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Aiken, Sc, Us

Aiken, South Carolina

Quality & Continuous Improvement Engineer for Arresters Business Unit.Quality Assurance Engineer for electrical surge arresters division. Includes certified test reporting, non-destructive electrical testing, and failure analysis. Manage customer audits and testing. Develop and maintain continual improvement plan to achieve designed cost savings through process improvements. Manage monthly quality audit schedule and Kaizen events with project tracking and team building.

Lebanon, Nh

Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer - Developed and maintained a global supplier list encompassing approximately 200 suppliers. Products and services supplied are used in the manufacture of aerospace ball and roller bearings which range from 0.25 to 22 inches in diameter used in aerospace, military and medical applications. Supplier quality is assured by adherence to AS9100 aerospace quality standards. Coordinated and performed on-site quality audits of all critical process suppliers. Assured supplier adherence to FAR 145 and ITAR regulations for two FAA Repair Stations. Lean Six Sigma techniques (DMAIC) employed to address systemic problems. Issue and review of 3D and 8D corrective actions to suppliers. Supplier base knowledge includes but is not limited to; metal fabrication from raw material to finished components, NDT practices including FPI, MPI and Eddy Current testing, and plating and coatings such as silver plating, titanium nitride and nodular thin dense chromium.

Fullerton, Ca

Manufacturing / Project Engineer - Initiated and maintained a design team to address problems encountered during manufacturing of aerospace fasteners. Problem solving with regard to optimized manufacturing of aerospace fasteners. Work order rotation through various forming, machining, heat treating and plating operations to ensure product quality and cost effective production. As a manufacturing/methods engineer, my main objective was to devise a system to manufacture fasteners from the raw material phase to completion in the most efficient and cost effective manner. This step by step process was formalized by way of detailed part routers.

Garden Grove, Ca

Assembled galley kitchens for commercial aircraft using engineering drawings.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering Honor Society (TAU BETA PI), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

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