Product Development Quality Assurance

G. ROBERT SIPP

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Davidson NC *8036-8925

Cellular: 412-***-****

E-mail: ******@*****.***

CAREER PROFILE

A highly self-motivated professional with extensive multi-tasking, cross-functional experience in guiding teams toward exceeding goals in general management, manufacturing, business and product development, engineering, service, market share, quality assurance, and innovative customer relationships.

Ideal opportunities would include those in management applying experienced, proven skills in team-building, highly-effective marketing/product and service development, and business expansion leadership, within a dynamic, entrepreneurially-focused team environment. Special skills and applied experience include:

Developing Accomplished Cross-Functional Teams

Motivational and Mentoring Leadership Style

Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills

Maintaining Focus in Rapidly Changing Market Environments

Applying Extensive Product Development Experience

Applying Global Markets Expertise

Generating Profitable New Customers

Developing High-Performance, Customer-Oriented Company Teams

Building Strong Customer Relationships

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TECTRANS INC / OMNITEC INC. - Davidson NC /McMurray, PA 2003-Present Partner / Director 1990-1994

*Created and managed a collaborative team, including Rockwell Automation and Eaton Electrical, contracting condition monitoring, operating alarms, repair, and predictive life services for large rotating equipment (generators, pumps, and gas turbines) at multiple power-generating sites of four major utility companies in the Northeast power grid.

*Provide consulting, technology licensing services, and business development support for Fortune 200 clients, including Caterpillar Inc., in engineered commercial products, services, and advanced technologies in heavy equipment manufacturing, and process/power industries.

*For seven years, maintained a weekly engineering design site office within Cooper Energy Systems/Rolls-Royce HQ, supporting design, project management, and application collaboration with division engineers for global pipeline, offshore platform, and power-generation projects, with average project value >$10M.

*Contract-management global sales, marketing, and product development for a $25M manufacturer of metals processing equipment for eight years, winning three state export awards.

THE TIMKEN CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA 1994-2003

Division Manager – Process Industries B/U 1972-1974

*Full P&L responsibility for a $150M division for industrial products and services provided to process/OEM industry sectors including metals production, rotating equipment, power generation, chemical/oil processing and refining, papermaking, and water treatment.

*Managed product development of several leading bearing products, fabricated sub-assemblies, and repair services through a systematic process of collaboration, partnering, acquisitions, and team development. Individual projects often exceeded $10M in sales revenue.

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*Developed two bearing product lines from concept through patents, marketing, and customer partnering creating record gauge control in strip metals rolling and low vibration in large rotating equipment such as pumps, special turbines, wind generators, etc. Early applications included multi-million dollar orders from Alcoa, GE, and Fluor.

*Conceived, then launched, a $15M (first-year) service/repair business unit for bearings in large equipment for metals manufacturing and electric utilities.

*Worked, for one year, in a Timken developmental partner company, developing products and multi-million-dollar business volume in target industries/applications including DOD battlefield robot applications (partnering with Carnegie Mellon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and others), proprietary very-low-NVH/high-output gear drives for remote-control aircraft (partnering with Lockheed Martin, USAF Wright-Patterson, Foster-Miller, and Boeing), low-noise transmissions design, assembly, and controls for the Segway HT (Kaman Industries), and testing/certification/R&D services for Emerson Electric/Copeland Corporation compressors and motors, Harley-Davidson transmissions, and Johnson & Johnson personal mobility vehicles.

*Provided field applications engineering assistance and earned multi-million bearing sales from a variety of customers in marine drives (Caterpillar, Mercury Marine, Allison, Cummins, etc.), drives and motors (Allen-Bradley, Falk, etc.), cranes (Manitowoc, Northwest Engineering, American, P&H, Drott, etc.), I-C/diesel engines (Cummins, Caterpillar, Briggs & Stratton, Tecumseh, Kohler, etc.), ag-equipment (A-C, CNH, Jacobsen, Steiger), and rolling mills.

ATP INC., Pittsburgh, PA 1983-1987

Vice President

*Managed total manufacturing, sales, and financial operations for a $25M business in industrial tools and engineering services.

*Partnering with Stanley Tool Works, designed, manufactured and supplied patented component parts for advanced hydraulic tooling.

*Created a DOD/NASA contracting division, responsible for air/hydraulic/robotic tooling design, manufacture, and supply for ships, ground vehicles, and aerospace applications.

*Supplied tooling, repairs, and engineering services to Newport News Shipbuilding, General Dynamics E-Boat/Land Systems, Litton Industries (MS), Bath Iron Works, USN, and DOD.

*Deployed a sales/manufacturer’s representative team to market our products nationwide in seven regions, growing our Company’s distributor business over 50% in 3 years.

*Managed a Board directive which transformed our 60 year-old manufacturing company into an engineering, branded product, and distribution organization, leading to 23% growth in core

market-share and profit growth exceeding 25%.

DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC., Pittsburgh, PA

1978-1983

Regional Manager

*Managed a $16 million regional sales and warehouse distribution operation, achieving record regional sales growth for five consecutive years, with Dresser Industries industrial product lines including drives, gas turbine components, pumps, abrasives, and construction machinery.

*Received the company’s highest sales achievement award, as the youngest awardee in Division history.

*Elected 1982 “Industry Man-of-the-Year” for leadership in the global abrasives industry.

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DMI CORPORATION, New York, NY / Miami, FL

1987-1990

Vice President/General Manager

1974-1978

*Designed, implemented, and managed a company sales and distribution network for export and import operations in equipment and renewal parts for mining, power generation, oil/gas drilling/transmission, marine, and construction markets throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Far East exceeding $100 million in annual sales of engines, trucks, cranes, and power sets.

*Evaluated, acquired, financed, and integrated N. A. manufacturing operations in plastics, electronics, processing, and distribution business units for our investment subsidiaries.

*Managed company operations in transportation services/freight forwarding, warehousing, export financing, real estate development, electronics manufacturing, and insurance.

*Managed an electronics circuit-board plant, making product for IBM, Motorola, Harris, and others, with a work force exceeding 150 skilled assemblers, engineers, and designers.

*Managed both internal financial operations and project financing through USA and foreign banks for multi-million-dollar global mining, manufacturing, marine, and construction projects.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

M.B.A. Marketing and Finance, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (1980)

B.S. Industrial Engineering, Magna cum Laude, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN (1972)

Numerous Coursework in General Management and Marketing including:

Leadership Development – Steven Covey Associates

Market-Driven Management

Total Quality Management

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