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EUROPEAN SALES MANAGER
Professional Summary
Sales and Business Development Executive with 33 years of experience in representing foreign firms in a variety of industries. Areas of expertise include foreign languages and cultures, harmonizing mentalities, bringing supplier and customer together. Results-driven Sales-Engineering professional with impressive analytical and technical support abilities.
Skills
Languages (fluent in German and French, conversational in Italian and Spanish)

Harmonizing different mentalities

Interpersonal relations

Cultural sensitivity

Project management

Sales/Advertising/Marketing
 Artistic/Graphical Representations

Technical support
Work History
04/2012 to 08/2013
European Sales Manager DIBA INDUSTRIES INC – Danbury, Connecticut
  • Acquired four major European customers in the biotech industry, and increased potential with existing customers, for an American manufacturer of liquid-handling components.
  • Potential Value Increase: $700,000+.
01/1980 to 01/2007
Vice President/General Manager HAAS PRECISION INDUSTRIES, INC
  • Increased sales five-fold and profits six-fold.
  • Managed all day-to-day Operations (Sales, Accounting, Marketing, Advertising, Import/Export, Distribution), with complete bottom-line responsibility to German parent company.
  • Markets: Automotive, measurement and control, aeronautical.
01/1978 to 12/1978
Staff Member ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO., SC – New York, NY
  • Designed employee timecards and forms for new General Ledger System for New York City Transit Authority.
  • Trained NYCTA personnel in their use.
  • Learned FORTRAN and COBOL programming.
01/1977
Intern AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC – Trexlertown, PA
  • Developed unique graphic compensation analysis for comparable positions and education levels for 6,000 technical staff; enabled title harmony and position redefinition for Fair Employment guidelines.
Education
1978
Masters: Business Administration Finance and Industrial E
 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY - Bethlehem, PA
1976
Bachelor of Arts: Chemistry
 LAFAYETTE COLLEGE - Easton, PA
  • Coursework in German Literature as Minor
Affiliations
  • Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)
Additional Information
Swiss citizenship applied for (expected 2014).
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • DIBA INDUSTRIES INC
  • HAAS PRECISION INDUSTRIES, INC
  • ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO., SC
  • AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC

School Attended

  • LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
  • LAFAYETTE COLLEGE

Job Titles Held:

  • European Sales Manager
  • Vice President/General Manager
  • Staff Member
  • Intern

Degrees

  • Masters : Business Administration Finance and Industrial E
    Bachelor of Arts : Chemistry

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