Quality Engineer Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager /Product or Manufacturing Engineer / Quality Engineer

Virgil L. Woolman

Roscommon, MI 48653 or Spartanburg, SC 29301

Ph. 248-***-**** Email: ******@*****.***

Career Experience :

Jan. 1, 2016 - Current Product & Process Engineering Consultant

Self-employed engineer assisting various companies on an as-needed basis, providing expertice in product design and manufacturing process evaluation and recommendations for improvement. Customers assisted were members of the auto industry within the U.S. and other countries.

June 2015 – July 2015 Supplier Quality Engineer FCA - Chrysler, Auburn Hills, MI

Member of the P&SQ Inter-Regional Flow group which manages quality issues for international plants. Activities included resolving NAFTA parts supplier quality problems for all vehicle lines produced in assembly plants in Europe, South America and China.

April 2015 – May 2015 Quality Engineer / Inspection Supervisor Etimex, Charlotte, NC

Third-party containment quality engineer assisting in resolution of process problems and supervising a group of inspectors on 3 shifts to assure only satisfactory parts were shipped to the customer. This was a short-term assignment due to being a third-party containment activity, terminated upon verification of continued satisfactory quality production.

Sept. 2012 – Sept 2014 Product Development Engineer Mercedes-Benz, Tuscaloosa, AL

Team member of the EVS department which is an extension of Product Engineering for the Mercedes-Benz Design & Development Center in Germany. Activities included resolving quality and assembly issues in the plant and with suppliers for various injection-molded plastics and stamped and/or extruded exterior components used in the assembly of ML-, GL-, R- and C-class vehicles built at the MBUSI facility, and reviewing designs for upcoming new vehicles in-progress at Mercedes Design Center.

Nov. 2007 – Sept 2012 Supplier Quality Engineer BMW Manufacturing NA, Greer, SC

Activities include addressing quality problems with all components used in the assembly of X3, X5, & X6 vehicles, including interiors, exteriors, door closures/hardware/sealing, chassis, and powertrain issues on A-shift and B-shift.

•Root-cause analysis of component/assembly design and manufacturing problems

•Documentation of problem issues, findings, and resolutions

•Coordinating resolution activities between suppliers and BMW Manufacturing

•Addressed some PQM issues with Senior Management

•Responsible for all QMT activities on B-shift in Hall 52

•Coordinate QA parts issues between Logistics and Assembly zones

•Worked with CMM, Lab and Analysis Center personnel on analyzing problems

•Participated in plant trial runs when evaluating potential engineering changes

•Participated in various BMW training classes including DMAIC problem-solving

Oct.’07 - Nov.’07 PQF Engineering Supervisor Daimler/Chrysler Bus NA, Oriskany, NY

Technical working supervisor and customer liaison with New York City Transit and Toronto Transit customers resolving design and manufacturing warranty field issues on hybrid electric buses manufactured at this facility. Duration was brief as an opportunity to work at BMW in Greer, SC was presented to me.

Oct. ‘06 - Dec. ‘06 Manufacturing Engineer Guide Corporation, Monroe, LA

Manufacturing engineer for exterior lighting products – short duration assignment for these products while they were resourced to other suppliers and this facility was being closed.

GM Truck Group and General Motors Technical Center

Dec. 02 - Apr. 04 Vehicle Assembly Engineer GM Truck Group, Pontiac, Michigan

Achieved GM Red-X Statistical Problem-Solving Techniques Journeyman Certification

Activities included measuring customer dissatisfaction and warranty problems using customer feedback and field data, root-cause analysis, and providing resolutions to management.

Sept.1999 - Dec. 2002 Vehicle Integration Engineer GM Truck Group, Pontiac, Michigan

Activities included chairing daily meetings with all vehicle systems engineering departments, Marketing, Quality, Purchasing, and all assembly plants to resolve problems with production, quality, cost, suppliers, warranty, ergonomics, and customer satisfaction issues.

Chevrolet Avalanche Launch Team Member GM Truck Group Assembly, Silao, Mexico

Coordinated communications between Engineering, Purchasing/SQA, Production Control, and plant management on parts quality status during vehicle launch.

Vehicle Integration Engineer for Chevrolet Avalanche GM Truck Group, Pontiac, Michigan

Activities included: resolve design issues with GM Design Center; preparing/editing vehicle technical specifications; follow-up of GM Proving Grounds test issues; participation in ride & handling, acoustic, squeak & rattle evaluations; provided technical information to all departments/plants.

Sept.1994 - June 1999 Exteriors Team Chairman GM Technical Center - Warren, Michigan

Activities included chairing technical meetings with design engineers from all car platforms, GM Legal Staff, Service and insurance groups related to exterior systems, selection of materials and processes used, evaluation of new materials and processes, construction and attachments, testing procedures, and served as GM technical representative at SAE committee meetings.

Bill-Of-Material Manager for Exterior Products GM Technical Center – Warren, MI

Activities included preparing design criteria and commonizing exterior components for all car platforms and Design Center in the execution of new programs. Criteria details included curb clearance, ramp angles, tooling parting lines, mold-in-color and painted appearance aspects for manufacturability, fender/quarter fits and attachments, vehicle towing and tie-down information.

Purchasing & Engineering Supplier Selection Member GM Tech Center – Warren, MI

Technical representative to Purchasing for evaluating suppliers on cost, quality, and capability for processing and tooling of numerous compression- and injection-molded plastics and processing of various metals for numerous exterior components.

Inland Fisher-Guide Engineering ( Delphi ) Warren, Michigan & Anderson, Indiana

Program Engineering Manager for Luxury Vehicle Products

Activities included coordination with the Sales Account Manager to resolve cost, production, and quality issues for all Delphi I&L components. Product lines included seats, doorpanels, I/Ps, consoles, steering wheels, door glass regulator systems, door locks hardware, structural components and exterior lighting and trim.

Engineering Liaison to GM Design Center GM Technical Center -- Warren, Michigan

Activities as technical liaison included daily studio reviews of new vehicle designs, providing design criteria/recommendations for changes related to impact performance, fit/finish and attachments issues, tooling and/or manufacturability of components, and cost advantages.

Engineering Liaison to GM Car Groups and Toyota Engineering / NUMMI

Warren, MI & Lansing, MI ; Fremont, CA & Toyota City, Japan

Exteriors Product Design & Development Engineer Anderson, IN

Activities included directing the design/development of exterior components on several programs and serving as technical liaison to GM car platforms and Toyota Engineering. Also served as the technical liaison to NUMMI assembly plant during pilot and launch.

Engineering Liaison to Daewoo Motors Inchon, South Korea

Technical representative for the manufacturing of bumpers at Koram (Delphi joint venture) who supplied Daewoo Motors with parts for vehicles built by Daewoo Motors, and also provided design assistance to Daewoo Motors for their domestic vehicles.

Production Engineer at Delphi Plants Anderson, Indiana and Matamoros, Mexico

Activities included all functions of industrial engineering for lighting and exterior components including: production planning, plant layout, materials handling, assembly methods and time study, assembly tooling, product cost estimating, and packaging. Manufacturing processes included sheetmetal stamping and roll-forming, thermoplastics injection, RRIM injection and compression molding, air-dry and high-temperature-bake paint, zinc die-casting, chrome-plating of metal and plastic parts, decorative hotstamp, sonic-weld, and automated and manual assembly.

Injection-Molding Experience Note:

I was employed by Inland-Fisher Guide, a previous GM component division which designed and manufactured most interior and exterior components for GM's cars and trucks. I gained most of my knowledge of plastics working there. The following is a list of example products: front and signal lighting assemblies, bumper systems including fascias and energy absorbers, aero packages, spoilers and wheel flares, instrument panels, door trim panels, consoles, steering wheels, inside mirrors, etc. I have worked with numerous plastics including acrylic, polycarbonate, nylon, polypropylene, polyethylene, and various urethanes, EPDMs, polyesters, and with various fillers including carbonates, glass, mica, and other minerals. The processes included injection molding, single-color and multiple-color tooling, insert-molding, compression molding, and reaction-injection molding (RRIM), extrusions, vacuum-forming, painting, chrome-plating, and aluminizing. My experience was gained over 20 years in manufacturing and product engineering. Additionally, I worked closely with Tool Engineering on tool designs and fabrication to verify tools would produce the products as intended.

Education :

Kettering University (General Motors Institute), Flint, Michigan

•Bachelors of Industrial Engineering

Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana

•Introduction to Small Business

Spanish I - IV – Pimslers Global Interface Foreign Language

Numerous GM Corporate Training Programs including:

Tauguchi Statistical Design of Experiment Methodologies,

Shannin Statistical Problem-Solving Methodologies,

GM Principles of Management, Theory X, Y, & Z,

Introduction to Computer Graphics Systems Design (CGS)

Principles of Lean Management in Manufacturing,

Logistical Movement of Materials in the Workplace,

G D & T for Product Design & Quality Analysis,

PPAP Procedures for New / Re-sourced Products,

ISO 9000 & 14000 Qualification Procedures,

GM Red-X Statistical Problem-Solving – Journeyman status

DMAIC training at BMW

Catia v5 training at MBUSI

Professional Society of Automotive Engineers ( SAE ) - Exterior Products

Experience: (1) U.S. Patent (pertaining to) Integral Attachments

Languages: English & some conversational Spanish

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