Guy Brams Email & Phone Number

Borgloon, Be

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

° Team leader EMEA° Global Lead Customer Quality Manager for Automotive OEM customers with HQ in EMEA.° Customer Quality Manager for General Illumination customers in EMEA.° CQ business process ownerMain tasks:° Quality support in daily business (product changes PCN/PTN, product releases, customer specific requirements CSR, customer requests, single point of contact for our customers,..)° Customer complaint management (8D reports, risk assessment, FTA, containment-/corrective actions, lessons learned,..) --> interface between worldwide Lumileds plants and global customer locations° Customer audit support for global Lumileds plants (planning, preparation, participation, CAPA tracking,..)° Support new product introductions (manage APQP requirements int./ext., define PPAP content, support FMEAs, manage customer specific requirements CSR, drive release process,..)° Quality reporting internal/external (monthly Quality management reports, customer scorecards,..)

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

° Team leader EMEA & NAFTA° Global Lead Customer Quality Manager for Automotive OEM customers with HQ in EMEA.° Customer Quality Manager for General Illumination customers in EMEA.° CQ business process ownerMain tasks:° Quality support in daily business (product changes PCN/PTN, product releases, customer specific requirements CSR, customer requests, single point of contact for our customers,..)° Customer complaint management (8D reports, risk assessment, FTA, containment-/corrective actions, lessons learned,..) --> interface between worldwide Lumileds plants and global customer locations° Customer audit support for global Lumileds plants (planning, preparation, participation, CAPA tracking,..)° Support new product introductions (manage APQP requirements int./ext., define PPAP content, support FMEAs, manage customer specific requirements CSR, drive release process,..)° Quality reporting internal/external (monthly Quality management reports, customer scorecards,..)

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

° Team leader EMEA.° Global Lead Customer Quality Manager for Automotive OEM customers with HQ in EMEA° CQ business process ownerMain tasks:° Quality support in daily business (product changes PCN/PTN, product releases, customer specific requirements CSR, customer requests, single point of contact for our customers,..)° Customer complaint management (8D reports, risk assessment, FTA, containment-/corrective actions, lessons learned,..) --> interface between worldwide Lumileds plants and global customer locations° Customer audit support for global Lumileds plants (planning, preparation, participation, CAPA tracking,..)° Support new product introductions (manage APQP requirements int./ext., define PPAP content, support FMEAs, manage customer specific requirements CSR, drive release process,..)° Quality reporting internal/external (monthly Quality management reports, customer scorecards,..)

Aachen Area

I have worked as global SQ-Manager for the 'Automotive' components and SQ-Project Leader for LED 'Automotive' lamps.As SQM I was globally responsible for the portfolio:° Metals and metal components.° Special Metals (Tungsten, Molybdenum) and components (Electrodes, Coils, Ribbons, Lead-in wires)° Plastic components.As a SQ-Project Leader, I was responsible for the realization and timely release of all suppliers and components. The components used in the projects are very diverse: PCBA, PCB, LED, Electronic parts, Plastic parts, Metal forming parts, Diecasting parts, machined parts, wire harnesses, etc, …Member of the central SQM-team.° I helped to determine the globally applicable SQ strategy.° Manage globally direct material suppliers and drive for continuous improvement.° Drive the SQ-strategy for the assigned suppliers.° Defining strategic approach, following up on audit plans and continuos improvement based on quality performance monitoring.° Responsible for supplier development in a manufacturing or service process; works with suppliers to continuously improve performance, implement process controls and develop quality assurance plans. Defining and execution of quality SD programs.° Supporting local and regional SQEs for Lamp Components, (Germany, Poland, France, China).° Responsible for the quality related items in the contracts between Lumileds and supplier.° Responsible for defining the CTQ's and make 'material quality specifications'.° Responsible for component releases acc. APQP/PPAP. Collects and understands external and internal process expectations or feedback on supplier quality, and supporting NPI on FAI buy off.° Support purchasing team on new supplier qualification on process of capability matching, supplier risk assessment, supplier self-assessment & on site qualification audit.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

I have worked as global Supplier Quality Manager for the metal components in the commodity team ‘Lamp Components’ at central procurement Philips Lighting in Eindhoven.Portfolio: ° Coils & refractory wires & foils (Tungsten, Molybdenum)° Lamp electrodes and the electrode assemblies. ° Lead-in-wires lamps.° Metal and ceramic lamp caps.° I was the Lead SQM for global lamp components key-suppliers supplying to Philips Lighting.° I was responsible to define the strategy for the assigned suppliers.° Defining strategic approach, following up on audit plans (acc. VDA6.3) and continuous improvement based on monthly quality performance monitoring.° Defining and execution of supplier development programs.° Supporting all local and regional SQEs for Lamp Components, eg in the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, USA, Mexico, Thailand, India, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Germany, South-Africa.° Responsible for the quality related items in contracts between Philips and supplier.° Responsible to introduce APQP/PPAP at the suppliers.° Responsible for Q to release new suppliers.Trained as Lean Six-Sigma Black belt.° Project leader for several improvement project in SQ-area. Trained ISO9001 auditorCertified VDA 6.3 auditor

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Worked as supplier quality engineer for HID lamps.Responsible for the quality of incoming components from a global supply base. Portfolio: ° Coils & refractory wires & foils (Tungsten, Molybdenum & Niobium)° Lamp electrodes and the electrode assemblies. ° Lead-in-wires lamps° Metal and ceramic lamp capsMain tasks:° Representative of Supplier Quality in the project teams° Definition of component specifications° Make and negotiate quality contracts.° Release Components acc. PPAP° Drive Supplier Improvement plans° Complaint handling° Audit

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Worked as production-engineer in the UHP lamp assembly line. Key-responsibility was the functional end-control of the UHP lamps (for production in-house and in far-east (Shanghai China)).I was part of several project teams to introduce new products from development into the production (mainly high power products). In the team I was representing production and I was responsible for the process controlled and fail safe launch in the production.Leading several improvement production as certified green belt.° Fail safe project functional endcontrol.° Development of universal lamp driver in production.° Introduction several LSS initiatives in the production.

Hasselt, Flemish Region, Belgium

° Worked as process-engineer (support engineer) in ODD (optical disc drive) and CDR (CD recordable) production lines (production in-house and at the several mass production centers in near- and far east). Responsible of release components in the several production processes. ° Worked as ‘New Product Introduction’-engineer in CDR en CDRw (CD recordable & CD Rewritable). Task was to bring a new product from product development into the production (process development). Technical contact person between drive production and OPU suppliers (OPU = Optical Pickup Unit).° Worked as ‘Platform’-engineer in CDRw and DVD-Rw. OPU component specialist in platform team.Worked in platform-team to define the production lines of the future.

Hasselt, Flemish Region, Belgium

Started my professional career as electrical maintenance engineer ° On highly mechanized production lines (electronics, PLC, robot, ….) ° Measurement and adjustment equipment to check produced laser optics modules (module for CD players)° Measurement and adjustment equipment for CD players ° Measurement equipment for PCB’s (ICT and Functional).° Automatic production lines (type Prodel, Grohmann, Philips) and robots (Yamaha)° Automatic warehouse (Egemin)° Specialist in laser welding (Haas laser)° Programming PLC (Philips, Siemens, Festo)