Quality Engineer, Supplier Quality Expert, Passion for quality

Quality engineering and corporate safety professional with demonstrated success leading and advancing industrial continuous improvement and quality systems programs, including business, behavioral, and employee safety performance, learning and development programs, customer quality evaluation, process engineering, and supplier development. Highly regarded continuous improvement project engineer and manufacturing / employee performance analyst!

PROFESSSIONAL SKILLS

APQP/PPAP Specialist

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Professional

Project Engineer

Supplier Development Quality Engineer

Microsoft, SAP, & Manufacturing Software

Performance Coach & Mentor

Quality Management - TQM

Corporate Safety Professional

Learning & Development Professional

IATF Auditor

EXPERIENCE

MAY 2024 – FEBURARY 2025

ADVANCED SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEER - ASQE

yazaki headquarters, nA, CANTON MI

Advanced Supplier Quality Engineer, overseeing Stellantis harness BOMs, coordinate PPAP submissions, manage initial timing meetings, project reviews, track provisional components and BOM updates weekly. Additionally, lead component functional reviews at program phase gates.

Key Accomplishments:

Manage Yazaki North America components from initial launch to final product. This includes understanding program details, coordinating meetings, conducting project evaluations, analyzing risks, assessing tool progress, and obtaining PSO and PPAP approval. Additionally, oversee design reviews, update data sources, build relationships with suppliers, and hold post-PPAP transfer meetings.

Oversee all external advanced supplier quality tasks for BU program launches, including GPMS activities such as missing PPAP status, risk assessments, APQP, and tool updates.

Assist with the New Supplier Form (NSF) process by reviewing documents and data and performing onsite assessments for new suppliers when necessary.

Manage updates to the Supplier Manual content.

Support Supplier Change Request (SCR) tasks.

Manage the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Supplier of the Year program.

Interface with internal customers regarding ASQE activities.

Support and implement all applicable Supplier Quality Development (SQD) processes, procedures, and initiatives.

Prepare, update, and communicate required presentations, data, issue status, and reports.

NOVEMBER 2023 – MAY 2024

VRT CO-LEAD VEHICLE CONNECTED SOFTWARE CONTROLS AND ENTERPRISE CONNECTIVITY

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn truck plant

Quality process coach for interim and permanent containment actions for warranty / A-calls / FCPA / Delta and other related claims in relation to vehicle connected software controls and enterprise connectivity. Call dealerships to obtain direct information on warranty claims in system. Daily surveillance walks and operator coaching. Monitoring business, and manufacturing product performance initiatives. Special projects.

Key Accomplishments:

Daily report outs of measurement system and ICA / PCA status via face-to-face meetings.

Directly work with production on MY24 launch MP2 builds.

Respond to customer quality concerns – interface with cross functional team to determine root cause and corrective actions.

JUNE 2022 – OCTOBER 2023

ADVANCED QUALITY ENGINEERING - APQP

ARaymond network, Rochester Hills, MI

Advanced Quality Engineering focused on APQP collaboration and planning activities including reviews with customers and internal quality team. Product studies with DOE and improvement plans, APQP validation, cost reduction, and continuous improvement for processes. Monitoring business, and manufacturing product performance initiatives. Special projects.

Key Accomplishments:

Lead new product launches from the award of business to the successful completion of quality records.

Weekly LPA and product audits.

Lead on customer audits with return action plan.

Respond to customer quality concerns – interface with cross functional team to determine root cause and corrective actions.

Special projects with global research and development and digital benchmarking.

Successfully revamped the Safe Launch process and achieved release of more than ten programs that had been considered SL for well over a year.

Exchanging product, process, and benchmarking information with sister units worldwide.

Continually improving processes, material and designs to ensure every product exceeds customer specifications while providing unparalleled value.

JANUARY 2017 – JUNE 2022

SPECIALIST ENGINEERING - QUALITY

BASF CORPORATION, WYANDOTTE, mi

Automotive quality engineering specialist, supervising business, and manufacturing product performance initiatives. Continuous improvement design and project engineering for strategy deployment, cost reduction, and validation for APQP, PPAPs, and product studies.

Key Accomplishments:

Lead manufacturing quality engineering programs for global positioning with suppliers, and Tier 1 Automotive Companies.

PPAP specialist and analyst for all supplier merchandise programs

Conducts 20+ annual supplier audits for existing and approval of new supplier

Supplier surveillance, management, and quarterly scorecards analysis

Coordinate quality concerns with suppliers (NCM system) – including coordination of their 8D and root cause – obtaining containment within 24 hours and closure within 10 days; preventive actions within 30 days.

Achieved reject rate reduction of ~9% by leading a team of process quality technicians for real time trouble shooting.

Product inspection leader requiring cross-collaboration with staff and clients to continuously evaluate and increase job performance and client relationships.

Recovered $30,000 via process reengineering models to repurpose merchandized component.

Lead supplier and vendor development quality programs ensuring performance systems align to manufacturing standards in-accordance too OEM requirements.

Performance coaching, mentoring, and development of personnel.

JUNE 2014 – JANUARY 2017

BEHAVIORAL BASED SAFETY STEERING TEAM LEADER

BASF CORPORATION, WYANDOTTE, MI

Corporate steering committee leader, ensuring behavioral and safety performance awareness.

Key Accomplishments:

Led the Wyandotte Site Exposure Reduction Process (ERP) by tailoring Mindset and Behaviors techniques and tools to fit the various plants, offices, and research community at Wyandotte.

Coordinated and facilitated observer and steering committee meetings; including agenda setting, assigning action items, and delegating when necessary to keep ERP on target to make necessary course correction as the process proceeds.

Developed and implemented internal corporate facilitator skills workshop to new steering team leaders in the process at other sites saving over $10,000 per attendee for each workshop.

Assisted in site ERP implementation at Research Triangle Park; including assessing the site and tailoring the process to fit the specific needs of the site.

Lead a 15-person team; colleagues representing a cross section of a 1,200+ personnel site that developed an improvement and sustainability plan for ERP process and successfully implemented and managed the rollout at the Wyandotte Site for the entire length of this position.

Facilitate observer training ten times per year to the general population and supplemental coaching following the training workshops; trained 40% of the site population during tenure.

Collaborated with EHS personnel to help reduce lost workdays and recordables year over year during tenure by over 50%

FEBRUARY 2011 – JUNE 2014

RESEARCH TECHNICIAN, SR.

BASF CORPORATION, WYANDOTTE, MI

Technical service specialist leading and supporting product development for wood binder lab trials.

Key Accomplishments:

Led production and customer trials for final launch approval.

Formulation and manufacturing analysis, including, launch strategies for product conformance.

Collaborate with Program Mangers ensuring project and quality requirements are aligned to customer specifications.

SEPTEMBER 2008 – FEBRUARY 2011

RESEARCH TECHNICIAN III

BASF CORPORATION, WYANDOTTE, MI

Established reputation in overseeing wood binder performance engineering projects.

EDUCATION • CERTIFICATIONS • PUPLICATIONS

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY — DETROIT, MI

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, CHEMISTRY

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK: CHEMISTS, CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, AND CAREER SUCCESS MANUSCRIPT ID: BK-2020-00345M

TITLE: "DON’T LIVE A STRAIGHT LINE"; CHAPTER 4; PG 23-26

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