Jack (Jay) Ramsey Jr. Email & Phone Number

Bend, Oregon Area

Setup a new manufacturing site in South Africa, Wrote Operations and Quality procedures, trained operations personnel, Audited suppliers, Supported TUV Manufacturing Site Certification and Design Certification Activities.

California Area

Business development supporting Amazon Lab 126 procurement and engineering during PLM phases for new product introduction of micro speakers. Scope includes facilitating global communications improvements, training, sales support, strategy and manufacturing process improvement.

Austin, Texas Area

• I enabled Global Repair of whole units, motherboards, graphic cards and thin clients for new products. My scope included all on-boarding of new repair partners, supporting Global “Dell” supply chain needs in each.
• I achieved 99% on time readiness year over year by designing new end to end NPI processes for whole unit and motherboard repair. Improved customer experience by implementing and driving innovative Lean strategies.
• I delivered $5M in cost avoidance savings year over year. FY15: $10.8M; FY14: $5.4M; FY13: $4.7M through implementing lean, strategic and tactical continuous improvements globally.
• I drove global deployment of PC-Doctor diagnostic software enablement to all repair partners (over 1000 locations); achieved best of breed performance through standardization of diagnostics resulting in reduced Repeat.
• Awarded US Patent #8164342 B2, System and method for cascade information handling system manufacture, for design, development and implementation of the Lean Lines at the Dell desktop manufacturing facilities supporting.
• I participated as a key member of a multidisciplinary engineering team supporting missing, wrong, and damaged system deliveries, by evaluation of supplier manufacturing processes, reverse logistics and failure data.

Jackson, Michigan Area

• Supervised the leadership of 15 direct reports, including all Manufacturing, Test, Maintenance, and Process Engineering activities in a low volume high mix contract manufacturer of military and aerospace printed.
• Achieved $24M in increased sales through the Design, Development and Implementation a new Lean Process for high mix, high part count, complex electronic assemblies supporting the regulated gambling industry.
• Drove increased sales from $14M to over $50M a year over a three year period by implementing innovative lean processes and Six Sigma process controls through all engineering and manufacturing activities.

Brooksville, Florida

• Managed the leadership of 10 direct reports, all development activities in support of (NPI) New Product Introduction; including Manufacturing, Process and Test Engineering development, ECN/ECO Agile activity.
• Delivered $10M in increased sales and productivity by designing manufacturing floor and test cell layouts utilizing demand flow, lean and visual factory manufacturing techniques.
• Designed the manufacturing and test process flow for the Ion Track Itemizer, trace chemical analysis of explosives and narcotics, which enabled the TSA’s post 9/11 increase of airport security.
• Achieved significant continuous improvements and cost reductions by utilizing SPC, Six Sigma, 5S, demand flow, standard work process documentation and lean manufacturing techniques.
• Instructed and mentored Lean and Six Sigma principles to the manufacturing workforce (300+); ensuring acceptance of change management.
• Managed all PCBA manufacturing operations for two customers with yearly sales in excess of $24M.

Brooksville, Florida

• Supervised the leadership of 8 direct reports, all test development activities in support of (NPI) New Product Introduction; including AOI, AXI, Flying-Probe, In-circuit, Functional and Environmental test development.
• Delivered $1M in savings implementing corporate level sole source supplier agreements for test fixture build and third party software development, saving over 15% on each NPI project.
• Negotiated corporate level hardware and software support contracts resulting in a 25% year to year savings.
• Defined corporate level developmental policies and procedures supporting corporate standardization, and managed the procurement and selection of new equipment; resulting in improved deployment times, leveraged.
• Reviewed and approved all bid and proposal activities for non-recurring engineering and labor quoting, Engineering Change Notification labor and tooling analysis for Test and Process Engineering, increasing.
• Analyzed labor and work order performance utilizing the Oracle based (ERP/MRP/CRP) enterprise requirements planning system resulting in improved processes and efficiencies.

Brooksville, Florida

• Supervised the leadership of 8 direct reports, all test development activities in support of (NPI) New Product Introduction; including AOI, AXI, Flying-Probe, In-circuit, Functional and Environmental test development.
• Reduced development costs by $1500 per project by driving the purchase of software for automatic test generation of PLDs and Gate Arrays.

Wilmington, MA.

• Managed manufacturing test operations, supervised and trained test engineering. Responsible for test development and manufacturing test support in a classified project area; held secret clearance.
• Delivered $2M in saving by enabling repair and test of all previously untested control modules through the development of a universal in-circuit test fixture.

Anaheim, California

HP3065 test development and custom device modeling.

El Toro, California

HP3065 In-Circuit development

Piggott, Arkansas

• Responsible for in-circuit test development and troubleshooting of printed circuit boards
• Developed in-circuit test software and fixtures for the HP3065
• Troubleshot circuit boards due to manufacturing process defects

Bachelors Of Science, Technical Management

Activities and Societies: Delta Mu Delta

Associates Of Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics / Instrumentation

Diploma, Electrical And Electronics Engineering