Qualifications: External Supplier Manufacturing Process Flow And Controls § Piece Part, Assembly Development and Tooling § Machining, Casting, Sheet metal, Fine Blanking, Injection Molding Part Manufacturing § JIT, TQC, SPC, STS, 6 Sigma Supplier Training Program Management, ISO 9001-2000 Maxtor/Quantum In House Training and Auditing § Materials Acquisition, Configuration Management systems § Quality Training § Quality Material Tracking / Reporting Systems, 8 D Process Improvement.

Software: Microsoft, MS Operating system 7, Office 2007, Word, Excel, Visio, Power Point, Publisher, Outlook, Navision, Adobe reader/Writer, Agile tracking and writer, Minitab (SPC), SAP software, Photo programs for use in process documentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SQE TEMPOARY CONTRACT

CIRCLE GRAPHICS 2013-2015

Write specifications and inspection procedures for Incoming Inspection and Materials Department.

Contact Suppliers with reject issues and specification issues.

Develop Excel tracking for expiration data on incoming materials.

Develop instructions for users for SAP (Business Suite) training.

Director of Quality

THE DIGITAL VAULT INC. 2011-2012

Write start-up procedures for new company, documents to meet ISO standards.

Develop Internal Purchase Request process, allow tracking of order, and costs for projects.

Develop process for laser measurement of surface contact in optical reading.

Director Manufacturing/Quality

AEROGROW INTERNATIONAL, BOULDER, CO 2007- 2010

Start-up manufacturing process, procedures for the manufacturing of hydroponic gardening kits.

Set-up work instructions using Adobe, Visio and other graphic programs.

Monitor finish goods for customer acceptance, this entailed actual growing of the seed kits manufactured in the plant.

Develop a Bill of Material pull sheet and tracking system for each production order.

Work with temporary workers to develop work skills and monitor quality of output.

Work foreign suppliers (China) with production quality and build scheduling.

Work in foreign countries, developing production tooling, processes for all materials.

Move production from Longmont to Indianapolis/

Quality Manager MQA / Calibration

QUANTUM CORPORATION – BOULDER, CO 2002 – 2007

Set-up Material Qualification Lab, train Inspectors, purchase equipment for qualification of new designed materials.

Meet ISO audits for Quality process

Change lab from paper to paperless filing and recording of data of inspection results.

Develop on line (Agile) data filing of qualification reports, allows anyone to review status of material.

Revise Calibration lab procedures reducing costs in outside suppliers, justify Calibration Lab in Colorado Springs division, change manual filing of certificates to electronic.

Division Corporate Quality Manager / SQE Manager

EXABYTE CORPORATION – BOULDER, CO 2000 – 2002

Reorganize Quality departments, change philosophy to Audit verses 100% inspection, and reinstall material audits (Out of Box) of outgoing units.

Using 8D Task Force program, address manufacturing line failures and corrective action.

Report to manufacturing, reject rates, work with manufacturing to correct and improve production quality.

Reduce department by 50%, through reduction of work force and manufacturing process improvements.

Work with Task Force Teams to reduce workmanship manufacturing defects, set goal for manufacturing to less than 2000 DPM from greater than 100,000, received corporate recognition for achievement of goal.

Address design issues with Supplier base both in US and Far East, address-manufacturing issues, with both Supplier and Line Process Manufacturing.

Quality Process Manager

CONNER TECHNOLOGY, INC. – LONGMONT, CO 1999 - 2000

Start-up of new company, staff, purchase inspection equipment for incoming inspection and line process controls.

Main Contact for UL/CSA audits, worked with outside labs to insure product met all requirements.

Certify Class 100 Clean Room both in U.S. and China manufacturing sites, train operators in Clean Room Protocol, develop and bring on line DI system to support AQ Cleaner.

Write procedures for China operations on Clean Room maintenance and operation.

Due to poor design on original AQ system in US, develop and implement new DI system reducing TOC count to less the 5 on a daily operation, well below industry standard of 50 counts.

Manage Incoming Quality Inspection; work with Suppliers and Design Engineering to develop inspection process for both received materials and process assembly.

Process Quality Engineering Manager

MAXTOR CORPORATION – LONGMONT, CO 1992 - 1999

Develop Process Tooling Suppliers to meet tooling quality requirements Supplier acceptance level brought up 97.4% from 45%.

Manage Process Engineers in the Station Qualifications for volume transition manufacturing production lines, production requirements of 1.33 CPK.

Certify Mini-Clean bench for use in assembly of disk drive products.

Manage Tooling Inspectors in the inspection and qualification of production tooling requirements.

Document, Implement station acceptance procedures to meet company goals 1.33Cpk, using both Word, Excel, Statistica, and QI Analyst for report and CPK graph generation.

Senior Process Quality Engineer

Establish tool qualification process and procedures for manufacturing production.

Implement tool inspection program, establishing tool controls for start-up process assembly tooling.

Develop line failure cost reporting system for PC system using Excel programming.

OTHER EXPERINCE IN MANUFACTURING

Establish tooling and supplier procedures in new product development on sheet metal and plastic design of storage cabinets used in computer disk storage arrays.

Reduce piece part cost through improved design and manufacturing processes.

Develop programs for tracking material failures and costs.

Establish budget and cost reduction program for 14" disk drive program.

External supplier part development for 14" large drive at 1500 units a week, budget back-up tooling and cost reduction programs.

Improve tool design for inspection fixtures and equipment used in volume incoming inspection.

Budget cost center for department, includes head count, tooling, travel, and expenses.

Support external supplier inspection methods and processes.

Develop plant wide reporting on incoming inspection materials.

Manage Incoming Inspection Department with 38 employees, budget of 1.8 million dollars.

EDUCATION:

Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas, Major Vocational Education, Minor Accounting, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Certificate of Management by Objectives. Held I.T.U. Journeyman Machinist Card.

AWARDS

2004 elected to International Who’s Who in Professional Management, Exybte 8D Task Force Award, Digital Equipment Outstanding Contribution Award, El Paso County Sheriff Citizen Award.

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