This candidate has over 30 years of experience in sales engineering, project management, customer service, and product development roles. They convey customer needs to develop custom solutions that increase production and profits. Relevant skills include sales engineering for conveyor systems and sheet metal fabrication, project managing custom machinery builds, and holding patents for conveyor and chair designs. They have a background in manufacturing, architecture, and bible studies.

1. OBJECTIVE
A Sales Engineer that establishes customer needs and develops customer relationships. Through
these relationships customsolutions are created for the purpose of higher production and greater
profits that increase customer business strength.
RELEVANT SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• Sales Engineering - conveyor systems and sheet metal fabrication
• Project Management of custommachinery – automotive & furniture
• New account sales in the following: construction/renovation sales, new and used car sales,
credit card machine sales, lawn care sales
• 2 patents (one in conveyor design/Conveyor Logic and one in chair design/Milcare/Herman
Miller)
• Bible school graduate, Dale Carnegie graduate, Bachelor in Manufacturing and Associate in
Architecture
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Sales, Streamline Enterprises, LLC Mason, Michigan 12/2013-2/2014
In home sales of construction products, roof, windows, siding, gutters, insulation and remodeling
projects. This is one stop closing using the Roberts Sales Consulting approach technique.
Inside Sales, DP Brown of Detroit, Inc./Motion Ind. Grand Rapids, Michigan 09/2010-09/2013
Performed a purchasing function for customersneeding conveyor parts, belting and accessories. DP
Brown officially representshundreds of vendors to support their customers and also stocks major
amounts of large belting and supplies for the customer’s immediate needs. Duties include quotes,
orders, shipping, receiving and fabricating belting orders (cutting, skiving, and lacing).
Sales Engineer, MLP Mfg., Inc. Spring Lake, Michigan 08/2007-02/2008
Duties included developing new accounts only. This required being creative! A family owned small
sheet metal manufacturer with capabilities for automating a sheet metal part anywhere from22
gage to 11 gage. They also had capabilities with stainless sheet metal and aluminum sheet
fabrication. Their capabilities and market potential revolved around mainly western Michigan fromas
north as Traverse City, MI to south as Elkhart, IN.
Customer Service, Big Dutchman USA Holland, Michigan 01/2006-02/2007
This job involved both customer service and project management. This is a custom equipment
manufacturer for the poultry industry. Big Dutchmen stocks over a million parts in their warehouse
and the challenge was categorizing the need and then identifying the part. The job also was quoting
large poultry systems including high density, high production chicken systems as well as cage free
designs. Once these systems became an order my job as project manager was to organize,
expedite shipments and communicate daily with on-site installers.

2. Project Manager, Automation Specialists, Inc. Holland, Michigan 06/2004-08/2005
My function was a general manager for a custommachine builder. Customers weresecond and
third tier automotive vendorsas well as some area furniture manufacturers. This required monitoring
up to 50 customer projects and providing weekly excel spread sheet updates. I was the answer
person on all projects, hosting group and individual meetings plus quoting new projects. Daily
communication was essential with each builder on the floor for purchasing and construction
progress.
Quality Lab Tech, Summit Polymers, Inc. Kalamazoo, Michigan06/1999-6/2001
This is a multi-plant, Tier One automotive supplier of injection molded interior trimfor the auto industry.
Job duties included production inspection and testing of prototype and production products. I was a
Certified Mechanical Inspector for inspecting and testing automotive products.
Product Engineer, Milcare, Inc. Grandville, Michigan 04/1989-10/1992
Milcare was the healthcaredivision of Herman Miller. I wasa product engineer that developed 14
accessory products on hospital carts and brought them into production. I also developed a
specialty chair line for waiting roomseating and bed side seating areas. It is a detail on this chair line
that I have a patent.
Sales Engineer, Conveyor Logic, Inc. Dutton, Michigan 03/1984-11/1987
A manufacturer and installer of customengineered material handling systems. I sold as well as
designed, engineered and supervised installation of custommaterial handling systems.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Bachelor of Science, Manufacturing, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Associate of Applied Science, Architecture, Ferris State University,
Big Rapids, Michigan
Pastoral Certification, RHEMA Bible Training Center,
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma