Jason M. Disney, MBA.

Certified Project Manager & Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

Quality Manager – Project/Program Manager

Professional Experience

Tenneco Corporation – 2021 – Current

Plant Quality Assurance Manager

In my role as Plant Quality Manager, I have direct management responsibility of all plant quality processes. Leadership role in plant APQP and cross functional problem solving across full customer base including General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Cummings, FCA. Tasked with plant management responsibility of IATF16949 certification restoration / acquisition. I hold a leadership management role in areas including customer program management execution. product safe launch gateways execution, along with successful PPAP oversight within product launch timelines. I also lead in rasic reviews with General Motors, Ford, Stelleantis and other customers.

Lear Corporation - 2014-2021

Plant Quality Manager:

In my role as Plant Quality Manager, I have direct management responsibility of all plant quality processes. I hold direct oversight as the plant management representative for ISO/TS 16949 transitioning to IATF 16949. Since 2014 during my tenure at our Lear Columbia City seating plant we successfully navigated four external audits with zero major and zero minor non-conformances. During my tenure at this facility, we successfully launched the GM full-size pick-up seating program K2XX and T1XX seat system supplied to General Motors Fort Wayne Assembly. Detailed below are multiple quality awards and recognitions received during my tenure as Plant Quality Manager.

Quality milestones achieved during my tenure include but not limited to the following:

JD Power 2019 Best in Class Seat Quality Award (Light Truck & Van Segment).

General Motors 2016 and 2017 Supplier of the Year Award.

General Motors Fort Wayne Assembly received the 2017 Golden Plant Award to which our seats were recognized as a key contributor to receiving.

IMA Louisville (Lear Corporation) (2009-2013)

Lead Program Senior Quality Engineer (Mercedes & General Motors)

I held direct launch quality responsibility of all plant quality processes to launch the site relocation for the GMT 900 seating system (Tier 2) into General Motors by way of Tier 1 seating plant. This included the installation and PPAP of three assembly lines for the front row seating system.

As the Lead Program Senior Quality Engineer during launch of the Mercedes W166 and X166 SUV vehicle seating systems I held primary oversight for assembly line development along with product PPAP migration from Daimler (Mercedes Benz). I was launch responsible for quality systems validation tied to product performance. I organized and led CFT teams including product Daimler SQE, Lear product engineering and vendor support specialist to complete all launch and product quality management duties. These systems included three assembly line systems.

McKendree University - Adjunct Professor (2007 - 2009)

I was an adjunct University Professor with McKendree University where I teach courses including Principles of Management and Principles of Marketing courses to students in the business department undergraduate program.

I have also taught courses with ATA Career Education in Louisville, KY.

Noble International / Noble Metal Processing 11/2007- 4/2009

Plant Quality Manager - Managed the Quality Assurance & ISO / TS Departments to retain all certifications and meet PPM goals of the organization.

Quality milestones accomplished during my tenure with Noble include our facility having completed over 13 months with zero PPM (Parts per Million) defect rating with Ford Motor Company and Honda Manufacturing of America. We have had over 8 consecutive months of zero PPM production to General Motors Corporation. Testing cost savings of 50,000 from 2007-2008.

Designed and implemented new quality testing metrics and processes during my tenure we reduced the cost of quality by 35% from 2006 to 2009.

Designed and led FEMA teams, maintained process capability of 1.67 or less for all program launches.

Ford Motor Company / Stamping Business Unit - Stamping Launch Team Specialist and Quality Control Liaison (1999-2007)

8 years of operational experience within automotive manufacturing specifically pertaining to the areas of production and quality control.

Reduced TGW ratings of production process scores, trained QC technicians and led CIWG (continuous improvement work groups) within the plant.

Education

Indiana W. University

Master Business Administration

Honors and Achievements: GPA: 3.87 (Deans List)

McKendree University

B.B.A. in Business Administration / Marketing

Honors and Achievements GPA: 3.9 (Magna Cum Laude) (Deans List)

I served as Chair of the McKendree University Alumni chapter.

Formal Certifications

Certified Project Manager Certification (July 2009)

Six Sigma Black Belt (May 2009)

IATF 16949 Internal Auditor

ISO/TS 16949 Nationally Certified Internal / External Auditor (May 2008)

Specific Project Management Experience

From 2014 – 2021 I had primary oversight over the General Motors T1XX seating system launch. This launch was the primary vehicle revenue generating program for both General Motors and Lear within the 2014 -2020 period. The billion dollar vehicle program went through multiple supplier readiness valve reviews (APQP) rasic gateways successfully completed by my plant who was the lead launch seating supplier for the T1XX program. The program launched successfully without any deliverable gateway delays and on budget.

As senior Quality Engineer with IMA Louisville (Lear) I had primary oversite for completion of APQP – PPAP launch requirements for the Daimler (MBUSI) seating structure program that supplied into the SUV assembled at MBUSI (Tuscaloosa, Alabama). Gateway reviews, product validation site support, technical reviews and appearance reviews were events I had primary support oversight to see through to completion. The program launched successfully without any deliverable gateway delays and on budget.

From 2007-2009 as Quality Manager I led weekly APQP (Advanced Production Quality Planning) meetings, which included participants from within our plant, corporate headquarters along with customer representatives to oversee 7 different automotive program launches for our OEM customers. These program launches included the 2008 Lincoln MKS, 2008 G.M. Traverse, 2007 G.M. Malibu, 2010 Ford Taurus and the 2008 Honda Pilot. My duties included leading the team that conducted PPAP (Pre-Production Approval Process) requirements form Ford, Honda and General Motors for meeting world class production tolerances of + or - .05mm with Cp and Cpk levels of 1.67 or higher. Our team accomplished these successful PPAP and APQP processes launches while decreasing our facilities highest RPN scores within the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis process.

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