YOHANNES MARIAM

SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEER

EXPERIENCE

Staff Supplier Quality Engineer Guardant Healthcare - Redwood City 06/2021 - Present

■Conducted extensive and ongoing risk-based assessments of supplier corrective action solutions while recommending and implementing client-specific consultations.

■Responsible for supplier management including qualifying new suppliers improving marginal supplier performance conducting root cause analysis for non-compliant supplier’s author Supplier Quality Agreements and oversee process of Supplier Scorecard ratings.

■Mitigated risks by collaborating with Purchasing to resolve complex supplier quality solutions.

■Created and fostered healthy working relationships with clients which resulted in fewer non-compliance issues throughout the supplier base.

■Prepared and negotiated Quality Agreements with suppliers Qualifies suppliers according to company standards and administered a Certified Supplier Program in receiving inspection to ensure cost effectiveness.

■Collaborated with R&D Engineers to develop and deliver the Product Acceptance Sampling Strategy, Approved Supplier List coordination, Supplier Owned Quality deployment, and Control Plans for new products.

■Authored or reviewed key component engineering lifecycle deliverables throughout product development, as defined by procedures.

Sr. Principal Supplier Quality Engineer Baxter Healthcare - Hayward 06/2016 - 06/2021

■Identified negative/positive trends and implemented Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR) when necessary.

■Verified documented and logged all supplier corrective actions instituted for each project or organization.

■Led a team of engineers and technicians in conjunction with Purchasing to ensure follow-through of all SCARs.

■Experienced in Fundamentals of Supplier Quality Control Plans, Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Warranty Reduction, QS 9000, Reading Engineering Drawings, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) Process Capability Studies, Process Flow, Inspection Standard creation, and First Article Inspection (FAI), Cpk / PpK, SPC.

■Quality governance of selection of new suppliers to the Approved Supplier List (ASL) Developed and prioritized an NPI auditing schedule to ensure that new suppliers are audited initially as part of their qualification process.

■Created/Defined component qualification strategy (PPAP), partner with suppliers to develop qualification plan, report performance, and demonstrate release readiness.

■Provided technical guidance and quality compliance for Supplier Quality engagement throughout the NPD lifecycle on newly qualified parts from NPD and implementing strategies for driving product quality and continuous improvement, ensuring purchased products and

components are manufactured and qualified in accordance with applicable industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer requirements.

Principal Supplier Quality Engineer Spine view Inc. - Fremont 04/2013 - 08/2016

■Responsible for partnering with Purchasing to prioritize identify and complete Supplier Improvement initiatives.

■Created and fostered healthy working relationships with clients which resulted in fewer non-compliance issues throughout the supplier base.

■Defined/Created Receiving Inspection requirements as required and associated test method validation for all internal Spine View Test Methods.

■Acted as Supplier Management Expert for third party and customer audits.

■New product development team and product transfer to manufacturing, DFMEA and PFMEA Perform process and product audits along with capacity assessments to ensure the supplier's processes are robust and capable.

■Effectively performed supplier surveillance activities designed to manage and improve supplier performance, productivity, and process validation.

■Performed statistical analysis using Minitab to ensure supplier has acceptable capability in process validations.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Addis Ababa University, 01/2011

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCES

PDLM, Q-Pulse, QAD/ERP, SQLM/Track Wise 8 & 9, TCU/Team Center, GME/GDE, Propel, Master Control

REFERENCES

References available upon request

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