Greg Abernathy Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina

Clayton NC

www.kidsrkidsclayton.com

Project Management, New Product Introduction, Lean Implementation, Supplier Selection, Supplier Readiness for High Volume Production, Manufacturing Process Optimization through use of Six Sigma Black Belt methods, Onsite resolution of production shutdown issues, Quality System Auditing, Manufacturing Process Auditing.Twenty years experience in onsite.

- Manager of Mechanical Verification Test Lab.- Global Coordinator of Customer-specific Mechanical Testing, liaison between Technical Acct Mgrs and Mechanical Design Lead, compilation of report and corrective actions, and Global representative at quarterly customer meeting to their senior management team.

Manager of Advanced Mechanical Technologies, Mechanical Simulations (FEA), and Mechanical Verification Test Lab.

Manager of Supplier Industrialization Engineers, locally and in Malaysia. Responsible for allocation of resources, project assignments for phones under development and in high volume production.

- Served in dual role as Object Lead and individual contributor for Supplier Industrialization Engineer group within Mechanical Development. Duties included driving volume approval of mechanical and electro-mechanical components, supplier capacity analysis, supplier volume production readiness.- Earned Six Sigma Black Belt via North Carolina State.

- Created Supplier Audit system for onsite supplier evaluations, modeled after ISO9000:2000 and QS9000 systems.- Authored majority of the processes and procedures for Procurement Engineering group.- Created document control system for internal and external documents.

- Technical Manager, 2001- Object Lead, 2000- Individual Contributor, 1998-99

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Member ASME - Member 1991 SAE Mini-baja teamWorked full time while attending school.

Aa, Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Engineering Scholarship- Worked full time with full time course workload.