Quality Assurance Engineer

Richard Brindisi

**** **** *****. ***********, ********, 80021

Phone - 303-***-****(H) 303-***-**** (C)

E-mail - ***********@*******.***

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Manufacturing professional capable of delivering effective problem solving

solutions and strategies in the position of Quality Engineer, and Metal

theramal processing. Results oriented individual aiming to solidify

delivery of quality products, and improve manufacturing processes as an

accomplished quality system author, administrator, and lean concept coach

in team environments.

QUALIFICATIONS:

. Operation Manager and Quality System Administrator.

. Quality Assurance and Production Supervisor.

. Quality Process Engineer.

. Quality Assurance Associate Metallurgical Engineer/Inspector.

. Core Quality Material Review Board Lead (MRB).

1 CORE COMPETENCIES:

. Lean Manufacture 6 sigma Practices (VSM, 5S, Kaizen, DMAIC, SPC, 8D,

SMED, FMEA).

. Inspection Process Development and Administration.

. Supplier Quality Assessor/Auditor.

. Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility studies.

EXPERIENCE:

Quadna Inc.

Operation Manager, April 2008- Aug. 2010

. Attained more sophisticated customer base with creation and

deployment of companies 21 sections quality program, including

the writing of inspection procedures, and quality assurance

manual consistent with the ISO 9001 format.

. Scheduled daily manufacturing and assembly production.

. Approved purchase requisitions and coordinated external scheduling

of resources.

. Created supplier database for cost and schedule management.

. Generated company safety program.

2

Sundyne Corporation, Division of Hamilton Sundstrand (Acquired by UTC

Corp. In 2006)

Manufacturing Manager, May 2006 - April 2008

. Directed manufacture of defect free pump and compressor

components, and lead the success of 9 Process Engineers, 2

Production Supervisors, 4 Production Planners, and 58 Machine

Tool Operators across a 3-shift operation.

. Managed quality improvements and develop design solutions from

defects database.

. Supported successful creation of a demand flow cell using DMAIC,

VSM, Kaizen, SMED, and 5S concepts.

. Handled Internal and external vendor quality auditor for

improved raw castings and

forgings

1 Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Jan. 2003-May 2006

. Guided 9 Process Engineers achieving completion of a paperless,

real-time, electronic CNC machine program data transfer system,

and engineering drawing process system to reduce scrap and rework

by 28%.

. Successfully lead 8D project with cross functional team to make a

lean manufacturing cell that included machine tool

standardization, set-up reduction fixtures, consumable tool Kan-

Bans, statistical process control, and point of use tooling for

equipment set up reduction of over 15% per day.

. Created the first supplier-based raw material Kan-Ban

replenishment system to eliminate issue of wrong materials.

Manufacturing Supervisor, Dec. 2002-Jan 2003

. Supervisor of a manufacturing cell for gear and shaft

production including manufacture,

and heat treat process development for machined, carburized,

and thru hardened

products.

. Utilized Statistical Process Control (SPC) for heat treat

and manufacturing process improvement 10%.

. Developed gear inspection process and standardized gear

inspection techniques.

3

4 Business Manager of Special Process, July 1998-Dec. 2002

5

. Heat Treat - Carburize, Nitriding, thru harden, Precipitation

harden.

. Plating - Copper, Nickel, Anodize, Chrome.

. Welding - Electron beam, Mig, Tig.

. Metallurgy Lab.

Sundstrand Aerospace (Now a division of Hamilton Sundstrand)

. Quality Supervisor of Tool and Gage management, hardware

inspectors, internal

quality assessment, Business Process Library development

base on accepted engineering

techniques and practices.

. Quality Engineer for critical process review, engineering

changes, and day-to-day

interaction with production hardware and receiving

inspectors on Quality Process Plans

(QPP).

. QA Associate Metallurgical Engineer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS;

Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Adobe

Reader, Auto CAD light.

(Learning Access).

EDUCATION:

. Master of Science in Business Management, Regis University

- Denver, CO.

. Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology, University of

Nebraska - Lincoln, NE. (Deans List)

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