Quality Manager

MICHAEL TIDBALL

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltidball

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Executive Summary

Director of Quality with a successful history of leadership through teambuilding, process documentation and training, to achieve repeatable and sustainable performance

Strategic planning and decision making combined with strong leadership and goal-driven performance to meet cost reduction and quality metric goals

Areas of expertise

RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action) AS9100 Batch (SAP) implementation NADCAP Zero Defect Process SPC (Statistical Process Control) Production operations Auditor Change management

OECO, LLC., Milwaukie, OR 1-2016 to 4-2018

Director of Quality

Manage a multifunction quality team for $80 million/year electronics and power generation firm. Create and implement processes and procedures to ensure compliance to AS9100 and customer requirements. Responsible for meeting internal and external corporate quality measures and stopping any escapes of non-conforming product.

Supervised, mentored, trained, and evaluated a team of 23, which included a staff of three managers, three department supervisors, and six quality inspectors. o Departments managed under the quality were: Calibration, Quality Systems, Document Control, Supplier Quality, Inspection and Quality Engineering.

Contact point for customers regarding any quality issues for OECO product, customer audits, sourcing of customer products and factory escapes.

Launched Zero Defect Process for Plant. OECO was lead site for implementation for 43 sites. ZDP tools used: SPC, D/PFMEA, Process Control, MSA

Cost savings of $2.7mill due to implementation of Quality Clinic method. Brought together process owners for solving factories top impact issues to quality.

Scrap reduction savings of $940,000, for years 2016 to 2017 by systematic implementation and adherence to basic problem-solving tools, i.e., 5-whys, 3C’s (concern, cause and countermeasure) Quality Manager/Quality Engineer (OECO) 11-2012 to 1-2016 Managed internal procedure program maintained process and revision control. Evaluated Quality Engineers on performance to continuous improvement goals.

Was responsible for AS9100 certification. Conducted continual internal auditing to ensure compliance to customer and Aerospace Standards.

Managed all customer visits/audits of OECO’s systems, products, and procedures

Evaluated and recommended improvements to customer products to maintain quality throughout assembly process.

Managed Calibration Lab., which calibrated 90% of all tools and electrical testing equipment for OECO. PCC Structural, Portland, OR 3-2008 to 11-2012

Quality Systems Manager / Quality Engineer

ISO and NADCAP coordinator for two plants. Maintained plant operating certificates, planned and executed audits to ensure compliance to customer and aerospace requirements. o NADCAP special processes controlled were: Heat Treat, Welding, Chemical processing, NDT : X- Ray and Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection(FPI).

Quality Manager for other plants as needed, i.e. GSC (Utah) Quality Manager for 5 months, 2012.

Evaluated and dispositioned all non-conformances related to quality systems to assure compliance. M. Tidball, continued

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Intel, Hillsboro, OR 2000-2008

Reliability Engineer

VF (Virtual Factory) Chairperson of 300mm reliability monitoring system. Responsibilities included pulling data, addressing issues and trouble-shooting for 3 fabs.

Team leader for establishing new manufacturing process with development of new reticle and mask.

Set-up routes and design configuration needed for factory certification for new Pentium product within tightly compressed timeline.

Developed new WBT (Web Base Training) for Process Engineers on the MRB/DRB quality system and drove VF training to be applied across several technologies.

ISO9001 representative for the Q&R group, handling all documentation and audits. Horizon Air, Portland, OR 1995-2000

Structural Engineer

Prepared technical analysis and repair instructions for Horizon Air Maintenance department to follow for structural and mechanical aircraft systems.

Designed and developed repairs for damaged aircraft often working closely with OEM of damaged aircraft for repair context and recommendations.

Coordinated directly with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Maintenance Inspectors to qualify prepared design/drawings.

Worked with vendors on purchases for special replacement parts to maintain aircraft integrity. McDonnell Douglas Corp. (Boeing), Long Beach, CA 1988-1995 Manager, MRB Stress Group, USAF C-17 Airlifter Program

Managed a group of ten (10) Engineers. Conferred with engineering and manufacturing managers on difficult structural discrepancies during assembly.

Instructor and co-author for Structural Repair Philosophy course, a prerequisite for obtaining Material Review Board (MRB) signature.

Approved Liaison Engineers repair designs and advised them on analysis techniques.

Handled all managerial activities for group including employee reviews and disciplinary actions.

Provided stress analysis on all primary fabrication and assembly structures.

Utilized Finite Element programs to obtain the internal loads for structural analysis. EDUCATION

Masters of Science Electrical Engineering: Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI), Portland, OR Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Aircraft Engineering): Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI TRAINING

Black Belt training - Villanova University, Aug. 2010 Financial management for non-finance people

Leadership training Meggitt - 2016

High Performance Culture, by Senn Delaney: Creating a distinct competitive advantage and accelerate performance. Structured Problem Solving

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