Communication Technician Power Plant

Thomas M McCormack

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Hudson, FL 34667 ***********@*******.***

Seeking executive sales management, marketing and administrative position with national or international company. I have extensive experience in budget, sales projections, forecasting, operations management, purchasing, accounts receivable, personnel management, inventory control, and consolidating sales information, prospecting for new customers, distributing leads, follow-up and trouble shooting. Knowledge of competitive products and pricing. Track record of achieving goals. Available for extensive travel.

I have extensive knowledge of welding metallurgy, electrical power, compressed gas solutions for use in industrial trades. Knowledge for use of equipment for personal and industrial safety. Shipbuilding and power plant construction administration and supply is in my background. I am fluent in Spanish.

Community Service For All Inc. April 2019-Present

"The Road To Success Without College"

Greater Tampa Area, FL

President/Founder

While working in my career and serving on the Board of Directors of the American Welding Society, I saw a need for growing the future industrial workers from the youth of our neighborhoods. Since re-locating from South Florida to a rural area in greater Tampa, the topic became more realistic! “The Road to Success Without College” was born. A Registered Non-Profit Foundation existing to find trade school tuition assistance. Our fund raising was to come from Federal, State and Local Grants for the purpose of successful post-secondary training for the future leaders of tomorrow. Our purpose was to fill jobs necessary in heavy industry to fill the construction needs of building tomorrow's America. In the 1980s I was the administrator of the Hobart Welding School, Southern Division, Vero Beach Florida. I can see what those years of training accomplished. Unfortunately, the funds for our success have been re-directed to the channels of the COVID pandemic and schools have closed and re-direction is slow. The talent that I acquired to write for Grants is otherwise now occupied.

United States Dept of Commerce, Census Bureau ACO 2978 Oct 2019-Oct 2020

St Petersburg, FL

Recruiting Assistant, responsible for recruiting, interviewing and hiring candidates for the Census in the Pasco and Pinellas Counties area in Florida, or wherever I am sent. My management history is useful in a higher sequence of my current position.

Uniweld Products Inc Oct 2002-Oct 201

Fort Lauderdale, FL

National Sales Manager

Director of sales for the United States and Canada. My sales staff included 55 Independent Reps and 5 Regional Sales Managers. My products included manufactured equipment for the welding, plumbing and HVAC trades.

Techniweld March 1990-Oct 2002

Atlanta, GA

District Manager – Southeast

Managed sales of welding alloys and equipment in the southeast United States. Selling products through authorized distributors in the welding and industrial equipment business

Florida Welding Supply, Inc. 1985-1990

Vero Beach FL 32960

Vice President – Owner

Owner of Welding Supply with emphasis on sales, service of welding machinery, filler metals and related equipment. I had 3 locations, Tampa, Orlando, Vero Beach FL.

Part of my sales and service operation was a sizeable rental fleet. I had 250 welding 'arcs' for rent including heat stress-relieving equipment.

I also had a satellite operation in Miami. Our focus of sales was central and south Florida to include power plant construction and maintenance as well as standard practice of working with trade schools. I Sold my share of the business in 1990.

Hobart Brothers Co 1970-1985

Export Manager

Operations Manager

District Manager

Vero Beach, FL

With my knowledge of Spanish, I was hired out of the Navy to learn the welding business as well as the export business. After training in Troy, Ohio, the world headquarters of Hobart I was stationed in Vero Beach to handle Latin American sales. In later years I domesticated and became Operations Manager and then became District Manager -full-charge manager of national company-owned warehouses and sales facilities. Supervised three equipment warehouses. Managed sales, service and purchasing for welding, industrial equipment and supplies. Managed international sales to Latin America and the Caribbean Basin.

I Administered Hobart Vero Beach Welding School - 1979-1985. I bought the company assets and inventory in 1985 to open Florida Welding Supply.

I joined the Navy after 2 years of college. It was during the Vietnam War. All college course studies at that time had turned their eyes to the war. I came from a conservative/religious background to attend a liberal arts college - I felt I was needed in service of our country.

U.S. Navy - Active Duty 1966-1970

Various Duty Stations

Communication Technician, CT2

Cryptographer, Interpretive Branch – Linguist. RT Operator, Aircrewman.

While in the U. S. Navy, I attended the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California, to become proficient in Spanish, both speaking and writing.

Once assigned to my Florida duty station, Naval Security Group Activity - Homestead FL with TAD at Naval Security Group Activity – Key West FL, I volunteered for flight duty at NAS Key West JARCC for airborne intelligence duty assigned with VQ2 Squadron, Rota Spain. I had the highest security clearance assignable. I was trained and then I trained as senior petty officer and flight team leader on every training or operational flight. I was trained extensively in the language and in the Spanish culture, interpreted, coded, and wrote out hand- written messages to HQ, U.S. Naval Intelligence, which was sent to them by Courier to Washington, D. C. I was proficient in all my duties and when I parted from active duty in the Navy I had already passed my tests and met all qualifications of becoming Petty Office First Class CT1

(E-6)

While I was in the U.S. Navy At my last duty station in Key West, Florida, I had a side-occupation at two resort hotels on the island. My title was "Night Auditor". After some training on book keeping and hotel 'trend-of-business' studies, I applied and was hired at:

Best Western - Key Ambassador - Key West 1968-1970

Holiday Inn - Key West

The duties at both hotels were similar. The hours were usually from 11:00PM - 8:00AM.

Duties included checking guests in and out as well as settling guests into the hotel, The overnight duties were balancing the books and checking the folio balances from all departments at each hotel including restaurant, lounge and gift shop charges and checking them with each hotel room number and making sure the daily charges each day balanced with the total department balance. Book keeping at its best.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

St. Francis Preparatory PA College Prep - Diploma HS

Kent State University OH Business Administration - No Degree

Defense Language Institute CA Associates Degree - Spanish

US Navy Veteran – Honorable Discharge

Kent State University OH Business Administration*

* After returning from Military Service, I re-instated at Kent State to complete my Bachelor's Degree in Business - however on May 4, 1970 - the U.S. National Guard opened fire on students who were demonstrating, as students do, on campus. That ended my college career and caused me take an offer from Hobart Brothers Company where I could use my Spanish language Associates degree in the pursuit of a career at a 5-star American/International manufacturing company - based in Troy, Ohio.

Life Member - American Welding Society; Currently Serving as Chairman, Executive Board of Directors. District 5 – Tampa.

Charter Member - Navy League - Treasure Coast Counsel; Rotarian

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