Matt Meyer Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

Aurburn Hills, Michigan

Commodity quality specialist responsible for the AQP activities for fluid reservoirs, radiator and power steering hoses, fuel and brake tube bundle assemblies. Conduct Process Sign Off for new models. Work with assembly plants to resolve product quality, warranty and supply issues with chassis suppliers. Perform supplier evaluations before sourcing.

Greater St. Louis Area

Managed the daily audit of 24-30 production vehicles for Customer Satisfaction items that mimic the showroom buying experience. Determined the validity of findings, alerted plant staff, and prepared daily reports. Supervised team of 6 auditors.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for Supplier Quality issues with Purchased components. Determine root cause, establish clean point and re-establish flow of conforming product to assembly line. Evaluate and verify effectiveness of permanent corrective action.

Florence, Kentucky

Responsible for all advance quality planning, ongoing plant quality issues and improvements. Supervised three shifts of quality technicians; 1 supervisor and 7 quality technicians. Responded to customer concerns with material with corrective actions. Organized and furnished quality lab at a new, larger manufacturing facility. PPAP'd product produced on equipment transferred to new site. Achieved customer approval for the first new product produced using a new process at the new manufacturing plant. Using Advance Quality Planning (AQP) methods, created control plans, process flow diagrams, and PFMEA's for new and existing processes.

Auburn Hills, Michigan

Commodity quality specialist responsible for the AQP activities for fuel filler tubes, fluid reservoir, coil springs, leaf springs, stabilizer bars, torsion bars, suspension links, ball joints and control arms. Conduct Process Sign Off for new models. Work with assembly plants to resolve product quality, warranty and supply issues with chassis suppliers. Perform supplier evaluations before sourcing.From 2000 to 2004, responsible for contract review, which involved approval of all conditions of the purchase order prior to payment to supplier. Oversaw an inventory that had an AVOB (Annual Volume of Business) of $240Million. The quality was improved on some group parts by 80% warranty reduction. I was involved in the sourcing decisions for supplier capability during a cost cutting effort that reduced our AVOB to $228 Million in 2003 and to $215Million in 2004.

Greater Detroit Area

Created the Detroit branch of PSA Quality Systems of Windsor, Ontario Canada to perform inspection and re-work of non-conforming automotive parts. Started with one full time employee and built a full time staff of 7, using temporary employees as workload required. The company had revenues of over $500K per month. Responsible for all aspects of the business, profit and loss, facility management (12,000sq-ft warehouse) budgets, and employee benefits.

Greater Detroit Area

Responsible for up to 25 resident engineers providing customer support at Chrysler's manufacturing plants and supplier locations. All engineering, quality and delivery issues were covered. Created position descriptions and performed evaluations. Established training program. Interfaced with the Yazaki manufacturing plants and engineering worldwide in implementing strategies to resolve long term quality concerns. Began as Engineer; advanced to Supervisor in 1997.

Greater Detroit Area

Wiring and Component Design/Development Engineer 10/91–12/97Played a leadership role in design/development of wiring components and power distribution systems in many of Chrysler’s most popular vehicles, including Jeep Wrangler, Sebring JX, Cirrus and Neon. Listened intently to discussions at product development team meetings; formulated and executed successful design concepts to satisfy engineering, manufacturing and purchasing requirements. Brought numerous overdue tooling programs up to date while delivering dramatic cost and efficiency improvements. Used existing resources and manpower to develop Intranet-accessible, 7,000-part component catalog that is maintained and automatically updated using existing QS-9000 procedures.  Executed market research and benchmarking of the compact market segment.  Designed engine compartment wiring and components for the 2000 Neon; cut costs 5%, increased revenue 10% and reduced warranty issues on design that remained largely unchanged for 5 years.  Created initial wiring design for the entire 1996 Sebring JX vehicle and developed common engine compartment for Sebring and Cirrus to reduce complexity and parts. Directed extensive computer-aided design effort to resolve critical packaging issues for body and instrument panel wiring, achieving a 50% reduction in inventory parts and a saving of over $1.75 million in tooling costs.  Simplified 1995 Cirrus engine and battery harness design and brought project—26 weeks behind schedule—to cost and timing targets in just 3 months.  Radically redesigned 1994 Neon body wiring to eliminate 14 part numbers and 2 harness assembly lines; brought seriously late program current while saving over $.5 million in tooling and annual inventory costs. Coordinated Chrysler’s first use of CATIA computer-aided design software for wire harness modeling in 1991 for the 1994 season. Replaced by four engineers at promotion to Manager, Resident Engineering.

Greater Detroit Area

New and carry-over designs of the power mirror, door lock, sunroof, vent, reading lamp and window switches for the ’91 Mini-van and ’94 Neon. Participated in the Neon interior QFD and advance design of electrical controls. Selected as a member of the Neon interior product development team. This position allowed me to continue an area of interest; the quantification of the ‘feel’ of interior controls, after the Product Excellence task force was disbanded.

Greater Detroit Area

Designed ergonomic research properties such as: adjustable travel, effort and detent push-buttons evaluation boxes, a functional LeBaron with competitive switch gear, and adjustable steering column mock-ups. Managed a $500k budget for a fabrication shop, three fabricators to create these test properties and purchase outside testing services. Conducted research in Atlanta and Los Angeles to quantify customer expectations. Wrote the Design Requirements/Guidelines for interior switches and controls. Improvements were implemented in the ‘89 steering column switches and the redesign of the 1991 mini-van.