Engineering Quality Control

Cory

Kanner

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1370

Boxwood

Dr

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New

York,

NY

10019

(516)

319

1834

Hewlett,

NY

11557

Objective

Seeking an Entry Level position using my Analytical, Engineering and Team Building skills with a top tier Consulting Firm.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Masters of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering (Graduated May 2014)

• Focus: Health Systems Engineering

• Overall GPA: 3.6/4.0

• Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society (September 2012 – Present)

• Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering, (Graduated May 2013)

• Emphasis: Quality Management and Process Improvement

• Overall GPA: 3.4/4.0

• Dean’s List: Fall 2009-2010, 2012-2013, Spring 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013

• UW-Madison Institute of Industrial Engineers (January 2010 - Present)

Academic

Projects

Designing Best Practices for Mobile User Experience

• Research best practices for the design, development and deployment of mobile apps/sites.

• Interviewed companies part of the UW E-Business Consortium and the process stakeholder

• Created a framework for designing a positive and effective mobile user experience

UW Mail Delivery System

• Analyzed and redesigned a hospital’s mail delivery system.

• Helped decrease the amount of steps taken by 4000 steps

• Reduced delivery time from 10.5 to 4 hours per week

• Used FOCUS/PDCA methodology, quality management tools and value stream map to achieve deliverables

Job Analysis and Work Redesign:

• Evaluated a reception area in a healthcare clinic to help analyze and redesign their job/process

• Reduce the abandonment rate to less than 5% and answer 80% of the phone calls within 20 seconds

• Created questionnaires, interviewed process members and created focus groups

• Used the balanced work theory model of Smith and Carayon-Sainfort to analyze the job

Health Systems Engineering:

• Analyzed hospital’s surgery preference cards and the process of picking the materials

• Created a new pick list and developed a way to implement a Kan-Ban system for inventory control

• Created and used tools such as value stream maps, spaghetti diagrams and focus groups.

Continuous Improvement:

• Evaluated a maintenance department in a manufacturing warehouse

• Decrease the percentage of machine downtown by at least 5%

• Used Kaizen (5s) and PDCA methodology to organize and clean maintenance department

• Created tools such as affinity diagrams, interrelationship diagraphs, tree diagrams, prioritization matrices and

organizational change manager

Skills

Technical: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MATLAB, Maple, Arena, Simul8

Interpersonal: Confident public speaker, strong coordinating, planning, and problem solving abilities

Experiences

Montefiore Medical Group (June 2013 - August 2013)

• Business Information System - Health Systems Engineer

• PCA Infusion Pump Replacement Impact Analysis – Assess the impact of different options for replacing the

PCA infusion pumps by performing time and motion studies, interviews and data analysis.

• Nurse Staff Scheduling Assessment - Provided project management support through facilitating meetings

and data analysis.

Camp Baco, Minerva, New York (Summer 2007- 2012)

• Head Basketball/Head Bunk Counselor – Supervised and in charge of children ages 8-16

Office Assistant for Long Island based Medical Group (2005-2006)

• Prepped and Scanned Medical Records into an Electronic Document Management System

• Responsible for Quality Control of all Scanned Images

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