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Worked for a period of 8 months as a Tactical Quality Engineer at Adams Thermal Systems in Canton, South Dakota. (Responsible for all John Deere external customer accounts.) Responsibilities included: APQP Workbook, PPAP’s, PFMEA’s, 8-D CAR forms, Daily customer contact on conference calls and Cisco WebEx on quality issues.

Skills: Six Sigma Black Belt, ISO/TS-16949
Highlights:
• Reduced wasted scrap and quality rejects at customer level with external John Deere locations by 30% in a period of 8 months by finding root cause analysis, and short/long term corrective actions to improve defective assembly processes.
• Added value stream mapping initiative to the internal flow of processes internally of parts movement within the facility to customer level; initiating a true lean-manufacturing initiative where none was presently in place.
• Initiated and maintained outstanding internal and external customer communication with timely response and corrective actions utilizing quality consulting and waste lean reduction initiatives from internal to external customer levels.
• Personally reduced PPM to external customer John Deere’s (JDSN) 8 different locations scorecard from a 58% level of rejected material to a 25% mitigated level in less than 8 months, by investigating root cause analysis and discovering shipping/receiving issues where damage occurred, not from manufacturing facility, and corrected issues to John Deere’s satisfaction.
• Utilized daily continuous improvement utilizing lean manufacturing principles and excellent customer communication on John Deere’s Cisco WEBEX and conference calls with 8 different John Deere locations in Iowa and international locations as well.

(UNTIL JANUARY, DEFENSE INDUSTRY CONTRACT LAYOFF.); Working for a United States Government Contractor, utilizing electronics:Thermotron testing equipment on composite fire control targeting systems for M777/155mm Howitzers for pneumatic/pulse shock, electro-dynamic vibration, (reduce and dampen effects of vibration due to land, air, and sea travel) and cryogenic environmental testing equipment (torque wrench values ± in any world climate hot or cold) with calibrated accelerometers, (Columbia research, piezoelectric and multi-axis accelerometers) The assembly department built military products with anti-static electronic circuit boards to the final products I received finished for testing. I tested many various night-vision and fire-control systems for the United States Department of Defense contracting agencies for the US military. Machine shop utilizing Okuma, CNC, Lathes, Mazak, Makino, Water jet cut machinery, and other 5 axis machinery. (M777 LIGHTWEIGHT TOWED HOWITZER, AND MANY OTHER TYPES OF MIL-SPECIFICATION TESTING REQUIREMENTS STATED FOR BOEING AIRCRAFT, ETC.)
Highlights:
• Utilized highly technical computer systems in a laboratory testing environment to generate data reports for United States government contractors.
• Maintained excellent communication to the on-site Defense Contract Management Agency agent for shipping and quality concerns pertaining to on-time delivery performance.

A DIVISION OF BOEING, SAINT LOUIS CONTRACTING OFFICE)
POSITION: Assistant Quality Director In charge of systems analysis, on-site Japanese customer relations with KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES (KHI), FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES (FHI), EMBRAER CORPORATION (CANADA OPERATIONS) assembly points for lightweight composite, air spar titanium machined wing pieces, and titanium seat-tracks with CMM true positioning, GD&T technical data packages review with customer and government source inspection on-site. (LIGHTWEIGHT POLYMERS/TITANIUM MACHINING OPERATIONS -Machine shop utilizing Haas, Bridgeport, Mitutoyo F-604, mazak, makino, Carl Zeiss CMM and 5 AXIS and 6 SPINDLE OPERATIONS)
Highlights:
• Initiated an excellent customer communication and rapport with on-site Japanese and Canadian customers in daily board-room meetings.
• Personally mitigated issues with quality and on-time delivery performance at customer level daily from a PPM customer scorecard of 70% to 40% in less than a one year period.

Atlas Copco pneumatic screw I/O computer interface assembly. (FORMERLY TEXTRON AUTOMOTIVE, and Dynamic Land Systems- (A DIVISION OF BELL HELICOPTER SYSTEMS, SAINT LOUIS OPERATIONS)
POSITION: Quality and Production lead assembly-line computer process engineer for the U-231 Lincoln Aviator Instrument panel (that encompassed many composite materials, injection molded and water-jet cut skins, and magnesium mag-beams (polymers) for the instrument panels) assembly-line production, (after completion, checked vibration response to the instrument panel to determine any excess noise in the steering column or air ducts/vents for screws during manufacturing processes) the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager front and rear sequencing lot control line computer process lead, and the Dodge Ram standard, and quad-cab door panels assembly-line sequencing quality lead lot-control inspector. (LIGHTWEIGHT POLYMERS)

Highlights:
• Identified areas of wasted 5S, FIFO, Kaisen’s, and continuous improvement. Personally initiated a drop in wasted time study on each assembly line station from a 4% wasted effort to a 1% level to prevent assembly line shutdown issues on each over-cycle alert.
• Utilized Ford Motor Companies intelliquence system to mitigate any down-time scenarios that might prevent on-time shipping delivery window of 2 hours to their manufacturing facility.
• Initiated and maintained new levels of operation to increase lean manufacturing by moving parts and people in a cross-training system, whereby one operator would be absent for vacation/sickness, another employee would be trained to operate that station.
• Maintained excellent communication with Chrysler Van and Truck plants, (Fenton, Missouri) and Ford Motor Company (Hazelwood, Missouri) with any down-time or quality issues in a real-time JIT delivery scenario daily.
• Reported shiftly/daily PPM customer scorecard in real-time computer tracking system to Chrysler/Ford customer levels.