Monica Gabriela Miranda

abl92z@r.postjobfree.com

1-845-***-****

* ******** ****, ********** *****, NY 12590

Metallurgical Engineer l Materials Engineer l Quality Engineer l Process

Engineer

Career Summary

With over 5 years of hands-on experience in the manufacturing

industry, result-orientated specialist with sophisticated engineering

skills and a sincere passion for resolving complex problems through

innovation. Exceptional communication skills, with a critical capacity to

organize and participate effectively in work-teams, producing exceptional

results.

Knowledge:

. ISO 9000, ISO 17025

. FMEAs, 5S, Root cause

. Audits

. SPC Processes

. Aluminum Foundry

. Hot Rolled Process

. Machining, Die Forging

. Thermal Treatment

. Metallurgy, Polymers

. SEM-EDS

. Optical Metallographic

. Mechanical Test

Professional Experience

Aluar Aluminio Argentino S.A.I.C

Buenos Aires, Argentina

www.aluar.com.ar

Aluar is the most important aluminum manufacturing company in

Argentina with a market capitalization of over $7B in the last year. Their

operations range from the collection of liquid aluminum to the

manufacturing process of products destined to the transport industries,

packaging, construction, electricity, medicine, and water treatment.

As Process Engineer contributed as an integral member of a development

team, performed project-leader activities and worked with management teams

of suppliers on multiple projects to improve manufacturing process

capabilities.

Casting Process Engineer (11/09

- Present)

. Utilized statistical techniques to quantify and analyze processes

reducing no-conformance by 25%.

. Assured process efficiency through revise and ensure consistency

and accuracy, in foundry station's documentation.

. Standardize processes.

. Comply with the company's quality requirements through the

development of products specifications.

. Identified and eliminated furnace contamination through

successfully monitoring the casting process.

. Successfully resolved production line problems with the alloy

degassed resulted in a productivity increment.

Rolling Process Engineer

(10/07 - 11/09)

. Developed and implemented the rolled products manufacture

processes parameters (raw material selection, machines sequence,

and thermal treatment, plastic deformation percentage, rolling

speed, and packaging).

. Incremented customer satisfaction index by 35% through performed

failure analysis, corrective, and preventive actions, in order to

respond to customer's complaints.

. Developed new products or modified existing products to achieve

customer's approval.

. Saved $200K in customer claims to the company through performed a

series of laboratory tests and determines the cause of the claim.

. Reduced foil products no-conformance by 10% through the

improvement of the annealing process.

. Wrote and revised documents for Quality Management System.

. Successfully addressed complex technical claims, customer support,

and sales department.

. Achieved rolled products high quality standards through provider's

development.

Taranto S.A.

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

www.taranto.com.ar

Taranto is an internationally recognized auto-parts company in

Argentina that produces clutches system, screws and bolts, and seal line.

With eight branches distributed between Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.

Leader in the local market, Taranto is the only one to achieve the Quality

American Award winner and twice the National Quality Prize.

Recruited as a member of a team for development, monitoring, and

Quality System control; to formulate and implement quality assurance

procedures and to assist in the acquisition of ISO9000 registration.

Quality Engineer

(12/05 - 9/07)

. Lead the FMEA team for analysis and implementation of improved and

consistent work processes, reducing clutch related assembly

defects by 15%.

. Analyzed root cause and implemented corrective actions for

processes related concerns reducing no-conformance by 15%.

. Incorporate principles of Five S program to improve profitability,

efficiency, service, and safety reducing time-outs by 12%.

. Standardized production processes, virtually eliminating products

variations over multiple shifts and reducing processes variations

by 10%.

. Inspected and tested incoming, in process, and finished products

through a revised testing method, leading to an 11% reduction on

false product failures.

. Conducted audits, including closing-out audit findings, creating

audits finding reports and determine proper corrective and

preventive actions.

. Designed and implemented QA reports.

. Achieved critical machining characteristics through the

integration of SPC strategies across the facility and identified

and improved CPK reporting method/shared with other sites.

Academic Formation

Magister on Industrial Quality

(2008)

National University of General San Mart n, Buenos Aires, Argentina

DGQ - Quality Management

(2007)

Deutsche Gesellschaft f r Quality, Germany

Materials Engineering

(2005)

National University of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Specialized Training and Courses

. Optical Metallographic

. Introduction to Materials Failure

. Stainless steels

. Tribology-Friction, Fretting and Lubrication

. Welding - Principles and Theory

. Casting and Pulvimetallurgical Technology

. Environmental Auditing

. ISO/IEC 17025:2005

. ISO 9001:2008

. TS 16949

. Statistical Process Controls

. Project Management

. Pinholes and Lacquers in Blisters

Languages

. Spanish: Native speaker.

. English: Written and spoken (High Intermediate)

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