PROFILE Over ** years of continuous improvement, quality, manufacturing,

supervisory, and planning experience in leading automotive

manufacturing companies and stainless steel mill.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified by Textron.

Continued studies in business administration: MBA.

Green Card Holder

Fluent in English and Spanish.

Strong supervisory, quantitative, analytic and computer skills.

EDUCATION Master in Business Administration - MBA. Concentration 08/1999 - 05/2001

in Operations Management.

School of Management. State University of New York - SUNY. Binghamton,

NY, USA, GPA: 3.50/4.0

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. 09/1992 - 07/1997

Universidad Tecnol gica del Centro - UNITEC. Venezuela. Graduated with

honors finishing 4th out of 35 students.

HONORS UNITEC Merit Recognition given to the top 15% of the university

students. 1997.

Fundayacucho Scholarship-Loan Program. Government scholarship-loan

granted based on a nationwide examination to pursue graduate studies.

1998.

WORK NORTH AMERICAN STAINLESS - NAS, Kentucky, USA 04/2007 - Present

EXPERIENCE Cost of Quality Engineer - Continuous Improvement Project Leader

Cost of Quality Excellence Program.

Created and led multifunctional teams in different production areas

(HM/CM) in order to continuously improve yields, production processes,

quality levels which results in more material available to sell, less

defects, and bottom line profits.

Defined 2012 production values to set percentage improvement for

2013/2014 in different areas to improve line yields, scrap reduction,

quality levels, consumables reduction, on-time delivery, reduction of

delivery delays, claims, hot charging and acid consumption.

Overall project savings goal set at 25,000,000 euros in 2-year period.

Excellence Program for 2010/2011 finished at 80%

Continuous reporting of different project progress directly to the

president and operations vice president of the company.

Plant wide quality yield (flat products & long products).

Created and led multifunctional teams in order to continuously improve

plant wide processes, and quality levels using 6(

Led continuous improvements projects and corrective action activities

to solve and prevent process problems.

Increased quality levels on different projects by 10% on average since

the implementation of the multifunctional teams.

Monitored the improvement of product quality and yield through-out the

plant in order to achieve the product attributes necessary to meet

customers' goals.

Plant wide scrap segregation (flat products & long products).

Implemented work instructions, visual aids, continuous process audits,

reorganization of scrap segregation areas.

Monitored and improved scrap segregation processes by working with all

plant departments where stainless steel scrap was generated.

Improved scrap segregation performance by 80%.

Created a plant wide scrap segregation tracking report to follow

performance results of changes/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.

Analyzed different options to improve packaging and shipping processes

in order to accommodate a 45% increase in customer demand. Project

estimated investment of $3,000,000

Used team concept approach to train personnel in team building, and

problem solving.

E-Z-GO TEXTRON, Georgia, USA 11/2004 - 03/2007

Quality Engineer Senior / Supervisor

Participated in continuous improvement programs, such as Lean

Manufacturing, TPS, 6-Sigma, ISO-9000, ISO-14000.

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%.

Managed 2 engineers and 8 quality technicians.

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.

DAIMLERCHRYSLER, Venezuela 02/2002 - 11/2004

Manufacturing Engineer (Project and Tooling) / Supervisor

Participated in new vehicle launches / projects in order to acquire

$0.5M in equipment / tooling required for 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.

Continued 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).

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.

Created, changed and maintained company procedures in order to meet the

requirements of ISO 9001:2000.

Scroll Engineer (in addition to the Manufacturing 02/2003 - 11/2004

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.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Venezuela 01/1998 - 08/1999

Quality Engineer / Supervisor

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, 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.

UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENTS, New York, USA 12/2000 - 05/2001

Forecasting & Production Schedules Management Program - Spring Intern

Worked with Material Requirement Planning (MRP) system - SAP R/3, in

order to build an accurate forecasting model based on past purchase

orders.

Defined parameters for annual, monthly, weekly and daily demand

forecast to perform a product-option analysis.

Collected information regarding each type of product.

Directed work interaction between the State University of New York

faculty and Universal Instruments management.

INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE TECNOLOGIA INDUSTRIAL - IUTI, 04/2002 -

Venezuela 11/2004

Part time Professor

Thesis tutor for 5 consecutive semesters in the Mechanical Engineering

area. Approximately 25 theses tutored.

Professor of Internship Workshop classes for 5 consecutive semesters in

the Mechanical Engineering area with about 15 students per class.

Taught 8 hrs per week including Internship Workshop classes and Thesis

Tutorials.

AFFILIATIO Root Cause Analysis by QAS - Quality Auditing Services. November 2012.

N & SKILLS Building Leadership Capability Program (BLC). 2006.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification by Textron. November 2006.

Working on SSBB by ASQ. Test date: October 2013.

Working on CQE by ASQ. Test date: December 2013.

OSHA General Industry Safety & Health. May 2007.

ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor & APQP process. Georgia Tech. 2005. Attended

several ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 courses.

Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Member of National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA).

Statistical Process Control Analyst, Technician and Operator. 1998.

Certified by Carabobo University, Venezuela.

Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access 2010, Minitab.

Ability to coordinate, supervise and work in multifunctional teams.

Strong leadership skills, work, ethic and organization abilities.

Ability to prioritize and multi-task several assignments at the same

time.

Quick learner with ease to adapt to new environments and working

conditions.

References available upon request. Open to any location

in the United States.

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