Jenney Loper Email & Phone Number

Longmont, CO

Zebulon Solutions is an end-to-end product development firm focused on helping companies or individuals design products for manufacturing.Using my experience working closely with startup businesses in the past, I am focused on building operational infrastructure for Zebulon's customers by offering fractional Chief Operations Officer (Fractional COO).

• In primarily self-directed position, I am responsible to understand the supplier’s capabilities and the customer’s requirements to effectively interface with sales, product requirements, quality issues, delivery.
• Daily interaction with colleagues in Asia to communicate product requirements from the customer for quotation, samples, production or quality expectations.
• Request quotes from suppliers and negotiate terms for delivery, pricing, and quality expectations.
• When gaps in supply chain are identified, I complete supplier assessments and quality audits to qualify additional suppliers to meet customers’ needs.
• Familiar with a broad range of industries and product requirements including LCD touchscreen displays, novel ceramic teapot with automatic brewing, heatsinks for the LED lighting industry, PCBA’s and subassembly for.
• Identify potential clients based upon size, location, industry, and product line – over 90% of my researched recommendations were used by the sales team to make contact.

Westminster, CO

• JSL Solutions was operations consulting firm.I cultivated supplier relationships by creating open and trusted lines of communications where expectations are clearly communicated and supplier are held accountable. I am.
• Develop program schedules to manage all details to for transferring products into production
• Review drawings, specifications, and bills of materials (BOMs) for production readiness
• Understand product requirements and industry constraints to identify the right supplier(s) for the productSUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
• Develop forecasts for each supplier based upon client’s projected demand
• Negotiate manufacturing and delivery contracts to ensure clients’ interests are protected

Broomfield, CO

Successfully defined a new liaison position between engineering and manufacturing to transition telecommunication aviation products from development into production at contract manufacturers. My regular interactions include engineering teams for new designs, program management on delivery schedules, manufacturing/test engineering on product requirements.

Broomfield

My role was the bridge between engineering and production to move 2 new products into manufacturing at contract manufacturers. This included identifying production suppliers to support manufacturing of custom metal components an negotiating contracts with the CM's.

Brighton, CO

• Oversee the communication with the supplier & disposition of materials for all defects within 2500 unique parts identified during inspection or production that were caused by one of 300 suppliers.SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT
• Identify key suppliers with buyers based upon quality, product cost, and supply risk
• Establish weekly communication with key suppliers to review open quality issues and discuss suppliers’ actions to eliminate the source of each defect resulting in reduced repeating issues over 6 months.
• Interface with factory managers, quality managers, other supply chain personnel, & colleagues in China, Europe, & the US to resolve quality issues.SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
• Within 2 months of hire developed a new Material Review process to disposition & track defective material within the factory resulting in an inventory reduction of over $1-million within 3 months.
• Implement a simple tracking system for key suppliers to systematically communicate issues, track repeating defects, & drive root cause analysis resulting in 10-40% supplier quality improvement within 6 months.

• Manage all quality-related issues for approximately 35 domestic & international suppliers across all product lines; representing over 75 custom components from contract manufacturers (CM) to sub-tier suppliers. I.
• Developed and implemented full supplier quality qualification & management process within 9 months of hire to capture & calculate supplier performance for incoming quality.
• Developed clearly defined inspection requirements & expectations to be completed at suppliers & CM to improve communication.
• Performed on-site supplier audits to evaluate process controls & determine adequacy of their implementation to ensure compliant product for supplier qualification.PROBLEM RESOLUTION (8D)
• Issued SCARs to drive resolution of the problem at the supplier in addition to documenting the issues & identifying the root cause & corrective actions taken by the supplier. Provided support for the supplier for.
• Configured internal database to manage & dirive metrics for corrective actions including the failure analysis reporting system.

• Oversee daily operations of testing microelectronic hermetically packaged components. I improved yields & cycle times, determined root cause, eliminated failure modes, and lowered overall product cost by working as a.
• Developed inspection criteria for incoming inspection using ANSI ASQ-sampling plans
• Under my direction supplier quality was improved from 93% to over 96% yield, and reduced escapes from 0.2% to under 0.05% within 2 years by analyzing failures, reporting results, and setting quality goals for each.
• Served as a certified internal auditor for compliance to ISO-9001, including developing documentation & processes.
• Identified & engaged with an alternate supplier that provided high quality components at nearly 50% cost savings.MANUFACTURING
• Improved yields from 55% to 96% and maintained this for 3 years, by isolating root cause of the erratic performance & working with the supplier to reduce part variation.

• I maintained daily SPC on five TO-can and optical subassembly (OSA) testers. If a tester fell out of control, I would troubleshoot the test system to locate the problem in a timely fashion while minimizing impact on.
• Calibrated 16 test systems, collected control parts, summarized data on 8 sets of control parts by deadline for implementation of new test system at overseas production line.
• Adapted existing documentation for implementing new test software for international production lines.
• Successfully completed 15 Gauge R&R studies on new test systems for qualification
• Implemented upgraded test system in less than 2 weeks after software completion including a correlation study of testers
• Applied new control chart software and established control limits for testers.

• At time of hire, the 40ppm MICRO printer had 2 months of development complete. After 6 weeks of employment and with no prior knowledge of the industry I became responsible to bring the printer into production, which I.
• I had weekly interaction with customers on problems and successes of the product. When problems arose I found solutions and communicated them to the customers in a timely manner.
• Located suppliers to supply samples to be characterized for potential use in the product. The vendors and materials I selected met the customer requirements and were the most cost-effective options available, so they.
• Delivered prototype products to the Product Test lab for EVT and DVT testing. The results from these tests were used to verify and improve the product prior to production release.
• As the projected neared completion, I did statistical analysis for the life-prediction of discovered my changes had doubled the life of the two consumables.
• Throughout the development of the product, I had mechanical drawings created as part of the product documentation, updated them as necessary, and reviewed them for accuracy.

• At time of hire, the cryo-refrigerator research lab had a single thermal chamber capable of testing only one unit at a time and data collection was minimally automated. After 6-weeks of employment, I took over.
• As the lab expanded, I interviewed 3 people and the person I recommended was later employed.
• Prioritized and delegated tasks of the lab and all of its members including scheduling R&D and production tests to meet deadlines.
• Standardized test procedures for products in various stages of development (R&D, pilot builds, and production).
• Compiled data and summarized results for engineering and production managers to be included in status reports and documentation of shipped products.
• Located materials to be used in product and tested to determine fit for use. With each unsuccessful material, I identified the cause of failure and compiled a list of root causes to define the specifications for the.

Certification, Ppap/Msa

Activities and Societies: Certification for MSA & PPAP

Ba, Physics, (Ba), Music (Ba), Math (Minor)

Activities and Societies: Concert Band Sigma Pi Sigma Sigma Zeta

Music