Manager Manufacturing

Kishore Madana

**** ******** ***** *****: 847-***-****

Hanover Park, IL 60133 E-Mail: *************@*****.***

Summary: 26 years of experience managing various departmental functions in electronics manufacturing, including components, subassemblies and system levels.

Professional Experience:

Netcom, Inc. - Wheeling, IL June 1998 - Present

Director of Manufacturing (March 2003 – Present)

Manage and supervise a staff of over 75 employees, responsible for effectively planning, directing and coordinating all activities in manufacturing of RF LC filters, Crystal Filters, Assemblies, switch mode, linear Power Supplies and medical devices for MRI machines. Coordinate with other departments such as SMT assemblies and functions. Oversight of all manufacturing departments, shipping and receiving, raw materials stock room activities and cycle counts for inventory accuracy. Manage manufacturing engineering day-to-day activities such as ALT and HALT tests. Establish goals for manufacturing revenue, productivity, quality and delivery. Monitor manufacturing schedules and work with the Scheduling and Purchasing Managers to correct production plan and expedite materials delivery. Coordinate on ECR’s relative to manufacturing routings, standard processes and materials. Implement cost reduction projects and policies by working with the president and management. Mentor and train manufacturing managers and personnel.

Improved gross margin by 15% to 20%.

Developed a program to measure operator efficiency, reducing labor time and finding process efficiencies utilizing 5S projects and lean manufacturing.

Reviewed manufacturing processes through Kaizen-Blitz for cost effectiveness and quality.

Initiated single piece flow processes that reduced errors and movement of WIP assemblies.

Senior Manufacturing Manager (January 2002 – February 2003)

Oversaw all manufacturing divisions, mentoring and monitoring departmental managers and their daily activities. Maintained departmental goals and objectives, prepared departmental metrics such as on-time delivery, efficiencies and scrap and rework rates. Worked with group leaders to perform daily inventory of work centers, assuring counts of WIP materials matched the ERP/MRP.

Production Manager - Integrated Solutions Division (December 1999 – December 2001)

Effectively planned the day-to-day operations of the department. Worked with group leaders and lead technician in mentoring and monitoring of workers’ daily activities to make sure they meet their goals and succeed. Assured on-time shipping and improved efficiencies through assuring job orders met standard hours without major variances.

Senior Technician, Power Supply Division (June 1998 – Nov 1999)

Coordinated repairs of non-conforming assemblies with production manager utilizing Troubleshooting/Analysis. Identified root causes, repairing, testing and documenting the failure analysis thru Pareto charts to indicate what kind of failures are coming from the production line as part of a feed-back loop to improve processes and identify performance. Presented the failure analysis reports to upper management and QA for their evaluation. Managed a technician and his workload to get the repairs done.

James Electronics, Inc. Chicago, IL July 1996 – June 1998

Production Manager

Planned, directed and coordinated all activities in the manufacturing of Power Supplies and Transformers. Oversaw power supply manufacturing group and coordinated with transformer manufacturing group to produce sufficient units to support build upper level assemblies. Managed 35 employees between manufacturing and shipping. Mentored and trained manufacturing employees as a team build program. Performed testing and troubleshooting switch mode and linear power supplies on an as needed basis to help technicians. Interpreted blueprints and Schematics as part of the troubleshooting process. Monitored manufacturing schedules and worked with sourcing group to expedite materials.

Kishore Madana

7981 Northway Drive Phone: 847-***-****

Hanover Park, IL 60133 E-Mail: *************@*****.***

Professional Experience (continued):

PowerVolt, Inc. Elk Grove Village, IL April 1994 - July 1996

Quality Assurance Manager/Production Supervisor

Implemented Quality System and prepared ISO-9000 Procedures for certification. Established WIP-Inspections, AQL sampling, and CAR and PAR system. Implemented full ESD program by installing wrist and heal straps, assuring work benches properly grounded to dissipate the electro static discharge. Negotiated blanket orders with preferred vendors resulting in 10% savings in raw materials. Oversaw production and planning of Switch mode Power Supplies, Linear & non Linear Power Supplies. Supervised 10 manufacturing employees and monitored day-to-day operations. Performed testing and troubleshooting to component level for production failures.

Laser Trim, Inc. (LTI) - Carol Stream, IL April 1991 - April 1994

Quality Control Manager

Performed Incoming and Outgoing inspections, WIP-inspections, dealt with customers for their field returns and issued RMAs. Created and maintained statistical process control (SPC) Pareto charts, Distribution charts and R & R charts. Presented SPC data to production manager as part of the feedback process to improve operations. Maintained scrap information and tracked quality cost for the rework.

RAO Design Engineering, Inc. - Schiller Park, IL November 1989 - January 1991

Plant Manager

Managed 20 machinists at a manufacturing company specializing in blow molding, injection molding and machine tooling. Oversaw production planning, day-to-day operations, shipping and receiving. Established blanket orders with preferred vendors utilizing a pull system to accommodate production need dates. Worked closely with sales group to help customer expedites and problem solving. Oversaw building upkeep and scheduled machinery for regular service as part of Preventive Maintenance plan.

Education:

Andhra University - Andhra Pradesh, India

Undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

DeVry Institute of Technology - Addison, IL

Associates of Applied Science in Electronics Engineering Technology

Harper College - Palatine, IL

Diploma in “Computer Technical” with 30 credit hours course

College of DuPage - Glen Ellyn, IL

SPC (Statistical Process Control) Course

Certifications:

ISO9000 Overview, ISO9000 element-by-element, Supplier Qualification Facilitator, Quality Management and Gage R & R from Mouch & Associates

Knowledge in LEAN manufacturing to set-up the lean processes, Tack times, 5S’s, Pull Systems and Kaizen

Experience in manufacturing electronic PC Board assemblies in Surface Mount and Thru Hole Technology.

Knowledge in IPC–610-E/class-3 Soldering Standards and ISO 9001:2008 procedures/work instructions.

Technical Proficiencies Microsoft Office: (Word, Excel, Access, Database, Power Point and Outlook)

M2M & Vantage ERP/MRP; Visual Basic, Java, C, and Oracle8i

Fluent in Hindi and Telugu

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