David Blind Email & Phone Number

Tennessee, United States

Perform in depth (typically 5 day) technical audits of aerospace electronics manufacturing facilities (commercial and defense) in US and abroad. Auditors must be certified subject matter experts. Audits cover both factory processes and procedures audited against industry, Nadcap, and customer standards. The audit goal is to provide feedback for continuous improvement as well as Nadcap (formerly National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) accreditation. The Performance Review Institute is a not-for-profit, industry managed, affiliate of SAE whose mission is to provide global, unbiased, independent manufacturing process and certification services.

Lewisburg, Tn

Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Electronics manufacturing processes including circuit card assembly, magnetics assembly, and final assembly for sophisticated DOD products.Core member of site Lean Manufacturing Transition Team that transformed a traditional manufacturing facility to a lean, cellular, metric driven operation.

Profit / Loss, schedule, customer interface responsibility for multilple Programs valued up to 5 million dollars.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsible for Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Configuration, and Facilities.Location performed integration of IBM point of sale systems and assembly of ruggedized PC's with revenues of $300M.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Evaluated, purchased and installed company’s first complete SMT assembly line.Team leader for site's first Demand Flow / Kanban implementation. Reduced factory throughput time from 3 weeks to 4 days on major product line.Designed and created corporate New Product Introduction Procedure and trained key personnel.