Sloan B Stewart
Summary of Expertise:
Service Support and Relationship Management
Team Building and Implementation
Business Development
Cost Control and Expense Management
Product Development and Market Introduction
Experience
North American Field Service Manager
2008-Present
Faiveley Transport North America, Greenville, South Carolina
Company profile: www.Faiveleytransport.com
Manages a team of Field Service Engineers and contractors that support the
North American market and select foreign markets for OEM and aftermarket
sales/service projects.
Customer Service sales project development.
Responsibilities include warranty cost management, Failure Analysis Reports
and Product Improvement Reports, sales, staffing, logistics, coaching and
training.
Maintains customer loyalty and retention through service support.
Reduces costs associated with warranty repairs and problem elimination
through hands on inspection, cause and repair analysis and customer
training.
Creates profit centers in line with corporate goals to meet customer needs
from product repair analysis, logistics and basic common sense.
Maintains interdepartmental communication with Engineering, Project
Management and Sales from project initiation through the warranty phase
into aftermarket sales/service.
Key Account Manager and Field Service Engineer
2003-2008
Ellcon-National, Inc, Greenville, South Carolina
Company profile: www.Ellcon-national.com
Manages OEM Sales for Class I Railroads, Energy Sector and Commodity Sector
for the Southeastern Region customer base which averaged $2 million per
year in sales.
Manages aftermarket sales.
Maintains customer loyalty and retention from first hand product support
and training.
Manages the Marketing Department.
Assists with R&D product testing, field testing and market introduction.
General Manager
1998-2003
Vince Perone's Restaurant
Company Profile: Restuarant
Managed business from start up phase until business was sold in 2003.
Managed all areas of the operation including P&L, HR and Purchasing
Education
Bachelors of Applied Professional Sciences
1994-1998
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
Major - Business Administration
Minor - Accounting
Skills
Strong customer service/engineering mindset.
Efficient leadership skills with a team first philosophy.
Experience with Solidworks, CADD, CadKey, MS Office.
Interests
Whatever my kids are into, ie video games to chess.
Sports - I am a wannabe health nut, but the Oreo's get in the way.
Outdoor sports from Surfing to Skiing.
Coaching and teaching kids activities.