SUMMARY:

External Supplier Manufacturing Process Flow And Controls Piece Part, Assembly Development and Tooling Machining, Casting, Sheet metal, Fine Blanking, Injection Molding Part Manufacturing JIT, TQC, SPC, STS, 6 Sigma Supplier Training Program Management, ISO 9001 - 2000 Confidential In House Training and Auditing Materials Acquisition, Configuration Management systems Quality Training Quality Material Tracking / Reporting Systems, 8 D Process Improvement.

SOFTWARE:

M icrosoft , MS Operating system 7, Office 2007, Word, Excel, Visio, Power Point, Publisher, Outlook, Navision, Adobe reader/Writer, Agile tracking and writer, Minitab (SPC), Photo programs for use in process documentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SQE

Responsibilities:

• Write specifications and inspection procedures for Incoming Inspection and Materials Department.
• Contact Suppliers with reject issues and specification issues.
• Develop Excel tracking for expiration data on incoming materials, allowing tracking of expiring materials to be tracked and pulled as expired.
• Develop instructions for users for SAP (Business Suite) training, program data in power point with pictures..
• Inspect incoming materials to inspection requirements.

Director of Quality

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Write start-up procedures for new company, documents to meet ISO standards.
• Develop Internal Purchase Request process, allow tracking of order, and costs for projects.
• Being small company act as Buyer to purchase and get delivery of materials.
• Develop process for laser measurement of surface contact in optical reading.

Director Manufacturing/Quality

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• Start-up manufacturing process, procedures for the manufacturing of hydroponic gardening kits.
• Set-up work instructions using Adobe, Visio and other graphic programs.
• Monitor finish goods for customer acceptance, this entailed actual growing of the seed kits manufactured in the plant.
• Develop a Bill of Material pull sheet and tracking system for each production order.
• Work with temporary workers to develop work skills and monitor quality of output.
• Move factory from Longmont, Colorado to Indianapolis. Indiana, set up floor assembly and train operators.
• Work foreign suppliers (China) with production quality and build scheduling.
• Work in foreign countries, developing production tooling, processes for all materials.

Quality Manager MQA

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• Set-up Material Qualification Lab, train Inspectors, purchase equipment for qualification of new designed materials.
• Change lab from paper to paperless filing and recording of data of inspection results.
• Develop on line (Agile) data filing of qualification reports, allows anyone to review status of material.
• Revise Calibration lab procedures reducing costs in outside suppliers, justify Calibration Lab in Colorado Springs division, change manual filing of certificates to electronic.

Quality Manager / SQE Manager

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• Reorganize Quality departments, change philosophy to Audit verses 100% inspection, and reinstall material audits (Out of Box) of outgoing units.
• Using 8D Task Force program, address manufacturing line failures and corrective action.
• Report to manufacturing, reject rates, work with manufacturing to correct and improve production quality.
• Reduce department by 50%, through reduction of work force and manufacturing process improvements.
• Work with Task Force Teams to reduce workmanship manufacturing defects, set goal for manufacturing to less than 2000 DPM from greater than 100,000, received corporate recognition for achievement of goal.
• Address design issues with Supplier base both in US and Far East, address-manufacturing issues, with both Supplier and Line Process Manufacturing.
• Address Supplier issues on large sheet metal panels requiring Class A finishes.

Quality Process Manager

Confidential, Longmont, CO

Responsibilities:

• Start-up of new company, staff, purchase inspection equipment for incoming inspection and line process controls.
• Main Contact for UL/CSA audits, worked with outside labs to insure product met all requirements.
• Certify Class 100 Clean Room both in U.S. and China manufacturing sites, train operators in Clean Room Protocol, develop and bring on line DI system to support AQ Cleaner.
• Write procedures for China operations on Clean Room maintenance and operation.
• Due to poor design on original AQ system in US, develop and implement new DI system reducing Confidential count to less the 5 on a daily operation, well below industry standard of 50 counts.
• Manage Incoming Quality Inspection; work with Suppliers and Design Engineering to develop inspection process for both received materials and process assembly.

Process Quality Engineering Manager

Confidential, Longmont, CO

Responsibilities:

• Develop Process Tooling Suppliers to meet tooling quality requirements Supplier acceptance level brought up 97.4% from 45%.
• Manage Process Engineers in the Station Qualifications for volume transition manufacturing production
• Work on design of ESD systems for Certified Mini-Clean bench for use in assembly of disk drive products.
• Manage Tooling Inspectors in the inspection and qualification of production tooling requirements.
• Document, Implement station acceptance procedures to meet company goals 1.33Cpk, using both Word, Excel, Statistica, and QI Analyst for report and CPK graph generation.

Senior Process Quality Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Establish tool qualification process and procedures for manufacturing production.
• Implement tool inspection program, establishing tool controls for start-up process assembly tooling.
• Develop line failure cost reporting system for PC system using Excel programming.