Cory Skidmore Email & Phone Number

Devens, Ma, 01434

Responsible for the flow of all material incoming and outgoing of the facility. Work closely with Manufacturing , Purchasing, and Sales to ensure timely receipt or delivery of products from vendors or to customers. Work directly with vendors for freight services, negotiate rates and services with vendors for custom packaging of our product.

Responsible for ensuring all incoming product from vendors meets company, vendor ,or customer specifications.Doing First Articles, control of MRB and inputting data to the MRB Non-Conformance database. Also responsible for the timely receiving or shipment of product to or from vendors and customers.

Incoming inspection of all incoming product, from outside vendors and sub contractors, as well as sister companies in Europe and Asia. I used visual, mechanical and electrical means to ensure product compliance to our specifications, to ensure safety, overall durability, and helped ensure that Anderson Power Products remained the leader in high voltage interconnect solutions for our customers world wide. Worked with many internal departments to streamline communication, with regards to priorities for product assembly and shipment, discrepant material reports and dispositions. I was tasked with creating in process inspection parameters, for critical features based on product drawings for outside vendors, for internal inspection, and for support for our facilities in Europe and Asia. I was involved in investigations into copyright patent infringement and counterfeit products. I helped produced internal reports about counterfeit product, the identifiers, and special techniques to help identify counterfeit products where attention to details were paramount to the safety and use of our products. I was involved in customer complaints, and helped with the investigations into concerns, suggestions, and complaints of suppliers, customers, and OEM distributers world wide. I was involved with production, quality, and engineering was helping to create a lean operating system, via work instructions, visual aids, and as an open communication liaison between production workers and engineering. I was tasked by my managers to play a supporting role during the start up of our new manufacturing facilities in Asia, providing some logistical, and technical support of quality assurance. I was tasked with and completed internal ISO audits for ISO-9001-2000 compliance.

I was hired to work in the Staking Dept. as a machine opertator on first shift. My duties were to keep the machines operating, by transfering inprocess parts from the molding dept. to the staking area after quality inspected them. I reported any and all machine related problems to the on duty mechanic. Most of the machines were automated, and the process was to add required components to the machine to keep it operating, making finished parts ready for inventory or speacial orders as required by the supervisor. In 2003 I attended a seminar for ultrasonic welding of plastic components, and recieved a certificate in Plastics Joining Technologies from Branson Ultrasonics. I was made lead operator, for set up, diagnostic, and eval, of production and prototypes for 2 ultrasonic welders we employed. I obtained in 2001, a fork truck licence rated for upto 5000 pounds thru a internal company eval and training. This eval and test was based on an out sourced training manual used by many companies country wide. I do not have the info available to give you the name of the entity. I held this license and classification until 2007. I worked in the molding room as required or needed by my supervisors or due to work loads. I was involved with random inspection of production parts, and used speacial gauges to ensure uniform quality standards, and inputing the data gathered via SPC/QMS operations and databases. I worked with the inprocess quality inspector to esure finished and inprocess compliance, and also worked to resolve any non conformance of inprocess or finished goods. In May of 2004 I was promoted to Incoming Quality Inspector, via internal application, I began my duties full time at the begining of June 2004 after completeing the rquired internal training by fellow Sr. Quality Assurance Engineers, and the Director of Quality.

Worked part time after hours as part of the maitenance crew to keep the trucks clean and to help present a proffesional apperance for drivers . I also was allowed to train on some of the heavy equipment ( Wheel Loaders, Back Hoes, Excavators, Bulldozers, ect) for possible permenant employment with in the company. I was laid off due to inability of proper washing during winter seasons, as this was an outside element job.

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