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United States

Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

• Manage quality projects for commodities sold to OEM’s including Ford, GM, and Stellantis • Manage quality project deliverables, timing, and reporting strategy to customers• Lead team of 30 corporate and plant associates including plant residents, engineers, testingspecialists, and hourly associates to find warranty issue root cause and corrective actionsusing Red X, Six Sigma, and 8D methodologies• Coordinate warranty part return disposition and reporting to customer, assign plant residentstesting and problem solving tasks for returned products• Oversee implementation of warranty project deliverables including containment andcorrective actions at manufacturing facilities

Toledo, Ohio, United States

• Manage team of 25 Quality Inspectors – scheduling, daily assignments, problem solving• Manage identification and containment of all final line quality issues• Coach Red X projects to identify root cause of top defects• Adjunct Corporate Engineering team member – resolution of vehicle design quality issues• Liaison between Corporate Engineering and Supplier Quality Engineering to resolve supplier defects including front end problem solving and root cause analysis• Lead cross-functional team of Plant Supervisors, Corporate Quality, Industrial Engineering, and UAW Supervision to align plant organization structure with corporate standards• Update and implement plant procedures and work instructions to align with corporate IATF 16949 standards

Toledo, Ohio, United States

• Red X Project Leader on cross-functional teams including Plant Vehicle Engineers, Corporate Quality Engineers, Supplier Engineers, and UAW Supervision• Solved top quality issues involving vehicle sealing and closure systems using Red X• Led meetings with supplier management and engineering staff to determine issue containment and root cause• Managed team of UAW final quality inspectors and mechanics• Coached co-workers on Journeyman/Black Belt level manufacturing and engineering projects• Redesigned and implemented manufacturing facility standard work instructions for plant floor manufacturing processes

Plymouth, Michigan, United States

• Project Leader on Red X and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) manufacturing andengineering projects, $350,000 financial benefit – interfaced with multipleOEMs including GM, Ford, and FCA• Redesigned and implemented manufacturing facility standard operatingprocedures for plant floor manufacturing processes• Designed patent-pending ‘System Behavior Testing’ software – used to identifyand analyze software/hardware design interface failure modes• Designed ‘Reactive Problem Solving’ software, $120,000 cost avoidance• Speaker at ‘Engineering Days’ recruitment events• Recruited Co-Op students for the Design Methodology Department• Worked with Marketing Department to organize internal ‘Knowledge Days’,Co-Op outings, and events• Trained co-workers in Red X, DFSS, and Visual Basic programming• Created templates for use with engineering/manufacturing problem solving