Ronald Palamar

**** ******* ***. **** ***

Little River SC 29566

631-***-**** abilcl@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Operations Executive with extensive experience in Plant management. Areas

of specialization include manufacturing, quality assurance, product

development, master scheduling, material planning, procurement, spares

logistics, and facilities management. Expertise in problem solving, cost

reduction through outsourcing, technical support, continuous process

improvement, lean manufacturing systems, cross functional team building,

managing budgets and productivity improvement. Possess strong interpersonal

skills. Proven record of implementing strategies to accommodate rapid

growth and respond to changing business conditions in advanced technology

businesses.

Professional History

Motor Magnetics Inc., Lindenhurst, NY

2010 - present

Manager,Plant

Provider of AC and DC motors to aerospace industry, both commercial and

military applications. Develop quality systems to support ISO 9001 & AS9100

requirements. Also manage production planning function, working with

procurement in planning material purchases, and production floor

scheduling.

. Develop and manage quality systems based on ISO9001 and AS9100

requirements, for both commercial and military contracts.

. Perform first article inspection and test for new products, per customer

specification

. Perform failure analysis of customer rejects to root cause, develop

corrective actions to achieve zero defects

. Perform contract reviews to confirm design meets customer requirements.

Develop test plan for confirming compliance.

. Create and implement production plan to meet customer delivery

requirements for both Aerospace and military customers.

. Manage ISO internal audits, and supply chain audits to meet compliance

with specification defined under AS9100 standards.

. Direct engineering personnel in addressing daily support of production,

including new design, to meet customer requirements

. Manage reliability testing of new products including environmental, and

destructive testing.

Standard Micro System Corp. (SMSC), Hauppauge, NY 2005 - 2009

Senior Director, Test & Process Engineering 2006 - 2009

Directed Engineering support team for a global supplier of semiconductors,

working with Procurement in selecting and qualifying supply chain. Managed

installation and scheduling of test functions in Asia. Oversaw technical

support for 25 semiconductor assembly and wafer fab facilities worldwide.

. Achieved savings of minimum $2M annually by initiating process changes

and qualifying new suppliers.

. Accomplished savings of $1.5M by reducing cycle time for customer

approval of process changes from 180 days to 120 days to qualify lower

cost suppliers.

. Saved $1.8M per year by developing new design for test equipment that

reduced retest and allowed removal of special process steps.

. Reduced supplier defect levels by 60%, by performing more frequent

process audits of factories.

. Achieved savings of $6M per year by managing project to transfer test to

Asia from US.

Senior Director, Quality Assurance/Process Engineering 2005 - 2006

Directed Quality Assurance system certified to ISO 9001-2000 and ISO 16949

requirements. Managed global QA team of 30 including Managers, Engineers,

Reliability and support teams.

. Reduced defect levels to less than 20 defects per million and improved

product quality by qualifying new suppliers, package technologies,

design, and process improvement.

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. Collaborated daily with Production in resolution of issues tied to in

process rejects. Provided real time support, interfacing with suppliers

and reduced average time to resolution from 7 days to 1 day or less.

. Interfaced with customers, and performed customer site visits, to assess

performance of products in real time applications.

. Managed material conformance to specifications using AQL sample

inspection on incoming and in process.

. Implemented Material Review Board to determine disposition of

nonconforming material. Reduced cycle time to disposition by 50%, one

month to 15 days.

. Performed internal, and supplier audits to confirm ISO compliance to

documented specifications and processes.

. Presented monthly updates to management on Quality System status and

improvements.

Robotic Vision Systems Inc. (RVSI), Hauppauge, NY 1987 - 2005

Vice President of Operations 2000 - 2005

Managed two divisions of a design and manufacturer of automated inspection

and packaging equipment to global semiconductor market.

. Developed and managed integration of a MRP system into manufacturing of

12 different product lines.

. Achieved 50% improvements in delivery lead times by establishing depot

locations for stocking spares local to customer. Set stocking levels

based on historical usage.

. Reduced design cycle for new products 30% by developing and leading

project management team.

. Improved overall average responsiveness to customer technical issues from

2 days to 1 day or less by creating smart database to log field failures

and resolutions.

. Directed cross-functional team to market and produce a new product line.

Result was high margin product that met customer requirements.

Director of Manufacturing 1997 - 2000

Managed department of 65 people developing programs to improve reliability,

cost and delivery, for equipment used in heavy welding, and automobile

manufacturing applications.

. Reduced assembly costs 40% by implementing outsourcing of system level

products and subcomponents to offshore manufacturing facility in Asia.

. Improved customer delivery timeframe by 25% by developing Lean

Manufacturing system which increased efficiency and improved inventory

turns to 4 times per year, while reducing inventory levels.

Director of Quality Assurance 1995 - 1997

Directed implementation of ISO 9001-2000 standards. Documented entire

business process to provide methods for continuous improvement.

. Developed Software and Hardware Quality Assurance team to assure

customers improved system performance.

. Created inspection standards for sheet metal and machine shop material.

. Generate all test and reliability plans and procedures to confirm

material meets design targets and customer requirements

Operations/QA Manager 1987 - 1995

Managed department of 25 people assembling and testing capital equipment

used in automobile and electronics industry.

INTELLIGENT BUSINESS CORPORATION, Hauppauge, NY 1983 - 1987

PERIPHONICS CORPORATION, Bohemia, NY 1975 - 1983

EDUCATION

AAS, Electronic Engineering, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY

Certificate in Project Management - PMP Candidate, SUNY Stony Brook

University, 2009

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PMI Certified PMP, ASQC Certification - Quality Engineering. Knowledgeable

in MS Word,Excel PowerPoint, Project, LOTUS Notes, SAP, ERP, Dale

Carnegie Management,& ISO 9001 Training

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