Quality Engineering Supplier
Resume:
Neil Kothari
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Consultant - SAP BI / Quality Engineering/ Supplier Quality /Quality Engineering Management/ Manufacturing Quality Engineering
Artesia, CA 90701
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Professional, energetic, hands-on quality manager/engineer with close to thirty years of accomplishments in supplier quality administration and management, advance quality assurance and management, continuous improvement, and in new product introductions. CARRER OBJECTIVE:
To obtain an engineering /supplier quality engineering/management position which utilizes my engineering skills and management abilities.
SKILLS:
Supplier Management Quality System Auditing, PPAP, FMEA's and Control plans Advanced Product Quality Planning -(APQP) SPC and Capability Analysis Project Management Supplier Certification, Cause Effect Analysis and Corrective Action Plan using Ford Motor Co. 8D approach, Total Quality Management ISO standards Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience:
Retired from work -Global Travel
January 2015 to December 2022
Traveled around Asia, Europe and America for pleasure… Consultant SAP BI
July 2013 to 2014
Module Consultant for an equity trading process automation using QA process mapping tools with a one of the largest equity and financial services organization in the India. independent Quality Consultant in Asia: Dell Computer 2007 to 2012
Worked as an Independent Quality Consultant with various manufacturing and non manufacturing organizations in Asia. (Including In India at Banglore and Delhi) Following are the list of accomplishments as an independent consultant: As a Quality Engineer/Manager with diversified experience in quality area, I have been directly • involved in Customer/Supplier Management as to working with suppliers to insure manufactured goods meet specifications, conduct supplier facility audits and site evaluation to verify its accordance to given specifications and develop product performance requirements and evaluation guidelines. • Worked as a quality engineer (consultant) for Asian LCD manufacturers supplying product to DELL. Provided quality, reliability, and technical support to customers and factory for all LCD products. Acted as primary customer contact for all Quality and Reliability issues for all LCD products. Coordinated customer failure returns; receive, track, provided FA reports and closed issues. Provided Product Quality Report and Monthly Monitoring Data to DELL Facilitated communication with Customer and Samsung in Korea. • Attend periodic customer meetings to discuss and improve product DPPM, as well as Quarterly Quality Review meeting. • Provide technical support in troubleshooting application failures. • Maintain technical database with history records of Customer Claims to be used in Failure Analysis process. • Manage memory product qualification either performed by the Customer, Joint, or Self-Qualification. • Participated in MRB meetings for purchased materials. Identified non-conformance trends and developed/ administered technical investigation and corrective action programs to resolve recurring quality problems using 8 D Corrective Action approach. Performed supplier Q.A system/process/product audits and administer any resultant corrective action programs. • Designed, installed and evaluated quality procedures and statistical techniques. Specified inspection, test criteria, parameters and equipment. Established processes to qualify and assess new and revised components. Recommended revision of specifications when needed. Sr.Technical Lead Engineer-WMS Gaming - Chicago, IL November 2005 to 2007
Developed and implemented Quality Assurance practices / procedures for hardware related product in hardware development area. • Developed Quality Assurance plans for QE related projects. • Monitored project performance against QA plans. • Verified compliance with defined practices and identified areas for improvement. • Collaborated with HW development organizations to develop, maintain, and continuously improve engineering processes and procedures. • Active member in continues improvement projects. Sr. Quality Engineer/Sr. Consultant-Dell Computer Corporation - Austin, TX September 1997 to November 2004
Responsible for notebook product quality. Chaired meetings during the entire product life cycle to ensure product quality and reliability through best known quality practices. Led the design reviews and identified product risks. Developed quality goals prior to launch, on Out of Box
(Obs), early life and steady state failures. • Ensure quality, reliability, and provide technical support to factory for all notebook related products. • Worked with Global Supplier Quality Engineers to deploy quality support structure for two major suppliers through development of quality management tools. Liaison between the development and production groups to ensure that the product specified cost, quality and time to market goals are achieved. • Coordinated customer/user failure for notebook with FA group to determine root cause and appropriate CA. • Managed resolution of major customer satisfaction issue with commodity supplier(s) by driving quality and design changes for key components. • Performed periodic quality system audits at LCD supplier facilities in Korea and Taiwan. • Attended Quarterly Quality Business Review
(QBR) meeting with major LCD supplier to discuss and improve produce DPPM. • Managed product quality of OEM notebook computer manufacturers in Taiwan through supplier quality reviews including process audit of SMT line and onsite notebook manufacturing process evaluation. • Responsible for Front End New Products into Engineering to deliver a product Dell product users at low cost, fast cycle time and high quality. Ensured new product readiness of supplier and that of Dell's manufacturing processes to meet time-to-market and business goals for new notebook platforms. • Led the quality improvement team to evaluate quality related issues through an organized corrective and preventative action processes, prior to and after product launch.
Quality Engineering Manager-3COM Corporation - Mount Prospect, IL April 1995 to December 1997
Project Manager of Planning and new products teams, instrumental in successfully helping to bring company from 300 million to 1.8 billion dollars in business. • Improved yields/defect reduction by more than 50% in all scrap related categories. • Extremely knowledgeable about surface mounting technology process for printed circuit board assembly. • Strong in quality system and audit and process improvement techniques, customer/supplier interface, process documentation and training in quality system awareness. • Managed supplier quality and internal process audits for improvement in manufacturing process. • Resolved OEM customer concerns/returns.
Quality Engineer-Eaton Corporation, Controls Division - Carol Stream, IL March 1992 to April 1995
Managed a wide range of supplier base on the global level. Led and conducted supplier quality system audits through out the North America / Fareast and coordinated corrective action plans.
• Managed Supplier Performance Rating System. • Optimized the external and the internal manufacturing process using 6s concept. • Troubleshooting and problem solving of manufacturing related issues including cycle time reduction. • Proficient in IPC standard A-610 solder process. • Implemented supplier certification program, authored supplier quality guidelines manual and automated supplier quality data collection for various manufacturing locations.
Education
Certificate in LCD - Liquid Crystal Display Technology UCLA - Los Angeles, CA
May 1999
Certificate in Certified Quality Auditor
A S Q - Milwaukee, WI
June 1997 to December 1997
1997 to 1997
Six Sigma certification obtained from Motorola university- Schaumburg,il Management Principles Certification
AMA - Chicago, IL
1995 to 1995
Business Administration Associate Degree
P D Malaviya Commerce College-India - Rajkot-India Skills:
PPAP,Supplier Quality,ISO,SPC,Quality Management,Six Sigma,Internal Audits,SAP,ISO 9001,Process Improvement,OEM,Lean Manufacturing,Microsoft Excel,Manufacturing,Mechanical knowledge,QA/QC,Supply Chain,Supplier Management,Root Cause Analysis,Six Sigma
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Operating Systems: MS-WINDOWS
Hardware: PC
Software: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint
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