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LOUIS C. (LOU) COLLINS

**** **** ***** ****., ***** B – PMB 321, Fort Worth, TX 76116

817-***-**** ad2csv@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR SALES MANAGER / TECHNICAL CONSULTANT & TRAINER Extensive experience in the combination of consultative process, equipment design, product and business development, direct sales, distribution, technical training and channel management. Proficiencies include:

• Thoroughly proficient in the management of local/regional/national, direct sales personnel.

• Extensive experience with the recruitment, support, and monitoring of channel partners, i.e. manufacturers’ representatives, distributors, OEM’s, and VAR’s

• Exceeded past Foxboro, FY sales goal, of $ 22.2 MM, achieving sales of $24.5 MM.

• Received third annual Foxboro Technical Sales Consultant Of The Year award.

• Highly competent communicator. Accomplished presenter, able to conduct dynamic, onsite, or webcast, technical product presentations

• Multi-industry experience, including oil & gas, petrochemical, pulp & paper, municipal, power and utility, clients.

• Also provided equipment and services to food & beverage, pharmaceutical, semi-conductor, aerospace, and general industrial clients.

• Extensive consultant service providing design, selection, and implementation of optimum solutions for measuring, monitoring, control, communication, and test/calibration applications.

• Multi-technology experience with gas, liquid, and steam, process measurement, monitoring, control, and analytical solutions.

• Introduced product development - Initiated, monitored, and implemented improvement, from inception to prototype, beta test, and final production.

• Experienced evaluator of existing processes, providing solutions for improving productivity, through new technology, production, sales, marketing, and administrative, optimization.

• Provide technical writing and specifications. Excel at promoting products and services with corporate purchasing, engineering, project, and field operating personnel, from PHD’s to pipefitters.

• Experienced, onsite personal or group, technical basic training, by C3 Measurement Corp., per below.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

C3 MEASUREMEN T CORP. – Fort Worth, TX

PRESIDENT - Reorganization of consultant services, established in 1995, providing :

• Optimization of production capabilities for hydrocarbon production, and general process industries. Specializing in flow meter selection, and application, support.

• Onsite training of field and operational personnel, relative to Fundamental Technical Properties - Operations, Materials, and Components. Multi-industry packets available. COASTAL FLOW MEASUREMENT CO. – Fort Worth, Houston, Tx. TECHNICAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - New product development consultant, for computer/controllers, and field instrumentation. Conducted technical presentations, and training, relating to mechanical, and instrumentation, integration for complex system solutions, including data acquisition (SCADA), and communication. Also assisted in promotion of field services. FOXBORO – SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC - Fort Worth, Houston, Tx . TECHNICAL SALES CONSULTANT - Sales focus concentrating on measuring, monitoring, and control projects. Recruited to pursue opportunities, and product development, relative to the corporate Foxboro portfolio, managing channel partners, and direct sales. Represent portfolio products at trade shows, participate in professional activities such as API, ISHM, ISA, etc. Conduct technical presentations to channel partners, end users, E&C firms, and other pertinent entities.

DENSIPRO LLC – Houston, Fort Worth - PRINCIPAL AND VP - Established LLC, with industry partners, to promote combined intellectual properties, and pending patents. Primary focus consisted of providing new technology to measure drilling mud and non-newtonian fluids. ALLESCO - Houston, Dallas, Tulsa, Baton Rouge - CONSULTANT - Manufacturers’ agents & distributor firm – Allesco acquired Collinsystems’ contracts to represent, and customer base, assets. Retained as consultant and product specialist for acquired, and other, product lines. COLLINSYSTEMS CORP. Houston, Dallas, Tulsa - PRESIDENT – Manufacturers’ agents & distributors. Reorganized with product lines of instrumentation, custody transfer, analytical, and mechanical products, for oil, gas, petrochemical, pipeline and general industries in Southwest USA, and Mexico. Managed major OEM, and factory direct accounts. C3 CONSULTANTS CORP. – Houston, Grand Prairie, Texas. – PRESIDENT - Concurrent with Collinsystems. Established consultant firm specializing in optimization of equipment for oil & gas, and general process industries. Designed and supervised installations of upgrades to automation, control processes, and prover, calibration, facilities. Supervised lab and field calibration, (prover) certification. Provided technical training, and writing service. 3

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CALIBRATION & SENSORS CORP. – Grand Prairie, Texas - PRESIDENT - Concurrent with Collinsystems. Contract primary calibration & instrument repair facility. Qualified lab facilities to MIL-STD-4566A, and ANSI/NCSL 2540, for flow, level, pressure, temperature and others. NIST traceable primary flow lab for fuels, lubricants, solvents, and specialty fluids. Flow, level, pressure and temperature instruments, repair and recalibration. COLLINSYSTEMS / PRO-QUIP CORP. - Houston, Dallas, - PRESIDENT - Manufacturers’ agents & distributors. Process equipment for oil, gas, petrochemical, and general industries. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING CORP. – VETCO GRAY DIV.

WESTERN REGIONAL MGR. (Los Angeles) –Managed Mfrs. Reps., and distributors. SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MGR. (New Orleans) -. Managed Mfrs. Reps., and distributors EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL, MILITARY

• Univ. of Houston – College Of Technology – Petroleum Engineering. & Mechanical Engineering

• South Texas College – Mechanical Engr.

• Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA) - Life Member

• American Petroleum Institute (API) - COLM, CPMA, & COPM, past committee member for MPMS Chapters 4.9, 5.6, 5.9,14.12, 20.1, 20.2.

• North Texas Measurement Association (NTMA) - Member

• U.S. Patent # 6,629,447 B1, issued, entitled “Machine And Process For The Calibration And Proving of Flow Sensors”

• US Patent # 10,175,083 B1, issued, entitled “Vortex Meter Having Injection Cleaning Ports”

• Published article in Flow Control Magazine, “Set Your Sights On Accuracy’

• TEXARNG - Ten years of enlistment. 49th Armored, and 36th Infantry Divs. Active service deployment. Honorable Discharge

• Fort Worth Police Dept. – Initiated local Code Blue Volunteers