Sales Engineer

Sarah Goldfarb

*** ******* ****, *** *****, MI **103. 734-***-**** . ********@*****.***

Education University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

M.S.E. December 2006, Materials Science and Engineering

B.S.E. December 1999, Materials Science and Engineering

Work

Experience Product Engineer- Non-Woven Technologies

Owens Corning, Toledo OH 8/2007-current

Responsibilities

Act as technical point of contact for North American

battery, solar, ceiling, office panel and coated foam facer

customers (accounts totaling over $14 million in 2010 sales

dollars), contributing to sales and gross margin objectives

Address customer quality issues, suggest and/or implement

process improvement

Determine customer Fitness For Use criteria and apply toward

product selection

Manage cross-functional projects to improve existing

products and service

Lead product trials at internal manufacturing facilities and

third party partners

Represent the business group at industry trade shows

Communicate and enforce customer FFUs in product

manufacturing

Achievements

Successfully transferred a strategic product line from

overseas to domestic production

Brought new products to market totaling ~$3 million in 2010

sales dollars

Led effort to acquire GREENGUARD IAQ certification for over

25 products, making Owens Corning the first company to

achieve in the glass nonwovens industry

Led effort to establish product-specific Materials Safety

Data Sheets for the ~65 glass nonwoven products sold in

North America

Fuel System Materials Engineer

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn MI 2/2007-8/2007

Enable appropriate fuel system bill of material through

drawing sign-off

Design and manage laboratory test requests for material

failure analysis

Compile database of approved materials in by fuel system

application

Address potential material concerns posed by biodiesel and

oxygenated fuel environments

Balance role in concurrence with Laboratory Specialist role

(2 days/wk)

Laboratory Specialist

Ford Motor Co., Dearborn MI 3/2000-8/2007

Manage multiple lab projects at once, delegating and

managing interlab work as needed

Perform failure analysis and testing of various materials

including polymers, composites, elastomers, and foams.

Enable swift turn-around of results to support critical

warranty and stop-ship issues

Communicate test results in meetings with suppliers and

engineering customers, as well as in written technical

reports.

Conduct physical testing (tensile, tear, bend), material

characterizations (FTIR, TGA, DSC), Scanning Electron

Microscopy, and digital imaging

Additional

Qualificatio

ns

. Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, 2006

. BayGroup Situational Sales Negotiation Training, 2009

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