William H Nguyen
Thousand Oaks, CA ***** ? 818-***-**** ? ********@*****.***
Education / Certification
> California State University, Northridge
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
> ASQ-Certified Quality Engineer
> ISO9001-2008, AS9100C-Internal Auditor Certified.
Technical Skills
Microsoft Office Lean
Manufacturing DOE / DFX/APQP/PPAP/RCCA
Reliability Assessment HALT/HASS Analysis
IPC-600, 610, 620 & GT&D
AutoCAD/Solid Works Agile/Intuitive/Minitab_R14
DFMEA / PFMEA
Statistical Analysis (SPC) Six-Sigma Champion
Total Quality Management
Process Assessment Risk Management
Project Management Leadership
Professional Experience
Quality Engineer Manager (2008-Present)
Innovative Integration. Data Acquisition, DSP, Simi Valley, CA
. Responsible in define, create and implement quality assurance plans
for new program, regulatory and statutory requirements. Lead RMA & MRB
in review non-conformances, and determine RCCA/PA.
. Establish quality inspection, sampling, acceptance procedures to
reduce inspection time and to assure the quality of manufactured
products, in compliance with customer specifications. Conducted
various quality training programs to personnel: Internal Audit, NPI
process, 5S, PDCA, Kaizen.
. Support manufacture in design fixture, test jig, test procedure,
tooling, failure analysis (PDFMEA), APQP.
Monitoring & measuring quality metric to identify areas of improvement
in quality, delivery, and cost.
. Assist engineer team in design verification/validation, DFMEA, risk
assessments from product intercept to production to ensure new
products meet reliability, performance, EMC, CE, and safety standards.
. Direct oversight of the product reliability studies, HALT & HASS
analysis for all products in production. Involve in Contract
Review with Sale, Marketing, and Engineers to meet customer
requirements.
Collaborate with Purchasing, Suppliers, and CM to pro actively
improve materials, OTD, and cost.
Extensive interact with customers to resolve products quality
issues, and complains.
Achievement: * Company successfully deployed a QMS & achieving
ISO9001-2008 Certification.
* The quality related product defects fall by more than half over 2yrs
that resulting in considerable saving to the company and improved
customer relations.
Manufacturing Engineer (2006-2008)
Celestica. LCD Service a' Clean Room Class 1000 Environment', Oxnard, CA.
. Aggressively investigate failure analysis of non-conforming products
applied Six Sigma methodologies to determine RCCA, and prevention, to
improve products yield.
. Developing assembly process & planning, fabrication/assembly
instructions and tooling, fixtures.
. Identify areas of improve manufacturing processing, quality,
delivery, and cost & cycle time reduction. Participate in lean
manufacturing, work cell, and Kaizen events to eliminate wastes.
Achievement: Successfully built functional burn-in chamber and clean
room class1000 to improve LCD performance, reliability that results in
reduces RMA, scrape materials by 20%, and return company profitability.
Manufacturing Engineer (2004-2006)
Haas Automation. CNC Machine Design & Manufacturing, Oxnard, CA
. Build, troubleshoot, and write test procedures for equipments,
simulators, fixtures, and sub-assembly on CNC machines. Create;
maintain process planning, instruction sheets, routers, work
instructions.
. Analyze product performance test yields to improve manufacturing, and
determine cost, cycle time reduction versus quality tradeoffs.
Initiative RCCA, prevention program, and Poka-yoke.
Achievement: Lead interdisciplinary team of Mfg. Engineers utilize PLC
program reduce Spindle Motor
burn-in cycle to half, cut cost, improve motor reliability and
performance.
Manufacturing Engineer (1998-2004)
Alcatel U.S.A. Telecommunication Equipment, Calabasas, CA
. Direct interface with engineering team to analyze and resolve new
products design process flaws, increasing product performance and
durability while reduce production cost, and takt time.
. Write Inspection/Acceptance/Qualification procedures. Support
production on fixture, test jig, and tooling.
. Defined technical tasks, distribution resources with leadership
experiences that produce results meet company goals. Proactive with
quality team to identify area for improvements.
Achievement: Support production lines, and Contract Manufacture in
defining operation structures, processes flowchart, and personnel
training that results increasing production yield by 18% over two years..
Product Quality Engineer (1988-1998)
Micrologic, Inc. Global Position Satellite (GPS) Design & Manufacture,
Chatsworth, CA
. Train personnel on continual improvement, new product process to
improve efficiency and productivity.
. Coordinate, communication with customers to resolve customer
complains on products quality issues.
. Monitor and analyze performance trends to benchmark KPI of suppliers
and in house manufacturing.
. Collaborate with engineering team to analyze product design,
reliability, performance and processing flaws, to launch new products
on schedule, and within target budget.
Achievement: Successful established Product Quality Metric to improve
product performance & reliability that results in reduce RMA by 15%,
scrap product by 12% improve company profitability.