Jerry W Dowd

• Selling filtration equipment to major manufacturing companies, oil and gas refineries, Chemical plants, food and beverage processers, covering a five state area.
• Acquiring several large accounts increasing sales by over 50%, Designing new brochures for handouts.
• Assist other sales people in engineering new filtration systems.
• Acquiring several large accounts increasing sales by over 50% such as Holly Energy, Otis Spunkmeyer, Sid Richardson Carbon, Martin Sprocket, Kraft, Nabors Oil Field services Halliburton, General Dynamics.
• Also working with distributors and integrated suppliers to supply filters and equipment for their customers.

• Calling on Manufacturing companies, Machine Shops.
• Developing new business, building existing business selling CNC, manual machine tooling and metal cutting tools, coolant, cleaners, and filtration equipment, acquiring several major companies such as Martin Sprocket, General Dynamics, Vince Hagen, Tyler Pipe, AER, Stemco, Norris Cylinder, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Texas Instrument, Holland Inc.
• and many Dallas and East Texas area machine shops.
• Increasing sales of chemical and machine tooling over 150%.

• Master sales consultant.
• Selling new and pre-owned vehicles to the public.
• Lincoln Mercury, Ford, Chrysler and Dodge vehicles.
• In top five Salesman out of 20 sales persons in the dealership averaging 15 - 20 cars per month.

Created and directed sales team training and development programs.Shared product knowledge with customers while making personal recommendations.Maintained friendly and professional customer interactions.Trained in negotiations and time management.

• Selling hydraulic equipment to industrial users in the pulp and paper, lumber, steel and aluminum mills, petro- Chemical refiners.
• Increased sales by over twenty-five percent, acquired over ten major accounts such as Alumax (now Alcoa) Cooper Tire, Texarkana Water Utilities, International Paper, Georgia Pacific, Temple Inland, Pilgrims Pride, Tyson, Poulan - Weedeater, Firestone.

• Selling industrial filtration equipment, managing several distributors in a multi-state region , Calling on engineering consultants and firms, assist distributors in selling and engineering filtration systems, Responsible for calling on automotive plants, municipal water and waste water plants, working with engineer firms on filtration equipment applications in food, beverage, HVAC, petrochemical, oil and gas.
• Over 40 percent overall increase in sales, acquiring over seven major accounts and several smaller accounts such as Texas Eastman, Crown Oil and Gas, Alon Refinery, Phillips Refinery, General Motors, Peterbult, International Trucks, Bell Helicopter, Sherwin Williams Paint, Dupont Paint, Valspar Paint, Alamo Water, Campbell Soup, Pilgrims Pride, Ocean Spray, Texas Utilities, OG&E Oklahoma, Marathon Oil.
• Kock Pipe line, Borden chemical.
• and Several Resellers.

• Selling industrial filtration, valves, boiler equipment and instrumentation.
• Calling on various industrial manufactures, steel and aluminum mills, petro chemical refiners oil and gas refineries, engineering firms, Hospitals, pulp and paper, lumber mills, paint manufactures, pulp and paper, lumber mills, and food processors.
• Acquiring numerous major accounts, increased sales by over a hundred percent in six years.
• Customer incuded Alumax, Riceland foods, 3-M, Frigidaire, Poulan / Weed Eater, Temple Inland.
• Texas Eastman, Best Equipment, Petro Fac Engineering, Howe Baker Engineering, LaGloria Refining, Tyson, Pilgrims Pride, Speed Queen, Lone Star Steel, Cooper Tire, International Paper, George Pacific, Potlatch,.

• Texarkana) Supervised stocking and opening of new branch warehouse.
• Supervised and trained several new employees, over saw the day to day operations of branch as well as doing outside sales in the industrial fastener business.
• Calling on all types of industrial users of fasteners in a multi state region.
• Increased sales from zero to over fifty thousand per month.

• Calling on wholesale, retail, headquarter, and advertising accounts.
• Responsible for setting up and selling promotions, displays, advertisements, distribution of new products and training of new sales people.
• Received several sales achievements awards including Salesman of the year award, Won several national sales contest.