OBJECTIVEA Sales Engineer that establishes customer needs and develops customer relationships. Through these relationships custom solutions 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 custom machinery – 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 HISTORYSales, Streamline Enterprises, LLC Mason, Michigan 12/2013-2/2014In 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 09/2010-09/2013Performed a purchasing function for customers needing conveyor parts, belting and accessories. DP Brown officially represents hundreds 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 08/2007-02/2008Duties 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 from 22 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 from as north as Traverse City, MI to south as Elkhart, IN.

Customer Service, Big Dutchman USA Holland, Michigan 01/2006-02/2007This 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.

Project Manager, Automation Specialists, Inc. Holland, Michigan 06/2004-08/2005

My function was a general manager for a custom machine builder. Customers were second and third tier automotive vendors as 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, Michigan 06/1999-6/2001This is a multi-plant, Tier One automotive supplier of injection molded interior trim for 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 04/1989-10/1992Milcare was the healthcare division of Herman Miller. I was a product engineer that developed 14 accessory products on hospital carts and brought them into production. I also developed a specialty chair line for waiting room seating 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 03/1984-11/1987A manufacturer and installer of custom engineered material handling systems. I sold as well as designed, engineered and supervised installation of custom material 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