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Saginaw, Michigan, United States

Midland, Michigan, United States

Farwell, MI

Quality Manager for a team of three Quality Engineers and Technicians for a supporting production on three shifts. Coordinated three different 3rd party contact inspection services in Mexico during product defect containment.Participated in onsite audits and root cause analysis with Zinc / Zinc Nickel plating vendors. Qualified alternate vendor for one.

Saginaw, Michigan Area

Quality Manager and Environmental Manager for Pinconning, MI manufacturing site leading a team of four technicians and engineers. Quality team supported production on three shifts and weekends. * Led team to reduce Total Cost of Quality by 20% since 2016 saving the company over $200K annually.* Directed site activities across multiple functions to achieve.

Saginaw, Michigan Area

Manager for a team of 14 members who performed over 20,000 tests per year to customers. Administration activities included coaching team members, completing annual reviews, salary increase recommendations, onboarding of 2 new technicians and termination of 2 technicians.Directed team efforts to achieve first time ISO/IEC 17025 quality accreditation.

Professional Products Division, R&DTechnical liaison with four Healthcare OEMs facilitating the endorsement process for the use of disinfectant products on their Class I and Class II Medical Devices. Led a four-month field trial at a healthcare facility, coordinated benchmarking at two contract labs, and executed own internal testing. Presented these key.

Quality Liaison to 4 contract manufacturers producing EPA-registered disinfectant wipe products which accounted for 40% of company sales. Led qualifications of contract manufacturers to GMPs and ISO 9001 standards. Led resolution of quality issues and product upgrades. Applied statistical methods to set manufacturing specifications and final product.

Technical liaison for development projects with a top U.S. Consumer Product company for 3 years. Delivered product application support, answered technical inquirers, and addressed product quality issues for a territory with 3 company sales personnel and 40 distribution sales professionals. Resolved product complaints from a $1MM customer, securing a 2-year.

Developed a monitoring program for a Dow Corning continuous process producing 5 million lbs of product annually. Reduced the product variability by 30% and product testing costs by 60% by implementing Statistical Process Control methods with team of operators.Doubled the process capacity and improved quality from 2.7 to 5.0 Sigma by leading a.

Optimized new chemical operations from laboratory scale through trials on production equipment.

Masters, Science Of Administration--Organizational Leadership

Published research New Product Development: Principles for Small Businesses To Engage Key Suppliers (2009). Validated ten collaborative.

Bachelors Of Science, Chemical Engineering