Work Experience

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Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)

Philadelphia, PA

19111

Quality Assurance Specialist (QAS) GS-1910

Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and a U.S. Government Lead Auditor in accordance with ISO 9001/AS9100 Quality Management Systems (QMS). Additionally fully certified under the Defense Acquisition Improvement Workforce Improvement Act (DIAWA) for Production, Quality and Manufacturing (PQM) Government Job Qualification Series.

Assigned as the Lead Nondestructive Coordinator for team of twenty (20) Quality Assurance Specialists providing support to the Southern Philadelphia Contract Management Office, with oversight of approximately thirty five (35) contractors’ manufacturing facilities with a combine annual contract value of exceeding seventy five (75) million dollars.

Provided quality assurance oversight at fuze manufacturing facility providing Ammunition Critical Safety Items (CSI) and Ammunition Critical Application Items (CAI) for approximately $120 million in U.S. Governmental contracts.

The work of this Government Service series (GS-1910) involves: (1) Development of plans and programs for achieving and maintaining product quality throughout the item's life cycle, to include the administration of the quality assurance provisions of contracts by designing, implementing, and maintaining a risk based surveillance program and assessment plan (2) Monitoring operations to prevent the production of defects and to verify adherence to quality plans and requirements, including identifying, understanding, proofing, measuring, and analyzing contractor production process capability; and for promoting continuous improvement. (3) Analysis and investigation of adverse quality trends or conditions and initiation of corrective action. Further duties include a requirement for analytical ability combined with knowledge and application of assurance principles and techniques, and knowledge of pertinent product characteristics and the associated manufacturing processes and techniques.

07/2005 - 07/2011

New Jersey Air Guard

McGuire AFB, NJ

08641

United States

Supervisor, Nondestructive and Oil Analysis Laboratory

Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a Nondestructive Inspection and Oil Analysis Laboratory in support of various special operations aircraft and twenty one (21) air refueling aircraft.

Provided quality assurance and nondestructive testing support and capabilities for an industrial aviation support equipment facility. Utilized quality assurance test methods to ensure aircraft structural

Work Experience (cont.)

integrity and Safety for Flight (SOF) conditions for general aviation aircraft and mission specific aircraft.

Utilized standard quality assurance principles to trend aircraft engine oil analysis to predict and prevent potential aircraft engine failures.

Analyzed technical and quality data to detect unsatisfactory trends and determine structural integrity of both materials and aircraft.

Incorporated state of the art and innovative quality control testing, technology and methodology for enhancing the assessment of product quality.

Reviewed and revised, as necessary, written technical data and inspection procedures for accuracy and adequacy in order to implement a quality criterion which ensures complete and effective inspection of materials.

Acquired a comprehensive knowledge of quality assurance principles, concepts and methodologies relative to various industrial environments.

Employed various analysis and investigative techniques in order to prevent material failures from occurring.

Communicate effectively both orally and in written correspondence the results of complex and technically challenging data in order to convey inspection and quality control results.

Participated in quality control audits and examinations in order to determine the effectiveness of existing programs and any need for modification of existing programs.

05/2003 - 06/2005

Intergeo Services LLC

Huntingdon Valley, PA

19006

Manager, Leak Location / Liner Integrity Surveys

Performed Government mandated quality assurance surveillance of both nondestructive and destructive in-situ testing of municipal landfill liners and leachate containment pond liners to ensure liner integrity prior to and during in service use. Performed material properties testing (destructive) of received and installed liner materials to ensure governmental specified standards and industry standard compliance. Managed the Liner Integrity Survey group for Intergeo Services LLC consisting of four to five employees.

Performed training and qualification to subordinate employees in corporate Health, Safety and Environmental (HS & E) requirements associated with performance of job related duties to ensure conformance to specifications related to contractual conformance and regulatory requirements.

Work Experience (cont.)

Developed proprietary testing systems to perform testing of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) composite geo-membrane liners utilized to contain municipal landfill waste and waste leachate in heavily regulated landfill industry.

06/1998 - 04/2003

TAI Services Inc.

Marietta, GA 3067

United States

Analyst, Nondestructive

Conducted nondestructive testing of ferrous and nonferrous tubes on process heat exchangers, boiler tubes and refinery process applications within various production facilities. Performed nondestructive testing and quality control checks on nonferrous heat exchanger tubing within the commercial chiller industry. Determined the periodicity and compiled disposition reports for future inspections based on field gathered empirical test results.

Qualified magnetic flux leakage inspector performing qualitative and quantitative classification of low carbon steel tubes of varying diameters from 19 mm to 115 mm (3/4” to 4.5”)

Qualified to perform Infrared Emission inspections used in conducting predictive and preventative maintenance on various electrical circuitries, industrial pumping motors and building heat loss surveys

Performed marketing and sales functions with existing clients and prospective customers within the Greater Philadelphia market

07/1990 - 06/1998

United States Navy

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67)

Mayport, Florida

32233

Aviation Nondestructive Inspector

Performed nondestructive inspections for an embarked air wing of over eighty (80) multiple mission aircraft in addition to supporting essential ship’s system inspection requirements for ship’s boiler systems, high pressure steam systems and high pressure hydraulic systems.

Performed ‘open facility’ radiographic inspection of a fighter/attack aircraft while underway and on board an aircraft carrier. Additionally performed Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) for two squadrons consisting of eighteen (18) F-14 ‘Tomcat’ fighter aircraft.

Work Experience (cont.)

Qualified in specialized and unique nondestructive inspection techniques such as rubber magnetic particle inspection, Barkhausen Effect Inspections (used to determine stress of high strength steel) and ultrasonic classification of metal to metal disbonds and advance composite structural integrity.

Education

Temple University 12/2015

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Bachelor of Science

Major: Engineering

GPA: 3.08

Burlington College 12/2009

Pemberton, NJ 08054

United States

Associate Degree

Major: Engineering Honors: Magna Cum Laude

GPA: 3.84 of a maximum 4.0

Excelsior College 08/2005

Albany, NY 12203

United States

Associate Degree

Major: Electro-Mechanical Studies

GPA: 3.79 out of 4.0

Community College Of The Air Force (CCAF) 06/2010

Maxwell Air Force Base, AL 36112

United States

Associate Degree

Major: Nondestructive Inspection Technology

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