Open to the right chapter
Commercial leadership
Continuing to solve complex industrial account, revenue, CRM, and execution problems while evaluating the right long-term leadership role.
View background ↓Industrial operator · founder
Industrial experience.
Built into action.
I’m David Schweickart, an industrial operator and the founder of Schweickart LLC. My work spans industrial commercial leadership, technology, venture building, public questions, and creative projects. This is the operating record and the map.
Now
The work in front of me.
I keep several futures open, but I do not pretend they are all at the same stage. These are the projects receiving real attention now.
Operating
Schweickart LLC
The parent and working company for selective advisory engagements, venture coordination, partnerships, and intellectual property.
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Schweickart Media
Creating an evidence-first production system for industrial stories, field experience, family history, and the next chapter of work.
See the creative direction ↓Selective testing
Venture development
Evaluating industrial product, supply, field-service, and equipment ideas through customer, delivery, safety, and economic evidence.
Review the portfolio ↗Ventures
Different jobs. One portfolio.
Schweickart LLC is the parent operating company. Schweickart Industries brings together Equipment and Fleet Hydraulic Supply. Schweickart Media has a separate editorial role within the LLC.
Parent company
Schweickart LLC
Strategy · advisory · partnerships · IP
Turns experience and ideas into bounded projects, operating companies, and practical systems.
Explore the company ↗Building
Schweickart Media
Research · production · publishing
Documents industry, systems, work, and the lives shaped by them—without publishing private material by accident.
Early development
Fleet Hydraulic Supply
Components · sourcing · continuity
A future hydraulic-component sourcing channel for OEMs, dealers, contractors, fleets, and maintenance teams.
Industrial development
Schweickart Industries
Equipment · components · supply chains
The industrial platform connecting equipment development, hydraulic sourcing, manufacturing capability, and localized supply chains.
Research stage
Schweickart Equipment
Equipment platforms · industrial R&D
Steel-forward equipment development, organized around industries and open to integration with emerging technologies. Specific products remain unannounced.
Work & technology
Make complexity usable.
My useful range is the space between a strategy deck and what people actually have to do on Monday morning.
Revenue and account systems
Key-account structure, stakeholder alignment, pricing posture, dispute recovery, forecasting, and commitments that survive the meeting.
Execution across functions
Sales, operations, supply chain, finance, and customer teams working from the same facts, decision rights, and cadence.
Tools that fit the work
CRM workflows, reporting, automation, and an evidence-first operating system linking notes, media, contacts, projects, and follow-through.
Complex revenue recoveryMoved disputed receivables from noise into accountable action and resolution.
Delivery stabilizationHelped move a failing customer-delivery position to reliable on-time performance.
CRM built around field realityDesigned HubSpot and Salesforce workflows, reporting, and training people could actually use.
Fleet operating-model changeSupported the shift to automated side-loaders and generated more than $1 million in first-year growth.
Public life
Questions worth staying with.
I care about how institutions, industrial capacity, incentives, technology, and law shape everyday economic life. The current posture is research, documentation, and participation—not a campaign page.
Domestic capability
Localizing supply chains means rebuilding the relationships, fabrication capacity, component support, and know-how needed to make and maintain real things.
Competition & concentration
How acquisitions, incentives, and power affect customers, workers, suppliers, and local communities.
AI literacy & access
How ordinary people and small organizations can use advanced tools without surrendering judgment or privacy.
Stability & participation
Practical systems that help families and communities contribute, adapt, and retain agency.
Art & media
Not everything needs to be useful.
Story, image, sound, games, and archival work make room for things that cannot be reduced to a business case. Schweickart Media is the production home.
Industry from the inside
Documentary and first-person work about manufacturing, equipment, supply chains, and the people inside them.
Memory with structure
Family history, photographs, recordings, and everyday artifacts preserved with context—not flattened into a content feed.
Creative experiments
Writing, games, interactive ideas, cooking, home projects, and other work that earns a public form over time.
Private messages and family material remain private. Public work is selected and reviewed before publication.
Operating principles
A few things hold.
Stay close to the work.
The best strategy changes when it meets a customer, a factory, a yard, or a real constraint.
Make the system legible.
People act better when ownership, evidence, tradeoffs, and next commitments are visible.
Build evidence before scale.
Big language is cheap. A working route, an actual order, and a completed delivery carry more weight.
Protect people and trust.
Confidential work stays confidential. Private life does not become public material by default.
Background
Built across functions.
My career has moved through logistics, project management, transportation, industrial equipment, hydraulics, CRM, and major OEM accounts. The through-line is making complex commercial work executable.
White Drive Motors & SteeringOEM account management, commercial execution, delivery recovery, pricing, and Salesforce enablement.
International Drilling EquipmentMid-Atlantic equipment sales, field execution, and a HubSpot operating system built around the sales process.
Rush EnterprisesVocational truck and refuse-market growth, fleet transitions, body integration, and customer development.
Borroughs CorporationProject management and regional sales across industrial storage and complex installations.
Expeditors InternationalInternational freight, operations, compliance, and formal management training.
EducationBBA, Marketing · Western Michigan University · December 2007.
Contact
Find the right door.
I’m open to serious conversations about commercial leadership, difficult industrial problems, partnerships, and work worth documenting.