DESIGN QUALITY ENGINEERDriving vehicle appearance quality and harmony to ensure design intent through the optimization of color, texture, gloss, and surface quality.COATINGS LEADER*Formulation * Color Expert * Customer Support * ManufacturingHighly motivated coatings professional with extensive experience formulating, optimizing, and servicing coatings for a Tier one OEM supplier, while reducing manufacturing and raw material costs, improving quality, reducing dwell time, and achieving QS9000 / TS16949 compliance. Proven ability to create, analyze, and optimize processes. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, achieve outstanding results, and solve manufacturing and customer problems, internally and externally. SAP environments. Yellow Belt Six Sigma certified.CORE COMPETENCIES•Product Launch•PPAP•Project Planning•Project Leader•Paint Shop Launch / Tooling•Design of Experiments•First Time Quality•Process Improvement•Color Matching/Evaluation/Harmony•Low Cost Paint Formulation•Paint Application Support•Troubleshoot Production Issues•32+ years experience providing thorough and skillful production, sales and design research support. •Focused self-starter; able to quickly adapt to changing priorities while maintaining a strong work ethic. •Highly organized and detail oriented professional. •Strong skills in time management, communication, business writing, problem solving and multi-tasking. •Train personnel providing both positive and constructive feedback while working with individuals on a daily basis. •Proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, QuickBooks and the Internet.