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CQA Certificate

·         ISO9000:2000/QS-9000/TE-9000/TS16949:2002/ISO 17025 Overview, Implementation, & Internal Auditing

·         LEAN Manufacturing and LEAN Enterprise Disciplines

·         Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), 

       Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

·         Supervisor, Management, and Communication Skills

·         Blue Print Reading,  Statistical Process Control for Production, and  Industrial Fork Truck Training

·         Project Management, and Technical Writing Training

·         ISO 9000/TS16949/ISO17025 implementation, interpretation and application

·         Procedure development, Quality Engineering, and PPAP preparation

·         Internal and supplier quality system auditing  

Analysis and optimization of existing reporting systems

Migration of spreadsheet reporting to relational database structures

Advanced Development of MS Access databases

Development of Crystal Reports using existing data structures

LEAN Manufacturing Certification 6 Part Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky

ASQ Certified Quality Auditor

B.S.M.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1990

A.A., Pre-Engineering, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL, 1985

Senior Member of the American Society for Quality, St Joseph/Benton Harbor

Section Secretary – 2004/2005 to Present

Section Chairman – 2003/2004

Section Secretary – 2002/2003

St Joseph/Benton Harbor ISO Roundtable, Chairman – 2000 to 2004

·         Corporate project manager working with various functions to increase the efficiency of the product development process, reducing lead times, and improving product quality.

·         Worked with senior managers to develop and facilitate custom workshops targeted to establish, improve, and communicate company performance measures.

·         Training Manager for the LOF Niles Injection Molding Facility start-up operation, providing training for production, technical, and salaried personnel at the Niles, MI facility. 

·         Identified all training required for the new start-up manufacturing operation by meeting with corporate management, Niles managers, and trainers from other plants.  Determined short and long term training goals through needs assessments and group problem-solving methodology.

·         Managed the design and staffing of all required training at the Niles off-site training facility.

·        Production Supervisor for the Injection Molding Operation during the ramp-up.

QS-9000 Implementation Manager and Lead Auditor for all locations from January 1995 to December 1996.  Managed all site QS-9000 personnel, including 13 management representatives, and13 project managers in 15 locations throughout North America.  Managed and conducted all corporate quality auditing functions at each site several times per year.

·         Achieved a single ISO 9000/QS-9000 registration for all 15 locations in less than two years.

Developed and delivered QS-9000 training classes on such topics as QS-9000 Overview, Internal and Supplier Quality Auditing, QS-9000 Implementation, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. 

·         Implemented a Corporate Quality Policy Manual that was signed by the CEO, and adopted by the Corporation.

·         Interfaced with external technical writers, purchasing, materials managers, and plant personnel in the development of the quality system.

·        Individual plant consulting on QS-9000 implementation, management issues, and quality concerns.

·         Developed and delivered the core workshop, Basic Process Improvement, using cross-functional teams to map out and document processes, identifying waste and action plans for improvement. 

·         Trained facilitators in outlying plants to run the course, replicating it throughout the corporation as the chief tool for process improvement. 

·         Utilized the Basic Process Improvement technique on processes ranging from senior management decision-making, to administrative tasks, to manufacturing processes.

·         Researched, interacted with vendors, and recommended CNC Equipment.

·        Developed standard programming techniques, and delivered CNC training to the CAD personnel.

Interacted with suppliers, tooling manufacturers, and customers, to engineer and produce glass tooling.

·         Designed and developed CAD graphic programs and part libraries using Intergraph CAD workstations, resulting in increasing the efficiency of the tooling design process.

·        Participated in a team to evaluate Coordinate Measuring Machines for corporate-wide use.

Whirlpool Corp.                                  

General Electric Corp.

Bath Iron Works

Brunswick Defense Systems                

Sperry Defense Systems

Westinghouse Electric Corp., Steam Turbine Division

Martin Marietta Aerospace                  

Gould-Brown-Boveri Corp.

Northrop Defense Systems                  

Applied Devices Corp.