Jeffery W. Stevens

ASQ CQM, CQE, CSSBB, CRE, CQA, CQSPA

*** *** * ********** ** ? Paducah, KY 42001-5683

Ph: 618-***-**** ? e-mail: abmm7e@r.postjobfree.com

QUALITY/CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROFESSIONAL

An enterprising results oriented Quality and Continuous Improvement

Professional and Six Sigma Master Black Belt with twenty one plus years of

functional experience in quality, six sigma, lean manufacturing,

operations, manufacturing, product engineering and testing and reliability

and maintainability in various industries for Fortune 500 companies and

small to large companies. Quickly and effectively identifies organizational

strengths and weaknesses, and then leads change to policies, systems,

processes and procedures that drive growth, productivity, quality

improvement and the bottom line.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

STRATEGY DEPLOYMENT & PLANNING ISO 9001:2000

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT

LEAN MANUFACTURING NEW PRODUCT TESTING & QUALIFICATION

SIX SIGMA RELIABILITY & MAINTAINABILITY

SHAININ RED X THEORY VALUE ENGINEERING

TRIZ MICROSOFT WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS,

POWERPOINT, PROJECT AND VISIO

QUALITY SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION AUTOCAD AND MINITAB

EDUCATION

M.E.S., Electrical Engineering, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore,

Maryland (1992)

B.S., Engineering/Physics, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky (1986)

Lean Enterprise Systems Design Institute, University of Tennessee at

Knoxville (2003)

Six-Sigma Master Black Belt (2000)

OSHA 10 Hour Card (2006)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ILLINOIS MANUFACTURING EXTENSION CENTER (IMEC)

09/2006-09/2009

Manufacturing Specialist, Carbondale Illinois

. Managed professional consultative relationships with 20 manufacturers and

assessed their challenges and opportunities.

. Led 50+ lean manufacturing and six sigma training and project engagements

to those clients to improve their process capabilities, optimize their

performance and resources and increase their productivity. Key

accomplishments include 20 newly trained Green Belts for one client and

$1.5 MM value engineering improvements for two other clients.

. Promoted IMEC services, prepared proposals and delivered sales

presentations to numerous manufacturing and service industry clients in

both individual and public informational events.

. Developed and managed partner and subcontractor relations, and

participated on IMEC's internal service development and process

improvement teams.

GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION 11/2004-

03/2006

Quality Manager, DuQuoin, Illinois

. Led the Quality Department (16 associates) for a medium and high voltage

(15 Kv to 125 Kv) electrical cable manufacturer (190 associates).

Activities included product inspection, high voltage performance tests,

completing Certified Test Reports, Certificates of Compliance, UL

Certification and supplier qualification/certification.

. Achieved 66% Lean Sigma Green Belt certification of Quality department

administrative personnel.

. Achieved 100% pass rate for ISO 9001:2000 third party surveillance and

recertification audits.

MAYTAG CORPORATION, Herrin Laundry Products

10/2000-06/2004

Lean Sigma Master Black Belt, Herrin, Illinois

Trained 13 waves (>100 persons) of Lean Sigma Green Belts and 3 waves (>100

persons) of Lean Sigma Black Belts at multiple Maytag business units and

manufacturing facilities.

Selected by the corporate senior staff to deliver Lean Sigma training to

the CEO and his direct reports.

Prepared and submitted the Herrin plant for Industry Week's Top 10 Best

Plants Award in 2003 and 2004 and achieved 25 Best Plants finalists (see

http://www.industryweek.com/articles/select_company_1468.aspx).

Jeffery W. Stevens

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TIDEPOINT CORPORATION

04/2000-10/2000

Director of Quality Assurance, Baltimore, Maryland

Recruited, trained and led the Quality Assurance team (4 associates).

Developed, implemented and executed strategic quality initiatives for new

software development and testing, quality systems, ISO 9001 registration

and Six Sigma implementation.

BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION

11/1998-04/2000

Productivity Engineer & Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Fayetteville, North

Carolina

. Led 11 Six Sigma projects yielding $1.25 million in cost of failure

savings and $10 million additional sales.

. Drove for a minimum of 80% defect reduction and $50k benefits and lasting

process control on all projects.

. Became the first certified Six Sigma Black Belt for the corporation.

. Selected by senior staff to present Six Sigma projects to Wall Street

analysts.

. Lead developer of electronic data management programs (Access and Excel)

for the Quality and Productivity Engineering departments.

MATTEL, INCORPORATED, Fisher Price Division

08/1994-10/1998

Product Integrity Engineer, Murray, Kentucky

. Performed new product qualification and developed quality specifications

for new and existing products. Achieved 99% on-time launch of new

products.

. Performed failure analyses and implemented corrective actions as well as

participated in vendor certification efforts and internal and external

audits.

. Co-managed quality laboratory operations.

. Lead developer of electronic data management programs (dBASE III and

Excel) for the Quality department.

ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS, INCORPORATED, Accudyne Corporation

10/1992-08/1994

Production Project Engineer, Janesville, Wisconsin

. Recruited and entrusted to salvage the United States Navy Mark 71 MOD 15

proximity fuze contract for the company which, at the time, was 2 years

behind schedule and produced $12 MM of rejected product.

. Performed root cause analysis and developed and implemented a rework

process that salvaged $10MM (83%) of the rejected product.

. Negotiated a new delivery schedule with the customer and achieved 100%

schedule attainment.

. Granted SECRET security clearance.

ALLIED-SIGNAL AEROSPACE COMPANY, Bendix Communications Division

05/1989-10/1992

Senior Product Assurance Engineer, Towson, Maryland

. Led the Reliability Engineering of RF, microwave, and thick/thin film

hybrid microelectronic circuits for the U.S. Army M818E2 Patriot missile

fuze contract.

. Generated reliability and maintainability predictions, performed modeling

and analyses for design applications and led all R&M testing and

demonstrations.

. Performed failure analyses and implemented process improvements and

corrective actions and assisted in vendor qualification/certification

efforts and internal/external audits.

. Granted SECRET security clearance.

UNITED STATES ARMY, Signal Corps

05/1987-04/1989

First Lieutenant- Signal Platoon Leader and Assistant Plans and Operations

Officer, Fort Polk, Louisiana

. Led a communications platoon of 13 soldiers in an Armor Battalion.

. Managed the installation, use and maintenance of $15 MM of electronic and

communications equipment.

. Safe guarded and maintained the communications security codes for the

Battalion.

. Granted TOP SECRET security clearance by FBI Special Background

Investigation.

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