Quality Assurance Engineer

Waqar A Imran

**** * *** *** *****: 313-***-****,

908-***-****

Whitehall, PA 18052 **********@*****.***

Objective:

Pursuing a full time career job in a career organization that utilizes and

enhances my academic knowledge, experience and skills.

EDUCATION:

New Jersey institute of Technology, Newark, NJ USA

May 2006

MS Industrial Engineering (specialization in Quality Engineering)

NWFP University of Engineering & Technology

Sep 2000

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Six Sigma Green Belt & Certified ISO Auditor

Technical Skills:

. Individual having expert computer skills, excellent organizational and

interpersonal skills and excellent customers support record

. Strong statistical background and experience, specializes in data and

trend analysis

. Experienced ISO coordinator and representative

. Hands on Knowledge of ISO/TS 16949, ISO/QS9000, ISO14001, Supplier

Quality Assurance, Control Plans, PPAP, APQP, Six Sigma (DMAIC),

KAIZEN, 8D and Lean manufacturing methodology

. Experience and ability to do DFMEA, PFMEA, QFD, Design Reviews and

corrective actions, SPC analysis, and Capability Analysis (CP, CPK,

etc), (using Minitab)

. Experienced in application of DOE and carrying out GR&R studies.

. Excellent skills in CAD, CAM and CAE softwares like Pro/ENGINEER

(Wildfire, 2000, 2000i) and ANSYS

. Experienced in generating detailed drawings, documentation of

subsystems and subassemblies, and GD&T.

Work Experience:

Quality Manager

Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co Aug 2008 to date

Phillipsburg, NJ USA

. Involved at all technical and non-technical levels with customers,

responsible for making sure all the customer requirements, codes and

standards are followed during all steps of manufacturing., responsible

for generating all the required documentation and certs for the

customers

. Directly supervised workers engaged in inspection and testing

activities to ensure continuous control over materials, facilities and

products, responsible for all the gage calibrations and keeping the

logs updated

. Developed, implemented and monitored a product and process quality

management system (QMS) from scratch, maintained, updated and

developed QA/QC manuals and policies for ISO 9001

. Developed, updated and maintained an internal web based quality

information portal to support QMS using HTML, Java and VB Script (Web

Page Development)

. Developed and maintained ISO job procedures aimed at scrap and

customer complaints elimination, developed plant wide ISO job

instructions and procedures

. Positioned and developed the QMS for ISO Compliance and attain ISO

certification (Company's ISO representative)

. Developed a company/plant wide audit and CAR (corrective action

requests) based system for continuous improvement

. Analyzed plant data using SPC/SQC, six sigma methods and trend

analysis. Identified trends and corrective actions, in-depth scrap/non-

conformance analysis to eliminate causes, regression analysis and DOE

(Design of experiments) for root cause analysis

. Assisted in conception, design and development of process improvement

and control systems

. Identified opportunities for improvement using Process capability

analysis (Cp/Cpk)

. Gage R&R and measuring system analysis development, lead FMEA efforts

. Developed supplier quality assurance/control system, use 8D problem

solving and lean manufacturing techniques

. Spear head communication drive for in-plant personals

. Maintained a working knowledge of government and industry quality

codes and standards

. Review of all data obtained during quality control and QA activities

to ensure consistency with company policies and procedures

. Responsible for developing training program, training schedules and

over look the organizational training programs

. Customer complaints analysis and research, developing a Quality

improvement plan based on the customer input

Quality Engineer (Team leader QC and testing group)

Compac Corporation, Hackettstown, NJ Aug 2006 to Aug

2008

. Extensively involved with marketing & Sales and new product

development, supported sales team to get new orders,

. Incoming Inspection program development, responsible for development

of testing methods to ensure quality products.

. Mechanical equipment maintenance and updating, problem solving and

production optimization.

. ISO 9001 procedures developer, Certified ISO 9001 internal Auditor,

development of ISO 14001, Chemical safety co-ordinator.

. Responsible for SPC Program development and Implementation, Trend

analysis using Charts and identification of negative trends for

improvements.

. Responsible for maintaining a six sigma based internal web portal,

analysis of Process Capability (Cp, Cpk), provide statistical analysis

for vital Six Sigma and EBIDTA improvement projects.

. Lead the development of Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) for

customers and work with suppliers to get FMEAs done.

. Provide training on Quality tools (Charting and SPC, Cp and Cpk,

corrective Actions, Quality concepts etc)

. Analysis of voice of customers and quality trends, develop QFDs for

new product development and old product improvement.

. Extensive DOE (Design of experiments) usage for root cause analysis

and new product development.

. Lead setup reduction projects using KAIZEN methodology, conduct GR&R

studies.

. Control plans development as per customer requirements, responsible

for APQP and PPAP documentation.

. Specs development for company's product brochures using statistical

analysis and historical data.

GE STEP Quality Engineer

General Electric Co. Schenectady, NY USA Aug 2004 to

Aug 2005

. Apply methods and procedures for calculating performance and

emissions for the entire turbine product line inclusive of

various combustion systems and augmentation schemes.

. Customer support and product marketing

. Validation of different parts of GE wind and gas turbines

. Evaluation of GE Wind and Gas turbines before sale

. Worked on Suppliers Quality Assurance

. Responsible for detailed Drawings review for compliance issues

. SPC analysis using Minitab

. Part of GE's Global quality assurance team to ensure GE's Product (Gas

Turbines) are meeting US and Global Standards.

. Using Six Sigma (DMAIC) and statistical quality Control tools for

monitoring and Quality improvement.

Database Administrator, SBA, Jan 2004 to Aug

2004

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA

. Database administration using VBA, MS ACESS and SQL

. Extensive usage of MS EXCELL, MS WORD and MS PUBLISHER for admissions

statistics and daily office work

Mechanical/Project Engineer Sept 2000 to Aug

2003

Atif/National Engineering Ltd.

. Responsible for Mechanical system concept development, engineering

design and analysis, and detailed machine design in Pro/E

(Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/MECHANICA, & Pro/MANUFACTURE), VERICUT and ANSYS.

. Responsible for generating detailed Mechanical Design, drawings,

documentation of subsystems and subassemblies, and GD&T.

. Supervised the implementation and training of ISO9000, ISO14001, and

GR&R

. Maintained and organized FMEA data for document control, archiving,

and analysis

. Responsible for monitoring and analysis of processes using SPC

techniques

. Used DOE methods to identify factors effecting product and process

quality

. Utilized six sigma (DMAIC) methodology to complete projects with

necessary controls to ensure improvements and corrections are

maintained

. Interacted with product development and design to resolve issues with

customers/suppliers

. Involved in continuous improvement techniques to improve process

efficiency and yield

. Supervised staff during day-to-day quality related issues and ensured

process and quality procedures are followed

. Responsible for manufacturing, assembly, and testing of prototypes and

various systems

. Recommended machine design improvements.

Engineer-(( Nov 1999 to Sept

2000

Daudsons Industries

. Training and assisting all departments to meet requirements of ISO

9000, and ISO 14001.

. Worked with customers and coordinated with all departments of company

to ensure the customer's requirements are met properly.

. Used SPC analysis to monitor and track the processes

. Responsible for implementing corrective and preventive actions.

. Involved in Process Analysis and keeping track of process capability

(CP, and CPK).

Graduate Courses

Applied Engineering Manufacturing Industrial Pollution

Statistics Systems Control & design

Industrial Quality Project Management Operation Research

Control

Quality Management Computer Aided Kinematics of Spatial

Systems Design Mechanics

Supply Chain System Analysis & Engineering Cost &

Engineering Simulation Production Economics

Computer Skills:

. MINITAB, Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/MECHANICA and Pro/MANUFACTURE, ANSYS, and

electronic workbench, QBASIC, BASIC, C/C++, Visual Basic, VB Script,

VBA, and SQL

. MS WORD, MS EXCELL, MS ACCESS, MS FRONTPAGE EXPRESS, HTML, Macromedia

Flash, FTP Soft wares etc

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