Six Sigma Black Belt

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Professional with expert project management, Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma

Black Belt, quality and process engineering, three-dimensional metrology,

and engineering analysis experience. Excellent oral and written

communication skills. Proven ability to work in independent and teamwork

environments.

Hands-on shop experience in programming, set up and support of many

different types of Data-Myte portable data collectors and various

measurement gages including digital interfaces. Expertise with use

of several different types of 3D metrology hardware (ROMER,

Metronor, Faro among others) and software (MNS-CAD, Verisurf among

others). Considered subject-matter expert in statistical and 3D

analysis software such as Statistica, Verisurf and Spatial Analyzer

among others.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: MS Office Suite, MS Access, Oracle, Visual Basic, Unigraphics,

Catia, Mini-tab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO March 1998 - August 2009

Six Sigma Black Belt, Integration & Support and Process Control Engineer

Positions held in Integrated Defense Systems, Phantom Works, and

Boeing Research & Technology divisions at The Boeing Company.

Responsibilities:

. Member of Six Sigma project core group following DMAIC and DFSS

processes.

. Became one of the fastest to be Six Sigma Black Belt certified in

the history of St. Louis site.

. Completed wide breadth of projects including shop floor defect

reduction, shop floor and business process cycle time reduction as

well as strategic vision and advanced data analysis.

. Mentored Green Belt and Black Belt project teams providing

feedback, gauging progress and assisting with management and other

issues.

. Responsible for Green Belt and Black belt training curriculums and

instructed Green Belt and Black Belt classes.

. Led specialized Six Sigma Rapid Response team responsible for quick

project turnaround typically on traditional "White Collar" business

processes.

. Initiated an advanced statistical analysis group within Six Sigma

for difficult and seldom seen statistical questions and problems.

. Facilitated Champions training geared at higher level management at

the Boeing Leadership Center.

. Was St. Louis site lead in effort with other Boeing sites to share

lessons learned via a searchable and detailed knowledge management

database.

. Performed Lean Manufacturing Assessments (LMA) at various external

suppliers to gauge progress and compliance to Boeing Lean

Manufacturing criteria and requirements.

. Led and co-led Lean Manufacturing events such as 3P, Accelerated

Improvement Workshop (AIW) and Kaizen throughout entire employment.

.

. Led application team in development environment of Advanced

Integrated Mathematical System (AIMS) which allows the selection of

key assembly interface points, inspection criteria, tolerances, and

electronically sending requirements to suppliers eliminating paper

measurement plans and requirements ambiguity.

. Within AIMS project, was responsible for writing requirements

documents for software releases as well as live presentations and

demonstrations to VPs, directors and other high level managers

(both non-technical and technical) and answer in-depth questions of

process, business, scope and technical aspects of entire project.

. Managed requirements of 3rd party software suppliers interfaced

with AIMS software to assure compliance.

. Responsible for strategy documents related to AIMS project to gauge

where efforts and budgets would best be allocated as well as other

competition.

. Managed access and controls to AIMS database via Oracle Forms as

well as updated tables, queries and custom reports.

. Managed budget (personnel and capital) for AIMS project and was

consistently within budget and on schedule for entire effort.

. Successfully licensed AIMS project to Lockheed Martin for use on

their F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

. Led Testbed for Network Enabled Supply Chain Operations (T-NESCO)

project with University of Texas-San Antonio (UT-SA) focusing on

supplier integration and execution of electronic inspection plans

and demonstrated remote transfer and communication between Boeing

and UT-SA.

. Led various projects in areas such as manufacturing and assembly

techniques, Dimensional Management & Variability Reduction methods,

3-Dimensional data collection & analysis, 3D Data Management

(3DDM), and advanced statistical data analysis in research and

development environment.

. Led Statistical Process Control (SPC) implementation teams on shop

floor processes to achieve required process capability and reported

results to production, executive management, foreign and US

military customers.

. Subject matter expert for application of advanced statistical

techniques, including Pearson curves, unilateral tolerancing,

multivariate regression, use of confidence intervals, and other

techniques.

. Worked with internal assembly teams and external suppliers on major

structural redesigns with regards to Key Characteristics

requirements and clarification of Geometric Dimensioning &

Tolerancing (GD&T), inspection as well as ISO-9000 and AS-9100

quality requirements.

. Worked with Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) regarding the Hardware

Variability Control (HVC) process & methodology. Was responsible

for training all aspects of HVC methodology to a variety of

personnel.

Environment: DMAIC, DMADV, Lean, Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt

Uponor ETI, Columbia, MO April 1996 - February 1998

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

. Created and analyzed Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts where there

were previously no in-process checks to achieve continually improving

process capability that resulted in a 70% defect reduction of critical

processes.

. Worked with Quality Manager regarding quality strategy across

multiple domestic manufacturing facilities including international

sites.

. Teamed with process, production and design engineers to determine

root causes for process variability and product nonconformance with

sign-off responsibility.

. Led teams concerning various customer issues including on-site

assessments and data evaluations.

. Developed and provided training to new employees, as well as

supervisors and management, on various process control, Quality and

statistical techniques with follow-up evaluations to assure

continuing awareness and comprehension of topics.

. Performed a variety of ANSI and ASTM required testing.

Environment: ANSI, ASTM

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

B.S., Industrial Technology

. Related course work included: Quality Control, Time and Motion

Study, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Engineering Cost Estimating,

and Facilities Design.

. Voted leader of team project in which an entire manufacturing

facility was designed from the ground up and a practical lab

presentation of a working assembly workstation was demonstrated.

John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL

A.A.S., Electronics Technology

. Related course work included: Solid State Electronics, Digital

Electronics, Microprocessors, Industrial Electronics, Electronic

Measuring Devices, and DC/AC Fundamentals.

. Tutored other students in all related course work as well as math

and physics.

. Secretary/Treasurer of the John A. Logan Electronics Club.

Certifications & Clearances:

. ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (#44975)

. Boeing Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (GE Curriculum)

. Alien Technologies "RFID Academy" Certification

. University of Kentucky Lean Systems Certification

. United States DOD Secret Clearance

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