Owen D. BREWER III

*** ***** **** ******, *****, LA 70364

Home: 985-***-**** Cell: 504-***-****

acq5d9@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

I am an innovative executive sales professional with over 20 years of experience in the welding, safety,

metal cutting, compressed gas, MRO, and industrial supply industry. I specialize in outside regional and

national sales corporate management, with an excellent achievement record through motivational team

building, hands on field sales, marketing, product training, customer expansion, and

relations.

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS

Sales account management Leadership/communication skills

Product development Project management

Product line expansion skills Market research and analysis

CORE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Staff Development:

Initiated multi-level sales and marketing programs for territorial representatives throughout various

markets, exceeding all established goals.

Mentored, educated, and motivated inside/outside sales personnel, resulting in over 20% average

increases in sales and profits quarterly.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TECHNIWELD USA

Atlanta, GA

V.P. Sales Southern Region 10/2004 to Present

In 2004, I managed and expanded territorial sales for the regions of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas as a

Territory Sales Manager. This included calling on and product demonstrations jointly with distributors in the oil

field, fabrication, plant refinery, and river related stevedore end user operations. I was promoted and operated

as National Sales Manager from 2006 to 2008 with fourteen territorial direct reports within the United States,

while maintaining the Louisiana and Mississippi welding/industrial safety markets, achieving double digit

percentages in profitable growth. From 2008 to present, as a member of the executive team, I am responsible

for establishing, executing, and report coordinating all southern United States regional sales and marketing

programs; which includes new product development, joint end user presentations, attending national

conventions, special contract distributor initiatives, customer rebate incentives, sales goal analysis with

projections, and territorial management of up to ten or more direct report sales professionals. While maintaining

a personal block of business representing $3 million per year, I also manage a sales staff; which, along with my

personal accounts, led the company in sales and profits for multiple states throughout the southern region

averaging $20 million per year promoting welding alloys, MRO industrial products, power/hand tools, gas

apparatus, safety supplies, consumables, and equipment.

SOUTHERN SUPPLIES & SERVICES INC.

Laplace, LA

President/CEO 08/1999 to 10/2004

As owner and operator of a retail welding, compressed cylinder gas, safety, janitorial, and MRO industrial

supply distributorship, I achieved contracts with shipyard fabrication companies, D.O.D., Louisiana Power, and

multiple petrochemical/oil field refinery corporations. This entailed completing sales distribution of compressed

gases, medical gases, gas manifolds, specialty cylinder gases, various supplies, and equipment to the refinery,

petro chemical, and metal fabrication industries. I worked jointly with National Welding Supply and Capitol

Welders Supply in the compressed, bulk, and specialty cylinder gas sales arena within the Baton Rouge, LA

market. Initially, this corporation was founded with $20,000.00 capital and I sold the business in 2004 with $2.6

million in yearly sales at a 37% true gross profit average.

DRAGO SUPPLY/MOTION INDUSTRIES

Geismar, LA

Contract Sales Specialist 02/1997 to 08/1999

This position involved managing and growing Energy fossil/nuclear power plant contracts. My responsibilities

included branch operations, distribution, and operational profitability. I received contract awards for Department

of Defense along with multiple refinery operations including Motiva and Dow chemical. My team and I

exceeded all new branch operational sales and profitability goals ($1.5 million per month) established by

corporate management.

NASCO INC.

Harahan, LA

Branch Manager 05/1991 to 02/1997

Initially, I was hired as a warehouse shipping/receiving clerk during high school prior to 1990. Promoted to inside sales

full time in 1991 and became the youngest branch manager in company history by 1992. As manager, I was

responsible for all personnel, sales, profits, inventory control/purchasing, and product distribution of a 50,000 square

foot welding industrial supply wholesale operation serving distributors throughout the gulf coast region, surpassing

branch sales goals($4.9 million per year) established over the previous fifteen years prior. I accomplished a $7.2

million per year average by the end of 1992 and received the national sales achievement award for surpassing sales

and profitability goals as compared to seventeen other national locations. From 1992 through 1998 I maintained

constant double digit sales and profit growth by creating, implementing, and executing specialized promotional

marketing strategies for the sales region.

EDUCATION

GENERAL WELDING AND ALLOY APPLICATIONS 1994

ABC School of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA

Here I received training in mild steel, stainless, nickel, and aluminum in the GMAW, GTAW, and SMAW

processes.

GENERAL WELDING/CUTTING/SAFETY 1993

Louisiana Technical College, Reserve, LA

I was awarded SMAW and GMAW certifications for all position welding. Passed all bend/stress test

requirements. I passed all studies in plasma/torch cutting, gas apparatus equipment, compressed cylinder

gases, welding equipment operations, safety, and settings. Certified in 3M OSHA fit test requirements, safety,

and compressed cylinder gas application regulations.

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA: GENERAL STUDIES 1991

East St. John High School, Reserve, LA

College Prep

REFERENCES

Sandy Comeaux, Owner Myron Bourque, Sales/Operations Mgr.

Comeaux Caps, Inc. National Welding Supply, Inc.

Gonzales, LA New Iberia, LA

Cell: 225-***-**** Cell: 985-***-****

Ricky Counce, Sales Manager Brian Weaver, Owner

Professional Welding, Inc. Weaver Supply Co, Inc.

Houston, TX Moss Point, MS

Cell: 832-***-**** Office: 228-***-****

Joe Tyler, Territory Manager Wade Forest, Branch Manager

ORS Nasco Airgas

Baton Rouge, LA Harvey, LA

Cell: 225-***-**** Office: 504-***-****

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