Engineer Quality Manager

Bert Alvarez

Harlingen, Texas

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A Quality Professional known for utilizing an agile approach in developing processes, managing customer relations, and developing / maintaining a robust and responsive staff to deliver optimal solutions. Passionate about achieving timely and accurate responses and delivering results.

• Team Building • Customer Relations Management

• Established Goals and Metrics • Budget Management

• Continuous Improvement Leader • Green Belt Certified

• New Product Development • Proficiency in MS Office Suite

EXPERIENCE

Manager, Quality Assurance Toyoda Gosei, San Antonio, Texas

August/2018 - Current

Leader over 5 Quality Engineers and 20 Inspectors

Leading Causal Analysis teams and implementing corrective actions for plastic injected parts and various automotive sub-assemblies.

Manager, Quality Assurance United Launch Alliance, Harlingen, Texas

February/2010 - June/2017

Leader over 5 Quality Engineers, 5 Bargaining Unit Inspectors, a Metrology Technician, and a Configuration Administrator.

Integrated 5 new facilities on schedule and on budget that produced products with 40% improved efficiency, 80% fewer defects, and improved safety.

Sustained AS9100 Certification and Audits by DCMA, Customers, and Internal

Prepared/Presented monthly reports and charts tracking established metrics.

Lead Causal Analysis teams using 5 Why’s and Fishbone techniques.

Provided technical leadership and coordination with subject matter experts across interdisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.

Negotiated contract revisions for on time delivery and requirement revisions.

Supported community outreach projects such as career day and young minds at work.

Production Engineer United Launch Alliance, Harlingen, Texas

May/1996 - February/2010

Responsible for creating and maintaining production planning and tool designs.

Lead on facility and production development for 6 Atlas V structural assemblies.

Investigating non-conformance causes and providing corrective actions.

Focal for Ethics cases and investigations.

Lockheed Martin Nova Award: Atlas V-003 Development Team

Atlas Program Peer Award: AV-005’s C-ISA

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

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