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• Strategically plan International manufacturing through evaluation, selection, and cultivation of multicultural business partnerships.• Develop multiple manufacturing facilities in Asia for dock-to-stock relationships through hands-on direction of quality production control.• Instill new product development and design for manufacturability controls and procedures within the electrical and mechanical engineering groups.• Develop ATE and data collection constantly progressing the unit history data mining to support engineering feedback for continuous improvement in customer service and new product development. • Direct customer service repair to resolve conflict during the first opportunity to serve by providing timely performance feedback, continuous improvement and technical instruction. • Develop west coast distribution facility and direct shipping, receiving, and inventory control.• Develop and administer documentation control, parts master and bill of materials.

• Reorganized the production floor and warehouse layout for lean manufacturing utilizing buffers and visual workflow control. Eliminated shop floor controls and batch processing in consumer electronic manufacturing facility with annual sales of $65MM.• Implemented new inventory control and MRP system which enhanced operations, improved stockroom organization and accountability, and facilitated inventory reductions while elevating production control and efficiency.• Trained inventory and production personnel in TQM concepts of zero defects and prevention versus detection, emphasizing quality at the source and self-inspection as you go virtually eliminating scrap and rework.

• Administered concurrent engineering and design for manufacturability techniques to minimize engineering “throwing products over the wall” to production in consumer electronic manufacturing startup operation to sales of $10MM.• Installed cellular manufacturing, kanban material replenishment, and four-wall’s inventory control as the basis of manufacturing management.• Developed parts master, BOMs, and engineering documentation and control.

• Championed manufacturing conversion from batch mode to just in time and established cellular manufacturing for leading consumer electronic manufacturer with annual sales of $110MM.• Developed material procurement strategies and formed supplier partnerships that facilitated JIT inventory goals, improved product quality and delivery, and enhanced new product development efforts with supplier involvement early on in the design phase.• Demonstrated continuous improvement as a way of life and instructed employees on total quality management, team work, problem solving, statistical process control and time-based strategies to empower them with authority over production and quality issues.• Pioneered automated testing and data collection in car audio manufacturing.• Directed automated component assembly alternatives with state of the art equipment enabling production capacity and improving product quality while reducing component placement costs.

Bsbm, Business Management

Activities and Societies: Sigma Iota EpsilonGraduated with honors, 3.9 GPA

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