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Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Lake Forest, California, Us

Facilitate compliance to customer quality quality requirements. Root cause and corrective action on composites products for our largest space customer utilizing customers web site. Improve process controls in the manufacturing processes. New product development, focusing on life cycle and quality built into the design, manufacturability, reliability and serviceability. Develop primary and secondary process specifications to meet customer requirements.

Sant Cugat Del Vallès, Cataluña, Es

Provide technical expertise to Customers / Suppliers in solving technical problems. Responsible for successfully achieving all Quality related deliverables required by the New Product Development process. Drive and facilitate Problem Solving activity. Lead efforts to successfully achieve compliance with Production Parts Approval Process requirements.Focus was working with electrical, electronics, injection molding suppliers in the US and Mexico. Using 8D RCCA and process improvement tools, reduced warranty returns from 3.5% to 2.0 in key product lines while deliveries doubled in those products.As part of the New Product Introduction Team and the Value Improvement Team, led the NPD and APQP efforts in order to release multiple new products with zero non-conformances.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for delivery and quality improvement for Honeywell suppliers in San Diego, Los Angeles and Mexico. Project lead for cost reduction activities, generating significant cost savings through part price reductions as result of process improvement activities. Major product lines included; composites, electrical components, electronics, etc.Scouting prospective new suppliers to help relieve capacity issues for key product lines.Facilitate or lead improvement projects with senior management at key Honeywell suppliers to improve performance, decrease lead times or reduce costs.Develop quality metrics that to meet company and customer requirements.Assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet or exceed productivity, quality and customer satisfaction goals and objectives.Perform gap analysis between specs, methods and equipment. Mitigate to reduce defects.Prepare and deliver regular reports on quality progress and improvement activities.Lead supplier development activities including Advanced Process Quality Planning with Design and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to support successful product and service deployment.Perform Failure Analysis including containment, 5-Why Analysis, Cause and Effects Analysis, determining causes, responsibility, corrective action, preventive action and verification.Auditing and directing the revision of quality processes, procedures, work instructions and picture plans to maximize operator understanding and interaction. Facilitate Kaizen events (Six-Sigma and Lean), developing metrics and event focus, identifying the root cause of process issues and establishing process controls to eliminate recurring problems at customer, on-site and supplier sites.Certified as a Field Quality Engineer to approve source and first article inspections.Led multiple Problem-Solving Kaizens for composites companies; 2 that allowed product on hold to return to 100% compliance and one that significantly reduced lead times.

The Saugus Union School District includes 15 award winning schools, all with Academic Performance Index scores above 800 and an operating budget of over 76 million dollars.Re-elected to a fourth term on the Saugus School Board in 2013, holding the office of Clerk of the Board in 1996 and 2010 and Board President in 1997 and 2011. Active in the Santa Clarita Valley School Trustees Association. Completed the California School Boards Association Masters in Governance Program that equips board members and superintendents with the knowledge and skills to build and support an effective governance structure. Has been involved in the hiring of 3 Superintendents. This has helped the SUSD maintain one of the highest levels of education in the State of California, while funding from the State is one of the lowest in LA County. Co-chairs the District Communications Committee. The committee has determined the current state of District communications, developed a vision of where the District needs to be and developed an action plan on how to reach our goals. The committee has formed 3 subcommittees that are working on completing and refining those goals.Employed as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with a major aerospace firm in Burbank, a supplier of systems and equipment to the aerospace industry. His specialties include Quality Systems and Lean Six-Sigma process improvement activities. Married for almost 30 years with two children, who are both Saugus Union School District alumni. Has lived in the Santa Clarita Valley for over 27 years.

Lynnwood, Washington, Us

- Performed quality system project management in support of defined customer and regulatory requirements. - Managed scheduling, maintenance, reporting and auditing of the Quality Management System, Certified Operator Procedures and Corrective Action Board (CAB) in addition to RCCA workshops and certification training.- Specialist in AS9100 and FAA certification compliance, quality audits and verification, manufacturing processes, supplier quality, customer quality and new products integration.- Led the implementation of process improvement tools such as Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Advanced Process Quality Planning; introduced Honeywell Control Plan to Crane Corporation.- Participated in design reviews to define quality product requirements; focus included Electrical Connectors, Electronic Brake Control Modules, Circuit Card Assemblies, Brake Control Valves, Anti-Skid Valves and Brake Transducers.- Prototyped SPC in Circuit Card Assembly process, aiding in the reduction of defects per million operations (DPMO) from 6600 to 2600 in a 6-month period, cutting warranty returns in half.- Facilitated a Process Control Kaizen at a sister company, increasing first pass yield on an EDM operation from 48% to 96% over a six-month period, saving $50K per month.- Led a problem-solving Kaizen with a key customer in Brazil, eliminating the number one issue delaying delivery of production aircraft to customers.

Bachelor Of Science, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

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