Phil Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Pewaukee, Wi

Responsible for supplier part approval (PPAP), product safety regulatory compliance, safety program (OSHA), special projects supporting company startup, quality managementAccomplishments so far;• Incorporated PPAP process into approval of supplier parts - working closely with Suppliers, Sourcing and Engineering to insure requirements are understood and achieved• Directing product safety regulatory compliance - CE/UL/CSA/CU - effective in identifying the best value approach for compliance with each regulation/region worldwide• Project Management of effort planning for first engine build • Started process towards ISO 9001:2015 registration

Greater Milwaukee Area

Hawk Solutions is a 6 year old Milwaukee, Wisconsin based consulting firm focused on supporting SMEs – Subject Matter Experts in an organization to create and sustain organizational excellence through the customized implementation of the Skill Set Model for Organizational Excellence. ™Significant Achievements• Provided the process, when the District and School Board lacked a process, for a MPS Middle and High School to successfully merge into a 6-12 School• Developed the Skill Set Model for Organizational Excellence ™• Developed and implemented a designed experiment which determined how to prevent rusting of parts during storage• Researched and Developed the Skill Set Model for K12 Excellence ™ which has attracted the interest of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association and ASQ – American Society for Quality• Removed gridlock by leading Fritsche Middle School’s SGC (School Governance Council) through a decision matrix that enabled them to reach a major decision. Regarding curriculum • Was being groomed to become owner of VAAST, Inc. – Value Analysis And Systems Technology, which had patented a process for Innovation on demand, until the owner suddenly died• Trained Quality Improvement Leaders at Woodlands School which initiated a sustained and ongoing effort of continuous improvement • Have consistently, patiently, and persuasively supported and led 4 schools to fuller adoption of continuous improvement methods and tools.

Brookfield, Wi Usa

Leading CPF/FA Team (Customer Product Feedback/Failure Analysis) to identify field problems and drive effective solutions to them - Analyze warranty data for early idenification of trending problems, determine root cause and drive effective solutions - Create data models for predictioning warranty costs/trends - Actively drive warranty reduction - Team development - Warranty cost reduction achieved > $250K

Greater Milwaukee Area

Worked with multi-disciplinary Team to increase quality of parts, process capacity, and on time delivery to key customer

Greater Milwaukee Area

As Management Representative: implemented, maintained, and improved the Quality Management System to ISO 9001 and TS16949, led and trained internal auditors, managed the writing, approval, and training of procedures. Determined and implemented effective corrective actions to manufacturing problems. Completed PPAP and IMDS submissions for customers. Led 1st Responder Team and implemented Safety Program to meet OSHA requirements. Prepared environmental reports required by Wisconsin DNR. Purchased safety supplies and Stamping Department chemicals for one year.Significant Achievements: • Communicated with and achieved buy in at all organizational levels to achieve ISO 9002:1994 registration, and later ISO 9001:2000 with Design, when two prior attempts had failed. Sustained registration for seven years. Recognized by Ultra’s President for my abilities to achieve certification.• Elimination of the entire hazardous waste stream - a designed experiment was used to select a comparable, non-hazardous replacement. Cost savings in chemical purchases and disposal were at least $4000/year. • Successfully worked with press operators to determine type of personal protective equipment to use and implemented it use to reduce most frequent injury by 85%. • Twice led multi-disciplinary team that successfully resolved a customer complaint that could have resulted in field warranty exposure from the end customer.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsibilities: Effective resolution and corrective action, including customer contact, of customer complaints. Effectively supervised nine inspectors. Completed customer requirements for PPAP and ISIR submissions.Significant Achievements: • Achieved a 25% increase in inspector effectiveness at Stroh Die Casting using work station audits which allowed tracking the effects of changes and better allocation of inspector resources. • So effective in handling a customer’s problems that they would have hired me had there been an opening.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsibilities: Quality representative on multi-disciplinary new product development teams . Responsible for quality performance in 2-3 plants within a plant. Supervised quality personell. Quality representative on 2-3 Business Teams which were increasingly responsible for managing all aspects of their product lines: . ISO Coordinator preparing three plants for ISO 9001 registration. Responsible for supplier quality including approval of new suppliers. Significant Achievements: • Developed a Quality Technician viewed as a “problem child” into a valuable employee, functioning at the Quality Engineer level whose input was sought out. • Successfully handled and integrated the work of two Quality Engineer positions into one by using a hands-on, team approach with my quality staff to cover three plants with 105 employees. At the same time, performed the quality function for multiple new product introduction teams and was an active member of 2 or 3 Business Teams. • Successfully integrated quality methods and philosophy into multidisciplinary new product development teams: M120 meter project came in under cost targets, at a final test yield of 99% (yields of 95%+ were considered exceptional), and a corresponding lack of internal problems. External failure costs were 0.2% of sales. • Set appropriate tolerances with design engineers and produced higher quality parts in production by using advanced capability studies on sample sizes of 10 to drive improvement. • Customer complaints were reduced 80% through effective corrective actions in the Large Meter Plant. • Used designed experiments to save $40,000/year at final test. • Successfully reduced defects by 96% in Large Meter Plant’s Dept 11 (screw machines and stamping). Yields and set-up times were also reduced sufficiently to eliminate overtime in the Department 11. • Work done with key casting supplier, allowed them to achieve Badger Meter’s certified supplier status.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsibilities: Developing and implementing the Foundry Division’s quality management system. Successfully handled customer and internal corrective action requests. Testing and approval/rejection of production batches and raw materials. Audit team member on supplier audits. Process improvement efforts in Oil Department.Significant Achievements: • Made significant contributions in writing and implementing the Foundry Division quality management system that resulted in the achievement of Ford’s Q-1 certification. • Designed experiments increased production rate by 150 – 200% and improved quality on one specialty adhesive and successfully solved stability and process problems with another to make it production capable. • Organized and chaired the team that made company-wide improvements to the bulk raw material handling system.

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Carroll College Commuters

Diploma, College Prep

Activities and Societies: Science Club