- Responsible for the Quality Department for two manufacturing locations: Georgia and California.- Managed two Quality Managers, one Quality Supervisor, one QC leader, and 14 Quality inspectors across different shifts.- Set annual department goals and performs on-going reviews during the year to ensure objective achievement.- Conducted annual performance reviews to salary and hourly direct reports.- Responsible for document control process to ensure most relevant and updated documents are available at all times. Current project is related to streamlining engineering change process across both manufacturing sites.- Worked directly with customers to attend specific customer complaints.- Held continuous CAPA meetings for both manufacturing sites to ensure open cases have implemented and effective corrective actions.- Lead multifunctional teams to perform root cause analyses for all open customer complaints.- Supported efforts to implement 5S and Visual Work Instructions.- Supervised Quality lab where IR scans to first off pieces and First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs) are completed during all shifts.- Installed a new measuring device (FARO Arm) to improve First Article Layouts.- Installed a new push/pull measuring device (Mark-10) to validate hardware installation requirements.- Implemented continuous process audits on all shifts to monitor quality during production.- Implemented FTT - First Time Through yield as a key indicator of manufacturing site quality levels with subsequent improvement activities for low yield product. Implemented quality checklists to include critical areas of inspection based on prior customer complaints.- Enhanced Quality Alert Notification process to include detailed complaint description, personnel training sign-off, and pictures of defects reported by customers.- Guided Quality/Production teams to develop Control Plans for key product lines.

- Responsible for the entire Quality Control department: 17 direct report employees.- Performed annual performance reviews to salary and hourly direct reports, including annual bonus and salary increases.- Managed three Quality Engineers in the Medical, Automotive and Consumer areas and one Lead Auditor/Engineering Change Analyst. In addition, managed a team of 12 Quality Control Technicians across three shifts.- Oversaw quality laboratory with daily first off approvals, annual revalidations, FAI for medical customers, special projects including process changes and raw material changes.- Guided, coached and directed engineers (QE+ME), quality inspectors, final auditors, lab technician on day-to-day activities.- Led Kaizen events improving quality levels and production throughput as well as reducing scrap levels.- Promoted mini Kaizen events where all personnel had the opportunity to implement an idea that would improve Safety, Quality, Production and Cost areas.- Participated in 5S audits by being an active auditor and owner of a production area. Taught 5S principles to production.- Worked directly with customers to attend specific customer complaints and oversaw the implementation and validation of corrective actions.- Held continuous CAPA meetings to ensure open cases are followed up and prompt implementation of corrective actions.- Provided support to company leadership by gathering and analyzing quality information for plant performance and identification of areas for Continuous Improvement projects.- Managed quality hold cage for correct identification and prompt disposition on quarantine material.- Participated in New Product Development launches as well as oversaw Safe Launch / GP12 programs.- Participated in Global Quality team with sister plants to share and implement best practice initiatives. - Participated in third party audits and internal audits for IATF-16949, ISO-9001 and ISO-13485.

- Responsible for the quality of the automotive division of the business by managing projects with different teams to continuously drive improvement in quality levels, production efficiency, waste elimination on different manufacturing processes.- Continuous interaction with automotive customers during problem resolution, customer site audits and on-going support activities. - Led corrective action activities and team activities in both production areas: Automotive and Medical to solve and prevent process problems that would result in higher quality levels required by customers.- Led problem resolution initiatives. Worked together with customers, suppliers and production personnel (multifunctional teams) to provide solutions to quality, process issues, production efficiency, and cost reduction.- Performed root-cause analyses, 8Ds, waste elimination, implemented corrective actions and verified effectiveness of improvements for all automotive and some medical products.- Guided and coached quality inspectors, final auditors and lab technician on day-to-day quality activities.- Provided continuous, accurate and reliable internal quality data analysis which drove continuous improvement projects. - Developed PFMEA, Control Plans and prepared PPAPs for new products and drove annual PPAP revalidation activities.- Active team member of 5S activities and Kaizen events.- Participated on IATF-16949:2009 and ISO-9001 internal/external audits.

- Business Excellence Program. * Led projects with multifunctional teams for Hot and Cold rolled production areas in order to continuously improve yields, production processes, and quality levels which produced less defects, more material to sell, and higher profits. * Drove successfully important projects to achieve company's 2013 goals by improving line yields, quality levels, on-time delivery; as well as reducing scrap, consumables, delivery delays, claims, and acid consumption. * Continuous reporting of different project progress directly to the president and operations vice president of the company.- Plant wide quality and yield (flat products & long products). * Led projects and teams to continuously improve plant wide processes, and quality levels using Six Sigma methodology. Implemented corrective action activities to solve and prevent process problems. * Increased quality levels for different projects by 10% on average by working with multifunctional teams. * Monitored and controlled improvements of product quality and yield through-out the plant in order to achieve company's objectives, and product attributes necessary to meet customers’ specifications.- Plant wide scrap segregation (flat products & long products). * Improved scrap segregation processes and collection performance by 80% working with all plant departments where stainless steel scrap was generated by implementing work instructions, visual aids, continuous process audits, and reorganization of scrap segregation areas. * Created a plant wide scrap segregation tracking system to follow performance results of changes and ideas implemented.- Long products efficiency improvement project. * Improved productivity by 26% on a production line of 5 machines. * Redefined manpower layout to balance line activities. * Reduced downtime delays by improving current equipment and setting up new auxiliary tools.

- Participated in continuous improvement programs by leading projects using Lean Manufacturing, TPS, 6-Sigma, ISO-9000.- Actively worked on Lean Six Sigma methodology implementation by training operations and quality personnel.- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Project: Improvement of the vehicle identification card which includes critical parts identification for assembly, and critical operations sign-off section. Process related quality defects reduced by 20%.- Supervised 8 quality technicians and 2 engineers.- Responsible for two high volume production lines which produced 60 different models and 104,000 vehicles per year.- Participated in ISO 9001:2000 internal audits as an Audit Leader (Certified).- Led problem resolution initiatives. Led and worked with suppliers and production personnel (multifunctional teams) to give innovative solutions to quality, process issues, and cost reduction. · Led the implementation of new processes in the Quality department, FTQ, FTQ database, yard audits, process audits, and incoming inspection.- Provided accurate and reliable internal quality data, developed PFMEA, Control Plans and work on PPAPs.

- Participated on lean manufacturing activities while implementing philosophy. Experience working with waste elimination, 5Why, PPS, takt time, 5S, visual management, SWIs, process map. Toyota Production System experience-TPS.- Responsible for acquisition ($0.5M) and installation of new equipment and tooling for current / new vehicle production.- Evaluated and maintained an efficient Pneumatic Tool (PT) laboratory, including optimal PT parts inventory levels, reduced by 30% repair process steps, controlled semiannual plant PT inventory and supervised 3 hourly employees.- Participated on the installation of a new Mercedes Benz chassis assembly line.- Continuous evaluation of on-going product and part changes, as informed by Headquarters Change Notices.- Participated in ISO 9001:2000 internal audits as an Audit Leader (Certified).· Created, changed and maintained company procedures in order to meet the requirements of ISO 9001:2000.Scroll Engineer (in addition to the Manufacturing Engineer position)- Supervised monthly scroll audits of 4600 part numbers for DaimlerChrysler vehicles throughout the year.- Conducted periodic scroll meetings with material handling and production engineers to solve the audit findings.- Trained and supervised a year based scroll interns (engineering students).- Incorporated two new Mercedes Benz truck models into the scroll database and incorporated 1250-MB parts into the monthly scroll audits.

- Participated in continuous improvement programs, such as ISO-9000, ISO-14000, QS-9000, Q1, performed root-cause analyses, waste elimination, 8Ds.- Worked and led multifunctional teams, suppliers and other assembly plant teams to exchange and implement new ideas-Benchmarking, compare production processes and give innovative solutions / best practices to quality and production problems. Managed different teams of up to 5 people during the execution of projects.- Managed and supervised 8-10 quality technicians on the passenger quality department.- Planned and introduced actions referring to major changes of processes and new launches, such as inspections and process sheets, adequacy of the quality system, check points, required resources, significant and critical characteristics list, control tools, size and frequency of samples, critical reaction plans, SPC, R&R tests and gauging.- Monitored quality functional tests and engineering changes results.- Developed, supervised and controlled critical and significant characteristic collected through Statistic Process Control.