Debra Taylor Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Corporate Senior Director for Production and Supply Chain QA, regulatory compliance, technical product development engineering, testing and validation, risk management, and sustainability

Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton, Florida

Responsible for all technical product testing, product regulatory compliance, and product risk management and safety for all soft home product sold to major North American retailers and hospitality markets. Responsible for managing quality of component products thru the global supply chain.

Mocksville, North Carolina

Global responsibility for Total Quality Management for Avgol Nonwovens with manufacturing sites in Israel, China, Russia, and the USA. Market for products primarily for consumer hygiene end uses. Standardized and validated global quality and waste measurements for KPIs, launched global CAPA process and global change control process for product transfers.

Boca Raton, Florida

Corporate Quality Assurance Manager at HSP: responsible for directing quality control function for nine North American manufacturing locations, liaison to HSP China quality team, customer and consumer complaint resolution, management of supplier and internal quality issues, customer audits, legal labeling compliance, overall Quality System procedures.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Corporate Director of Quality - TQM for all locations (NC, Maine, & Michigan) and outside supplier processes, ISO 9000, ISO 17025, and TS 16949 compliance, textile fabric, fiber & yarn mfg quality assurance, process improvement, supplier and supply chain quality, APQP, PPAP, product standards, color control. Emphasis on customer satisfaction, CI,lean and.

key performance management, business process management, new process development, ISO-9000 and TS-16949 compliance, director of QMS systems, process auditing, corrective and preventive actions, supplier performance management, training.Intimate apparel, active wear, automotive, medical, and industrial fabrics, automotive assemblies,and garment.

startup of dyeing and finishing operation, set up of all quality processes and procedures, documentation of QMS, creation of databases to track product specs, change notices, corrective actions, document control. Application of SPC to mfg, management of automotive subcontractor quality and yarn supplier quality. Management of two product testing labs.First.

multifunctional continuous improvement team facilitator for yarn mfg, tufting, dyeing, finishing, distribution, and admin teams. Also managed customer claims, disputes, and deductions.(89 - 91)process engineering (85-86), risk management and safety and security mgmt (86 -89). Managed workers compensation, security guards, fleet DOT compliance, OSHA.

process and product development projects - FR applications, foam dyeing and finishing, carpet tile printing, spectrophotometers for shade control and shade matching, lab to production correlation, etc.Research Chairman, Technical committee of AATCC, Piedmont section

Ms, Business Management

DLP on -line program. Great technology.

Mba - Operations Mgmt Concentration

Activities and Societies: Catoosa Co Chamber of Commerce Board of directors (sec/treas), Dalton, Whitfield Co.Chamber of commerce (Gov.

Bs, Textile Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Kappa Tau Beta, Sigma Tau Sigma, President of student chapter of AATCC Magna cum laude, Charles H. Stone.

A.A.S., Chemical Engineering Technology

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa