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Elma, Washington, United States

Southbridge, Massachusetts, United States

Worcester, Ma

Oversaw the Quality Management System for the Worcester site. Lead the Quality Department consisting of 3 engineers and 2 specialists. Facilitate corrective action meetings with cross-functional teams using various problem-solving techniques (8D, Kepner-Tregoe). Lead teams to reduce risk across all processes and products (Risk and Opportunity Management, FMEA, etc.). Cross-functional team leader for the Management of Change process. Train all employees on the Quality Management processes (corrective action, management of change, document control, etc.). Lead the Leadership review meetings.

Hillsboro, Or

Oversaw quality department and incoming and failure analysis labs. Facilitated corrective action meetings with cross-functional teams using various problem solving tools (8D, Kepner-Tregoe). Lead FMEA teams to reduce risk to all products and processes. Cross-functional continual improvement team leader to reduce variability in all processes using Six Sigma techniques. Represented the local site on the global ISO9001:2015 transition team.

Oversaw the quality management system for 7 sites. Developed and drove strategic quality planning for company. Developed, implemented and maintained the business continuity plan for the company. Designed, implemented and maintained a formal change control system.

Oversaw the quality department and inspection lab. Facilitator for problem solving and decision making process (Kepner-Tregoe). Project manager for the business continuity program. Confidential information management (CIM) improvement team leader. TEA group leader for standardizing quality policies, procedures and practices throughout the world. Project manager for TEA’s Copper Task Force / TEL Representative on SEMATECH’s Cu Task Force.