Melissa B. Email & Phone Number

Memphis, TN, US

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

San Diego, California, United States

• Providing management consulting across multiple industries, subjects, and areas of business, including quality engineering/assurance/control, project management, cross-functional engineering, biologics, diagnostics.
• Multiple client projects, supporting internal business development requests and portfolio additions, and creating and industrializing project management performance inputs for process development and systems mapping.
• Performing IVDR internal support to post market surveillance (PMS) activities for 25+ class A, B, C, D devices.
• Completed literature PubMed searches and reviews, complaint findings, PMS plans, PMS Reports, Periodic Safety Update Reports, Post Market Performance Follow-up plan and reports.
• Product compliance review across multiple molecular diagnostic assay support across Transcription Mediated Amplification (TMA), Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), and Real Time PCR (RT-PCR) technology.
• Partnering with subject matter experts (SME) to complete comprehensive documentation updates, while ensuring continuous communication and weekly update meetings.

San Diego, California, United States

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

• Stryker purchased Wright Medical in November 2020,
• Managed a team of 15 cross-functional engineers through EU MDR technical documentation, compilation, conversion, packaging cutover execution, and gap remediation.
• Supported Manufacturing, Operations, Research and Development, Purchasing, Sourcing, Distributions, and other Quality branches as engineering project manager through cross-functional improvement initiatives.
• Fostered alignment with internal and external cross-functional business partners, utilized project management tools to effectively communicate and elevate status updates, risks, timeline/scope shifts and facilitated.
• Established and mobilized the Cost of Quality (COQ) and aided Data Management team during deployment of standardized Global Quality Operations metrics and trending.
• Established the Cost of Quality baseline, metrics and trending for Quality Operations and lead Global Quality Operations projects for COQ, achieving a $1.5M cost savings/avoidance in 2020 for a 37% increase over 2019.

Greater Memphis Area

• Managed a team of 10 cross-functional engineers through EU MDR technical documentation, compilation, conversion, packaging cutover execution, and gap remediation.
• Supported Manufacturing, Operations, Research and Development, Purchasing, Sourcing, Distributions, and other Quality branches as engineering project manager through cross-functional improvement initiatives.
• Fostered alignment with internal and external cross-functional business partners, utilized project management tools to effectively communicate and elevate status updates, risks, timeline/scope shifts and facilitated.
• Established and mobilized the Cost of Quality (COQ) and aided Data Management team during deployment of standardized Global Quality Operations metrics and trending.
• Established the Cost of Quality baseline, metrics and trending for Quality Operations and lead Global Quality Operations projects for COQ, achieving a $1.5M cost savings/avoidance in 2020 for a 37% increase over 2019.
• Established Rework Process to leverage $4M dollars of inventory in returns location at distribution centers, including Expired, Decom, Rebox and Rework, by identifying reprocessing flows, product prioritization and.

Stryker, Previously Wright Medical

• Supported Manufacturing, Operations, Research and Development, Purchasing, Sourcing, Distributions, and other Quality branches in day-to-day operations.
• Coached core team to key competencies and cultivated strong relationships in a collaborative atmosphere to ensure effective communication, active conflict resolution and successful connections to guarantee successful.
• Managed 45+ projects annually, across 9 resources and multiple cross-functional business functions and product categories, to ensure successful project execution with a high emphasis on compliance.
• Supervised 28+ New Product Development (NPD) projects annually, from conception throughout all life-cycle phases into sustaining, including design controls, Make vs. Buy checklists, process controls, DFM, FMEA, IOVV.
• Maintained high quality standards for production while attaining all milestones and launch deadlines by ensuring time for print review, quality instructions, gage creation and development, validations, etc. for every.
• Generated various equipment and process validations and technical reports (i.e., Gage R&Rs, equipment qualification, Validations, Quality Instructions, Overlays, Gage designs, Control Plans, Inspection plans or.

Stryker, Previously Wright Medical

Stryker, Previously Wright Medical

Hampton, VA

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