Quality Engineer Resume Simi Valley, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

I am an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Six Sigma Green Belt, and a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Design. Experienced with GD&T and Certified to IPC - 610 & 620. I have extensive hands-on experience in Supplier Quality Engineering Management across the highly regulated Aerospace and Defense industries. I am very familiar with AS9100. I have developed and implemented many tools, procedures, and metrics that have solved chronic problems, improved process and product quality, while reducing cost. I hold an active DOD Secret Clearance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Simi Valley, CA

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

Initiated, developed, and implemented numerous additions and improvements to the QMS:
Receiving inspection procedures that dramatically increased throughput, eliminate non-value-added activity, and reduce cost of quality.
Four new quality clauses to address packaging & preservation, surface finishes, clean, and documentation.
Contract review procedure and flowchart that eliminated numerous risks, and ensured customer satisfaction.
Good Documentation Practice to eliminate the potential for a wide variety of costly mistakes.
Revamped numerous procedures to eliminate errors, redundancies, obsolete practices, and greatly improve readability.
Reduced past due SCARs from 115 to 5, and issued 32 new I/P/S/CARs.
Audited the entire QMS, issued CARs, and drove the implementation of corrective actions, all within schedule.

Confidential, Goleta, CA

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

Identified errors in engineering documents and developed better communication with suppliers to resolve quality issues. Identified and corrected errors in Purchase Orders and Manufacturing Orders.
Through analysis, I found that 40% of all parts submitted to QA are candidates for Dock to Stock. Generated Receiving Inspection & DTS Process Flow & Procedure.
Identified and corrected several specifications that lacked adequate accept/reject criteria. This greatly improved communication with suppliers and reduced the rejection rate.

Confidential, Camarillo, CA

Principal Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

Successfully lead cause investigations on issues that were preventing first article approval of very tightly toleranced molded components.
Developed the Preferred Supplier Development Program that established expectations and instructions to help suppliers succeed.
Through audit findings and subsequent preventive action initiatives, I facilitated improvements to the QMS, QA and Manufacturing processes and procedures that eliminated contract compliance risks, and improved customer satisfaction.

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Supplier Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

Performed cause and corrective action on several long-standing supplier quality issues, resulting in the elimination of certain product delivery schedule obstacles.
Created Business Management Practices for Documentation Practice, Cause and Corrective Action, Material Review and other quality standards.

Confidential, Newbury Park, CA

Quality Specialist I, Supplier Quality Management

Responsibilities:

Developed an improved relationship with critical suppliers to investigate and resolve quality issues impacting production. As a result, several recurring quality issues that posed a risk to product quality and production schedule in 2004, had been eliminated in 2005.
Recognized for my high level of responsiveness to customer needs at all Confidential sites, and effectively utilizing cross-functional team resources to resolve raw material change issues in a timely manner.
Developed and implemented a powerful Excel based project management tool. This tool facilitates the setting and meeting of incremental task due dates. The result is that all projects continually progressed towards closure, and the department metrics showed a significant cycle time reduction in CAPA's, changes, audits, and other projects.

Confidential, Camarillo, CA

Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities:

My root cause analysis disproved a faulty product claim that saved the company’s integrity and protected current and future product revenues in excess of $2M.
Developed a project management tool for managing the progress of all qualification activities, averaging about 65 in number at any one time. This system enabled the easy identification and monitoring of critical paths and bottlenecks. This effectively eliminated qualification related new product launch delays.

Confidential, Canoga Park, CA

ASQ Certified Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

Led highly visible Failure Review Board Investigation at a prime supplier after a series of nonconformances that had Space Shuttle launch schedule impact. Identified systemic issues and recommended CAPA’s that have since been adopted. My effort contributed towards winning the 1999 NASA Fee.
Under my leadership, reduced the incidence of repetitive nonconformance by 60%. Reduced mean corrective action process cycle time by a factor of 4. Reduced and maintained the MRB backlog from greater than 130 to under 5.