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Sales Manager

Location:
Grandville, MI, 49418
Posted:
April 25, 2011

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T i m o t h y B W e i d n e r

**** ********* ***. *.*.,

Grandville, MI 49418

Phone 616-***-**** /

Email: abhlpo@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

. Build long-lasting, profitable and honest relationships in both

my business and personal life.

. Experience in expanding new and existing accounts with tenacity.

. Improve customer communications and follow-up while analyzing

distribution value annually.

. Twenty five years of sales, brand sensitive product development

and engineering. Experience within the appliance, automotive,

aerospace, office furniture and medical industries. Twenty plus

years of stamping tools, injection mold, prototype, production

and distribution related sales.

Education

Ferris State University: Associates Degree in Commercial Art.

Twenty eight years of manufacturing, Product development, prototypes,

injection mold, stampings and specialty components sales and product

development experience. Patent holder.

Continuous Improvement and LEAN/5S practical experience.

Employment

DIY Industries: 03/08 to 01/11 - Distribution Sales Manager (Lean/5S

Visual Control support products)

Became first DIY Distribution Sales Manager with one major

distributor and twelve non-competing distributors in

manufacturing support market. Developed 43 additional

distributors and $800,000 in new sales this year as well as

distributor product

training and education requirements.

Detail Technologies Inc.: 08/99 to 3/08 - Sales Engineer (Prototypes,

molds, stamping dies & fixtures)

Joined small (six employee) shop with expectations of helping to

grow the business and customer base. The company has grown to

62 employees with two shifts, including a new building with the

rental of a second facility to begin a new work center all while

reaching $8.8 mm in sales. Doubled the sales of technologies

and customer base in five years. Detail Technologies supplies

stamping tools and injection molds, fixtures, specialty

components, special machines build, reverse engineering, full

EDM services and limited production.

Mito Product Development (Clarion Technologies) 02/98 to 08/99 -

Account Manager

Responsible for new business and territory development - Sold

industrial design, engineering prototypes and injection mold

building. Expanded the customer base to include: Trendway

Corporation, Federal Mogul, Electrolux, ODL, Chrysler and Cooper

Lighting. Expanded the sales territory into the Chicago area

within eight months.

Northern Indiana Packaging: 11/93 to 2/98 - Sales Engineer

Replaced two regional sales people with responsibilities in

rejuvenation of a failing satellite facility. Restored a major

customer's confidence and our near expulsion as a supplier.

Instrumental in moving our supplier rating from the bottom of

the supply chain to within several points of becoming supplier

of the year within ten months of my original start date.

Prior History: 1975 through 1992

Product Development & Product Design (Manager) for White

Consolidated Co. - 15 plus years (both cooking and

refrigeration appliances with six brands and unique feature

levels) - Patent holder in refrigeration door handle design &

construction. Sales and management of Injection Mold and

production facility. Self-employed design and engineering

consultant for 1-1/2 years.

INTERESTS/HOBBIES

My main interests are: Family, automotive restoration, street

rods, road racing and home improvement. Art in several mediums,

architecture, hunting, new technologies, contemporary christian

music and reading. Haiti Mission trip June 07.



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