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Professional Profile: Mechanical Engineer specializing in Supplier Quality Engineering, Quality and Manufacturing Engineering Professional strengths and experience* Worked for more than 20 years as a supplier quality engineer with companies around the world addressing costs, quality problems, part qualification, and inspection* Reviewed many part designs for accuracy and manufacturability, DFM.* Taught other engineers FMEA, statistical process control, and part qualification processes.* Skilled at GD&T, measurement systems/metrology, 2D & 3D CAD systems, cost estimation, and at finding suppliers for new and unusual parts. * Managed procurement of complicated assemblies requiring coordination between multiple suppliers and in-house partners. * Member of American Society for Quality (ASQ), Certified Quality Engineer, (CQE)Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, Utah State University (GPA = 3.9)MS Mechanical Engineering, Utah State University (GPA = 3.7)(I was the top rated mechanical engineering student during all 5 years of school at USU)Work HistoryVancouver Printer Division, Oct 1996 – Present – Vancouver, WAConnected R&D to supplier expertise and capabilities to insure parts are lowest cost and highest quality. Supported 9 different printer products managing small metal stampings, vacuum blowers, scanners, plastic molded parts, electric heaters, air filters, labels, and gaskets. Disk Memory Division, Feb. 1986 – Aug 1996 – Boise, IDHired to work on critical quality problems on ball bearings in disk drive spindles and reduced failure rate to zero. Supported 9 different disk drive products managing plastic injected molded part, sheet metal, stampings, flex circuit assemblies, spindle motors, coils, machined castings, machined parts and extrusions. Responsible for the total quality of the parts including design checking, vendor selection, procurement of prototype parts, and bringing up production processes at suppliers.

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

GPA - 3.7

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

GPA - 3.9 I was the top mechanical engineering student at USU during all four years of my undergraduate degree. I spent two years.