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Detroit, Mi, Us

Pontiac, Michigan, United States

Pontiac, Mi

Expertise in quality engineering for metals manufacturing.

84" Hot Strip Mill, East Chicago, In

• Managed daily disposition of coils with non-conforming width, gauge, and steel strip profile. Collaborated with production engineers to resolve and contain coil dimensional defects.• Worked with coils with surface defects; ensured proper internal containment and remediation prevented new defective production and protected processing lines from existing defects. • Directed team to implement internal and customer corrective actions and prevent problem recurrence. Oversaw division managers, five area managers, process automation engineers, and operations/quality engineers.– Organized and led weekly meetings; set agenda and invited managers accordingly.– Assigned and followed up on corrective actions. • Resolved mill tracking errors to ensure integrity of coil identity; immediately remediated coil identification errors. • Led disposition of coil chemistry checks in response to suspicion of mixed steel. Investigated root cause of any mixed steel cases that occurred at the hot mill, at downstream processing units, or at customer facility. • Conducted continuous improvement trials to aid reduction of scrap among high-alloy slabs. Collaborated with production to broaden mill limits where appropriate to increase business possibilities and allow for reapplication of slabs not attached to customer orders. • Served as primary hot mill quality contact for all internal and external customers’ claims related to dimensions, profile, surface defects, weight, winding, rust, or mixed steel.

Number 3 Steel Producing, East Chicago, In

• ¬Maintained liquid steel (basic oxygen furnace, ladle metallurgy furnace, vacuum degasser) practices to achieve desired customer chemistry in cast slabs, proper caster arrive temperature, and processing time requirements. • Updated existing practices upon grade specification change, and made process adjustments to improve chemical conformance, enhance operator safety, or reduce alloy cost. • Created new practices to accommodate new customer chemistry requests and monitor chemical conformance while optimizing ease of processing. • Managed chemical conformance team and led investigations of every non-conforming chemistry heat cast; implemented improvements to meet objectives. • Maintained database of non-conforming chemistry heats. • Reported shop chemical conformance monthly to high-level managers, detailing every heat that was removed from customer order due to non-conforming chemistry. • Discussed shop improvement activities that stemmed from discussions at chemical conformance meetings. • Conducted monthly quality meetings with each bargaining unit crew to discuss chemical conformance, caster quality and surface defects, customer feedback, and any practice changes, while offering opportunity for Q&A. • Created friendly competition between crews that was instrumental in gaining operator buy-in for closely following practices and improving overall shop quality. • Achieved shop record low for non-conforming chemistry heats and 54% improvement in heats that were removed from customer order due to non-conforming chemistry (2012 – 2013). • Served on team to manage shop failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), control plan, and corrective actions.

Number 3 Steel Producing, East Chicago, In

• Streamlined slab macro-etch testing for line pipe product and reduced testing turnaround time by 280%. Improved delivery time to line pipe customers and allowed ArcelorMittal to remain competitive in growing market with short delivery lead times. • Studied metallurgy of casting and worked with production to reduce macro-etch failures. Managed containment and disposition of failed macro-etch tests and affected material. • Created macro-etch failure reaction plan to document disposition of defective material as well as irregular logistical routes necessitated by laboratory equipment malfunctions. • Reviewed daily slab quality model downgrades to ensure data integrity, maximize number of slabs put on customer order within 24 hours of casting, and rectify any potential cases of mixed steel. • Authored and implemented slab surface defect manual for caster inspectors; included photos of defects in hot and cold slabs, root cause, and required disposition reactions. • Conducted operator training to maximize defect observation, real-time reaction, and remediation. Optimized slab inspection requirements to increase detection of defects and mitigate non-conforming material liability. • Served as lead contact for line pipe auditors and provided them with appropriate production data.• Reduced unnecessary rework for slabs, using a chemical corner crack predictor. Analyzed data to determine appropriate triggers for high-strength, low-alloy heats with critical chemistries. Implemented operator data collection system on reworked slabs to monitor success of corner crack predictor.

#2 Continuous Galvanize Line And #1 Continuous Aluminize Line, East Chicago In

• Managed daily disposition of mechanical property failures and implemented necessary process changes to minimize product failures and yield loss while maintaining delivery time obligations. • Created and implemented winding and edge defect standard operating procedures (SOPs) and trained operators in order to reduce rework and internal rejections, enhancing delivery performance.

East Chicago, In

• Improved existing work instructions for 13 quality assurance laboratories. Developed new SOPs in a detailed process picture map format that emphasized ease of use and safety/environmental concerns. • Implemented online quality systems document control and review, as well as revision management of quality assurance documents. • Created training on online quality systems (InfoSys) and trained quality department on ways to effectively utilize InfoSys software for document control.

Master Of Science - Ms, Materials Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Materials Science And Engineering, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: SWE