Manager Quality Assurance

DENNIS M. JONES

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Blanco, Texas **606

Cell 401-***-****

e-mail: **********@***.***

SUMMARY

Professional manager with experience in general management, quality and engineering. Market experience includes medical,

automotive, electronics and consumer industrial. Featured speaker at more then ten professional seminars including

documentation in a Harvard Case Study. Sat on the Board of Directors on three Nypro Boards including Nypro Singapore.

Over fifteen years experience in the development and manufacturing of medical devices/components. Experience implementing

cGMP's. APQP, FMEA, ISO 9000, ISO 13485, Lean and Six Sigma. Quoted in several MBA textbooks regarding the

development of cross company continuous improvement team.

EXPERTISE

Plastics – Micro / Nano Manufacturing – Polymer Optics - Continuous Improvement - Diamond Turning - Six Sigma - Team

Building - International Manufacturing - Program Management - Electronic LCP Packaging - DOD Plus Up

WORK EXPERIENCE

UNITED PLASTICS GROUP., Monterrey Mexico June 2009 to October 2009

General Manager

Full responsibility for this 300+ employee injection molding custom manufacturing plant. Customers include GE,

MeadWestvaco, Sensata and Black and Decker. Plant includes molding up to 650 ton presses with both manual and

automated assembly processes.

MATRIX INC. / microPEP, East Providence Rhode Island Sept. 1999 to Feb. 2009

Manager of Engineering

Full responsibility for this custom injection molding company's engineering department. Implemented the adaption of state of

the art CAD and Moldflow systems. Oversaw the purchase and management of all tooling and automation for new programs.

Helped develop new molding technologies including electronic encapsulation, micro fiber-optic polymer lenses and

biodegradable PLA/PLG molding. Developed micro manufacturing techniques including 3x3 micron molded details. Purchased

and managed diamond turning machine increasing business and leads. Implemented SPC through out the organization in

support of the Quality and Manufacturing groups. In addition developed several CI (Continuous Improvement) Teams with key

customers resulting in improved customer relationships and increased business. Customers included 3M/Cuno, Taco, Siemens,

Autoliv, Tyco, Allegro, J&J, Foster-Miller, Boston Scientific, Covidien, Osram, Insulet, Department of the Army…

NYPRO INC., Clinton Massachusetts Oct. 1984 to Dec. 1998

Board of Directors Board Member

NYPRO ALABAMA, Dothan, Alabama (1996 to 1998)

NYPRO SINGAPORE, Jurong, Singapore (1993 to 1995)

NYPRO IOWA, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (1990 to 1993)

Elected position on the Board of these solely owned Nypro Inc. companies. One of up to six board members who are legally responsible

for the operation of the company. Areas of responsibility included approval of all budgets and capital expenditures. In addition approved

all salary and benefit packages.

Healthcare Engineering Program Manager

Full responsibility for custom injection molding engineering programs. Programs consisted of supporting medical OEM’s in

the design and development of their proprietary products and devices. This included quoting, plastic prototyping, design

development and full production molding and assembly. Fluent in all molding technologies including tooling, materials,

process and quality methods. Job included direct supervision of tooling, design, quality, process and industrial engineers

assigned to each program team with both matrix management and direct reports. Program budgets ranged from $100M to

several million dollars in capital equipment, tooling and engineering man hours. In the position the Program Manager became

the primary customer contact. My largest program was the Vistakon (Johnson & Johnson) Disposable contact lens molds.

Quality Assurance Engineer (1 year)

Job responsibilities included blueprint and specification review for new projects. Product design review included managing the

development of DFMA’s and FMEA’s. During initial sampling of molds performed design analysis resulting in

recommendations for design changes. Interfaced with customers to negotiate specifications. Interfaced with engineering

project members and operations personnel. Wrote specifications and good manufacturing procedures (GMP’s). Developed

Master Device Records for medical products and established quality SPC charts and inspection procedures.

AMOCO CONTAINER CO., Worcester, Mass (4 years)

Manager of Quality Assurance

Set up laboratory and organized quality assurance structure for this new PET bottle plant. Directed and trained all laboratory technicians

and line inspectors. Responsible for vendor certification, quality improvement and cost savings plans. As Technical Service Aide visited

customers to investigate quality complaints and approved all claims before payment.

SEWELL PLASTICS, Dallas, Texas (2 years)

Quality Control Manager

Managed Quality Control Department for this injection blow molding PET and extrusion blow molding polyethylene plant.

BAYLOR LABORATORIES, Hurst, Texas (1 year)

Quality Control Director

Developed and monitored Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP’s) during pharmaceutical manufacturing process. Also performed all

chemical analysis required for finished goods and raw materials.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas

Certificate in Plastics Technology from the Nypro Institute and Fitchburg State College

Certificate in Project Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Professional Training:

- Statistical Process Control

- Ed Deming's Management of Quality

- Taguchi Design of Experiments

- Duke University Operations Institute Johnson and Johnson Supplier Partnerships

- Nypro Leadership Institute - WPI

- Medical Devices and Biological Products Current Regulatory and Enforcement Issues

- Advanced Program Management - WPI

- Accelerating the Product Development Phase - WPI

- ISO 9000 / QS 9000 / ISO 13485 / MiniTab

- Solid Edge (3-D CAD Design Software)

- Mold Flow Advisor 3-D Software

- Zemax EE / Diffsys Software

- Diamond Turning

Professional Achievements:

- Nypro Inc. Stockholder - Elected Position

- Symposium Speaker "Plastics Puerto Rico"

- Vistakon (Johnson & Johnson) Eagle Award for Leadership of the Vistakon Nypro Quality Team

- Harvard Business School Case "Molding the Impossible NYPRO/Vistakon Disposable Contact Lens Project"

- Received Johnson and Johnson Environmental Award for reduction of 90 tons of plastic/yr into the environment

- Florida ASQC Speaker "World Class Supplier Partnerships" September

- Conference Speaker Florida Sterling Award on "World Class Partnerships", Orlando

- Conference Speaker SME Manufacturing Medical Plastics '95 Conference, Chicago

- Developed Preliminary Patent for rotary injection molding system

- Conference Speaker NESI New England Suppliers Institute Conference, Nashua, NH

- US Patent 5,938,988 Molding Optical Curve Molds Formed in a Solid Piece of Polymer

- Conference Speaker OPT-EL "Injection Molding of Polymer Optical Components for Automated Manufacturing

Processes" Boston, Ma.

- Conference Speaker Molding Conference “The Time is Right for Injection Molded (Electronic) Packages” New

Orleans

- Conference Speaker SME Micro and NanoManufacturing Conference Framingham, Ma

HOBBIES Golf, Skiing, Tennis, Sailing, and Commercial Pilot

LINKS

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dennis+jones+nypro%2Bvistakon

www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Nypro+Vistakon

www.circuitree.com/CDA/Articles/Cover_Story/fb93bf9ae10bc010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0

www.matrixincorporated.com/news.php#18

www.pep-corp.com/news.html

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