ALAN MITCHELL: in Gardnerville, NV
ALAN MITCHELL
Gardnerville | United States
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Blum
Novotest-Regional Manager | 08/2017 - 09/2018
Responsible for growing a territory with no company presence and increasing sales and service in the Pacific Northwest.
• Increased sales of Blum products to dealers, distributors, and end users.
• Opened new sales territory and increased market share in those areas.
• Attended open houses, demo days, and trade shows.
• Helped OEM manufactures to implement Blum products as a standard on their
machinery.
Ellison Technologies
Territory Manager | 02/2016 - 08/2017
Responsible for Sales of Doosan, Micron, Tsugami, CNC equipment and customer service of new and existing customers.
• Increasing market share and providing support to existing customers
• Opening new territory and introducing new products
• Providing support to major accounts
• Increasing sales in my territory over 200% in less than 1 yr.
• Sold first Tsugami in over 20yrs in Northern California.
• Developed and fostered relationships with customer to boost the Doosan market share.
Personally, took a territory that had little to no movement and increased sales, opened up new
markets in the firearm manufacturing market, due to my extensive experience in the firearms
industry.
Burns Machinery/Dirttricks
General Manager/Business Development | 09/2014 - 02/2016
Responsible for the day to day operations of the business, including:
• Ordering parts.
• Monitor Profit & Loss, optimizing hard parts ordering and maximizing profits.
• Responsible for development and sales of the Burns Nitrogen Generator.
• Oversee employees and production of parts and machinery.
• Oversee wholesale accounts.
• Ran CNC Mills to manufacture out products
• Operated Blanchard grinder to remove material on parts to exact tolerances.
Personally Increased sales of Dirttricks products by over 34% since starting with the company.
Brought new products to market and developed marketing and sales material.
Davis Applied Technical College
Lead Machine Tool Instructor | 11/2011 - 03/2014
• Instructed students in basic manual machining on both lathe and mill.
• Performed complex machining practices involving blueprints to tight tolerances.
• Instructed students in basic CNC machining and programming.
• Programmed Bridgeport Eztrak mill and instructed students on use.
• Computed speeds and feeds for machining of different materials, including stainless, high and low carbon steel and aluminum.
• Instructed students in the proper use of precision measuring tools.
• Conducted grading of tests and provided feedback on missed answers.
• Provided instruction on proper use of speeds and feeds.
• Implemented new CNC programing course including elements of Surfcam and Mastercam.
• Provided instruction using precision measuring tools including calipers, micrometers, height gauges, bore gauges, and surface plates.
• Wrote curriculum and updated as needed.
• Student completion increased 75%
• Passed extensive background check
• Increased student enrollment by 85%.
Lifetime Products - Salt Lake City, Utah (concurrent)
Davis Applied Technical College
Shift Machinist, Injection Mold Maker | 08/2013 - 03/2014
• Manufactured large molds for plastic injection products including kayaks, tables and other large scale units.
• Proficient in Haas controls.
• Proficient in Okuma Windows based interface to modify programs.
• Modified offset and setup as needed.
• Modified G code as needed.
• Proficient in 5 axis mills to produce parts within .0002 tolerance.
• Proficient in setup and fixturing as necessary for custom designs.
• Have minor programing in Gibbs cam and Mastercam.
• Used precision measuring tools to insure setup and tolerance were kept within .002
• Machined Exotic metals, with unique machining properties Including Gold, Platinum, Titanium, Inconel, Zirconium, Cobalt.