Engineer Quality Assurance

Keith I. Huxley, Jr.

**** ********* *****( Raleigh, NC 27587

919-***-**** 919-***-**** ( *******@*********.***

Qualifications Summary

SENIOR QUALITY PROFESSIONAL WITH ACCOMPLISHED RECORD IN QUALITY

IMPLEMENTATION AND COST SAVINGS. ABLE TO EMPLOY ALL QUALITY TOOLS ACROSS

CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAMS TO ACCOMPLISH QUALITY AND COST OBJECTIVES.

EXPERIENCED IN WORKING WITH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS IN THE UNITED

STATES AND ABROAD.

Six Sigma Supply Chain Management

Lean Manufacturing Continuous Improvement

Supplier quality interface Kaizen Team Mentor

Certified Quality Engineer Keyword Phrase

Professional Experience

Nomaco, Inc. - Tarboro, NC 2007 to 2009

QUALITY SUPERVISOR/MANAGER

Managed a 3-shift operation in quality functions for the extrusion

manufacturing of foam insulation products for the commercial and retail

industry.

. Developed customer complaint tracking system and reduced those complaints

from 170K to 40K annually.

. Implemented internal corrective action data base for continuous

improvement driving lean six sigma (DMAIC). Increased our mfg. yields from

78% to 94% with our most difficult manufactured products with six sigma

methodology and Kaizen teams

. Increased manufacturing thru put and decreased warehouse inventory space

by reducing holding time for pipe insulation inventory by performing

regression analysis. This resulted in a potential 275K annually savings.

Yamaha Motor Mfg. Co. - Newnan, GA 2003 to 2007

Senior Quality Engineer

Process & Supplier Quality Engineer for all Yamaha injection molded and

sheet molding compound (SMC) products for ATVs, WaveRunners, and golf

cars. Supplier Quality Engineer for all outsourced molded product and

quality control responsibilities for over 2.5 million in-house injection

molded parts annually. Manage 4 indirect reports and two supervisors

(indirectly) in process control/scrap reduction and Control Plan

implementation.Perform Advanced Product Quality Planning quality

activities and supplier auditing and use Minitab/QI Macros for quality

metric reporting. Primary ISO coordinator for 147 employees in the

Plastics department. Initiate internal and external APQP/PPAP activities.

Sign off all major tooling (via trials at suppliers) in the amount of 27

million dollars.

. Reduced contract supplier defects rates from 20K-90K PPM to 700PPM

average saving over $300K annually in reject and downtime cost

. Performed "design of experiments" with Kaizen teams reducing injection

molding reject cost

for hazing and strings saving $64K annually.

. Initiated process change at waterjet cutting via "DOE" saving $153K

annually in rework cost via cutting pressure reduction, deflection change

and pressure drops.

Pliant Systems, Inc. - RTP, NC 1995 to 2002

Senior Quality Engineer

Designed, implemented and organized quality assurance program from raw

material to finished product for mechanical commodities in a "start up"

telecommunications business. Supplier quality assurance responsibilities

for plastics, metal fabrications, cable assemblies, all types of plating

processes, metal cabinetry, short/long run metal stampings.

. Developed Access database for defective material reviews and management

reporting, thus assisting the supplier development team in supplier

quality indices and supplier management.

. Assisted in the successful implementation of ISO 9000 and subsequently

TL9000. This enhanced our company credentials with key and potential

customers.

. Major responsibility was managing sub-contract supplier quality ensuring

smooth transition of product into our manufacturing mainstream

Memorex/Telex - Raleigh, NC 1984 to 1993

Quality Assurance Engineer

Managed quality auditors activities and reports for process control.

Major role for selecting all suppliers for mechanical and

electromechanical assemblies. Maintained field failure data and

corrective action database.

. Implemented quality program for printers, personal computers, and

controllers which tracked all in house quality performance

. Implemented visual performance board for key performance indices.

. Assisted manufacturing in attaining a 98.5 percent first pass

manufacturing yield.

Texas Instruments - J.C., TN 1978 to 1984

Quality Control Supervisor

Managed receiving inspection department (21 personnel). Budgeted and

procured all mechanical inspection equipment, CMM's, plating testers, etc.

(2.5 million dollars). Assisted in the development, design and

implementation of the Quality Reporting System. Set criteria for quality

tracking system for raw material and Vendor performance.

Production Supervisor

Managed forty seven personnel (direct & indirect labor) in the

manufacturer of high volume industrial programmable controllers,

automobile anti-skid controls, microwave oven controls, programmable

thermostats

. Established first in house thermal cycling program for reliability

monitoring of microwave oven controls for a yield improvement from 82%-

98.5 % saving $650K annually

Education & Training

Bachelor of Science in Physical & General Sciences

East Tennessee State University - Johnson City, Tennessee

Professional Development

Lean Six Sigma Trained by Yamaha/TQM certification

Technical Proficiencies

All Microsoft Pro Office Applications, Minitab, QI Macros for excel,

Comprehensive Statistical Process Control Applications, Autocad light and

can perform mechanical layout for Coordinate Measuring Machine applications

Military Service

United States Marine Corps

Commissioned Officer (First Lieutenant) with the following

responsibilities:

Engineering Operations Officer in charge of 45 million dollars of equipment

and

personnel in support of 2nd Marine Battalion

Awards

Eagle Scout Award and Navy Commendation Medal

Yamahas "Presidents cup Award" for outstanding quality in manufacturing

Community Leadership & Involvement

(Junior Achievement Leader, Habitat for Humanity volunteer, Appalachian

Service Project volunteer, and Boy Scouts of America volunteer

Technical Proficiencies

Minitab Statistical software

Micrsoft Access Data Base, Project Manager, All Microsoft Office

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