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Sheboygan Falls, WI

Product and Process Quality Improvement. Scrap Reduction. Customer Satisfaction. APQP/PPAP.

Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

Reporting to the Director of Quality, performed as sole Quality Agent at the Sheboygan Falls facility, responsible for all aspects of the Quality function, including calibration, Int./Ext. CAR’s (8D’s), APQP, PPAP Requests & Submissions. Process Improvement, Internal & External Audits, Supplier Development, New Employee training & development. ISO 9001.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Coordinated activities of 7 direct reports. Scope of oversite included Receiving Inspection, shop floor operations, calibration, process/product audits & Failure Analysis. Performed battery leak-test audits. Facilitated engineering validation trials to qualify product. Worked with field service Reps ensuring timely resolution to customer issues. Initiated.

Worked on new product development teams. Performed capability studies on “key” manufacturing processes. Developed & maintained documentation (FMEA's, Control Plans). Compiled L3 PPAP's for submission to automotive clients (Ford, Delphi, GM). Participated on action teams to resolve quality issues relating to electronic components, assemblies and customer.

Developed procedures allowing for the inspection of purchased material. Established the method & criteria for solder adhesion testing on electronic components. Participated on Material Review Boards resolving both vendor/customer quality issues. Reduced inspection costs by optimizing test practices/sampling plans. Performed reliability calculations on new.

Developed and maintained test packages for a wide range of solid-state devices (analog, digital, mixed-signal, VLSI, and ASIC’s). Designed/debugged interface hardware to enable component testing via the ATE. Determined the test coverage required. Developed & debugged software (PDP-11 Assembler, FORTRAN, PASCAL STEPS). Utilized methods of SPC to increase.