Senior Quality Management Professional

Shaun Solomon

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Senior Quality Management Professional

Quality Assurance Perseverant Leadership Integrity Process Improvement

Accomplished Quality Production Professional with extensive experience demonstrating outstanding results through the use of innovative techniques to provide quality assurance and continuous improvement in the manufacturing environment. Leverage expertise in data analysis to drive through-put and reduces cost, identifying projects to improve design for assembly, initiation of BIQ (Built in Quality), and operator training for assembly excellence. Demonstrates skilful leadership within a diverse environment to achieve positive improvement results.

Areas of Expertise

Statistical Process Control

Quality Management Systems

Incoming Quality

Operations Management

Cost Reduction

In process Quality

New Product Validation

Process Validation

Supplier Quality

Professional Experience

Axalta coating Systems – Houston, Texas October 2017-August 2020

Quality Specialist

Responsible for driving quality improvement initiatives relative to internal and external defects.

Continuously analysing data to reduce quality issues both externally and internally. Report daily information at Tier 1 and Tier 3 AOE meetings.

Provide daily, weekly, monthly quality data to all levels of the business.

Provide monthly updates to global quality leadership on ongoing projects.

Analyse internal and external issues and provide path forward for corrective action and cost reduction to internal leadership team.

Daily interaction with production manager, supervisors, and shop employees to reduce both internal and external quality issue and cost.

Tiger Powder Coatings --- St. Charles, Illinois June 2016 – November 2017

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Responsible for driving quality improvement initiatives relative to internal and external defects at TDU facility.

Continuously analysing data to reduce top three quality issues both externally and internally. Perform Daily Product audits and Test equipment calibration.

Provided weekly updates of upcoming production vs pass complaints to all team members.

Provided weekly updates to the internal leadership team about ongoing quality projects.

Continuously performed internal test equipment calibration along with arranging external test equipment calibration.

Reviewed internal daily line rejections for continuous improvement opportunities.

Interacted daily with Process engineer and production manage to reduce internal and external quality rejections based off of collected data.

Implemented P.Q.V.C (People, Quality, Velocity, Coast) across all tiger facilities.

Caterpillar, Inc. – Joliet, Illinois February 2008 – June 2016

Cab Assembly Operations

Product Quality Engineer

Responsible for driving quality improvement initiatives in cab assigned value streams. Utilize Six Sigma methodology to understand root cause leading to the implementation of corrective actions. Interact daily with internal process partners Engineering, Global Purchasing, Logistics, and Manufacturing Engineering to drive issue resolution for our customer facilities and end users.

Led weekly Quality Reviews (CPPD). Supported the quality metrics for two value streams by providing quality data (PPM, DPU, DPMO, Scrap % of Sales) to our Quality black belt each month. Utilize statistical data to support the decision making process to drive corrective actions.

Provided training and resources to Quality Technicians relative to inspecting incoming material for specification conformance and provided instructions for material disposition.

Worked with suppliers daily to address quality issues and improve the inbound quality via supplier development of ICAs and PCAs.

Collaborated with Design Engineers on NPI projects and current designs to address functional and fit up issues (Design for Assembly)

Exceeded facility quality metric goals every year. Improvements consistently shown in lowered Defects per Unit, Defects per Million Opportunities, Machine Warranty, and Operating Cost.

Volt Information Sciences – Joliet, Illinois March 2006 – February 2008

Quality Technician – Contractor for Caterpillar, Inc.

Previously responsible for two value streams and the incoming material inspection for the Cab Assembly Operations Division of Caterpillar. Utilized skill set to review, document, and determine material acceptance for New Program Implementation (NPI), Engineering changes, and new sources of supply. Communicated daily

with internal process partners and suppliers on identified issues and driving back corrective actions to the suppliers.

Established random sampling inspection plans for material type across all value streams.

Governed supplier relationship database at the Cab Assembly Operations. Utilized database to manage supplier communications, PPAP, and APQP data entry.

Communicated issues to purchasing, engineering, and suppliers. Drove suppliers to corrective action implementation on issues documented during incoming inspection.

Education

Automotive Technology Certification, Joliet Junior Collage

Caterpillar University:

Certified 6 sigma Green Belt

Quality Specialist Core Certification

Order to Delivery Core Certification

Manufacturing Core Certification

5S

Environmental Health and Safety

Root Cause/Corrective Action

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