Phone: 714-***-****
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Laguna Hills, CA
Chuck Baril
Summary
A Quality Management professional with over 25
years of experience in hardware and software
quality applications possessing a unique blend of
skills including; Quality Engineering,
Manufacturing Operations, Program Management,
Supply Chain Management, Facilities, Real-estate
and Sales.
Experience 2013-Present Trilogy Quality
Consulting Aliso Viejo, CA
Founder and Principal Consultant (Quality
Management)
Provide Quality Engineering and Management
consulting services for companies that have a
desire to implement or improve their quality
management system that allows and promotes an
improved company quality culture, daily continuous
improvement activities, higher design quality, more
efficient manufacturing and business processes,
increased customer satisfaction and an overall
lower cost of quality.
2001-2013 Powerwave Technologies
Santa Ana, CA
Senior Vice President Global Quality (Wireless
Telecommunications)
Responsibilities included Global Quality Assurance,
Quality Engineering (hardware, software), Supplier
Quality, Configuration Management, Quality Systems,
Reliability, Repair Operations, Program Management,
Sales Support, Facilities and Real-estate.
Managed a group of 350 employees worldwide with 15
direct reports.
Built the repair business to $10M annual revenue
with 40% GM.
Implemented ISO-9001, TL9000, ISO-14001 quality
systems.
Executive Sales Sponsor for the top revenue account
AT&T supporting sales of over $200M annually.
Customers supported for sales and after sale
service include AT&T, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile,
Verizon, ALU, NSN, Vodafone, Telcel, Ericsson,
Rogers and US Cellular.
Customers supported in US, Sweden, Finland,
Germany, France, UK, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and
China.
Authored and maintained the product development
processes and procedures used for all new designs
globally to ensure overall compliance.
Supported global manufacturing operations in China,
Thailand, Estonia, Hungary and India.
Supported design centers in US, Sweden, China and
India.
Leader of project steering committee that
determined which products to develop based on
market demand, design capability, resources, budget
and return on investment.
Six Sigma and Lean cost savings champion for yield
improvements, scrap reduction, production
efficiency, facilities and real-estate.
Negotiated contracts and agreement for facilities
services and real-estate transactions globally in
the US, China, Thailand, Singapore, Sweden and
India.
Quarterly reports and presentations.
2000-2001 FormFactor Inc.
Livermore, CA
Director of Global Quality (Semiconductor Test
Equipment)
Managed 30 employees with 5 direct reports.
Responsibilities included Supplier Quality, Quality
Engineering, Quality Systems, Repair, Configuration
Management, Customer Quality and Sales Support.
Implementation planning for ISO-9001 certification.
Customers supported include Samsung and Intel.
Improved factory yields to over 90% and reduced
scrap to less than 1%.
Developed formal Quality Criteria based on each
customer's specifications that increased yields and
decreased returns.
1996-2000 HMT Technology / Komag Fremont, CA
Director of Worldwide Quality (Computer Thin Film
Media)
Worldwide Quality Engineering, Supplier Quality and
Quality System management.
Supported new product development by understanding
process capabilities prior to transfer to Malaysia
to ensure Quality, yields, cost and efficiency.
Lead Director of continuous improvement projects to
support cost savings, yield and process capability
targets.
Responsible for all quality functions in a Thin
Film Media manufacturing process including SPC,
gage R&R, NCMR, data collection systems management,
process capability studies, yield improvement,
corrective action system, correlation, standards,
ISO9000, DOE, ANOVA, FMEA, and spec review.
Customer interface including corrective action,
process reports, and presentations to US and Asia
customers.
Supported Manufacturing, Process Engineering, and
Customer Quality Engineering.
Provided quality training to operators,
Technicians, and Engineers.
1993-1996 Heraeus Materials Technology Chandler, AZ
Quality Manager (Precious Metal Fabrication for
Thin Film Media)
Developed and implemented entire quality system.
Became ISO-9001 certified in 6 months.
Responsible for all incoming material, factory
processes, final inspection and customer quality
functions.
Customers supported include IBM, Western Digital,
Hitachi and Seagate.
Supported customers on quality related issues in
US, Asia and Mexico.
Statistical data analysis (SPC).
Yield Improvements, scrap reduction, efficiency and
overall cost reduction.
1983-1993 Digital Equipment Corp. Tempe, AZ
Quality Engineer (PCB and Thin Film Media for
Computer Disk drives)
ISO-9000 implementation team leader.
Quality production leader responsible for yield and
scrap improvement.
Developed and managed closed loop corrective action
system.
Developed and managed NCMR system.
Statistical process control implementation and
management.
Defect failure analysis (SEM, FTIR, X-Ray).
Education Quality Engineering - Total Business Service
Center '94
Quality Management - University of Phoenix '92
Quality Control and Chemistry - Rio Salado College
'87
Semiconductor Practices - Arizona State University
'85
Related Exp. American Society of Quality member
Top Secret Government Clearance Since 2012
Six Sigma Leader and Black Belt
Certified Lead Quality Assessor / Auditor
Microsoft Office applications, Agile PDM, Oracle
ERP
Various data analysis software packages including
MiniTab