Liaison between manufacturing sites and suppliers; responsible for ensuring supplier compliance with contractual and technical requirements* Spearheaded deployment of risk management processes and tools when moving high-risk manufacturing to external suppliers.* Formulated a quality improvement plan for a critical supplier in Saudi Arabia to address government customer concerns with quality management system deficiencies and hardware non-conformances.* Created a Defense and Space Systems division standard operating procedure for Last Article Inspection and Technical Data Package Evaluation to augment risk management when relocating manufacturing to international suppliers, and executed it on a fighter jet structural assembly being relocated to India.* Performed a process capability study, facilitated root cause analysis and corrective action, and implemented statistical process control on the laminate coating process for the supplier of fighter jet windshield panels to improve and sustain attenuation performance.* Managed the development of a low-performing helicopter structure supplier in India, and achieved program target of 30% defect reduction ship set over ship set from ship set four through ten.* Guided a critical path supplier in the United Kingdom for six months in obtaining Federal Aviation Administration conformity approval for an aerial refueling structure.* Designed a corrective action training course for domestic and international suppliers; first-time acceptance rate of supplier corrective action responses improved by 35% one year from training roll-out.* Recognized as an enterprise root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action subject matter expert; trained over 100 domestic supplier personnel and 50 United Kingdom supplier personnel at low-performing suppliers.

Quality Engineering lead on integrated product teams supporting manufacturing operations on multiple programs* Identified root causes and composed the response for a government Level III corrective action request issued to a military aircraft program.* Improved process capability for a composite manufacturing process using design of experiments, resulting in elimination of repair activity across 28 tailcone assembly units that accounted for 859 labor hours and 1,865 support hours.* Led cross-functional teams that achieved Huntington Beach site composite manufacturing process qualification for two fighter jet programs.* Represented Quality Engineering on a cross-functional enterprise lean manufacturing team that successfully scaled and sized a plant for rate production of the engine nozzle and center body for a new commercial aircraft model.Led a team comprised of software, supplier, and test Quality Engineers supporting product design, development, and production for two military communications programs.* Improved relationship with government customers by enhancing program communication plans and overseeing a year-over-year decrease of Level II corrective action requests from four to one.Responsible for development and sustainment of Huntington Beach site quality assurance procedures and processes related to Integrated Defense and Security division manufacturing initiatives.* Instituted a manufacturing self-inspection process on an aircraft structural assembly kit which resulted in a 10% average labor cost reduction per ship set from 2010 through 2013.* Authored a standard operating procedure for manufacturing process audits and successfully implemented the procedure across the Network and Communications sub-division encompassing five Boeing sites.

Managed product non-conformances and served as the liaison with customer supplier quality representatives.* Reduced the average monthly backlog of parts pending customer approval from approximately $1 million to $100,000 via improvements to the root cause analysis and corrective action process.