• Manage and maintain ISO program for my departmento Annually review over 350 documentso Author new documents as needed• Manage biannual external ISO audits for my departmento Provide auditors with evidence of ISO complianceo Achieved ISO recertification to the 2015 standard in 2017 audit• Improve and maintain the quality of mixed rubber batches and extruded componentso Responsible for all department calibrationso Quarantine and reevaluate potentially out of spec materialo Identify sources of non-conformity and develop sustainable improvement procedures• Develop quality improvements alongside operators• Track and report cost of poor quality in the departmento Record every internal customer product returno Develop metrics and goals for quantity returned• Communicate department quality reports to upper management • Optimized new tread extrusion line as part of a team after the line was commissioned• Administrator of SPC monitoring system Infinity QSo Track and report on the capability of each piece of equipmento Analyze trends in data in Minitab to drive quality improvement projects

• Optimized tire designs to reduce downgrades and improve performanceo Complexity reduction saved an estimated $100,000 per year• Implemented new tire lines into the Findlay plant. o Designed tires in coordination with corporate engineers• Monitored existing tire lines on a day to day basis• Implemented large scale design changes in coordination with corporate engineers• Consolidated components and reduced plant complexity as a group leader• Launched SAP into the Findlay plant as part of implementation team

Focused in research and development of stick electrodes