Experience

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  UBCO - Electric Adventure Vehicles

  • San Jose, California, United States

  • Sr. Director Ops., Supplier Development & Product Quality

    • Apr 2022 - Present
    • San Jose, California, United States

    UBCO is established in New Zealand in 2015, UBCO leads the category, providing electric adventure vehicles (EAV) to customers across New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.https://ubco.com

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  Trimble Inc.

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Associate Director, OEM Product Ops.

    • May 2018 - May 2022

    Overall responsibility of OEM Business for Operations with accountability of all NPI supply chain activities, Quality and product transition support management.

  • Associate Director, Global Mechanical Commodity Mgmt. & SQE

    • Apr 2017 - May 2018

  • Manager, Global Mechanical Commodity Mgmt. & SQE

    • Jun 2010 - Mar 2017

     Management of all aspects of Mechanical Commodities and Supplier Quality, ~$62M Major commodities include machined castings, cables/connectors, plastic, sheet-metal, custom battery assemblies and AC/DC external power supplies. Responsible for all strategic supplier relationships and for purchased material cost, availability, liability, contracts, supplier selection, development and publication of preferred global suppliers to Engineering, and drive "material cost reduction" projects  NPI support to engineering teams in USA, Europe and New Zealand. Key supplier locations includes North America (Mexico) and Asia (China, Taiwan and Malaysia) Responsible for Global Supplier Quality Engineering to ensure all purchased parts meet Trimble specifications and remain compliant with "Supplier Quality Requirements" and ship-to-stock certifications.

  • Manager, Supplier Quality Engineering

    • May 2006 - Jun 2010

     Deployment of Trimble’s new Global Supplier Quality Requirements (SQR) program to support Trimble’s quality, reliability and supplier performance requirements.  Responsible for all aspects of Supplier Quality - Supplier technical evaluation & selection, process qualification and audits. - Technical management of Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) partners, and custom part suppliers  Primary quality and technical contact for overseas EMS partners.

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  Delphi

  • United Kingdom
  • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • AQE, Advanced Quality Engineer

    • 2004 - 2006

     Responsible for all aspects of supplier quality assurance for assigned components and sub-assembly to achieve zero defect goal at new model launch/change Component responsibility included machined components/castings, sub-assemblies, stampings & springs Assembled components responsibility incl. powder painting and plating APQP activities, approval of PPAP and Run @ Rate (production capacity verification), Supplier Development activities (Asia)

  • Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE)

    • 2003 - 2004

    SQE supporting Brake Apply & ABS systems mfg. plant for day-to-day supplier quality problem resolution including supplier plant & inventory containment activities, root cause analysis (SCAR) and implementation of irreversible systemic corrective actions, with goal of “No line shut down”.

  • Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

    • 1996 - 2003

    Supporting brake assembly manufacturing plant, focusing on OSHA improvement/corrective action plan (100% resolution in six months for two drum brake assembly lines)