SALES ENGINEERS
Ron Hays who manages the Orlando office, is a co-founder of Sawtek Inc., and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sawtek from 1979 until 1986 during which time Sawtek grew from a startup to the largest manufacturer of SAW components in the U.S. Thereafter, as Vice President of Engineering, he led Sawtek's entry into subsystems development and manufacture from 1986 until 1991. As a consultant after 1991, he continued to support Sawtek's engineering, sales, and marketing activities focused successfully on developing and winning major multi-million dollar subsystem opportunities. In 1993 Ron co-founded WaveLink Associates with Tom O'Shea.

Ron who previously has had sales responsibility for Florida and North/South Carolina and Virginia serves the other Sales Engineers as backup throughout the Southeast and has responsibility for staffing including the Raleigh office.

Tom O'Shea, recruited by Sawtek in its early years from Motorola in 1981, served Sawtek in several key individual roles, as the Engineering Manager of SAW Oscillators and Hybrid Products, and as Vice President for new business development. Until going forward to start WaveLink with Ron and throughout most of his Sawtek career, he had principal responsibility for all major proposal work and sales of oscillator and hybrid products and was responsible for the development of many state-of-the-art oscillator products.

From his office in northeast Atlanta, Tom covers key accounts in Atlanta as well as Kentucky and eastern Tennessee and temporarily shares account responsibility with Bob Kerrigan in North and South Carolina.

Bob Kerrigan's professional career includes 27 years of sales and marketing experience with Varian, Emerson & Cuming, and Alpha Industries and as an engineering sales representative. The technical foundation for his high technology sales career comes from many years of successful design and project engineering experience in the microwave component and phased array antenna areas. He has directed field sales offices with sales volume up to $50 million annually and more recently had served as President of Microwave Marketing, an electronics sales representative company founded in Florida over 30 years ago.

Bob joined WaveLink in January, 1995. Bob covers North Carolina and southern Virginia as well as Florida for all end users.

Michael McCorkle joined WaveLink Associates as a sales engineer in 2000, with 18 years of engineering and sales experience. During his eleven years at Gould from 1984 to 1995, he progressed through applications and sales engineering roles to become most recently the National Sales Program manager for digital storage oscilloscopes. His prior technical and sales experience include numerous products such as electronic test equipment, data acquisition systems, distributed control products, plotters and recorders, analyzers, and emulators.

During the last five years as a manufacturers representative, he has focused on sales and support of OEM customers and end users involved in telecommunications, computers and networking, utilities, and other electronic markets in the Southeast. Michael has responsibility for several key accounts in the Atlanta area and also covers the territory west of Atlanta including Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and western Tennessee.

Al Berner covers Florida’s eastern seaboard area from Jacksonville to Miami including the Space Coast where his office is located. Through his eastern regional sales background and dedicated field work over many years, Al has spent much time with Florida customers including those in his area of responsibility for WaveLink Associates.

He began his career as a Sales Engineer with Sprague Electric and then became the Eastern Area Sales Manager for ITT Components Group. Al served as the Northeast District Sales Manager for Raytheon Semiconductor Division and subsequently for Fujitsu Microelectronics. He next became the Eastern Area Sales Manager for Integrated Power semiconductors and then Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Tansitor Electronics, which during his tenure was acquired by Vishay. There his talents were also utilized as an Eastern Regional Field Applications Engineer.

Throughout his career, Al has spent most of his time in the field with his customers, prospects, and Sales Reps. His hands-on, customer-centric approach led to his extensive knowledge of successful sales techniques. Al has a high degree of proven success and shows by example effective sales leadership skills.


CUSTOMER SERVICE
Marie Nash excels at the inside sales function. She has had more than 15 years at WaveLink Associates and has developed very close relationships with our Principals’ sales and customer service personnel. Her relationships and expertise allow our field sales engineers to apply more of their time to on-premises customer support. She performs this key role while managing our main office, contributing in innumerable other ways.

Stacie Hays worked briefly for WaveLink in 1994 and 1995, helping to set up the office and research and select database and office software. From there she left to pursue interests in archaeology and museum work. She participated in digs and worked in laboratories in Indiana, Seattle, Belize, and the south of France. After receiving her Master of Arts in archaeology at the University of Washington, she moved towards more computer-based skills in museums. At the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle, and Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks Library in Washington, DC, she gained familiarity with a variety of database systems as well as other aspects of IT.

Stacie began working for WaveLink again in 2003 and is currently coordinating information technology while working towards her Microsoft certification.