Manager Engineer

Sal Garcia

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Wood Dale, IL

Home: 630-***-**** Cell: 1-312-***-****

Email: ***************@*********.***

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (ASQ) – Lean/Quality Practitioner seeking new opportunity to fully utilize my potential to support corporate goals at hand.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT

Prince Castle, Carol Stream, Illinois

3/12-Current Employer- Operations Manager-Process Engineer- Food Equipment Manufacturer (Electrical and Mechanical Assembly) Non-Union Employees…Contract to Perm Depending on sales

• Develop 2 new product line utilizing lean concepts

• Develop work instructions for all assemblies to support the developing standard processes

• Work with suppliers on all QA non-conforming components…real time basis.

• Work with suppliers to support Kanban deliveries

• Train permanent and contract employees on lean concepts (5s, Standard Work, Kanban System)

• Manage four employees (2 permanent and 2 contract employees) for new product rollout.

• Manage all production activities regarding new production sales rollouts

Summit Industries, Chicago Illinois

12/11 –3/12 – Quality Manager- (Medical Equipment Industry-FDA) Non Union Employees

• Maintained and managed internal audits per QMS.

• Facilitating 2012 Management System Review Meeting with Senior Management per ISO 9001:2008

• Facilitating the Radiology Medical line Kaizen Event and the event experience a 23% productivity improvement.

• Oversee the internal and external calibration within facility

• Handled the tasks of developing, implementing and maintaining quality system policies

• Manage all CARs and SCARs per QMS

• Develop a program where each functional department will develop internal KPI’s to measure Productivity/Quality.

• Develop the monthly QA report to senior management team which provides all QA activities/trends.

• Develop a lean training program customize to production personnel.

• Manage QC inspectors

Laid-off on 3/16 due to business downturn

Gate Gourmet, O’Hare Airport, Chicago Illinois

5/07 –11/11 – Regional OPEX Manager (Materials and Continuous Improvement) - (Food Production/Service Industry- USDA) Union Employees…multi sites

• Design and develop new food work stations for all Chicago units which increase productivity in the vicinity of 24%.

• Support and conduct corporate quality training (FMEA, SPC, First Article Inspection, 8D, Quality& HAACP policies, SOP’s etc.).

• An integral participant in a new product partnership in St. Louis, which reduce labor cost by 6 % from the stated labor cost.

• Develop monthly reports for Regional Continuous Improvement Program based on KPI’s trending.

• Conducted scheduling training for operation managers in multiple-facilities utilizing man-hours to support the productivity pillar.

• Created new storeroom layouts (Dry good, Freezers) in multiple units that optimize material flow in respect to demand.

• Held an AA (American Airlines) IUR (Internal Material Usage Report) Kaizen event that save an average of $5800 per month on AA charges driven from AA IUR (internal usage report).

• Trained all buyers/storeroom managers in the central region on corporate procurement and receiving policies.

• Developed Gemba Lean practical workshop for the management staff in the Central region to support the employee corporate employee development program.

• Evaluated P/L with GM and create strategies to ensure costs are aligned with corporate initiatives.

• Support Material Manager across multiple facilities relating to material control to reduce losses due to yield, scrap and processes.

• Facilitated multiple kaizen events that produce significant savings in cost, space and morale.

• Supported SAP bar coding rollout in several facilities.

• Implementation of TPM components in multiple units.

• Support HCCAP and USDA criteria within multiple facility…obtain Food Safety Manager Certificate (Chicago board of health)

Buhrke Industries, Arlington Heights, Illinois

10/06 – 5/07: Lean Manufacturing Manager (Metal Stamping Industry) Non-Union Employees

• Developed a VSM of Siemens radio line to identify the value stream (value added and non-value added), which reduce lead-time by 20% of non-value added components.

• Initiated and standardize procurement (single source) of PPE items within the facility. Specified which PPE items are required for each operation, which reduce PPE procurement cost by 18%.

• Conducted SMED (Single Minute Exchange Die) for the metal stamping process…reduce setup time by 24%.

• Performed lean and quality training to production (quality and engineers) and office personnel.

• Wrote all required SOP’s (quality, TPM components and process related controls) for a new production platform (Toyota Robotic Weld Line), for the air bag chassis module line.

• Supported HR on personnel development plan to support employee empowerment.

Littelfuse Corporation, Des Plaines, Illinois

2/06-10/6: Manufacturing/Quality Engineer (Electro Chemical Industry) Union Employees.

• Implementation of TPM and SMED in the clean room department (photo imaging process).

• Perform all quality engineering functions (SPC, FMEA, etc.) within this photo imaging process department.

• Ensure proper clean room protocols and standards are maintained. Class 10,000 clean room.

• Engineering support for equipment/production issues

• Six Sigma Green Belt VSM (Value Stream Mapping) certified. Completed VSM for Photo imaging process to layout future events.

• Supported new product platforms in the photo imaging production area utilizing lean concepts to reduce non-value added steps from the process.

• Supported all ISO issues and ensure all controls and SOP where ISO compliant.

Touch Sensor Inc., Wheaton, Illinois

5/05- 1/06: Quality Engineer (Electronic/Mechanical Assembly Industry) Non Union Employees

• $9600 yearly cost reduction implementing a new nitrogen system for the production floor.

• $24,000 yearly cost saving changing vendors for production floor requirements.

• Implemented process platform improvement that had significant impact on the reduction of customer field returns.

• Work with a third party and implemented customizes tooling to optimize production (pick and place and paste printing) equipment to internal defects.

• Introduce Lean concepts platform to manufacturing production floor to begin their journey in Lean.

• Supported new production platform PFA, PPAP, PFMEA,

• Supported all quality issues in the production area…supported root cause analysis

• Supported all ISO issues and ensure all SOP and controls where ISO compliant to avoid ISO traps.

System Sensor (Division of Honeywell International) St, Charles, Illinois

7/99- 5/05: Process Engineer (Electronic Assembly Industry) Union Employees

• $425,000 cost reduction implementation in the manufacturing floor utilizing Lean and Six Sigma Principles

• Procurement for equipment (wave soldering, reflow oven, paste printing) needed to support new and old product platforms.

• Standardize all repair techniques for all repair associates that support the production floor.

• Support new product platform rollout utilizing DFSS and Lean techniques.

• Created a preventative maintenance database for test equipment utilizing Access/Visual Basic.

• Engineering production/manufacturing support

• Supported the implementation of TPM

• Supported light electrical assembly in a clean room environment.

• Utilize AS400 to understand component requirement at all level…i.e. sub-assembly.

• Completed Honeywell’s Lean and Six Sigma Training program

• ISO liaison for third party audits

System Sensor (Division of Honeywell International) St, Charles, Illinois

2/98-7/99: Quality Control Engineer (Electronic assembly Industry) Union Employees

• Performed a program that would fully utilized the Optical View System (CMM) to assist and reduce

the require Inspection time of all incoming inspection printed circuit board… reduce inspection time by 25%.

• Created a database using Access and Visual Basic to assist and monitor supplier corrective action for IQC (Incoming Quality Control).

• Conducted weekly meeting with the buyers to discuss all open and reoccurring issues with approved supplies

• Conducted supplier evaluation/audits to ensure suppliers maintain the approved supplier status

• Began lean training to assist the production floor through the Lean Transformation.

• Published and evaluate monthly KPI’s relating to supplier performance.

• Completed ISO training and certified ISO auditor for System Sensor

System Sensor (Division of Honeywell International) St, Charles, Illinois

7/96-2/98: Reliability Engineering Technician (Electronic assembly Industry) Union Employees

• Constructed and designed the reliability testing lab that would be conducive to efficient testing of new product and existing product lines through ALT (Accelerated Life Testing). This process was duplicated this facility in

Juarez, Mexico.

• Created standardized test procedures and constructed test fixtures for life testing.

• Conducted all training in the lab facility to ensure all lab assistant where following a standardize process.

Education:

Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois 12/03 M.B.A. (Operations Management and Finance)

DeVry Institute of Technology, Addison Illinois 2/95 BS (Electrical Engineering Technologist)

Project Management Certificate Program

Currently enrolled in OSHA 30 hour program

Certificate:

Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ (American Society of Quality)

Completed Lean Black Belt Training through ASQ (American Society of Quality)

Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate from Honeywell

Lean and TPM training and certification through Honeywell

OHSA and Safety Internal training Certificates through Honeywell

ISO certified through Honeywell ACS (Division)

Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate from Littelfuse

VSM certificate from Littelfuse

Food Service Manager Certificate from Chicago Board of Health

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