Abhi Thane

Technical Sales Engineer Mechanical Engineer

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi-thane-49180b20/ Phone: +1-704-***-****

FE Verification: https://account.ncees.org/rn/2113329-1415882-7b243e6 Mechanical Engineer with 10+ years of technical sales experience seeking a challenging role in the field of process equipment sales. Utilizes strong CAD skills to portray custom process solutions, extensive experience with NFPA standards to ensure safe solutions and strong negotiation skills to ensure a high closing rate on opportunities. Experience successfully demonstrated through years of exceeding sales targets, personal and business growth. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

01/22 – Present Co-Founder

Thane’s Table – www.ThanesTable.com

• Co-founded, co-designed, and successfully built a nerdy tavern as a co-owner in Westminster, CO

• Worked as the GC, managed sub-contractors, financing, and purchasing within the project budget

• Responsible for all the permit applications, inspections, and compliance with local regulations

• Secured all licenses required for a small business and tavern operation in Colorado

• Utilized years of cross department office experience and negotiation skills to ensure project success

• Staffing, scheduling, inventory management and kitchen process optimization

• Ensuring customer satisfaction despite moderate (at best) bartending skills when required 08/16 – 01/22 Regional Sales Manager

REMBE, Inc. – www.rembe.us

• Business development for explosion safety and process equipment sales in North America

• Performed process assessments to determine areas of improvement and implemented solutions

• Defined, proposed, and oversaw installation of equipment in compliance with NFPA standards

• Developed customized solutions for explosion mitigation, risk reduction and increasing process efficiencies

• Managed and created customer accounts across the east coast territory and key accounts across North America

• Identified and trained sales representative firms and distributor network in the territory

• Achieved an overall revenue increase of over 300% in the east coast territory 10/15 – 08/16 National Sales Manager

Oerlikon Textile Inc. – www.oerlikon.com

• Business development for Oerlikon textile division throughout North America

• Account management for key textile accounts predominantly located in the southeast US

• New business development in the non-textile sector with focus in Midwest US

• Identified new applications for the high precision pumps from the Oerlikon product line

• Expanded distributor network to promote sales opportunities in the Midwest and Western US

• Developed several new accounts in both textile and non-textile sectors within a year 07/12 – 10/15 Regional Sales Manager

Spiroflow Systems Inc. – www.spiroflow.com

• Project management, scheduling, and resource management for all large EPCM projects

• Internal project management for all cross-departmental projects

• Inside sales management and CAD modeling for project sales conceptualization

• Regional sales management, sales representative identification and training

• Achieved a revenue growth of over 50% in 2 years within the sales territory

• Achieved a record revenue of US$2.1M within a year, exceeding the previous record by 85%

• Responsible for new product development including the Chainflow line of conveyors

• Mentored the test lab team for all test applications, setting up FATs and SATs 07/10 – 06/12 Graduate Research Assistant

North Carolina State University – www.ncsu.edu

• Engineered the biofuel reforming, characterization and performance testing process of jet fuels and gasoline surrogates, synthesized from sources like canola oil and algae oil

• Thermodynamic design and optimization of a custom HP plug flow reactor system for isomerization of the biofuels

• Analyzed reaction kinetics of the reforming process in the reactor through CFD simulations and Aspen modeling for various feed stocks

• Designed, assembled, and experimented with a distillation column and heat exchanger downstream of the PFR

• Fuel characterization of isolated surrogate fuels with GC-MS/FID

• Cost analysis, energy efficiency calculations and data compilation for DoE submissions. EDUCATION

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (2012) North Carolina State University Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (2010) Rajasthan Technical University TECHNICAL SKILLS

Expert:

Product Development, Project Management, Systems Integration, Business Development, Auto CAD Advanced:

Solidworks, CFD, C, C++, Python, PLC Programming

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