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Gustave A Wickstrom
**** – Present – Sales Engineer for the Arthur Baier Co. Manufacturers Representatives
Responsibility to cover all counties west of State College Pennsylvania, and from Erie County to Fayette County and seven eastern counties of Ohio. We successfully guide our clients into resolving their design issues using one of the twelve product lines which Arthur Baier represents. Camaraderie, listening and learning what our customers want this in my DNA. Arthur Baier uses Rep Fabric as a database to continuously stay in touch with our clients and principals. President of Pittsburgh Instrument & Manufactures’ Representative Exhibit Association. ~ 10 years. Please see LinkedIn page for educational background and endorsements.
1997 – 1999 - NU Horizons Electronics Corporation – Sales Engineer
2300 Edison Boulevard
Twinsburg, OH 44087
Responsibility to support all counties west of State College to Ohio state line, ~ North to Erie County and South to West Virginia state line. Selling semiconductors to OEMs and start-up companies to obtain a design win for future manufacturing.
1995- 1997- Avnet Industrial – Sales Engineer
Branch Office
951 Haddonfield Rd.
Garden State Park, Cherry Hill, NJ Area of responsibility; All counties west of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to Ohio state line, Erie County to Fayette County (North and South), all of Ohio, all of the state of West Virginia. Selling everything in the Avnet Industrial Catalog to all major electronic and electrical manufacturers and universities.
1981 – 1995 – Electro Sales Associates Inc. Sales Engineer (filed for bankruptcy 1998)
Responsibility to cover all counties west of State College Pennsylvania, and from Erie County to Fayette County and seven eastern counties of Ohio. We successfully guided with kindness and attention to detail; supplying our clients with products from our fourteen product lines that resolved their design issues using our products.
Beaver Creek, Ohio
1975- 1981 - Westinghouse Airbrake Co. – (WABTEC) System Engineer and Failure Analysis
1001 Air Brake Avenue
Wilmerding, PA
Engineering Department
Designed and built all the instrumentation and displays for two simulator racks demonstrating the stopping capability of a loaded 100 car & 250 car train.
Crash site investigation involving freight and passenger trains using Westinghouse Airbrakes
1971 – 1975 – Westinghouse Apparatus Division (Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc.)
3500 Technology Dr, Monroeville, PA 15146
Shipyard Liaison Coordinator, gathering reports from all shipyards on current trouble reports to find resolution with the cognizant system engineer and report back to the shipyard with a plan to resolve the problem. Developed a systematic method of recording these trouble reports into categories for retrieval at some later date. This system was named the Shipyard Trouble Retrieval System