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Richardson Tx

Lewisville, Tx

Maintained and improved AS9100/FAA approved Quality Management System for a mix of aerospace and defense products. Responsible for both customer-facing and supplier-facing quality activities. Led successful AS9100 Rev B to Rev C transition certification. Lead Tactical Improvement Programs and apply QA tools such as CQI, 8D and 5 Whys. Develop and maintain supplier metrics. Lead customer and supplier problem resolution efforts. Mentor other functions in developing QMS processes and procedures. Train and lead internal auditors. Develop and maintain internal and customer/regulatory required quality training.Co-lead for development and maintenance of FAA approvals. Primary contact for FAA MIDO and FSDO. Accountable manager for FAA repair station. Hold FAA repairman certificate. Responsible for all quality aspects of repair station, including delegated inspection.

Carrollton, Tx

Implemented and maintained quality system and processes for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) and UAV guidance systems. Received program management special recognition for company’s largest program. Coordinated Quality efforts in two facilities. Expanded responsibilities to include Environmental Health and Safety coordinator role for Carrollton facility. QA focal for CMMI implementation project. Led Materials Review Board. Maintained test equipment inventory/calibration.Responsible for Supplier Quality Management: Worked with Purchasing on source and first article inspection, supplier surveys, audits, surveillance and supplier quality issue resolution and tracking. Worked with DCMA to define customer inspection points, support ground and flight acceptance testing and resolve quality issues. Acted as quality representative during Flight Qualification and Acceptance Testing efforts. Interfaced with customer program management to resolve quality issues. Successfully planned and executed configuration management tasks including Physical Configuration Audit (PCA) program for Unmanned Aircraft System.

Responsible for maintaining effective quality system and processes for earth station antenna products. Worked with internal functions, customers and suppliers in resolving quality issues of earth station antenna products, including root cause analysis and implementation of corrective/preventive actions. Liaison with Mexico and Canada manufacturing plants and suppliers.Developed and maintained quality procedures and metrics, Supplier Corrective Action Reports and 8-D reports. Managed quality analyst, technical support and repair center personnel. Reduced technical support response time by 15% and repair center turnaround time by 10% in one year. Developed Supplier Quality Manual and implemented supplier chargeback process which reduced warranty costs by $20,000 in the first year. Corporate ISO 9001 focal: Full responsibility for Richardson TX location and directed successful ISO 9001 certification of two other ASC Signal facilities after becoming independent company.

Directed Environmental Qualification testing and Environmental Stress Screening programs for commercial and military electronic hardware. Mentored test engineers. Developed test programs, tooling and fixtures. Managed development and startup of environmental test lab. Managed an inventory of 4,000 items of Special Test Equipment (STE). Implemented changes to processes resulting in $120,000 annual savings.Selected as the engineering representative for a dedicated team which received extensive training and led the introduction and implementation of Lean Manufacturing, six sigma strategies and 5S to the Irving and Corinth engineering and manufacturing facilities.Interfaced with Process, Quality and Manufacturing Engineering to develop and implement process improvements, LEAN and 5S implementation. Broad spectrum of IE projects, including process, workstation and facility layout, tooling design, and labor standard/metrics development. Participated in Six Sigma and Kaizen events.

Plano Tx

Directed Qualification testing programs (Reliability, Maintainability, Environmental Qualification, EMI/EMC) for military electronic hardware. Mentored test engineers. Developed test plans, procedures, tooling and fixtures.