Anthony "Stan" Kolakowski

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PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Supervisory Skills Lean Manufacturing

QS9000 Lead Auditor Training DVPR Value Stream Mapping

Process Writing ISO 9001:2015 ISO 14001

TS16949 ISO 9001 Lead Auditor Training IPC 610

ISO 9001:2008 ISO 9001 Implementation Team ESD Training

Control Plan ISO 13485 8D Problem Solving

APQP Frontline Leadership Training 5WHY Problem solving

PFMEA NP Launch Experience Kaizen Experience

PPAP CFR Title 21 NDT & NDE

Supplier Qualification Product Validation Process Validation

AS9001 AS9002 ISO 18001

WORK EXPERIENCE

Western Regional Quality Manager Covia Corporation, Menomonie, WI 11/2013 to 07/2019

• Administered the quality management ISO 9001 registration for 5 facilities

• Developed and implemented corporate quality standards for calibration and testing of

products generating a quality system to link all facilities.

• Facilitated management review meetings quarterly, to focus on quality and continuous I'm

provement

• 94% Reduction of PPM from 675 PPM to 35 PPM

Quality Engineer Andersen Windows, Menomonie, WI 08/2012 to 08/2013

• Reviewed and approved PPAP’s from Suppliers

• Designed and managed a project to organize and build a Quality Lab

• Identified and implemented a project to update all Tiger Stop saws with safety features while

improving the Cpk from .35 to 1.33 min of the cutting process to assure adherence to draw

ing specifications.

• Reduced PPM by 60% from August 2012 to August 2013

Supplier Quality Engineer Hearth &Home Technologies, Lake City, MN 02/2012 to 07/2012

(Contract position completed in 6 months)

• Initiated QMS Audits of suppliers

• Wrote an addendum to Supplier Quality Manual clarifying the requirements for PPAP

Quality Engineer Donatelle Medical, New Brighton, MN 10/2011 to 02/2012

(Contract position completed in 5 months)

• Performed QMS audits of customer drawings to insure Donatelle's working drawings and its

Suppliers covered the critical characteristics and specifications of the Customers drawings.

Supplier Quality Engineer Parker Hannifin, New Hope, MN 06/2008 to 08/2011

• Performed QMS Audits at suppliers

• Managed supplier qualification program

• Facilitated MRB team and Participated in cross function team reviews of design and drawings

• Reviewed and approved PPAP and CA from Suppliers

• 94% Reduction of Supplier PPM from 14,895 (6/08) to PPM of 877 (8/11)

Supplier Quality Engineer The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN 05/2006 to 02/2008

• Provided corporate Supplier quality support to domestic and international manufacturing

facilties.

• Analyzed data to spot trends in quality issues before they escalated in size

• Designed and facilitated DOE’s to optimize suppliers' processes decreasing scrap by 60% and

increasing RTY by 40%

• Issued CAR’s and reviewed SCAR’s for satisfactory root cause analysis.

Senior Quality Engineer Summit Polymers, Kalamazoo, MI 05/2003 to 05/2006

• Performed QE for the Ford Explorer, Chrysler Sebring automobiles and Stryker Medical beds

• Originated PPAP submittals as needed

• Reviewed and approved PPAP and CA from Suppliers

Senior Quality Engineer Johnson Controls, Battle Creek, MI 09/2001 to 10/2003

• Lead QE for Mercedes Benz SUV interior trim.

• Developed and Implemented visual limit samples with customer.

• Designed gage to eliminate major customer complaint of out of position retaining clips.

• Designed and Constructed “Rabbit Parts” to validate poke-yoke used in production.

• Issued and Reviewed corrective action requests for suppliers.

• Organized PPAP submittals as required.

• Organized a Quality recall of non-conforming door panels that was 1.3 million suspect vehicles.

• Troubleshot the issue with the Suppliers help and oversaw the logistics of recall, tested and

replaced parts found to be defective.

• Negotiated the cost responsibility of the recall to be split between the three companies involved.

Six Sigma Black Belt Lear Corporation, Grand Rapids, MI 01/2000 to 09/2001

• Performed Six Sigma Black Belt projects successfully achieving $1.8 million savings goal per

year.

• Reduced manpower on three shifts in gear cell process resulting in savings of $912,000.

• Reduced scrap by 60% and eliminated sound defects from customer complaints.

• Defined with customer the sound criteria and redesigned sound booth to eliminate subjectivity.

Product Line Manager Behr Industries, Grand Rapids, MI 01/1999 to 01/2000

• Manager of 3 shifts of 60 people each shift with two assistant shift supervisors.

• Reduced scrap by 35%, decreased rework by 30% while increasing efficiency by 60% overall

and after a few weeks to catch up on backorders we were able to eliminate overtime.

NATIONAL FIELD SERVICE COORDINATOR – Care Free, Charlotte, M 09/1994 to 12/1998

* Organized a 94 subcontractors for the repair or replacement of warranty claims.

* Reported to Design Engineers what we were seeing and how we were fixing warranty

claims.

* Designed several fixes for issues that were incorporated into regular production.

* Scheduled “replacement“ production as needed to meet appointments with customers.

* Designed and set up a warranty tracking spread sheet to track all costs of warranty

REPAIR TECHNICIAN GROUP LEADER - ITT Aerospace, Fort Wayne, IN 06/1988 to 0219/93

June 1988 to February 1993

* Oversaw 6 repair technicians working on, returns from the military and production defects.

* Built prototype samples for Reliability and Design Engineers.

* Figured out process improvements to reduce repair time.

* Design and made tooling fixtures and special hand tools to make the repair work easier.

* Wrote technical summaries for warranty claims and repairs of military caused claims.

Cement Mason - Local 577 Cement Masons Union - Denver, Colorado 05/1977 to 07/1987

May 1977 to July 1987

* 4 year apprenticeship

* Poured and finished concrete projects in the Denver Metro area

* Crew leader for several bridges and Highway concrete projects

EDUCATION

INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. GPA 3.95/4.0.

ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Associate of Applied Science Degree in Electronic Engineering Technology. GPA 3.2/4.

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