Contract quality systems support and improvement for manufacturing facility without full-time Quality Manager.

Championed team of 10+ Quality professionals to ensure compliance with industry and customer quality requirements at critical rotating nickel and titanium engine disk forging facility.• Implemented upgrade of quality management system to AS13100 standard required by all engine prime customers to improve overall product quality.• Ensured culture of quality and product safety by performing all new employee onboarding training on jet engine operating principles, FOD, counterfeit materials, and quality systems. • Championed implementation of full APQP process on all new and revised parts leading to successful qualification of Isothermal parts for GE Aerospace.• Led Quality department during significant contraction due to Covid by building a lean, flexible team.• Reduced age of stagnant / MRB inventory by 2 years through concession submittal, customer collaboration, and evaluation of potential future use by customers.

Guided team of 5 Engineers/Technicians responsible for 55 process furnaces and 7 rolling mills producing over $1B of flat-rolled aluminum annually.• Reduced scrap by $1.8 million through automation, mistake-proofing, and system improvements.• Developed procedures to successfully hot roll the thickest aerospace plate ever for Davenport’s new Very Thick Plate Stretcher, enabling production of the largest wing ribs in the aerospace industry.

Selected to lead the Operational Excellence workstream on critical project challenged with increasing hot rolling capacity to support unprecedented demand of the Ford F-150 conversion from steel to aluminum.• Increased hot continuous mill production rate from 1.2M to 1.9M pounds/day through improvements in changeover, startup processes, and standardization of rolling procedures.• Finalist in 2015 Alcoa Impact Awards for top projects in company-wide competition.

Led team of 3 Engineers/Technicians responsible for 9 process furnaces, 4 stretchers, and support equipment producing >175 million pounds of finished aluminum plate per year. • Developed business case to execute 2-week outage on key heat treat furnace that improved heat- up rate by 28%.• Successfully onboarded multiple new Engineers into the facility and coached to positive performance.