Experience:
Optical Cable Corporation ****-**** Roanoke VA
Mining Business Development Manager:
• Increased sales 46% from previous year
• Customer visits domestic and international (Including mining & mineral end-users, original manufacture equipment, and heavy industrial)
• Presentations
• Training
• Product specifications
• New product development fiber optic cable
• Product development fiber and copper cable
• Product development use of fiber optic cable for harsh environment markets
• Product development harsh environment fiber optic and copper connectivity
• Product development hardened enclosed structured wireless distribution network infrastructure system
• Product development fiber optic sensors for harsh environment markets
Optical Cable Corporation 2001-2005 Roanoke VA
Sales Manger WV, KY
• Increased sales from $200k to $1.3mil
• Customer visits (Including end-users, and original manufacture equipment)
• Presentations
• Training
• Product specifications
• New product development
WESCO Distribution Inc. 1986-2001 Beckley WV
Account Representative:
• Increased sales from $600k to $3.2mil
• Customer visits (Including end-users, and original manufacture equipment)
• Bid packages
• Electrical package specifications (Including power distribution, automation and control systems)
• Preventative maintenance programs (Including testing of power cables, infra scan, and power distribution transformers)
• Integrated supply programs
• Repair programs (Including molded case breakers, motors, power transformers, and power cables)
WESCO Distribution Inc, 1983-1986 Beckley WV
Inside Sales Representative:
• Incoming sales calls
• Purchasing
• Bid packages (Including various type of electrical products)
WESCO Distribution Inc. 1979-1983 Beckley WV
Warehouse:
• Shipping
• Receiving
• Deliveries
• Counter Sales
Abilities:
• Establish and maintain relationships with (mining & minerals) industry influencers, key customers, representative, and strategic business partners
• Coordinate cross-functional teams of representatives from R&D, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and engineering
• Establish strategic sales and marketing plans to achieve objectives for products and services
• Mining & minerals industry business plan, to include goals, allocations, and forecasts
• Develop and execute sales and marketing plans to support sales objectives
• Training employees, planning, directing, and appraising performance
Skills:
• MS Office, Outlook, Power Point, and Excel
• Leadership
• Decisive decision making
• Flexibility with work loads
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills
• Research and analysis skills
Education;
Independence High School Coal City WV 1976-1979
• Diploma
Westinghouse Electric Corporation Motor Training Buffalo NY 1984
• Certificate of completion
Westinghouse Electric Corporation Basic of Electricity Beckley WV 1984-1985
• Certificate of completion
Westinghouse Electric Corporation Motor Control Training Ashville NC 1986
• Certificate of completion
IBM Sales Training Cincinnati OH 1990
• Certificate of completion
Action Sales Training Clarksburg WV 1992
• Certificate of completion
Westinghouse Electric Corporation OEM sales training Pittsburgh PA 1997
• Certificate of completion
Additional Activities:
• Attended mining exhibitions
• Attended mining conferences
• Attended federal regulations conferences
Professional Memberships:
• Society of Mining Engineers
• Eastern Coal Council
• Friends of Coal
• WV Coal Association
• VA Mining Association
• National Mining Association