Engineer Six Sigma

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Thomas Eric Guttenberger

Experience Apr 2013-Sep 2013 Space Exploration Technologies Hawthorne, CA

Supplier Quality Engineer

Responsible for product quality improvements across a 200+ supplier base of flight hardware

Supplier-caused non-conformances improved each month consecutively during my tenure, after reaching an all-time

high in April 2013

Ranked 1st of 7 engineers in group in “Further Actions Closed” and “Audits Conducted” during my tenure to drive

reductions in supplier-caused non-conformances

Developed department metrics for internal analysis and presentation to upper management

May 2011-April 2013 Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI

Chassis Design Engineer

Earned Six Sigma Blackbelt certification by completing 10+ DMAIC projects related to hydraulic steering gears.

Lead continuous improvement efforts on both vehicle lines overseen, resulting in warranty occurrence and cost per unit

metrics at all-time lows at the time of my departure

Used state estimation techniques to optimize 4-point bearing matching decision matrices and achieve a ~10%

improvement in first time through at bottleneck station for Super Duty steering gears

Debugged pre-torque testing equipment and algorithm to reduce the test equipment’s contribution to variation from

~20% to ~3% in E-Series steering gear 4-point bearing assembly

August 2010-Present Concredex LLC Richmond, VA

Founder & CEO

Supervised and aided construction of web-based trading platform for Futures Contracts related to underlying index

Created macroeconomic model of the FRB Credit Card Loan Charge-off Rate using Derived Ensemble Kalman

Filter algorithm technique to account for infrequent, noisy measurements of varying quality

Successfully submitted notification to the CFTC to operate as an Exempt Board of Trade

Presented business plan to the Managing Directors of the CME Group as a 24-year old

July 2009- August 2010 Capital One Richmond, VA

Operations Analyst

Provided analytical and statistical support for payment processing and outbound mailing operations

Proposed idea and provided analysis for processing payments on Sundays, resulting in an annual net benefit of ~$15M

Proposed idea and provided analysis for “E-Card Rerequest Plastic” project, resulting in an annual net benefit of

~$3.5M

Responsible for the optimization of direct mail solicitation groups

July –October 2008 Merrill Lynch Dearborn, MI

Wealth Management Intern

Education

2004-2009 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering with Minor in Mathematics

Partially completed MSE in Financial Engineering, including courses:

Stochastic Processes II – In Depth Analysis of the Brownian Motion, Arbitrage Modeling in Continuous time

Six Sigma Blackbelt, AS9100 Auditor, C++, Matlab, SQL, Statistics, Econometrics, Stock & Options Trading

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