Patrick Grimes

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About Patrick Grimes

A Sales, Engineering and Business Management Professional who combines extensive sales and management experience with hands on engineering and technical expertise to deliver value based projects that benefit all stakeholders. Adept in delivering new ideas and technologies using internal and external consultative selling techniques to provide solutions that improve costs, delivery, and quality and creates relationships with clients that last. Utilizes a unique combination of hands on engineering, sales and business experience that sells solutions; not price. SALES AND MANAGEMENT Experienced in complete systems proposal development and relationship building by delivering value based on ROI. Key skill is the ability to prepare detailed statements of work technical sales proposals and to obtain concurrence and approval from stakeholders regarding performance requirements, deliverables and ROI based buyoff. PROJECT MANAGEMENT Created and implemented project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for multiple small to large sized projects. Prepared detailed statements of work and gained concurrence and approval from stakeholders regarding various project deliverables and buyoff requirements. Participated in and lead delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to project management policies and procedures. Responsible for vendor selection, progress review and monitoring vendors continuous improvement actions. Conducts all activities based on ISO 9001 TE supplement training. Managed projects up to $20 million dollars with multiple international suppliers. Managed over 400 individual contracts in a single year. Responsible for order placement, procurement and manufacturing management. ENGINEERING Expert in control system design and in software development to control manufacturing machines, material handling systems and process control systems. Specialties: SPECIFIC ENGINEERING SKILLS PLC programming, HMI programming, Industrial Network design and programming, AUTOCAD 13/14, commisioning, documentation and training.