• Achieved benchmark Quality results at the Spartanburg facility in 2020, representing a 75% improvement in total scrap since July 2020.• Manage Quality System - ISO9001/ISO14001 compliance, and Quality progress activities for both North American manufacturing sites.• Frequently interact with OE customers to build productive partnerships and lead collaborative efforts to resolve customer claims.• Restructured and re-prioritized Quality team activities for both sites, increasing agility to address process and operator method inconsistencies with a Choose-Focus-Act approach.• Created an analysis of field defects and customer warranty claim trends to organize improvement efforts for eliminating the root causes.• Initiated and executed efforts to improve traceability and accountability within the production processes, while reinforcing to employees their impact on protecting our customers.

• Conceived and initiated actions for the Quality team to manage the calibration of all site-wide measurement devices, saving in excess of $30K annually. • Strategically emphasized development of my team with the goal to broaden their capability and contribution within a leaner overall plant structure while improving organizational efficiency.• Streamlined quality process to improve delivery times, eliminating quality bottlenecks and increasing customer satisfaction.• Animated annual quality audits for North America, including development of root cause analysis for effectively addressing audit findings with corrective and preventative actions.• Served as technical leader for a site-critical mold manufacturing evolution, integrating complex geometry into the product and leading the definition of measurement and process control applications.

• Identified and championed a proven and sustainable process improvement plan that elevated mold part quality from a combined scrap and rework level of 50% to 97% Right-The-First-Time within 3 years, with 80% improvement coming within initial 8 months. • Effectively led projects for the procurement and implementation of capital equipment and utilized engineering knowledge to improve existing equipment performance and reliability.

• Optimized process tooling designs to improve performance, rigidity, and wear while also decreasing cost.• Improved aluminum injection cavity design by integrating controlled electric heating to significantly reduce casting defects and increase the lifespan and maintainability of the injection cavity tooling.• Facilitated PFMEA and developed Quality Control Plans for various stages of a low-pressure aluminum injection process.• Created visual and written standards exploiting best practices within the process and calibrated all operators to follow them correctly and effectively.

• Led conceptualization, design, procurement, and implementation of a multi-functional machine adaptation for improving safety, ergonomics, quality, and efficiency that was successfully implemented in all North American facilities and Retread dealers.

• Acquired French language skills preceding a 9 month assignment in France for aiding the successful development of a low-pressure casting process for manufacturing complex tire mold tread geometry.• Led a project team to define Quality verification methods and procedures for various stages of the tire mold process using coordinate measuring machines to validate the conformity of parts and qualify the manufacturing processes.• Integrated tire mold design with knowledge of heat transfer to ensure adequate evacuation of thermal gasses from tire molds during the tire curing process and provided NC programs for die manufacturing.