Chris Shelton

About Chris Shelton

Customer focused, industrial automation professional with a passion for finding and developing new opportunities to enhance productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Strong technical background and a proven record of delivering successful solutions for a wide array of industrial automation applications employing variable speed drives, power supplies, factory automation equipment, and software.I work with a diverse range of customers, partners, and stakeholders across USA, providing strategic planning, sales management, systems integration, and field support. I have been recognized for my sales growth, customer retention, and innovation, receiving awards and honors from Parker Hannifin and other leading companies in the industry. I am eager to learn new skills, technologies, and trends in industrial automation to create value for my clients and my company.

Experience

1. Territory Management - Central & Eastern Usa

   Parker Hannifin

   May 1997 — Present · US

   Parker Motion Systems GroupElectromechanical & Drives DivisionEnergy Grid Tie DivisionSSD DrivesInvensysEurotherm DrivesMotion Systems Group - Territory Management, Regional Sales Management, Systems Integration. Experience with industrial automation applications using variable speed drives, power supplies, factory automation equipment, and software. Successful applications include power supplies, Agriculture, Paper, Plastic, Metals, Wire, Pump & Fan, Extrusion, Printing, Packaging, Aseptic Packaging, Centrifuge, Mining, Automotive, Aerospace, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Crane Control, Environmental/Durability Testing, Machine Tool, Conveying, Water Treatment, Continuous Web Processes, Winders, Web Measurement/Control Solutions. Energy Grid Tie Division - Strategic account support, account management, new business, technical and commercial project support, proposals, and client services in North and South America. Experienced with central inverters, solar inverters, string inverters, battery energy storage systems, renewables, power conversion systems, clean technology, power quality and related power & energy technologies.Appointments:High Performance Team 1: Division branding, social media content and outreach. High Performance Team 2: Product repair model established for channel product repairs.PH - Parker Hannifin (NYSE)Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than 100 years the company has engineered the success of its customers in a wide range of diversified industrial and aerospace markets. Learn more at or @parkerhannifin.

Education

• Oracle Sales Cloud

  Oracle CRM, Sales Cloud, Social Network, Call Report

• Central Kentucky Technical College

  Diploma, Radio, Television, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician

  1973 — 1975

Skills

• Dynamometers
• Engineering
• Power Conversion
• Renewable Energy
• Microsoft Word
• Wave Energy
• Variable Frequency Drives
• Web Design
• Energy
• Customer Service
• Solar Energy
• Plc
• Ac Drives
• Crushers
• Scada
• Territory Account Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Paper Industry
• Automation
• Microsoft Office
• Motor Control
• Technological Innovation
• Test Automation
• Manufacturing
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Power Plants
• Industrial Control
• Account Management
• Innovation
• Testing
• New Business Development
• Environmental Chambers
• Wire Drawing
• Sales Engineering
• Motion Control
• Tidal Power
• Inverters
• Servo Drives
• Sales Management