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| Year of birth |  | 1952 |
Current Location/Address |
| City or Town | | Houston |
| State | | Texas |
| Country | | USA |
Permanent/Home Location/Address |
| Country | | USA |
Languages |
| Primary Language | | Fluency |
| English | | Read, write and speak fluently |
Nationalities |
| Nationality By Birth | | USA |
| Other Nationality | | VENEZUELA |
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Experience Classification |
| Job Function | | Years Experience |
| Buyer/Purchasing | | 5 |
| Customer Service | | 30+ |
| Expediting | | 4 |
| Hospitality | | 11 |
| Technical Sales | | 18 |
| Industry | | Years Experience |
| Industrial | | 23 |
| Manufacturing | | 5 |
| Oil and Gas | | 6 |
| Steel | | 1 |
Qualifications |
| Highest Qualifications | | Degree |
| Qualification | Subject | Establishment/Country | Year |
| Degree | BA, Liberal Arts | CCNY/ USA | 1977 |
| HND/Diploma | Associate, Oil & Gas | Kilgore College / USA | 1987 |
Other Qualifications, Memberships, Certification
ISA, AWS, NACE, API |
Computer Skills and Software Used |
| Microsoft, Oracle, IBM AS 400. |
Work Locations |
| Are you willing to move or relocate? | Countries NOT Willing To Work In! |
Yes - I will travel domestically
Yes - I will relocate domestically
Yes - I will travel internationally
Yes - I will relocate internationally | USA
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Availability |
| Start Immediately? | | Available Now |
| Earliest Start Date | | Given 2 weeks notice |
Ideal Next Job |
| Technical Inside Sales, International, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas related, location, Houston-Texas. |
Required Salary & Conditions |
| Min 40k with Full Benefits. |
Employment History |
| Total Years of Work Experience: | | 41 |
| Commenced Full Time Work: | | 1968 |
| Name | | Newmans Valve |
| Job Title: | | Technical Inside Sales |
| Duration | | From : 2001 To: 2002 |
Summary |
| Technical Inside Sales International ,Valves, assigned to the Middle East and South Africa. |
Work Experience |
ALEX AVILEZ
Voice Mail: 713-272-7059
Career Objective Industrial Technical Inside Sales / International Sales / Account Executive / Inside Sales / Outside
Sales / Inbound-Outbound Customer Service/ Sales Coordinator / SalesManagement / Sales
Support/ Purchasing / Procurement / Buyer / Expeditor.
Personal Non-smoker, excellent health, born and raised U.S. citizen, “On the Job” demonstrated, observable and assessed core and functional competency skills in continuous improvement, customer focus, leadership, critical thinking, interpersonal awareness / understanding, flexibility, persuasion and self-control.
Experience
February 26, 2001 to November 30, 2001 (9 months) – Valve Manufacturer, Newans Inc. / Newco – OIC Valves, subsidiary of Precision Cast Parts Corporation, (PCP-NYSE). Newmans Inc. – A PCC company, division of PCC Flow Technology Industrial Valve and Controls Group. ISO 9001 manufacturer of API 600 & 602 Gate – Globe - Check Valves and, API 6D Floating Ball Valves in standard, alloy and stainless steel materials. An established manufacturer for over fifty (50) years producing valves in eleven (11) countries and marketing products on a global basis.
· International Salesman – Technical Inside Sales, Valves. Full time, permanent, salaried position with full benefits, 401(k) and bonus commission. Totally computerized electronic office complete with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook 2000 “e” mail, IBM AS400 midrange operation converted (May 2001) to an Oracle / Citrix system (included Oracle individualized formal “hands-on” training). Assigned to the Middle East and South African Accounts. ISO training / ISO 9001 Newmans orientation May 2001. Multiple warehouse stock transfers, (“On line” distribution branches in Canada and New Jersey), factory orders with Newman’s approved factories in Italy, Korea, Romania, Taiwan, China. Order processing, large International Project quotations, inspection coordination with third party inspectors, modifications, and actuation. Communication / Coordination with overseas factories, overseas and domestic freight forwarders, in-house purchasing / accounting / shipping & receiving groups concerning; Material Test Results (MTR’s), Letters of Credit, Wire Transfers, preparation of Certificates of Compliance (COC’s), Commercial invoices, pro-forma invoices, return goods authorizations (RGA’s), International collections. Back-up for Latin American (Mexico – Central America – South America – Caribbean) sales group.
June 1994 to June 1995 (12 months) – Steel – Metals Service – Distribution Center / Metals Broker. National Specialty Alloys Inc. (NSA). Houston headquarter location – International Sales Department. National three (3) multi-location PC Novell Network computer linked facilities for primary certifiable stainless steel, nickel high temp and special/exotic alloy materials. Pump shafting (PSQ) custom shafts, (outside contracting of secondary machining); precision grinding, bar turning, polishing, calibrating, shearing, plasma cutting, stress relieving, plating, trepaning, boring and production saw cuttings); round bar, flat bar, square and hex bar and angle. Sourcing / Sales of metals (ferrous and non ferrous); castings, forgings, billet, pipe, tubing, plate, sheet/coil, tool steels, structurals, flanges, fittings and other fabricated metal forms, all adhering to ASTM Standards. Totally computerized (consultant serviced) Novell Network computer system, including: laser printers, electronic “e” mail, labeler, desktop faxing capabilities (Fax modem). Completed with individual computer units per each salesman with respective sales contact management program.
· International Salesman – Metals. Full time, permanent, salaried position with full benefits, 401(k) and bonus commission. Some assigned accounts, (account and product profiles conducted on computerized sales / pricing program). Market Research / Industrial Marketing – Industrial pro-active “cold calling,” prospecting, telemarketing, direct mailing, order processing, formal quotations, “buyouts,” outside personal sales calls.
January 1993 to October 1993 (10 months) – Valve manufacturer’s Master Distributor/Valve Manufacturer. Zidell Valve Corporation, , (company re-named and re-organized as Zytech – relocated to Stafford, Texas). Houston headquarters location. International Sales Department. National – eight (8) multi-location computer linked regional warehouses; with separate manufacturing plant sites for one (1) product line in Houston, Texas, other manufacturing plants in Italy, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Taiwan, China and Japan. API 600 cast steel/cast alloy-wedge gate, globe and swing check valves. API 602 and 606 forged steel valves, API 6D monogrammed side and top entry through conduit trunnion mounted ball valves, API 608 floating metal ball valves, all to API 591 quality assurance guidelines with testing to API 598. Qualified as an API Q1 approved vendor, moving towards ISO 9001 & 9002 by January 1994. Forged steel fittings and flanges, forged globe valves, bronze and cast iron gate, globe, lift-swing-ball-check valves. Other applicable standards: API 603, MSS-SP-55, Nace MR 0175, API 607, API 6FA etc. Modifications and actuation for valves.
· International Salesman – Technical Inside / Outside Sales of valves, fittings and flanges. Full time, permanent, salaried position with full benefits, 401(k) – and bonus commission. Some assigned accounts. (April 1993 three (3) week overseas sales trip to Venezuela – South America; product approval process with oil company end users, presentations, sales visits to engineering contractors, valve re-sellers). International quotations including Latin America and Mexico. Totally computerized Quantel mainframe operating system in the process of converting to an IBM AS 400 midrange operation. Support and backup for International Sales Manager.
April 1991 to December 1992 (18 months) – Valve manufacturer, Lanzagorta International – F.I.P. Inc. – the Walworth Company, – Houston headquarter international sales office for Mexican based manufacturer of oilfield equipment/API valves – wellheads/ industrial valves, (company since re-located / re-organized as the Walworth Company in Houston, Texas).
· Customer Service Representative / Inside Sales / Assistant to Product Line Manager. Full time, permanent, salaried position with full benefits. PC operations – applications (Lotus, WordPerfect) for F.I.P. pipeline valves division. U.S. start-up for API 6D through conduit pipeline slab gate, expanding gate and trunnion mounted side entry ball valves. Domestic U.S. and international sales contact for manufacturing plant in Mexico City. Physically sent to Mexico City (July 1991) manufacturing plant for training, five (5) days. Assigned as Floor Salesman to the Houston 1992 OTC show – Lanzagorta Floor Exposition. Formal valve quotations, actuator “buyouts” and valve application. Support and backup for outside sales. Main responsibility: to read, understand and respond to formally prepared international and domestic oilfield valve specification, technically and commercially.
August 1990 to March 1991 (8 months) – Hydraulics / Pneumatics Distributor, (applications – engineering multi-branch regional stocking manufacturers distributor). Industrial Air and Hydraulics, , (company out of business since 1991). Hydraulic/pneumatic: Valves – pumps – motors – cylinders – parts – fluid power components. Totally computerized operation – IBM mainframe.
· Commissioned Inside Salesman with some assigned accounts. Full time, permanent position with benefits. Heavy phone contact, quotations/applications, CRT order entry, expediting, inventory checks, credit checks, customer will call/walk in sales; constant interaction with manufacturers company distributed for U.S. regional and domestic sales for export to Mexico.
October 1989 to August 1990 (11 months) – Valve/Instrumentation Manufacturer’s Representative / Manufacturer, Groth Corporation, Pressure relief specialists – Valves and Instrumentation. Specialized market segment to: Petroleum/petrochemical process plants, engineering & contracting firms, OEM’s: U.S. Regional, U.S. National and U.S. Domestic sales for export.
· June 1990 to August 1990, Commissioned Inside Salesman, Manufacturing Division: API 2000 atmospheric tank storage breather vent valves, process line flame arresters, digester gas equipment, level control switch capcitance displacers.
· October 1989 to June 1990, Quotations Analyst - New Products Manufacturers Representative Division: API 520, 521, 526, and 427 pressure relief safety valves/instrumentation – Promoted to commissioned inside sales, manufacturing division, in eight (8) months, June 1990.
January 1982 to August 1988 (six (6) plus years) – Oil Production Company – overseas. P.D.V.S.A., formerly Lagoven S.A., Production affiliate to the Venezuelan State Oil Co., P.D.V.S.A., South America. Also, formerly the Creole Petroleum Oil Corporation, the Venezuelan operating division of Esso Oil. Part of a large integrated oil company with refining, marketing, purchasing worldwide; drilling, production, and exploration in Venezuela – South America. (Lagoven S.A. re-organized and absorbed by other Venezuelan operating affiliates in early 1998).
· November 1987 to August 1988 (10 months physically in Venezuela). Project assignment to Caracas Headquarters, Materials Department Warehouse Analyst for continued development and August 1988 start-up on new updated department mainframe computer system; system dealing with information control and administration of said departments daily transactional load, (technically an IBM 3090 model 20E, 128 megabyte, 32 channel, 33 mips with capability of 100-200 concurrent simultaneous users; up to 2 million records updated and/or accessed daily online, with 25,000 to 45,000 of these transactions realized in eight (8) hours, 15-200 terminals, 44 printers). In charge of warehouse module, line and batch testing and department warehouse user manual, (manual done in Spanish). Orientation of company in-house computer department programmers to Materials Department needs. Trainer/Training- presentations; Material Department leader within mainframe computer module for: Eastern, Western, Amuay Bay refinery operating field divisions and, Caracas headquarters. Attended and completed forty (40) hour course, (June 1988), designed to facilitate introductory training in order to institute new computer system. Supervision of contracted technical writers in the organization and design of the warehouse computer user manual based on the “GEM” system; Exxon USA, (above mainframe computer warehouse module completed August 1988).
· June 1987 to November 1987, (6 months physically in Venezuela). Materials Department, Western Operating Field Division, Lake Maracaibo. Assigned to the planning and inventory controls section as materials analyst for API oilfield tubular goods (OCTG) and API oilfield production equipment, (MRP: Materials Requirement Planning). Duties: Servicing internal company customers; outside control of service orders to contractors, specialized manufacturer’s and inspection services, inventory and price reconciliations due to equipment movement to and from service contractors - other operating affiliates and other company departments, outside contract supervision, purchasing and follow-up assistance, inside control to in-house company fabrication and welding stations. Primary function: to supply petroleum engineering department’s yearly forecasted workover, drilling and production needs which were constantly updated on a quarterly basis subject to world oil market fluctuations.
· April 1984 to April 1985, (12 months physically in Venezuela). Transferred from eastern field division to Caracas Materials Department Headquarters to continue International Purchasing function for the then developing and project approaching deadline concerned with the pipeline-storage-alternate fuel supply (SCADA) system, pipelining from Venezuela’s central coastal area to the greater Caracas metropolitan area. At conclusion of participation in said project, April 1985, awarded full two (2) year company scholarship to pursue technical studies in oil & gas, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas (1985-1987).
· January 1982 to April 1984, (24 months physically in Venezuela). Materials Department, Eastern Division, (Administrative center for the then developing Orinoco River extra heavy crude oilfield; 1983 total international disbursements at 35 million U.S.D.). Duties: purchasing/field coordination, (MRO: Maintenance, Repair & Operations) of oilfield, construction, community infrastructure materials to affiliates in Houston, Texas and The Hague in Holland. Throughout 1983-1984 assigned repeatedly to international purchasing function at Caracas headquarters, culminating in 1984 transfer.
November 1978 to May 1981 (2-1/2 years) – Local Industrial Supply Distributor / Re-seller. Houston Tool and Hoist Company,
January 1979 to May 1981, Industrial Inside Sales/Assistant to President. Quotations, applications, sourcing and supply to end users, OEM’s, resale accounts and company outside salesmen. Coordination of domestic sales for export to Mexico and, assistance in oilfield equipment exports to Maracaibo, Venezuela, South America. Duties: “Buy outs,” inventory control, ordering to factory, direction and assistance to other inside sales personnel, warehouse personnel and occasionally, outside sales personnel. Expediting, interaction with customer will call / walk in sales, responsible for tool repair service to customer. Awarded certificate of achievement, Milwaukee Electric Tools, April 1980 and Technical Certificate Ingersoll-Rand Corporation (Tool & Hoist Division), 1979.
· November 1978 to January 1979, Warehouseman/Shipping & Receiving. Duties: Forklift operations, delivery – driving of special leased trucks for offshore oil rig supply at barge loading areas in Sabine Pass,
Houston Tool and Hoist Company - continued
Texas. Occasional tool repair station assistant. Responsible for operational improvements including: color coding of material for offshore oil rig supply, repair station lighting, routing guide, materials handling equipment. Promoted to inside sales, in three (3) months, January 1979.
EDUCATION:
· Houston Community College – Houston, Texas. Evening Part-time courses in PC-IBM compatible commercial business application software, (MS-DOS, Lotus, dBase, WordPerfect), courses in typing.
· San Jacinto College Central – Pasadena, Texas. Evening part-time courses in instrumentation/valves.
· Hobart School of Welding Technology – Troy, Ohio. Full-time “hands on courses” which included: welding technology and blueprint reading, oxyacetylene welding and cutting, basic and advanced shielded metal arc welding (stick). Student member AWS, ASNT.
· Kilgore College - Kilgore, Texas (East Texas Oilfield). Graduated, Dean’s List, Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.), Technically oriented oilfield oil production program, Oil & Gas technology. Student member SPE, NACE, ISA.
· Houston Community College – Houston, Texas. Evening part-time Associate Degree program in Commercial Transportation, Distribution and International Trade, (course program within sales and marketing department). Thirty (30) credits completed towards a sixty (60) credit degree program. Reason for interrupting studies, offered and accepted an overseas oilfield position.
· The City College of the City University of New York (C.C.N.Y.). Graduated Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – Liberal Arts/Humanities – concentration, (major), English & American Literature, Full four (4) year university degree.
· Saint Francis Preparatory High School, Private-Catholic-college prep academic high school, Brooklyn, N.Y.C., New York, Graduated with fully accredited high school diploma (Humanities concentration).
GENERAL
· Supervisor – Food Service for the United States Military, KBR – Halliburton, Overseas Assignment – IRAQ.
· Fluent in Spanish as a second language: read, write and speak; constantly practiced throughout career.
· Computer Literate – Wang Global Certified, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Windows “e” mail, Internet.
· Travel experience throughout the U.S. northeast, Midwest, south and southwest, (the latter two being oil industry related).
· Supplemented college years and high school years with part-time employment in N.Y.C.
· Recreational/social activities: Bicycling, roller-skating, hiking, church functions, reading, classical music, (National Public Radio Supporter).
· Personal Attributes: Team player, willing to sacrifice in a professional environment for stated career objectives and relevant career/industry experience.
Salary: Negotiable
Complete Work History Upon Request
References Attached
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