Keith Beadle
Experienced automation sales consultant and manager
Webster, New York, USA (14580) United States (New York)
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
• Experienced and motivated professional with strengths in technical sales, business acumen, leadership and coaching, and factory automation. Degrees in Technical Management and Electrical Engineering Technology compliment more than 20 years of business and industry experience.
• Highly effective at goal setting, tracking progress toward objectives, and navigating around roadblocks. Ability to focus on direction and objectives and execute deliberative courses of action.
• Professional representative of brands and products regionally and internationally. Past business relationships with customers and suppliers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Ability to combine methods and logic with effective communication to quickly evaluate complex issues and generate solutions. Successful at communicating across multiple organizational levels and with external organizations.
• Highly effective at goal setting, tracking progress toward objectives, and navigating around roadblocks. Ability to focus on direction and objectives and execute deliberative courses of action.
• Professional representative of brands and products regionally and internationally. Past business relationships with customers and suppliers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Ability to combine methods and logic with effective communication to quickly evaluate complex issues and generate solutions. Successful at communicating across multiple organizational levels and with external organizations.
Systems Controls Engineer
QED Technologies Inc.
July 2006
to May 2011
Rochester
United States - New York
- Original equipment manufacturing of specialty machinery: Direct and lead electrical and controls activities to ensure new product platforms achieve planned function, cost and schedule.
- Provided technical leadership, training, and mentoring for outsourced engineering teams and multiple internal departments including research and development, software, applications, and service.
Net Result: Successful projects with domestic and foreign machine builders involving new and complex proprietary technologies. - Innovate and support research and development efforts.
Net Result: Multiple new technological advancements including United States patent 8,896,293 for a new and unique sensor application. http://goo.gl/dtzOiq
Detailed Description
- Manage projects and outsourced teams and meet project requirements including specifications and validation plans, schedules, quality, and cost.
- Represent controls as both a consultant and a team member in technical problem solving teams including six sigma teams working on continuous improvement projects.
- Create and modify PLC programs to solve problems and achieve new functionality. Implement new ideas above and beyond original machine specification, and document improvements.
Net Result: Increased customer satisfaction and product value by implementing a new force control linear motor to expand machine capabilities. - Direct and coordinate electrical engineering activities concerned with development, procurement, installation, and calibration of test stands and equipment.
Net Result: New product development through adaptation of LabVIEW based test stand for research and development. - Create validation plans and strategies to ensure that all controls requirements are properly implemented. Determine conditions under which tests are to be conducted and sequences and phases of test operations.
- Create and communicate project documentation including specifications and validation plans, schedules, and strategies to ensure that all machines are fully compliant with project and regulatory requirements such as CE.
Net Result: Successful projects include Two Meter MRF Polishing machine and ASI stitching interferometer.
Company Description
QED Technologies serves the global precision optics industry with solutions for high performance polishing and metrology on the most demanding surfaces and materials. QED systems are utilized by the smallest to largest manufacturers supplying the SEMI, military, space, R&D, imaging and other industries. Our customers are proud to publish results achieved with QED systems, and these can be found at http://www.eliteoptics100.com.
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