SUMMARY

• Seeking Industrial Engineering position in an organization that will enable me to put to use best the skills set I am equipped with and realize value in tandem for mutual benefit.
• A Seasoned Industrial Engineer professional with Master of Science in Industrial engineering degree and hands-on experience in improving manufacturing operations managing cross functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives and resolving quality issues implementing training programs of lean and six-sigma and completing work instructions determining and establishing the most efficient methods for waste elimination and maximum utilization of facilities and personnel working with the line management in the development and implementation of occupational safety and health policies, programs and procedures. Sound analytical, organizational and computer skills.

CORE COMPETENCE

• Lean/JIT Manufacturing Practices Six-Sigma Methodologies DMAIC Statistical Process Control SPC
• 8D Problem Solving RC/CA Cross Functional Teams Continuous Improvement
• NPI Process Production Part Approval Process PPAP Design of Experiments DOE
• MRP Production Scheduling Supply Chain/Project Management ISO 9001:2008 Quality Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Quality Engineer

Confidential

• Resolving product quality issues using problem solving methodologies ensuring quality assurance control by establishing PPAP's COA's working with cross functional teams in driving continuous improvement initiatives utilizing statistical process control and six-sigma techniques for identifying and reducing part defects performing ISO 9001:2008 internal audits recording, tracking and reporting key metrics related to customer quality
• Accomplishments
• Saved nearly 500, 000 for the company by resolving product related quality issues.
• Achieved an average supplier performance of 95 by resolving quality issues of major automotive customers.
• Managed accounts for 23 automotive customers for processing and resolving customer quality complaints.
• Conceptualized and Implemented SPC software WIN SPC on all four production lines.

Lean Quality Engineer

Confidential

• Implemented lean strategies to reduce lead times for the production of radio frequency RF filters estimated resource utilization for capacity adjustments improved shop order tracking and labor reporting applied quality control techniques for reducing part defects performed production part approval process PPAP and reliability analysis.
• Accomplishments
• Achieved 34 lead time reduction for producing RF filters by implementing lean principles as a DMAIC project.
• Reduced defective rate of RF filters by 15 and saved 10,000 on rework by adopting statistical process control SPC and six-sigma techniques.
• Saved 20,000 by reducing resources required for recording labor hours by operation.

Graduate Assistant

Confidential

Determined absorbance, heat stress, optical density and total phenolics for tomato and lettuce samples created an MS Access database to store these results and performed design of experiments and regression analysis. Accomplishments

• Performed FMEA of the plant samples to identify their survival conditions.
• Developed a macro in Minitab 15.0 to estimate the probability that a plant sample could be used for farming.

Graduate Research Assistant

Confidential

• Designed and simulated a real time emergency department KU Medical Center, Kansas City, MO using Arena 11.0. Validated the model using statistical analysis and performed sensitivity analysis to consider variation in results.
• Accomplishments
• Provided three solutions models , which will improve the flow of patients in emergency department.
• Reduced patient's door to bed, door to doctor wait times ranging from 10 to 31 , and diversion rate by 26 .

Lean Manufacturing Analys

Confidential Implemented a Pull system for the company's new product launch named 'Enclosures' reduced work in process and finished goods inventory and estimated takt time to achieve level production. Accomplishments

• Reduced finished goods inventory from 500 units to 24 units by implementing a 2-bin Kanban system.
• Recommended rearrangement of work-cells, which will reduce the conveyance time by 15 seconds.

Process Improvement Engineer Trainee

Confidential

• Analyzed the manufacturing process of electronic voting machines oversaw the process flow in the manufacturing unit and made accommodations for cellular manufacturing implemented lean practices to improve flow and productivity.
• Accomplishments
• Enhanced plant's product yield by adopting value stream map, line balancing and single piece flow concepts.
• Achieved 12.5 reduction in overall cycle time at final assembling stage.

Quality Control Intern

Confidential

• Analyzed and documented the manufacturing process of textile and steel cord conveyor belts. Acquired knowledge of quality control techniques like statistical process control, six-sigma, kaizen and assisted in JIT/Kanban implementation.
• Accomplishments
• Systematically compiled manufacturing process flow for all the grades manufactured taking in to account the properties of rubber, chemicals, nylon, steel cord and the sub-assemblies.
• Submitted valuable inputs in the supplier quality review meetings by utilizing right quality control techniques, thereby aiding the organization select the best suppliers.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Design/Statistical/Simulation/MRP Package: AutoCAD 2010, Minitab 16.0, WIN SPC 8.3, SAS 9.2, Arena11.0
• Application Software: MS-Office Suite 2007 Access, Excel, Power Point, Project , Visio
• Reliability/CRM/VSM/MRP Package: Relex Reliability 2009, Salesforce, WMEP MCpT , Catalyst Mfg