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Raleigh, NC, US

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Customer Quality Manager

Youngsville, North Carolina, United States

Youngsville, North Carolina

Youngsville, North Carolina

Responsible for managing manufacturing engineering team, new product introductions, continuous improvement projects, capital budgets, test engineering team, and facilities maintenance. Supported SAP implementation.

Youngsville, North Carolina

Responsible for leading Manufacturing Engineering and Facilities team. Managing plant capital and maintenance budgets, critical safety projects, new product introduction, and lean projects. Support product marketing projects in developing product market requirements, launch plans, and marketing collateral for customers and distribution partners. Liaison.

Responsible for managing manufacturing engineers and manufacturing engineering technicians. Managing new product introductions for multiple product lines and business units. Support product marketing projects in developing product market requirements, launch plans, and marketing collateral for customers and distribution partners. Liaison for sales and.

Youngsville, NC

- Implement Lean Six Sigma tools and improvements- Lead customer factory tours- Implement safey and ergonomic improvements- Manage engineering changes for new and existing products- Lead small to mid-size projects- Improve existing layout of production line to improve safety, efficiency, and space utilization.

Youngsville, NC

- Responsible for leading production team and setup of manufacturing processes for new product line.- Lead rampup of initial production team and addition of 2nd shift operation to support business growth.

Raleigh, NC

- Responsible for leading Lean Six Sigma deployment for Raleigh, 3 plant operation. - Lead effort to revive Six Sigma use in Raleigh Plants. - Implemented changes to Kaizen strategy that resulted in increased kaizen activity by 322% from 2007 to 2008 which delivered $600,000 in cost savings.

Durham, NC

- Lead Six Sigma Black Belt DMAIC projects and one DFSS project- Lead training of Six Sigma Green Belt classes and coached green belt projects. - Lead $400k project to upgrade safety for all production equipment in plant to meet new safety requirements.

Halifax, United Kingdom

- Lead equipment installation and upgrades.- Lead international cross-functional new product development team - Took responsibility of temporary plant manger for 9 months.

Durham, NC

- Lead project to improve production line efficiency and quality yield, and customer satisfaction.- Established standardized settings and tolerances for all production equipment reducing variability in product.- Worked with raw material supplier to improve quality to meet needs of our process and products.- Lead project to establish a recycling outlet for.

White Stone, SC

- Lead project to install pilot extrusion coating line.- Specified P&ID's for line.- Lead utility installation, construction of inadequate building areas to support new equipment, and installation of all equipment.

White Stone, SC

- Lead process improvement activities for extrusion coating line team to improve efficiency and yields. - Worked with product development, business team, and customers to develop and release new products.- Lead project to redesign biggest existing product line addressing key customer quality concern. Went to customer sites to run trials and explain to.

Moncure, NC

- Managed R&D pilot fiber spinning line.- Worked with R&D team to plan and execute sample runs and data collection requirements.