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• FXI is a largest Polyurethane foam manufacturer in North America. Company is jointly owned by private equity groups, One Rock Capital and Bain Capital Ventures. FXI has 24 manufacturing plants strategically located.
• Responsible for managing and direction setting of Quality and EHS department for 24 manufacturing plants serving home furnishing, bedding, mattresses, medical, technical and automotive OEM markets.
• Reduced YOY returned product credits by > $2.5MM using effective RCA and counter measure process
• Refined new product certification and approval process with customers that reduce lead time by >20%
• Partnered with CI team to reduce scrap using DMAIC approach that resulted in ~ 22% YOY improvement
• Managing ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 17025, and ISO 14001 certification and compliance for plants supplying foam and lamination to major OEM automotive customers as well as medical and technical market

Greater Atlanta Area

Luxottica is a market leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of fashion, luxury, sports and performance eye wear with high technical and stylistic quality.Among its core strengths, a strong and well-balanced brand portfolio includes iconic proprietary brands such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Vogue Eyewear, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Alain Mikli and Arnette.

Corporate

• Responsible for Quality Management System for PlyGem windows that includes manufacturing quality, global sourcing quality, continuous quality and process improvement, product design quality as well as logistics quality.
• Directing quality department for 12 manufacturing plants for Windows division
• Developed and deployed product Quality and reliability KPI metrics for the windows division
• Deployed ISO:9001 based QMS and Quality strategy for the company
• Review P & L with functional leaders for EBITDA targets, COQ, warranty charges and calibration
• Initiated customer focused QMS across the division using SDAP method

• Responsible for global supplier quality management (fabrics, fibers, threads, foam etc.)
• Integrate quality philosophy in new product design
• Lead cross-functional activity for supplier approval and qualification process
• Performed supplier qualification audits for suppliers located in Europe, China, Mexico etc.
• Experienced in managing global supplier quality
• Responsible for Supplier Risk Mitigation and Contingency planning

• Deployed Microsoft sharepoint based digital quality management system across the company
• Develop and manage corporate quality audit systems for all locations as well as suppliers.
• Manage regulatory compliance for food grade containers and external audits
• Prepare weekly QA reports for the manufacturing that includes defect pareto and CA plans.
• Works very closely with engineering department on new product design, APQP
• Assist VP of purchasing on vendor selection, review process and supplier rankings.

• Implemented standard QMS across the division for consistency and alignment of process
• Directly responsible for the quality management of $170 million PVC extrusion and windows manufacturing divisions (GA & NC).
• Improved the processes by promoting quality training that brought the product rejection down to fewer than 3%.
• Implemented a new inspection and product validation program that reduced the service calls and customer returns to less than 1% of the total sales.
• Established a control plan for the manufacturing lines, Conducts factory audits for the process compliance. Created databases to track vendor defects and services.
• Organize and schedule management reviews of the Quality system.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management And Strategy

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration And Management (Bsba) Honors, Honors Award

Chemical Engineering

Certified Lean Manufacturing Champion

Certified Practical Haccp For Food Processor

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