MONTE BAINTER

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Seward, NE **434

402-***-****

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CAREER PROFILE

Highly engaged, results-driven professional with 20+ years of leadership, continuous process improvement, and

coaching experience within diverse manufacturing environments, including Pharmaceuticals, Food,

Composites/Aerospace, and Electronics. Demonstrated drive to continuously deliver on requirements,

understand manufacturing and support processes, recognize improvement opportunities, and value each

individual. Proven expertise in design, costing, processing, validation, quality, and continuous improvement.

ASQ-trained as Six Sigma Black Belt. Instructor and mentor on numerous Green Belt and Black Belt projects.

Passionate leader in problem-solving and process optimization through statistics and design of experiments.

AREAS OF STRENGTH AND EXPERTISE

• • •

Manufacturing/Product Process Mapping Quality

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ion Statistical Process Control Management

• • • Team Leadership

Quality Engineering Continuous Improvement

• • • Coaching/Mentors

Six Sigma Design/Processing/Package

• hip

FMEA Engineering

• IQ/OQ/Validation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

General Dynamics, Lincoln, NE 2009 to 2015

Principal Quality Engineer

Lead product team compliance with customer requirements in an ISO-9000, AS9100 defense/aerospace

environment. Spearhead Quality reviews of customer contracts/clauses and all program-related drawings, material

specifications, and process instructions. Establish and support Quality Assurance Plan and FAI’s for programs.

Support DCMA on-site product reviews. Lead quality issue resolution with customers and suppliers. Calculate

and report program Quality metrics and KPI’s. Guide team determination and implementation of corrective

actions for defective product and materials.

Key Accomplishments:

• Continuous support of delivery schedule.

• Implement shop floor SPC and provide plant-wide statistics support.

• Established InfinityQS as the central data repository for inspection data and process monitoring.

ConAgra Foods, Omaha, NE 2008 to 2009

Manager Continuous Improvement, CPS

Drove understanding of SPC and implementation of InfinityQS software across all CAG product platforms.

Key Accomplishments:

• Key player in the growth of ConAgra Performance System (CPS).

• Managed $2.4 million capital project to install and implement InfinityQS SPC software to control

package fill across 24 plants in 12 months. Resulting reduction in overfill averaged $200,000 savings per

product in each plant.

• Implemented an online self-paced course on company-wide intranet to educate users in application of

statistical methods.

• Provided DOE/statistics support in Supply Chain effort replacing a standard microbial test method

requiring 7-10 days to complete with a new method providing results in 3 days.

General Dynamics, Armaments & Technical Products Division, Lincoln, NE 2007 to 2008

Quality Assurance Engineer

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Ensured and demonstrated process and product compliance with specified requirements through detailed analyses.

Supported operations with review and approval of real-time processing changes. Worked directly with customers

during site visits and throughout troubleshooting efforts. Established inspection requirements for materials and

products and guided implementation of corrective actions. Provided plant-wide statistics support.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

Key Accomplishments:

• Continuous support of delivery schedule.

• Enabled process performance evaluation by developing Engineering process capability tools.

• Optimized processes and reduced scrap by 70% through the design and execution of process optimization

experiments.

• Initiated procurement and installation of InfinityQS SPC software as central data repository for inspection

data and process monitoring.

Novartis Consumer Health, Inc., Lincoln, NE 1993 to 2006

Project Leader, SPC/Six Sigma, Strategic Operations & Productivity, SPC, Engineering & Technology

Team Coordinator, QC Laboratory, Quality Control

Packaging/Validation Engineer, Engineering & Technology

As Project Leader, deployed training and application of statistics in data evaluation and decision making across

key functional areas with emphasis on statistical analysis and Statistical Process Control. As Team Coordinator,

oversaw team activities and performance within QC laboratory. As Packaging/Validation Engineer, drove finished

product attributes, material specifications, and processing equipment for a segment of Novartis products,

including Ascriptin, Maalox, Lamisil, and Doan’s.

Key Accomplishments:

• As member of Culture Change Steering Committee, leading three-year site effort to build and implement

high-performing work teams.

• Implemented use of statistics, SPC and Six Sigma methods now applied across operations.

• Supervised 27 Analytical Chemists and technicians executing raw material and finished product testing in

QC lab.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bachelor of Science, Physics, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE

Safe Quality Food (ConAgra), De Bono Six Thinking Hats & Lateral Thinking (Innova Training), The Oz Principle

(Novartis), Six Sigma Business Excellence/Black Belt Training (American Society for Quality), Pathways to

Leadership (Steven Vannoy), High Performing Work Teams (PDS), Customer Driven Performance Team Leader

(Novartis), Statistical Process Control (Donald Wheeler/StorageTek), Statistical Tools & Techniques (Qualtec),

World Class manufacturing (Richard Schonberger), Lean Principles-Lean Enterprise (UNO), Design of

Experiments (StorageTek), Visual Factory Management (Saddle Island), InfinityQS Implementation Techniques

(Lyle Kearsley Systems), Process Documentation & Risk Management (Carol DeSain)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Office, Minitab, InfinityQS, iGrafx Process Simulation

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