Timothy J. Kautz

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Osceola, WI **020

651-***-**** Cell

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PROJECT MANAGER

Lead multidisciplined team in providing product / system solutions that surpass customer’s expectations. EXPERTISE

• Voice of the customer ensuring all aspects of project are being adhered to or improved upon.

• Relationship builder exceling at collaborating with clients, contractors and engineering firms to meet or exceed design, quality, schedule and budget expectations.

• Provide project leadership, technical direction for custom design-build equipment and systems.

• Work closely with large multi-national engineering firms to provide pollution abatement systems.

• Read and understand lengthy in-depth specifications to ensure correct equipment is being proposed and alleviate risk to company.

• Heavily involved in technical sales with generation of project schedules, cost estimates, equipment proposal generation as well as development and giving presentations that were cited as key to contract wins on projects ranging from $100K to $8M.

• Mentoring less experienced team members to become confident in their abilities and decision making.

• New product development and enhancements to existing equipment or systems. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIANCE

2020 – Present Commercial Plastics, Mora, MN

Sr. Project / Program Manager

• Provide North Americas largest off-road vehicle producer with world class project management, by keeping multiple off-road vehicles molded plastic components programs running concurrently within Commercial Plastics.

• Doubled revenue through consistent on time delivery of quotes, project schedules, daily updates to numerous vehicle teams and supply of quality injection molded plastic components.

• Worked diligently with internal and external quality departments to meet on time PPAP requirements by having key involvement until receipt of PPAP approval.

• Leading cost savings programs for internal and external customers by performing secondary operations inside of component molding cycle time at the press. This reduced component cost to customer by handling components fewer times and incurring product loss because of damage during handling. 2005 – 2020 Nol-Tec Systems, Inc., Lino Lakes, MN

Sr. Project Manager / Sr. Applications Engineer / Business Support Manager

• Generated cost, sell price, detailed equipment proposal and managed projects addressing reduction of CO2, SO3, SO2, HCL & Mercury from the exhaust gases generated when burning coal. This is accomplished by utilizing pneumatic conveying principles to inject sorbent materials into the ductwork before gasses can exit the stack.

• Sr. Project Manager, provide project leadership, technical direction for custom design-build material handling systems for coal fired municipal power plant pollution abatement projects for engineering consulting service firms or directly with end users.

• Common to have numerous design build projects happing concurrently each in excess of $5M dollars.

• Sr. Application Engineer: Work closely with customers, company representatives, vendors and all internal departments to generate in a timely fashion, innovative and cost-efficient complete system solutions that meet or exceed customer’s expectations or specifications.

• Business Support Manger addressing, solving technical sales, project management, engineering and customer concerns relating to custom capital equipment systems.

• Review all projects for operational correctness, sizing and overall schedule before orders were accepted. 2001 – 2005 Niro Inc., Hudson, WI

Technical Services Manager (Niro Soavi Division)

• Managed Engineering, Service and Parts departments for a ten (10) million dollar a year homogenizer / high pressure pump division as well as personally handling OEM sales and overflow engineering.

• Resolved all customer equipment disputes in an honest and timely manner.

• Trained new employees and representatives on selling, operation and servicing of equipment.

• Tripled service revenue by leading service team to become proactive by arranging service contracts and offering reduced cost, preventative maintenance visits to customers while in their geographical region.

• Worked closely with equipment manufacturer in Parma, Italy to resolve all equipment related issues associated with doing business in North America. Requiring travel to Europe numerous times a year. 1992 – 2001 Tecnetics Industries, Inc. St. Paul, MN Engineering & Service Manager / Senior Application Engineer

• Setting schedules, budgets and ultimately responsible for profit/loss of projects / service.

• Design using CADD, quote and close sales of custom material handling capital equipment.

• Design, redesigning and standardization of products. All products became profitable & reliable while gaining a respected name in the material handling industry.

• Initial customer contact and site inspections, with follow-up visits during and after equipment installation.

1990 – 1992 AccuRate, Whitewater, WI

Mechanical Designer

• Maintained and improved AccuRate’s largest selling product line by working closely with Manufacturing, Sales and Purchasing to ensure product integrity and ease of manufacturing. I gained extensive sheet metal fabrication experience during this time using CV 3-D CADD. 1987 – 1990 Speed Queen, Ripon, WI - Detail Draftsman EDUCATION

• Associate Degree – Mechanical Design, Fox Valley Technical College – 1987 Graduate

• Numerous seminars and classes regarding Managerial Skills, Time Management, Sales, Effective Communication, Accounting, Project Management, ISO Auditing, Windows programs & Microsoft Project.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Great interpersonal skills and work well in a team setting as well as independently as required.

• Possess computer skills with good working knowledge of MS office & MS project software.

• Self-motivated

• Pro-activity, personal drive, decisiveness, commercial / business acumen, communication skills, excellent teamwork skills, organizational competency and ability to prioritize.

• Experienced traveling domestically and internationally.

• Equipment design, secured two (2) patents #US5715976 & US5516009 REFERANCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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