SUMMARY:

• Successfully I have worked in Production / Manufacturing / Operations / Quality & Purchasing in a variety of fields from electronics, metals & composite manufacturing for air, sea and space applications to hand held computing devices. I have balanced experience & reliable standards, possessing the computer skills and flexibility to succeed in today’s market & looking forward to continuing to accept new challenges and opportunities. I have worked several contracts to maintain employment but looking for a full time, long term position. My hands on skills are but not limited to include:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP MRP LEAN Microsoft Outlook
• AS9100 / AS9102 JSTD FileMaker AS400
• Microsoft Excel ERP JIT MPS
• Lotus Notes Scheduling Purchasing Plannin
• Windchill Tip Qa IPC 610 MAPICS
• E2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Quality Representative

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for the certification of the organization transitioning from ISO 9001 to AS9100. Amending and institute procedures and reports to meet upgraded standards. Successfully completing the assessment audits and requirements set forth. Other tasks were creating FAI reports, in process and final inspections of sheet metal fabricated goods, calibration of measuring devices, lot controlled items and supplier/ vendor quality. Functions included Non Conformance reporting internal and external and on time delivery tracking.

Confidential

Quality Specialist

• Creating AS9102 documentation for customer approval (Lockheed / Boeing) and certification. Task involves drawing, Bill of material proofreading, certificate conformance analysis and dimensional verification to specifications. Reviewing with customer(s) directly for first article, FAI, approval. Position also required review of AS9100 standards and practices making suggested changes to meet current function requirements, various document management tasks and retention. Supporting Supplier Quality Engineer, processing RTV discrepant materials via RMA’s as well as supplier ratings and procurement approvals.(Adecco)

Confidential

Management Representative

• As Management Representative for this Machine Shop my responsibility was to create and develop procedures and work instruction documentation and integrate computer software to comply with current AS9100 certification with staff & executive management.

Confidential

Supply Chain Support

• Relying on my past experiences in various fields of operations this contract position provides assistance to all positions related to supply chain support; planning, purchasing and receiving, while staff was trained on new software for the location, MAPICS to SAP which I have rounded experience . (Kelly Services)

Confidential

Data Quality Process Engineer

• Orchestrating and gathering of critical engineering test data, photographs and required documentation to create qualification reports for Boeing and FAA. Inclusive tasks consist of software file conversion, proofreading, editing text and photo notations. (Apex Services)

Confidential

Senior Buyer/Planner

• Included the structuring of MRP for their CMS software, executing purchases and planning to forecast and unplanned demand. Tasks included reporting customer deliveries to sales and expediting shortfalls. Products experienced a lead time greater than 6 - 8 weeks due to their import status from Germany, Taiwan and Israel which often caused delays to customers. Using learned logistics practices, trends and weighing the elements of usage and the poor lead-time was able to negotiate and stabilize and achieve profitable inventory levels and reduce turn time 50%. Developed schedules with vendors to prevent shortfalls and allowed quicker recovery within the supply chain, reducing shortages 75%.

Confidential

Program Administrator Specialist

• Supporting new program development tasks where ground building start-up procedures such as creating and maintaining bills of material for a variety of applications from PCB’s to final end item goods. Scheduling, manufacturing and testing timelines with program management and customers. Material planning and close ties with procurement were mandated. Upon suspension of certain programs of which I was involved; I was reassigned to monitor and support the FAA repair work cell. Expectations from the corporate sales organization were to establish return lead time to 15 days or less. Upon my transfer turn time was 23 days and in fewer than six months of reporting and monitoring material flow and adding procurement support was able to reduce to 13.4 days. This process required status and provisioning materials based on return history, adjusting as needed and providing direct facts to purchasing for attainment. Other requirements were maintaining repair routing and logistics, maintaining promise return dates to customers, preparation for shipment documentation (C of C, Product repair data, Shipping and Invoicing) along with monthly material audits of work orders and floor stock inventory materials. Each task was achieved with first hand, constant, direct involvement with Sales, Manufacturing, Purchasing and Operations

Confidential

Production Specialist

• Working at two facilities in Glen Cove, N.Y. and Marion, VA. as Production Planner/Specialist my duties were focused around the marine / aircraft composites / fiberglass operations. Supplying all materials, government and customer furnished material and /or directly purchased goods for general usage on the plant floor. Working hands on with fabrication of aircraft wing assemblies, procuring raw sheet metal and subcontracting external processes such as heat treating and bending. Other related tasks were process and equipment improvements, communicating openly with Engineering, Contracts and our customers. Special attention to inventory and maintenance of bonded stores, date code sensitive materials (paint, adhesives & epoxy) and reporting daily production progress and issues direct to senior management.

Confidential

Coordinator/ Expeditor

• Assisting the Master Scheduler and Sr. Planner executing weekly / monthly production of commercial and military aircraft fuel systems. The general work environment centered around a JIT/LEAN manufacturing technique-using MRP for limited forecasting purposes. Tasks include servicing on floor stock and point of use inventories, kit releases, bi-monthly inventory audits, shipment & receipt of outside assembly processes also monitoring/reporting all work area flow. Interface with Inspection / Shipping / Receiving / Purchasing as needed as well as other planning groups within the facility; PCB assembly & Machine Shop. I was responsible for developing a new floor kit staging area reducing kit release time in half and creating shared EXCEL files to eliminate unnecessary calls for status between work areas.

Confidential

Production/Manufacturing Manager

• A wide variety of tasks and obligations were covered in this most challenging position. Among them were maintaining a totally flexible shop which upon requests could change it’s focus from day to day or hour to hour to meet customers expectations. Some of the services offered by this small business involve PCB rework and manufacturing, kit or product packaging, tape and reel, harness and cable assembly, customer warehousing, small product assembly & remarking / labeling for retail. The scope of this position was as wide as the products or customers it handled. Purchasing on demand using customer sources or other solutions was a standard. MRP was used at a minimum due to the short turn of items that were primarily consigned. Production planning was based on JIT and managed on the floor with a minimal staff. Warehouse facility was generally low dollar with a few higher dollar items that again were on consignment from the customer. Customers included Symbol Technologies, Brookhaven Labs, Canon, Nikon, Olympus & Veeco Instruments. Other duties included computer systems support, hardware and internal software support and shipping / receiving supervisor.