Name: Garrett Meadow

Title: Sales/Application Engineer

Department: Medical

Month/year joined Bender: February 2015

Certificates: NFPA and local ASHE member

Garrett's first job was working for the local Dairy Queen at the beginning of high school where he eventually worked his way up to Store Manager. While in college, Garrett worked as an intern for Bender, rotating through nearly every department until he was hired on full-time into the position of Sales & Applications Engineer, which he still currently holds today.

Garrett is responsible for creating and maintaining all of the quotes for Isolated Power Systems in the North America region, as well as in various international regions. On a normal day, he analyzes and reviews the engineering drawings and specifications (sometimes several gigabytes worth of files) for each opportunity received, and provides pricing and lead times for the products. He is also the primary contact for all technical questions/needs for Bender's Isolated Power Systems. He works hand-in-hand with Bender's network of representatives, distributors, contractors, engineers, and end users throughout the world to ensure that they receive the best products available in the market today.

Garrett's favorite part of working at Bender is the sense of family. Not only referring to ownership of the company, but also the family atmosphere provided at Bender. Garrett says that, "countless colleagues are not only great mentors, but also great friends. The benefits we receive are amazing, but it’s truly the people that work at Bender that make it a remarkable place." Garrett also appreciates the fact that the company allows him to show off his “unique” style (his words) when it comes to dress down Fridays and, of course, Halloween. Garrett prides himself on learning more about Isolated Power Systems and the market on a daily basis as he strives to become the best in the business at what he does.

In his free time, Garrett enjoys spending time with his fiancé, and they have recently been lucky enough to move out of their apartment (which had two windows) and into their first home. He is an avid Philadelphia sports fan, with the Flyers being his #1 team as he loves the nonstop action and grit of hockey. He has been a participant in multiple charity road bike events with distances of 70+ miles, starting in Philadelphia and ending in NJ.

Garrett considers his favorite product to be the  EDS441LNA Ground Fault Location kits  utilized in Bender's  Modular Design Isolated Power Panels . This product increases the safety of Bender's panels by calling out faulty branch circuits and productivity and efficiency of the system by decreasing down time searching for a fault. He likes it because it increases the safety and if they didn't have this unit, they would need to call someone responsible for the systems themselves (engineer on site, electrician) and typically they can't get in the room right away due to an ongoing operation. This is a real-time ground-fault finder where it immediately says there's a fault and one which circuit it is located.

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