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• Evaluate, update, and implement policies and standards to ensure the company’s products meet statutory and regulatory requirements, essential product safety requirements and all customer quality requirements.
• Oversee and coordinate quality assurance activities with cross-functional teams to resolve production problems, maximize product reliability and provide excellent value to customer.
• Manage domestic and international quality teams to ensure the quality of the products meet the company’s requirements
• Lead continuous improvement activities including corrective actions, preventive actions and customer complaints.
• Partner with New Product Engineering and Manufacturing teams to ensure new products are developed in compliance with customers’ requirements
• Develop and implement a Supplier Management and Quality program working with procurement and supply chain to enable robust supplier management and streamlined oversight processes.

• Manage a group of 12 to effectively develop, implement, and execute an effective formal quality system to monitor production and work processes. Promote manufacturing development through validation, surveillance and.
• Partner with New Product engineering to ensure new products are developed in compliance with Tiffany & Co. requirements. Establish workmanship standard. Identify appropriate technical guidelines and performance.
• Conduct regularly scheduled meetings with Senior Management to report on progress and ensure that the Quality group’s performance is in accordance with corporate expectations.
• Lead continuous improvement opportunities. Manage Corrective and Preventative Action process including identification of Corrective Action issue candidates, coordination of assignments, and reporting.
• Lead and facilitate meetings for Material Review Board, Document Control, and Calibration programs
• Manage safety in all operations by establishing, communicating and maintaining appropriate and effective safety procedures. Provide effective leadership and management actions to foster safe employee attitudes and.

• Independently manage and execute new product approval process ensuring all new processes and products meet TCO requirements. Contribute as development team member to ensure process capability, validate work.
• Independently manage, lead vendor support activities including the on-site inspection and corrective action process. Perform evaluations of contractor’s ability to produce product meeting company requirement. Analyze.
• Independently manage, lead and execute Material Review Board process and activities regarding nonconforming materials.
• Lead corrective action process and manage assigned projects including root cause analysis and implementation and verification of corrective action.
• Manage and coach staff to identify and support development needs, assisting them to reach career goals, benefiting themselves and Tiffany & Co

• Conduct metrology testing of corporate products on a global level (Traceability)
• Supervise the incoming inspector and final QV inspector
• Implement and maintain the company Quality Management System in accordance with customer and company requirements
• Identify, isolate and report non-conforming material incidents (MRB)
• Maintain preventative maintenance and calibration schedules
• Communication with all company departments to ensure quality standards are known & followed (ISO internal audit)

• Designed, developed and implemented ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System in accordance with customer and company requirements
• Conducted the quality management review meeting
• Scheduled, maintained and executed the ISO audit
• Troubleshoot between production and quality departments and report to the facility manager with corrective and/or preventive action reports
• Generated and executed written test plans, isolate and report problems and contributed to the enhancement of QA processes and procedures
• Managed, developed, and conducted instructional sessions to new QA/QC personnel

Master, Materials Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry