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United States

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Southern Pines, Nc

• Drove successful certification of the plant to CAT Bronze certification.• Management of Quality Benchmark metric for the manufacturing site.• Led ISO 9001:2015 certification • Drove continual improvement in partnership with OpEx to reduce internal PPM >70%, as well as 8% reduction in customer PPM. * Led year over year quality improvement to OEDP metrics.

Cairo, Ga

Management of site quality overall performance. • Managed +70 employees in: metrology, receiving and final inspection, CARE, metallurgical lab, quality engineering, quality analyst, and quality statisticians.• Responsible for Site Quality KPI’s (scrap, customer complaints, COPQ, etc).• Streamlined new launch process and CARE methods to drive a >50% reduction in inspection labor hours. • Partnered with casting supplier to correct visual marking defects and eliminate visual marking inspection.

Managed receiving inspection and GE supply base which includes receiving material/inventory throughput, validation of regulatory compliance (FAA/EASA), providing guidance and interpretation of Supplier Quality Assurance Requirements (SQAR), product technical support, and management of escapes through root cause corrective action. • Managed 4 OMLP associates.• Establish new receiving inspection requirements which increased throughput and reduced captive inventory in excess of $1M. • Lead initiative to successfully deploy GE Aviation Systems Global Supplier Requirements Manual and ‘Designated Supplier Quality Representative’ program across the Aviation Systems supply base.• Lead regulatory compliance for Aviation Systems repair stations which resulted in 0 major findings and further reduce minor findings and observations.

Materials Science & Engineering, Engineering

Bachelors, Biology