Sandy Joseph Lazarowicz

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Brook Park, Ohio 44142-3813

Mobile: 330-***-****

E-mail: ac6fig@r.postjobfree.com

My experience encompasses major Fortune 100 companies to medium sized and small business environments both domestically in the United States along with operations in twelve countries. I am a strong self-starter and capable of independent operation, but I also possess strong team building skills and can lead from within and from outside a team or organization. One of my greatest strengths is in the area of Quality, Metallurgical Engineering, Management, and Product / Process Improvement. Professional Experience:

Swagelok: Contract Supplier Quality / Metallurgical & Materials Engineer: June 2017 to Present

-Development of Additive metal 3D printing applications and characterizations of metal 3D printed material.

- Investigation of NDE inspection methods for additive manufactured 3D printed products (CT, X-ray, UT, thermography, and eddy current).

- Investigation of material related rejections of incoming raw materials (300 series stainless steels, carbon steel, brass, titanium, and exotic alloys).

- Coordinate problem solving efforts between corporate Supplier Development Engineers, Materials Lab, and Suppliers.

- Support nondestructive evaluation of incoming raw materials (UT, EC) as well as visual inspection.

- Provided technical support to Swagelok’s Materials Science center.

- Technical support / expertise in areas of material grade consolidation efforts.

- Supplier quality technical support in areas of steel production and rolling, extrusion, and forging.

IQT Group: Quality & Metallurgical Consulting: June 2009 – May 2017

- Owner / Consultant

- Quality Systems and Contract Management. Metallurgical Engineering consulting.

- Performed as contract Quality Manager & Chief Metallurgist for Meadville Forging Company (MFC)

- Provided metallurgical engineering consulting regarding induction and conventional heat treating, NDE inspection techniques (eddy current, magnetic particle, die penetrant), and critical materials specifications for automotive related suppliers. Timken Company: Quality Principal / Global Segment Metallurgist – Automotive & Product Materials

& Metallurgy: Mar 2001 – May 2009

- Guided transition to QS and later to TS16949 quality systems at Timken’s Automotive plants both domestically, Canada, South America, and Europe.

- Managed Supplier Quality Approval, development and auditing for critical raw materials, heat treating and assembly operations for Timken’s global automotive supplier base.

-Member of AIAG subcommittee on CQI-9 Heat treating standards and audited compliance of internal global Timken and external supplier heat treating operations.

- Directed compliance to Timken Corporate Global Automotive Quality and Metallurgical standards.

- Provided oversight and direction for plants in: APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, DMAIC, Kaizen, 5S.

- Provided oversight, direction, teaching, and execution of advanced problem solving methodologies and statistical analysis techniques: Taguchi/Ishikawa, 8D, 5 Why, ANOVA, Multiple regression, Shanin.

- Experienced in a wide range of NDE techniques (eddy current, magnetic particle, die penetrant,magnetic resonance, x-ray, radiography, ultrasonic).

- Quality oversight, trouble shooting, and process / product improvement for suppliers & Timken plants in 12 countries (U.S., Canada, S. America, Europe, India, China, and Pacific Rim), including plant laboratory and metallurgical processes.

- Averted a major recall situation with one of the top 3 automakers, while still meeting PPAP, preproduction and production deadlines, and leading the root cause resolution to the potentially critical, but difficult to detect defect.

- Project Management of Critical Quality Issues with major Automotive Customers including supply chain related concerns.

- Lead the development of low frequency induction heat treating automated production line at Timken’s St. Thomas, Canada Operations.

- Project management role in global alloy consolidation effort. IQT Group: Quality & Metallurgical Consulting: July 1999 – Feb 2001

- Owner & Consultant

- Quality systems development and management

- Forensic Metallurgical Expert witness

Electroalloy Corp.: Director Operations & Quality: Jan 1997 – June 1999

- Director of Melting Operations and Casting, Director of Quality & Metallurgy

- Managed staff of: Salaried Quality Manager, NDE-Radiography Engineer, Chemical Lab Manager, Melt

shop supervisors, pouring supervisors – total 100 employees

- Direct P&L responsibility. Reported to the President and CEO

- Directed major capital equipment installations, renovations and new process development.

- Direct responsibility for all claims resolutions and settlements.

- Directed implementation of ISO/TS compliant quality systems.

- Production of high temperature stainless, cobalt, and nickel alloy materials

- Centrifugal, static, and shell mold castings.

- Reduced customer claims for high quality, large scale static castings by over 40% and prevented the lossof 30 percent of that business in one year.

- Implemented lean manufacturing, 5S, and total quality processes that resulted in a 50% reduction in workforce with a doubling in productivity and scrap rate / rework rate reductions of 40% and 60%,

respectively.

IQT Group, Inc.: President (Quality Consulting and Forensic Metallurgical Investigations –Expert Witness in U.S. Federal Court): August 1991 – December 1996

- Owner and Consultant

- Development, implementation, management of Quality systems for small / medium sized manufacturing businesses.

- Forensic metallurgical engineering and expert witness. Recognized expert witness in U.S. Federal Court.

LTV Steel Company: Manager Hot Rolled Quality, Senior Product & Process Engineer, and Major Account Plant Quality Manager: May 1976 – July 1991

- Manager Hot Rolled Quality – manage workforce consisting of 2 Degreed Metallurgical

/ Quallity engineers, 8 Salaried Foremen, 12 Salaried Quality Inspectors, and 32 hourly metallurgical lab / inspector / recorders (Union).

- Plant Quality Coordinator, managing entire plant assets to meet all quality issues

(order through shipment) to key major accounts (>$28 MM/year sales). One person prime contact for customer issues (from Customer CEO to customer plant contacts). Achieved Top Supplier and Sole Supplier status for my accounts (4 in an 8 year period).

- Headed a team that developed, refined and implemented direct ingot rolling and hot charging operations at LTV Steel Cleveland. Including industry first real time characterization and disposition of hot (high temperature) rolling related defects, utilized Lean Manufacturing / 5S methodologies.

- Developed industry first computerized analysis and acceptance/rejection protocol for the real-time disposition of hot strip mill coil product for critical, customer specific key dimensional and thermal parameters.

Education:

Carnegie Mellon University 1974 - 1979

Bachelor's – Metallurgical Engineering / Bachelor’s – Materials Science / Bachelor’s – Economics with

Minors in Accounting & Marketing.

Cleveland State University 1981 - 1984

Masters of Business studies in Marketing & Finance –with strong emphasis in statistical techniques & methods.

Skills:

Project Management, Statistical methods (Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt / Design of Experiments /ANOVA, Multiple Regression), Six Sigma, Quality Problem solving

(Shainin, 5-Why Kaizen, Taguchi,Cause and Effect) PFMEA,DFMEA, APQP, Internal auditor ISO / QS / TS 16949,lean manufacturing, 5S, Financial Accounting,Business Planning, Business Start-up Planning, Account Sales & Marketing, Team Building, Non Destructive Testing / Inspection (ultrasonic, eddy current, mag particle, magnetic resonance, vision systems, Xray,radiography, die penetrant), P&L Responsibility, Sales, Negotiation, Claims Resolution, Personnel Development, Public Speaking, Business Advocacy, Government Regulation (OSHA, EPA), Product Development, Process Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Process Mapping, Supplier Quality Management, Heat Treating, Forensic Engineering, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy), Optical Microscopy, hardness testing, microhardness testing, Etching, Mechanical Testing / Tensile Testing, Fatigue testing, SEM operation,3D printing, AIAG CQI-9,Stainless and high alloy steels, bearing steels, aluminum, titanium, brass, Ferrite testing.

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