Sr Quality engineer

• Oct 2016 - Present

Quality manager

• 2016 - 2017

Continuous Improvement Director

• Mar 2014 - Apr 2016

Director of Continuous Improvement responsible for the Quality Department and improvement of quality of the product and processes, ISO Management Representative, Maintained, trained and updated Standard Operating Procedures. Received new ISO 9001 Certification with a new registrar. Daily activities include reviewing and disposition of Non-conforming material with Suppliers, Customers and internal. Formed teams and applied Lean Six Sigma Tools to determine root cause and corrective action for non-conforming material. Reported monthly KPI's to senior management. Help select projects to improve overall efficiencies of the operation. Show less

Operations Manager

• Oct 2014 - May 2015

Responsible for daily production and schedule. Oversaw 50 teammates. Report to management efficiencies, inventory and shipping levels. Daily review of non-conformance. Daily review of production records.

Director of Continuous Improvement

• 2013 - 2014

My responsibilities included maintaining, training and updating the ISO 9001 Quality Management System. Daily control and disposition of Non-conforming Material. Root cause and corrective action for Non-conformances. Interacted with the Senior Management group to advise on projects for Continuous Improvement. My responsibilities included maintaining, training and updating the ISO 9001 Quality Management System. Daily control and disposition of Non-conforming Material. Root cause and corrective action for Non-conformances. Interacted with the Senior Management group to advise on projects for Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement Manager

• Apr 1987 - Sep 2013

Continuous Improvement Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Rapid Change Over Improvement Lean Six Sigma Black Belt responsible to deploying and maintaining cross functional team throughout the division. Trained and mentored Green Belt and Black Belt candidates. World Class Operation Management responsible for a Systematic Approach to eradicate waste involving everyone in the company. While there was no direct responsibility for assets, the Continuous Improvement Manager has a major influence in process improvement projects resulting in controlling cost and lowering the overall cost of operations. • Deployed the Lean Six Sigma Continuous improvement methodology to reduce manufacturing set up times. Conducted Rapid Change Over events to reduce set up times. This process involves the machine operators and leads to identify now value add steps to complete the process. Additionally Utilized the D (define), M (measure), A (analyze), I (improve) C (control) creating a cross functional team to continue to improve set up times. As businesses continue the trend for shorter runs and shorter lead time this continuous improvement process is vital in controlling cost. • Worked with the management team to identify and track projects that will have the highest impact for lowering overall operating costs. Created and trained each facility on Overall Equipment Efficiencies and Loss files. Training was completed and projects were identified. • Worked with the Members from each plant to identify Best Practices that would improve overall efficiencies for the slitting department. This cross functional team identified and Implemented 11 Best practice. Conducted Audits at each facility to check on compliance to Best Practices, This audit also served to review overall operating systems in the slitting department. Show less