Quality Assurance Fire Safety

Grover L. Berry III

Current Location: Loganville, GA

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

19+ years of experience working manufacturing industries including plastics, metals, aerospace, and healthcare.

Experience with detecting visual defects, performing quality checks, doing visual inspections

Operating manufacturing & production machines

Adherence to ISO 9001 standards in manufacturing and assembly processes and updating records for discrepancies during assembly

Proven ability to manage safety protocols, including fire safety, emergency evacuation, and equipment testing in high-risk environments.

Hands-on expertise in soldering, SMT inspection, component testing, and auditing in electronics manufacturing.

Candidate is local to the job location & immediately available

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:

AA and BS / MBA degree in-process Business Management University of Phoenix

5'S Lean Manufacturing Systems and Safety (Certificate), Flextronics, Las Vegas NV,

2 years Diploma Electronic, Consumer Electronics, Chicago Illinois

SKILLS:

Product Quality Assurance

Manufacturing

Emergency Handling

Maintenance

Fire Alarm Systems

Emergency Evacuation

Fire Safety

Production Line

Hazard

Smoke Detector

OSHA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Medical Assembler Jun 2024 - Jan 2025

Boston Scientific, Alpharetta GA

Assemble medical kits according to detailed specifications, blue prints, ensuring accuracy and completeness.

Adhere strictly to work instructions and industry standards during the assembly process to maintain high product quality.

Operated manufacturing machines, maintenance & teardown of machines

Inspected product to determine compliance with order specifications of each assembled kit.

Ensure product integrity by carefully placing gauze, hazard labels, surgical gels, computer harnesses, and surgical gowns in the kits.

Operate within a cleanroom environment to maintain the sterile condition of surgical components.

Utilize MES (Manufacturing Execution System) to log production data, trace products, and ensure full product traceability.

Update MES records for discrepancies and report bad components during assembly to support continuous improvement.

Conduct quality checks at various stages of the assembly process to detect and correct defects.

Reason Gap- Completing BS degree

QA Inspector May 2023 – Oct 2023

Custom Manufacturing Engr. Pinellas, FL

Performed SMT inspection weekly defect report writing C of C certification and harness and cable inspection also final inspection on chassis and document control

QA inspector Mar 2021 – Mar 2023

Curtiss Wright Defense, Valencia, CA

Working as a contractor as a safety inspector using aerospace technology inspecting smoke detectors for the air force check and tests for quality control concerning defects and products.

Maintained documents such as fire inspection files.

Familiarizing standard concept safety practices, and procedures within a particular field.

Experience with good judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

Identified a potentially lethal defect in a gas cylinder acquired for a project, saving both employees and the company building from harm.

Set the standards for audit documentation, making paperwork easier to handle for newly inducted auditors.

Monitored workers to ensure that their work processes are in accordance with established quality specifications.

Responsible for accepting, rejecting, and ordering rework of the item, such as RMA inventory control scanning and filing ISO 9001 Quality management system, International Compliance review.

Safety Coordinator (Internship) Aug 2020 – Jan 2021

UPS Healthcare, Cerritos, CA

Supervising and managing 4 employees while finishing my bachelor's in business management through my path program internship.

Task consists of verifying orders from the (GWS) software system, which is incoming orders, outbound orders and cross-dock orders. Also managing the utilization spreadsheet on the warehouse volume other duties pertain to administration work such as checking email, scanning documents.

Conducted daily safety meetings concerning forklifts in the warehouse and updating safety policy and procedures reports.

Check assigned premises to determine safety hazards and conditions.

Search for fire hazards and highlight them.

Test fire alarms and sprinklers in order to ensure their functionality.

Review emergency evacuation plans.

Maintenance Tech Mar 2020 – May 2020

BGIS, Social Circle, GA

Responsible the ability to effectively communicate with customers technicians and vendors job duties was to prioritize a large number of tickets and work independently with work orders and find resolution to the defects that were made on each shift during pass-down meetings.

Also, responsible for inspecting and completing inspection rounds within the data center that would pertain to trouble

shooting and report writing

QA Inspector

Creative Software Electronics Jan 2015 – Aug 2019

Auditing, SMT boards and inspecting PC boards down to component levels, such as dials, compactors, IC chips, resistors as well as soldering, cold solder and checking for solder bridges. Also, performing first article and first piece’s inspection and matching schematic, blue printers and other customer specifications that concerns OEM requirements.

Quality Assurance Inspector

JCM of American Corp, Las Vegas NV. Oct 1998 – Nov 2008

Inspect products manufactured or processed by a private company from Japan used to ensure compliance with contract specifications. Executed daily operations WBA, DBV, BMF, TSP printer.

Inspected product to determine compliance with order specifications of each city.

Responsible for weekly defective report writing, inspection of production line, shipping audit and evaluated company’s quality control system for compliance with legal requirements and shipping and packing facilities for conformity to specified standards, trained, and managed EEPROM reading, blueprint reading electrical testing first article writing and achieved significant improvements in their productivity such as GPA, SPC, and RMA.

MILITARY EXPERIENCE:

United States Army National Guard - Honorable Discharge

E-4 Specialist.

Transport Troops from the base to the field.

Medical Unit in Chicago Ill.

Quality Management, Safety pass-down meeting

Lean Manufacturing Systems / Blueprint reading / Schematic Reading

Solar License 2005-2012 construction safety meeting Helix Electric OSHA 10 certification, Las Vegas, NV

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