William Collins Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, Mexico

Manufacturing engineering and quality engineering consulting for New Product Introduction, Sustaining Projects, and Business & Manufacturing Process Improvements in a variety of industries. Examples: Aircraft GRESS quality standardization, Automotive repair, Metal fabrications, Ophthalmic lens manufacture, Pulsed-energy water purification system, Wiring harness assembly,Developer of Key Quality Index© for manufacturing & business CMMI.

San Diego Area

Invited to Teach: Bachelor & Master’s courses in Lean/Six-sigma, Manufacturing Processes (Metal castings, Plastics extrusion & fabrications, Additive Prototyping-3D, Electronics Assembly), Project Management, Financial Engineering, Concurrent Design Engineering, Mechanical Labs.

Tijuana Mexico, Los Angeles Area Ca, Chicago Il

Partner Consultant to the aerospace industry• Clients: Airbus, Honeywell, Zodiac Projects: Process risk identification, mitigation & prevention—FMEAs; NPD launches• Process optimization (composites fab, assembly); trained clients in lean and quality• Reduced NCRs- 40% and implemented procedures to improve timeliness of responses

Carlsbad, Santa Clara Ca; Shanghai, Hong Kong China

Responsible for the corporate QMS and for the quality at 4 off-shore manufacturing and electronic assembly facilities; led project management of engineering projects from concept to post-production.Accomplishments o Quality engineering and process quality inputs to the product launch of a new digital lighting system, achieving sales of $25MM in 1st yearo Led a Kaizen for the reduction of Warranty Expenses to <0.5% of Net Sales, resulting in a savings of $275Ko Management of 80 NPD projects, reducing average Time-to-Market from 22 to 12 months.

San Diego Ca, Tijuana Mexico

Responsible for PCBA and product quality at 5 business units. Accomplishments o FMEAs for design and manufacture of PCB assemblies and final product, resulting in a reduction of $530K in product returnso Test equipment expansion program which generated annual savings of $135K and a 55% reduction of test timeo Unique 18-step root cause analysis procedure, reducing NFF return rate to <25%.

San Diego

Managed manufacturing engineering & remanufacturing operations in a 24/7 work pattern.Design of assembly processes and methods with productivity gains of $360K in reduced labor costsIntroduced recycling of ICs, display, & antenna components for savings of $12MMEstablished CTQ parameters in manufacturing processes, improving to 495 DPPMs.

Registered Professional Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering

Master Of Science (Mba) Degree, Sloan School Of Management, Finance, Manufacturing/Quality Management

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Mechanical Engineering