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.

Novotest-Regional Manager

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.

Territory Manager

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.

General Manager/Business Development

• 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)

Lead Machine Tool Instructor

• 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.

Shift Machinist, Injection Mold Maker

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ALAN MITCHELL

Blum

Ellison Technologies

Burns Machinery/Dirttricks

Davis Applied Technical College

Davis Applied Technical College