Barry A. Lauer

Metallurgical – Electronics Engineer

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Simpsonville, SC 29681

864-***-****

Career Summary

Steel/Iron Products Purchasing/Commodity Manager – 12 Plants

Direct Customer Sales Manager and responsibility for Inside Sales and Staff-Support personnel for ~$100M Annual Sales

Manager of Product Development for ~500K Annual Tons of Steel (approximately $325M Annual Sales) – Electrical Steel

Direct Supervisory responsibility - Hourly/Organized Employees in Steel Production, Quality Control, and Research environments

Directed Corporate implementation of consistent/best Statistical Risk Analysis Practices – Six Sigma “Black Belt” (GE-trained)

Recent Positions - Steel Commodity Manager, Sr. Project Engineer – Baldor Electric Co. A Member of the ABB Group – Responsible for ~$60M Total Steel/Iron Products Spend for Electric Motors, Power Transmission/Drives, Bearings, Aggregate/Bulk Transmission Systems:

-Steels – Electrical (Non-Oriented/Oriented), Bar (Carbon, Alloy, Stainless, Super-Alloys); Plate (0.125” to 10.00” thickness, Carbon, Alloy, A-36, Hi-Strength Low Alloy (HSLA), Abrasion-Resistant); Sheet (Hot/Cold Rolled, Galvanized), Tubular/Pipe (DOM-Welded, Seamless, ERW); Bearing; Steel Fabrications and Stampings.

-Cast Iron – Gray and Ductile (Bars, Couplings), Continuous-Cast Bars

Achievements and Savings Generated:

-During Steel Supply “Crises”, Quickly Facilitated Substitutions of Low-Cost CRML Electrical Steels for more Costly Semi-Processed Non-Oriented Electrical Steels, Directed Evaluation Trials, Fully Qualified Three New Domestic Suppliers – $22M

-Developed Additional New Electrical Steel Sources (Asia, CIS, EU) – $11M

-Developed Alternative Sourcing of T&P and Ni-Substitute Bar Products – $1.1M

-Optimized Sourcing of Structural Plate Steels – $1.5M Annual

-Negotiated Innovative Raw-Materials Surcharge “Caps/Windows” - $1.2M Annual

-Additional Accomplishments – Multiple-Source Availability for ALL Products; Increased Plant Stamping Productivity; Extended Stamping Die-Life

Barry A. Lauer

All Efforts Have Been Coupled With Strong Metallurgical/ Materials Engineering, Financial Analysis, Six-Sigma, and Direct Sales Expertise.

Specific Experience and Skills

BS - Metallurgical Engineering (University of Pittsburgh); AS – Electronics Engineering Technology – Digital, Communications Certified

Six Sigma (6s) “Black Belt” (GE-trained) specializing in Process Cost and Material Variability Reduction, Risk Analysis, SPC Enhancement.

8 U. S. Patents – High-Strength Micro-alloyed Bar Product; Electrical Steels

Recipient – “Engineer of the Year – Northeastern Ohio” – National Engineers Week Award – 1998 – Candidates from 19 Professional Societies, 3 Universities.

Sr. Sales Engineer with Direct Sales/Commercial Responsibility for $100M annual sales (200K tons) of Engineered Steel Products – U. S. Steel Corp.

Manager, Product Development – Electrical Steels – LTV Steel Corp. – largest producer of Electrical Steels in the USA – $325M/500K tons annual.

New Product Introduction (NPI) Program Manager – LTV Steel Corp.

Corporate Risk Analysis Manager – LTV Steel Corp. - SPC/FMEA Techniques to Quantify the Impact and Causes of Producing an Outcome that is Not to Specification; Provided Meaningful Assessment of the Risk.

Quality Control Manager – Cold Finished/Hot Rolled Bars, Strip, Plate, Rod & Wire – LTV Steel Corp.

Heat Treating Specialist Bar/Plate Product – emphasis on Quality, Cost Improvements.

Materials Analytical Techniques Skills include Standard Light Microscopy and Metallography, SEM, X-Ray, and all Mechanical Property Practices.

Additional Skills – Welding School (Babcock and Wilcox – All Manual and Semi-Automatic Techniques), Direct Shop Supervision of Bargaining Unit Employees, Failure Analysis Specialist, Conversational/Technical German (Read/Write), Functional Spanish, Japanese.

Infantry Squad Leader, Combat Engineer – U. S. Army/ARNG – 7 years – Veteran

SSG – E-6 – Outstanding Soldier of Battalion; Outstanding Instructor of Battalion.

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