep 1986 - Feb 1987
    • Greater Detroit Area

    Electrical Engineer responsible for using M1A1 Battle Tank schematics to design and then test electronic and electrical troubleshooting procedures to be used in the development of an "expert system." Reviewed drawings to assure that designs of new electrical, electronic, and mechanical systems maintained a high level of supportability.