Engineering & Sales
Resume:
Lewis H. Shuster
Chester, VA 23831
Cell: 412-***-****
Email: ac1hle@r.postjobfree.com
Candidate is an experienced industrial and engineering professional with demonstrated management; sales/marketing; design/engineering and project management experience. Experience
Senior Staff Manager, Service and Customer Service General Electric
June 2016 - Present, Midlothian, VA
Candidate has P&L responsibility on assigned industrial projects in Virginia and the Carolina’s. In this customer facing position, the candidate is responsible for sales, engineering and scope development on proposed projects; building jobs for materials, labor and supervision and management of said projects using a skilled team. Candidate is competent in all aspects of the business enterprise, from Sales, through project execution, including start-up and commissioning. Also, is experienced with Project Management, including planning/scheduling; ERP and SCM Systems. Head of Engineering
General Electric & Alstom
March 2012 – June 2016, Midlothian, VA
Candidate managed a skilled team of Engineering Managers; Engineers and Designers- engaged in all phases of Engineering from Sales/Tendering, through detailed design to field and manufacturing support. Candidate built a fully functioning/competent engineering team in less than two years. Managed Engineering P&L valued at nearly 7 million dollars per annum. Have Project Management responsibility for managing small/medium/large and complex engineering projects.
Regional Engineering Director/Regional Sales Manager Hitachi, Ltd, TPL Div. of MD&A, Ltd
November 2006 – March 2012
Candidate was responsible for field engineering support and sales management. In this customer facing position, candidate was responsible for over one-third of the division’s sales volume, per annum. Managed all customer needs from sales through execution and supported outage planning processes. Project Manager/ Turbine (SME) Consultant
RRI Energy /Reliant Energy/Orion Power
2000 – 2006
Project Manager on a re-powering of oil/gas and coal fired power plants. This included fuels, steam and control systems. Planning and execution of routine maintenance; performance upgrades, including life-cycle enhancements. P&L responsibility on projects valued at ~10 million per annum. Principal Engineer/Supervisor
Tennessee Valley Authority
1992 – 2000
As a working engineering supervisor, candidate managed an engineering team involved in engineering, design and development; FEA/FMEA/RCA, reverse engineering and EI&C systems retrofits. Candidate managed P&L on capital projects in excess of 250 million dollars per annum.
Manager of Projects
Ebara Environmental Company
February 1991 – October 1992
Managed and developed projects for a variety of environmental applications. Candidate focused on MSW, wastewater and electric utility markets. Candidate was responsible for quoting/proposal process and project planning/budgeting and control process. Project Manager
Schneider Engineers, Inc.
January 1989 – February 1991
Managed engineering-design and conceptual engineering projects for the electric utility & cogeneration markets. Candidate was also responsible for planning; scheduling; directing and primary interface with customer.
Senior Turbine Design Engineer
Elliott Turbo-Machinery Co.
May 1983 – February 1989
Candidate managed multi-national project design teams responsible for designing and developing solutions for Gas Turbines and Turbo-machinery. Steam Turbine Product/Application Engineer
United Technologies (part of tenure at Elliott Co.) February 1981 – May 1983
Candidate performed steam turbine design and application engineering tasks. Product Service Engineer
Siemens / Dresser-Rand (Dresser-Clark)
February 1979 – January 1981
Candidate provided in-house Product Service Engineering support for a variety of rotating equipment product lines.
Supervisory Field Service Engineer
Westinghouse Electric Company
August 1977 – February 1979
Candidate was responsible for Field Service on utility Steam and Gas Turbines, ranging in size from 60 to 1200MW. Also, experienced with start-up/troubleshooting; vibration testing and Mechanical-Hydraulic Control systems.
Supervisory Laborer
Frontier Fabricators, Inc.
August 1975 – April 1977
Working Supervisor in a team environment, managing a group of laborers in a metal fabrication and pallet shop to earn 100% of my full-time college costs. Education
Oklahoma State University
MSETM, MS Engineering Management
2002 – 2009 (Earned entire degree via distance learning while working full-time) Activities and Societies: Academy of Management
Point Park University
BSMET, BS - Mechanical Engineering Technology
1981 – 1985 (Attended evening and Saturday classes while working full-time) Penn State University
AEMET, AE - Mechanical Engineering Technology
1975 – 1977
Activities and Societies: President of Campus ASME Chapter, Named to Who's Who in Junior Colleges
Professional Publications
The candidate has authored/co-authored 10 technical papers that have been published in a wide variety of technical journals. A complete list is available upon request.
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