1. Corey Grindle
Toledo, OH
www.linkedin.com/in/coreygrindle / email: cgrindle@bex.net
Executive-level Management / Project Management / Implementation
Career Profile: Professional manager, trainer and communicator at all levels. Analytically-minded and flexible
within any workplace environment, possessing a broad spectrum of skills and experience. Organized and
prepared team builder and member; an innovative trainer. Technically proficient, creatively adaptive, and a
troubleshooter.
Areas Of Expertise
Metro Utility Distribution (12 years) State/Local Coordination (4 years)
Project Management (15 years) Personnel Supervision (10 years)
Purchasing/budgeting (7 years) Technical Editing (7+ years)
Proficient with GUI-based computer applications and platforms. Proficient in MS Office. Effective at utilizing computer
technologies to organize and plan workplace, documentation, budgeting, statistical analyses.
Experience
Utility Distribution Planner Detroit Thermal, LLC 2010-2015
Plan, coordinate, and implement work associated with a pipe-based underground utility (steam).
Responsibilities included:
• prioritze, plan, and track improvement of growth, maintenance, and repair work on the steam distribution system.
• coordination and permitting with state and local offices (MDOT/City of Detroit) for street excavation, restoration, new
construction and all phases of utility work including interface with all other utilities.
• plan and administer utility outages with customer base including local/state/federal/emergency offices.
• financial projections and documentation management including historical presentations for corporate board
presentations on quarterly and annual basis.
• coordination/management of field crews to maintain, repair, and improve steam distribution system, with
approximately 32 miles of street-buried pipe, 567 manholes.
• coordination of contract excavation with distribution group for city-wide buried and general labor work.
Utility Metering Specialist Detroit Thermal, LLC 2004-2010
Design, upgrade, and maintain “change of custody” metering for a major utility (steam).
Responsibilities included:
• design and installation of new metering, research/selection/implementation of new metering and communications
technologies including initial venture into wireless technology.
• direct customer interface at all metering sites, training utility and customer personnel on new metering technologies,
maintenance, and calibration.
• design, implement new calibration regimens for change of custody utility metering in multiple platforms.
Control Systems Engineer Drake Manufacturing Services, Inc. 1997-2001
Engineer the custom control software, design, building, debugging, customer training, and warranty of high-precision
machine tools (grinders, hobbers, robotics) within a team framework.
Responsibilities included:
• customized software writing and support (ladder, macro, robotics).
• customer interface (initial setup, train end-user on machine operation, maintenance, documentation, perform warranty
operations).
• post-delivery support (remote and on-site machine support).
• electrical/ interface design and building (including controls, drives, displays, and all electrics).
• machine performance (motion control, tuning, debugging).

2. Corey Grindle -continued-
Office Manager Business Resource Services, Inc. 1993-1996
Responsible for all daily operations of a small, highly-profitable financial management training business with traveling
principals.
Responsibilities included:
• corporate project management (textbooks, custom software development, client development and corporate database
restructuring projects).
• all day-to-day operations including purchase and integration of IT, telecomm, office infrastructure.
• client relationship management.
• international travel scheduling and personnel management (approximately 13 employees).
• editing--including techincal documents, textbooks, executive and general correspondence.
Academic Credentials
Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies, University of California at San Diego
Provost's Honor List 5 Quarters, g.p.a. 3.89
Comparative Literature (Graduate Work), University of California at San Diego
English Literature (Graduate Work), Auburn University
6 Quarters (a.b.t.), g.p.a. 4.0
References
Available Upon Request