Engineer Quality Assurance

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Extensive experience in all facets of welding/joining and engineering in the areas of development, process

improvements, equipment purchases, new technology pursuit, plant start-ups, costing, training, and quality control.

Proven technical leadership and expertise in problem solving/prevention, failure analysis, consultations, and

presentations, and project management. Experience with employee involvement at all levels, self-directed work teams,

TIT, Kaizen, SPC, and QS-9000.

July 09/Feb 12 Aker Solutions, Manufacturer of Offshore controls and equipment

Welding Engineer III: Responsible of all welding facets within the division. Provide support to all program managers

and project directors for development and control of all Welding Specification Procedures for all projects. Recognized

as the GO TO guy for problem solving of welding issues worldwide. Expert in processing and development of newly

assigned personnel and maintaining their standards within AMSE IX. API 1104 and D1.1 code books. Support

management level on equipment replacement.

Jan 04/Feb 09 DTR of Tennessee. Inc. Manufacturer of automotive products. Also noise reduction/damper

products hose reducers. (Tier 1 Supplier).

Senior welding Engineer: Responsible for providing expertise support throughout the company. Perform failure

analysis and investigations on tested components, field failures, manufacturing defects, and supplier-based

components. Conduct mechanical testing to support the maintenance of the department. Test coolant corrosively in

heat exchangers. A Technical leader for the production engineering department and an active QS-9000 lead auditor.

Review and critique the work of junior level product Engineers in the division. Responsible for the cost maintenance

of the production engineering department. Major a ccomplishments : Provide in-depth root cause failure

investigations with corrective action recommendations on all. Types of products within the department. Recognized as

the technical resource for joining and welding characteristics division-wide. Provide prompt and informative

feedback to design and Manufacturing Engineering

Majority of the work was concentrated around manual welding, robotic "Mig" welding, and joining processes.

Provided support expertise to other areas of the facility, which included soldering, torch brazing, and manual &

robotic welding of steel components. Wrote Manufacturing Standards or other supporting specifications. Supervised

production employees as requested by plant staff with product line responsibilities... Provided input for annual

budget planning. Supported Quality, Product Engineering, and Manufacturing functions.

Major a ccomplishments : Implemented weld assembly manufacturing cost reduction projects which exceeded

$125,000

Annual. Responsible for the highest volume product in the plant and implemented continuous upgrades to the

department. Conducted failure analysis investigations on tested and field returned components.

Sept 94/Jan 04 BEHR HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEMS. INCORPORATED-ENGINE COOLING

DIVISION NORTH CHARLESTON. SC.29404

Welding Engineer/Supervisor- Manufacturing Engineering Department: Responsible for all in-plant welding

activities concerning present and future products. Responsibilities included manufacturing support, process

development, formal welder training programs, and maintenance of plant-wide process control. Provided weld design

to Product Engineering for code section IV compliance and calculated weld standards for Cost Accounting. Wrote

welding procedures and administered the qualification of processes and welders/operators in compliance to ASME

section IX. Provided engineering studies and support to promote the successful implementation of manufacturing cost

reduction programs. Wrote appropriations, justification reports, and product failure and weld quality reports.

Optimized production tooling and machine design functions. Major accomplishments: Implemented the synergic

control pulsed gas metal arc weld process for quality improvement and

Flexible user-friendly operation. Established and conducted two successful in-house welder training programs for both

ASME

Code requirements and general production education. Built a weld training/development lab.

Nov 72/Sept 94 UNITED STATES AIR F O R C E

LAST ASSIGNED BASE, CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, SC, 29405

LOGISITICS DEPARTMENT Responsible for War Readiness Materials (WRM) worldwide. Traveled worldwide to support

the programs for the equipment staged at various locations. Developed and implemented a program to track equipment for

return to home base for TPM'S, Temporary Preventive Maintenance. Developed registers to monitor and track assigned

personnel to deploy and return to home base within the United States.

WELDING/REPAIR DEPARTMENT

Welding/Repair shop/Assigned to the special purpose shop, repairing missile container vehicles, heavy equipment using

GTAW, Pulsed, GMAW, Fluxed-cored, Brazing, Soldering, Plasma Arc and SMAW/Stick. Improved in -house capabilities to

various functions of training newly assigned Airmen to the unit.

Major accomplishments :

Was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation (Jun-73) for implementing a new study program to train assigned Airmen to

better enhance their advancement to the next rank.

Quality Assurance Department: Improved in-house aluminum welding capabilities. Administered the qualifications of

welding processes, in-house and supplier welders' in compliance to the AWS structural steel and aluminum codes. Responsible

for the disposition of rejected weld-fabricated assemblies, wrote salvage repair instructions, and prepared reports for

management. Reviewed and interpreted specifications, drawings, procedures, and non-conforming materials. Conducted

manufacturing shop audits in the welding,

Welding/Joining Processes Experience: GTAW, Pulsed-GTAW, GMAW, Robotic-GMAW, (Spot, Projection, High

frequency), Fluxed-cored, Brazing (Torch, CAB), Soldering (Torch, Dip, Iron-Electrical), Stick/SMAW, Thermal Spray

(Flame, Wire), Plasma Arc and cutting

Materials Experience: Structural steels, Mild Carbon and stainless steels, Rimmed steels, Continuous cast steels, Copper,

Brasses, Aluminum alloys sheet/plate/cladded combinations/ castings (heat treatable and no heat-treatable), Lead alloys.

Welding Code Experience: AWS (DI.I, Dl.2, Dl.3), ASME Sections II (A,B,C), IV, VIII (Division 1), and IX

Education: Community College of the Air Force

Bachelor of Science in Welding Engineering- October 1995

Area Vocational Technical Institute

Associate degree in welding technology- November 1978

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

Hobart school of welding technology 1974

ABB School of Robotics Programming 1982

ABB School of Robotics Programming (Advanced) 1986

Motorman Programming School 2002

Fanuc School of Robotic Maint/Repair 2005

PLC programming School (Basic) 2006

Member of American Welding Society (AWS)

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