Professional Summary

Seasoned Quality Leader with more than 10 years of experience in fast-paced Manufacturing Environment. Excellent management and customer relations. Track record of achieving exceptional results in Quality, GMP, Food Safety and Procedural compliance.

Experience

1997 to November 2016

Graham Packaging

Florence, KY

Quality Manager

§Supported Graham Packaging Plants in training of Quality Managers, Quality Lab Technicians and implementation of QMS programs.

§Lead the plant to #1 ranking in quality out of 18 plants.

§Fully staffed Quality Department including Lead Quality Technicians, Quality Auditors and Quality Inspectors. Lead the Quality Team in daily, monthly and weekly activities.

§Increased reliability for statistical data control ensuring product meets both internal and customer specifications. Lead reduction of PPMs for Critical To Function parameters from 2250 to 238 through focused improvement teams; maintaining improvement for the past 3 years.

§New Product Qualifications including development of critical to function product specification; planning and scheduling of resources to perform testing, analyzing data and trends during and after the qualifications also supporting customers through the customer qualification process. Responsible to analyzed data to ensure tooling cut and designed to satisfy customer requirements.

§Involved in plants initial ISO certification in 2012; responsible to and maintained plant certification from 2012 – present.

§Budgeted and planned calibrations for all quality equipment ensuring equipment calibrations maintained and performed as required. Developed and maintained a Master Gage List of all quality gages tracking calibration and movement of gages.

§Primary contact for internal and external customers. Maintained customer relationships scheduling routine visits, quarterly and annual reviews, bi-weekly conference calls and participating in customer focus improvement teams.

§Responsible to facilitate Corporate, ISO, and Customer Audits, Conduct Internal Audits, Plant HACCP, GMP and Food Safety Coordinator, Document Control, Development of both Corporate and Plant level documents, Active role in problem solving, plant inventory counts, active member of plant safety team, created and maintained quality limit samples for minimum, maximum, acceptable and unacceptable standards to be utilized as a visual aide, managing plant QMS, active role in daily GEMBA walks and tiered audits.

§Implemented color coding background of control charts to provide a visual aide to the operator to trigger proper reaction to out of control conditions.

§Teamed with other Graham Packaging QM’s to develop best practices to drive improvements to our Business Unit.

§Conducted Gage R & R Studies to verify reliability and repeatability of quality gages and operators.

§Created spreadsheet to track training of all employees. Scheduled and conduced training for corporate and plant level procedures, HACCP, GMP requirements, Sanitation and Hygiene, Allergen Awareness, Proper Documentation Practices, Cardinal Rules and how to understand control charts; creating tests to verify effectiveness of training.

§Identify critical points in the manufacturing process and specify sampling procedures to be used at these points.

§Reached labor goals by designing and building work modules for time consuming repetitive tasks.

§Gather and research quality data to determine cost saving plans (asset life cycle, technology upgrades)

§Collect and analyze production samples to evaluate quality. Responsible to stop production if serious product defects are present.

§Analyze quality control test results and provide feedback and to management staff. Monitoring performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.

§Produce reports utilizing Microsoft Office regarding non-conformance of products or processes, daily production quality reports, root cause analysis, or quality trends.

§Verify that raw materials, purchased parts or components, in-process samples, and finished products meet established testing and inspection standard

1991 - 1997

Duro Bag Mfg

Richwood, KY

Inspector / Bag Catcher

§Inspected plastic bags for compliance to standard ensuring defect free and durable.

§Labeled cases for packaging.

§Supply line with material to meet orders running on the production machine.

§Verifies print quality matched the print specification.

Education

1987 Graduated from Carroll County High School

Special Trainings

§HACCP

§GMP

§Plant Security

§Food Safety

§Allergen

§SPC

§Infinity Software

§SAP

§Problem Solving

Other Traits and Abilities

Hard working individual always looking for new ideas to improve and move forward. I enjoy

getting to know new people. During my time outside of work I enjoy working outside gardening,

fishing and hanging out with my nephew and husband.

References Available Upon Request.

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