Darron Murray Email & Phone Number

Hope Mills, North Carolina, United States

Operations Manager of Quality and Data Processing

Sanford, North Carolina

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

Work with Manufacturing Engineers to improve product quality in primary covers, transmission cases, crankcases, shafts and gears. Support includes anything from weekly audits to using advanced problem solving techniques on some of the more difficult manufacturing issues.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Work with plant and quality personnel to improve product routes, MRB and RMA processes, as well as help improve Trackwise Investigation closure times.• Develop work instructions to aide in ERP changeover in internal product routing database (made key changes in electronic device history record database for changes from ProdERP to GLProd in ORACLE)• Worked with manufacturing quality team to reduce MRB backlog (from over $2M to $400K in 3 months, then to $50K in 5 months)• Complete Investigation Planning portion of Corrective And Preventative Action (CAPA) process for devices that fail in the field on installation (FOI)• Report Rolled Throughput Yield for each product line on a weekly basis – flag lines that require investigation for manufacturing engineer and provide help when required• Make key changes to manufacturing routes to satisfy manufacturing engineering team CAPA requirement

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

-Helped develop takeover hot chamber magnesium production from Canadian manufacturer. Inventix had little magnesium die casting or automotive experience prior to my starting. All processes were developed after dies were already built with little regard to industry manufacturing standards.• Established processes for complex parts with narrow process windows• Developed tooling on existing product to produce castings at acceptable scrap rates saving the company at least $150K each of the last 2 years.• Improved uptime on machines by making small, incremental changes to dies in collaboration with design and tooling departments• Partnered with process personnel to introduce troubleshooting guide by defect to increase the technicians ability to respond without “waiting for someone”• Reduced cost of shot components by extending life, changing materials, and implementing better preventative maintenance practices, saving the company at least $150K per year in component costs over the last 2 years.• Developed simple system for counting production parts produced that reduced occurrences of reporting errors by more than 90%. Errors were costly because they frequently required unscheduled die changes.

Dowagiac, Michigan

-Managed up to 13 electrical, mechanical and automation technicians. Lead Total Productive Maintenance implementation including development of work instructions. Managed work order and preventative maintenance systems while developing and maintaining new MS Access based work order system. Lead all equipment installations as well as plant floor equipment moves.• Reduced outside contractor costs by more than 50%, using underutilized internal talent• Developed and implemented hydraulic oil usage tracking system – slashed fluid costs by nearly 50% by applying the right fixes using simple pareto analysis• Increased PM on-time completion from 65% to over 95% consistently

Eliminate or drastically reduce waste in different product lines at the Dowagiac plant. Perform 1-week Green Belt training classes throughout the Contech Division with the help of other Black Belts. Mentor Green Belts from training through certification. Lead Kaizen blitzes and TPM events. • Reduced porosity defect by 75% on steering component (Mercedes product)• Combined die cast, machining, and packaging processes reducing labor required by 60%, WIP by over 90% and material moves from 4 to 1 (GM product)• 3 of 4 Green Belts completed internal certification • Successfully completed University of Kentucky Lean Systems Certification

Mishawaka, Indiana

-Lead small group of process technicians in developing new and continuously improving current hot and cold chamber magnesium die casting processes. Designed and performed all production related experiments. Managed the process change request as well as process setup databases. • Designed process for Autoliv Steering using modified takeover tooling (never done before)• Eliminated defect on Delphi steering component, previously up to 70% scrap sporadically• Completed Green Belt project, improved scrap and uptime for Ford steering component, saving about $150K annually• Internal Green Belt certification

Work with small group of Process Development Engineers to develop new semi-solid squeeze castings for the automotive industry. Do fatigue and ultimate tests for different companies within SPX. Develop cold chamber process for large magnesium automotive castings (roof headers, cam covers and support brackets) for General Motors.• Developed first 3-cavity, 390 Alloy Input Housing for General Motors• Developed first double cavity Cam Covers in 1600 Ton die casting machine• Reduced change-over time from Magnesium process to Aluminum process from several days to 1 shift.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Analytics

Bs, Organizational Management