Stephen Malvini Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, CA

- Manage Automotive Customer Quality Engineering and Global Customer Quality Manager teams.- Customers include major European/Asian Automotive Tier 1s and OEs with global supply chains.- Manage APQP programs for NPI customer acceptance and sustaining.- Customer quality contracts and DPPM agreements coordination.- Customer claims handling and failure.

Santa Clara, CA

- APQP lead for new automotive module programs.- Quality management for existing programs and NPI to customer requirements.- Qualified main China contract manufacturer to major EU Tier 1 requirements for mass production.- Educate/guide company to meet Automotive customer requirements.Accomplishments/Certifications:- Certified TS16949 auditor

Santa Clara, CA

• Sr. Quality Engineer Responsible for quality engineering and quality assurance programs, including: incoming material quality, supplier development, process quality support, quality systems development, and customer.
• Leader, direct material discrepancy handling: improved timely processing of incidents, led activities to resolve top open issues, recovered $150k+ in materials previously held.
• Assessment and adjustment of receiving inspection plans to maximize benefits using data.
• Established traceability for complicated WIP materials to assure lineage to/from material and finished goods.
• Quick reaction, containment, and resolution of part related issues in production.
• Supplier site reviews for understanding of quality controls and follow-up on problem recurrence prevention actions/results.

• Quality Control Engineering Manager (2005 – July 2010)Led section of 25 engineers and assistant managers, responsible for component parts and completed vehicle quality for the Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. Daily task.
• Successful 2009 Tacoma major model change implementation with relatively low experience engineering staff, simultaneous with 2009 Corolla major change program.
• Quality control specialist hiring coordination to support 2009 model change staffing needs (hired 10+ engineers)
• Inspection process and equipment improvements to meet 81 second cycle time target
• Achieved company structural cost reduction targets of 2-5% annually
• Achieved Toyota corporate shipping quality audit targets for last two Tacoma audits, including 0 defects in the last audit, the first time in company history.

• Managed group of 5 quality control specialists for the functional parts responsibilities on the Toyota Tacoma truck. Special assignments during this period for passenger and truck line inspection equipment preparation.
• Created engineering group dedicated to quality control inspection equipment management for increased focus and improvements
• Established QC procedures system for documentation control and revision of key quality processes
• Successfully passed MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation) regulation compliance audit for 2003 Toyota Voltz by Japanese government
• Company leader for 2005 Tacoma JD Power improvements, introducing pre-production IQS assessment activities
• Introduced non-contact alignment equipment with fully automatic toe setting for the 2005 Tacoma to improve ergonomic risk of manual adjustment and achieve alignment warranty reductions

• Engineer responsible for quality of chassis supplied component parts and systems. Detailed duties included component parts supplier quality management, problem solving/resolution of line problems related to.
• New model development of chassis parts for 1998 Toyota Corolla and Chevy Prizm
• Created inspection option check sheet for passenger and truck lines, later trained and handed-off to inspection group
• Implemented cost reduction for elimination of Corolla steering wheel damper ($750,000 annual savings)