Sales Quality Control
Resume:
Edward W. Ashby
West Seneca, New York 14224
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Experience
*/*/**** - */**/2009 EGW Associates
Contract Employee - Goodyear - Dunlop
Quality Assurance Technician - Area Manager
Major Areas of Responsibility
. Performed first piece cycle checks to prove conformance to quality
process
. Performed employee observation of tire assembly for proper assembly
. Verified proper construction of product comparing blue prints,
material lists and components
3/1/1996 - 9/1/08 Delphi Thermal Systems
Manufacturing Supervisor
Major Areas of Responsibility:
. Support health, safety and well being of all employees; ensures
adherence to recommended safety procedures and good housekeeping
practices
. Supervise hourly employees and maintain a disciplined manufacturing
environment through direct leadership
. Demonstrate superior customer focused quality ethic
. Develop/maintain effective/constructive union-management relationships
. Responsible for allocation of manpower and equipment to meet
production schedules and attain daily schedule conformance
. Support, implement and maintain lean manufacturing system
. Embrace continuous improvement as a manufacturing norm
. Provide measurement and feedback on department operations
. Train all hourly operators to job instructions and maintain up to date
training logs
. Modify job instructions to illustrate changes to lean manufacturing
techniques and retrain employees
Skills and Abilities:
. Strong analytical and decision-making skills, computer literate, SAP,
all Microsoft Applications
. Excellent people skills
. Strong verbal and communication skills
. Consistent positive attitude when interacting with team, customers,
and colleagues
. Demonstrated ability to successfully create and achieve set goals and
objectives
Experience
1990-1996 Mail-Well Envelope
Plant Manager
Major Areas of Responsibility
Directed overall multi-shift operations including purchasing, quality
assurance, personnel administration, industrial engineering, material
control (JIT), research and development, printing-flexographic, gravure and
wet offset, die cutting-folding, sheeting, as well as shipping departments
.Demonstrated positive relationship with outside vendors relative to paper
purchasing and ink suppliers. Annual manufacturing cost allocation-$16MM;
Sales 19MM.Supervised 145 employees through 16 managers. Main customer
product focus included products such as expandable mailers, photo bags,
Tyvec envelopes and business return envelopes. Approximately ninety percent
of our business was printing related.
1983-1990 Alcor Envelope
Plant Superintendent
Major Areas of Responsibility
Directed overall multi-shift operations including purchasing, quality
assurance, personnel administration, industrial engineering, material
control (JIT), research and development, printing-flexographic, gravure and
wet offset. Demonstrated positive relationship with outside vendors
relative to paper purchasing and ink suppliers. Annual manufacturing cost
allocation-$9MM; Sales 16MM.Supervised 72 employees through 6 managers.
Main customer product focus included products such as expandable mailers,
photo bags, Tyvec envelopes and business return envelopes. Approximately
ninety percent of our business was printing related.
Achievements:
. Increased productivity 36% by setting and maintaining production
standards, capitalizing on employee skills, improving utilization of
equipment and developing communication programs.
. Improved product quality by instituting company's first quality
control circles and establishing a seven point quality control
program. These actions reduced the rejection ratio from 2.5% to .04%
of 1% of sales dollars.
. Increased production 10.9% per year for seven consecutive years by
reducing farming out of production. This was accomplished through
improved use of capacity including more effective utilization of
labor, tools and equipment.
. Shortened orders lead time from four weeks to one week. This in turn,
generated more sales and reduced frequency of reordering paper stock
and machine changes.
. Conducted open house tour which improved employee and community
relations.
. Earned recognition award from insurance carrier for loss reductions in
the plant by initiating and implementing departmental safety
policies/procedures and by developing/installing safety training
programs. Achieved 4.2 national safety rating versus 7.6 industry
standard.
. Saved$14M annually by designing/installing central bulk gum system
which reduced material costs.
Experience
1972-1983 Keystone Plating Corporation
Plant Engineer/Superintendent
Major Areas of Responsibility
Directed overall plant operations, research and development: maintained
equipment and scheduled production in a union environment. Supervised 47
employees through 6 supervisors.
Achievements:
. Installed water recall system for two Kewanee boilers which saved $84M
annually in gas.
. Reduced water usage from one million gallons to two hundred thousand
monthly by installing water saving devices.
. Instituted an Employee Relations Committee which assured timely
communications and improved working conditions and reduced accidents.
Experience
1969-1972 United States Air Force
Civil Engineer, Avaino Air Base, Italy
Honorable Discharge E5
Publications
"Don't Berate, Communicate" and 'How to Write Job Descriptions"
Education and Seminars
Associate Degrees-Business Management, Sales and Marketing
Bryant and Stratton-1983
Certificate of Civil Engineering, Port Huenemee Naval Academy
Certificate in Leadership and Organizational Development, 2008
Training Seminars
. Attended numerous training seminars relating to: Management
Leadership, Labor relations, Lean Manufacturing, Just in Time &
Synchronous Manufacturing, Quality Control, Safety and Hazards.
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