Rod Warnes
About
Self starter Veteran with good energy levels. Good all round management skills, managing diverse work forces in many countries in the world. Have achieved Senior Management level during my career. Very good negotiating skills, have closed deals over $130 million. Capable and able communicator; verbal, written and presenting. Extremely good at developing new and existing relationships. Developed and set up new business's. Very use to travelling and operating on my own or within a team. Very Mature and will take responsibilities willingly. Is capable of working autonomously with very little supervision needed. Use to leading Teams as well as being a team player. Extensive and all round business acumen. Good engineering skills and knowledge especially in all types of earth moving, mining and construction machines as well as Power Systems, Diesel, Gas and HFO powered. Quick to grasp new concepts. Work with and set up KPI's and Scorecards.
Work Experience
Parts and Service Sales Manager
Cat Dealer Saudi Arabia. Managed Parts and Service Sales department with more than 15 salesmen.
Parts and Traffic Operations Manager
Cat Dealer Indonesia. Managed parts and traffic operations from Singapore. Previously Parts and Service Merchandising Manager with $25 million in direct parts sales.
Senior Manager
Cat Dealer Southern Africa. Career spanned various positions from Rep to Senior Management.
Acting General Manager and Senior Manager
Head of Turnkey Power Solutions with 4 departmental managers. Responsible for large power plants diesel, gas and HFO including 22 MW HFO peaking station for Nampower Namibia.
Sales Manager
Caterpillar Dealer in West Africa. Managed selling mining machines to large mining houses including BHP, Rio Tinto, Vale and Kinross Gold. Sold fleet valued over $130 million.
Sales Manager
Dealer for Hitachi Mining Machines. Responsible for managing sales in West and Central Africa. Developed network of customers and produced answers to machine tenders.
Self Employed Consultant
Consulting and managing own business. Provide business skills to develop managers in engineering environments. Training business skills and machine health applications.
Education
Apprenticeship
British Army training with Senior and Intermediate army certificates of education.
Army Trade Class A1
Trained to senior level. City and Guilds passed with credits.
Mechanical Instructor Training
Served almost 3 years as Mechanical Instructor.
Advanced Selling Skills, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Green Belt Six Sigma
Professional development courses.
Senior Management Courses
Various senior management training programs.