Engineer Quality

Jeremy R Toney

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OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position in that will allow me to utilize quality assurance, leadership, responsibility, and organizational skills, as well as, allow the opportunity for professional and personal development.

Summary of Qualifications

Detail oriented, highly motivated engineer with proven track record in using technology to improve operational efficiency and cost reduction. My background in manufacturing environments gives me the ability to be a problem solver to improve processes and produce quality while optimizing resources.

Experience

Denso Manufacturing –Osceola, AR

Quality Engineer II July- 2010- Present

• Partner with engineers from product development and manufacturing to manage the launch of manufacturing lines for Toyota and Honda

• Provide leadership in the execution of Design Review and Risk Management processes per ISO requirements.

• Demonstrate project and process planning and execution skills to ensure regulatory requirements (e.g. design control) and process/product goals (e.g. process capability) are met.

• Work with multiple project schedules and manage competing priorities.

• Identify specification needs/requirements & assist with the creation of specifications.

• Support design transfer activities focused in development of gage design, inspection processes, GRR, capability studies and process validation

• Facilitate Design Review activities of new products and work closely with product design teams to ensure quality considerations during all stages of product development.

• Provides technical/quality related assistance to customers through frequent visits to plants for troubleshooting and evaluation of problems.

Smith & Nephew -Memphis, TN

Quality Engineer II May 2010- July 2010 (Contract)

• Partner with engineers from product development and manufacturing to manage the launch of orthopedic medical devices.

• Provide leadership in the execution of Design Review and Risk Management processes per FDA and ISO requirements.

• Understand the clinical challenges that the product is trying to address and be able to explain how the new system works to others once it is defined.

• Wrote process for Sterilization and Cleaning for all new products for new development. To me with all ANSI/AAMI/ISO 17665-1:2006

• Demonstrate project and process planning and execution skills to ensure regulatory requirements (e.g. design control) and process/product goals (e.g. process capability) are met.

• Work with multiple project schedules and manage competing priorities.

• Identify specification needs/requirements & assist with the creation of specifications.

• Support design transfer activities focused in development of gage design, inspection processes, GRR, capability studies and process validation

• Facilitate Design Review activities of new products and work closely with product design teams to ensure quality considerations during all stages of product development.

• Direct the work of Quality Technicians

Jacobs Engineering ESCG (NASA) - Houston, TX

Quality Engineer January 2009- August 2009

• Responsible for quality aspect of any or all phases of product life cycle including requirement review and development, concept review, design review and approval, product development, process adherence, unit testing, regression/integration testing, and end-to-end testing.

• Attend and support test readiness reviews; preliminary and critical design reviews to provide technical input for inclusion into requirements documentation during the design phase of products/hardware.

• Ensure product functionality complies with system specifications and maintains high degree of compliance with business and process documentation. Interface with cross functional teams to ensure issues are addressed quickly and with quality results.

• NASA’s primary service contractor places us in roles vital to the development of virtually every component of U.S. space exploration, provides long-term engineering, scientific, and technical services at eight major sites for NASA.

• Report product readiness, level of quality, and results to Quality Engineering Manager and Lead. Perform other duties as required.

• Performing supplier's audits to make sure suppliers are meeting ISO 9001 standards.

PLASTOMER TECHNOLOGIES- Houston, TX

Quality Engineer/QA Manger June 2008- January 2009

• Droves Continuous Process Improvement activities throughout the organization to ensure common practices for all locations.

• Tracked and report quality and Cost of Quality (COQ) measurements and talked over with upper management in management reviews twice a month.

• Certified or assess a supplier’s quality system, personnel, processes and equipment, as required, according to the applicable quality standards.

• Performed Trend analysis of audit results and Pareto charts of nonconformities in order to identify Quality System deficiencies.

• Verified that required Corrective and Preventive action implementation is timely and effective.

• Monitored and modify system and process audit schedules.

• Witnessed and validate acceptance, qualification, configuration and equipment functionality tests

• Interfaced with all other Engineering components within the company, customers and suppliers on quality related issues.

• Created a new quality system and, wrote new producers, work instruction to flow with the quality manual and for the quality system for ISO 9000. Also managed the QC department.

CUMMINS INCORPORATED- Columbus, IN

Supplier Quality Engineer June 2006 – June 2008

• Responsible for managing the quality interaction with 45 assigned suppliers, quality interaction with 20 high risk assigned suppliers with spending over $5 million per year, and resourcing of current product and process approval of new products utilizing the tools of APQP and PPAP.

• Facilitated regular communications between manufacturing plants and suppliers to resolve supplier quality related issues.

• Responsible for managing that appropriate actions are were in place and corrective action plans are documented from suppliers to address discrepant materials when they occurred.

• Measured supplier quality performance according to documented procedures and drive appropriate improvements to meet established targets dates and PPM goals.

• Provided input to commodity teams in the development of overall sourcing strategies.

• Supervised and performed audits of supplier’s quality systems and manufacturing processes by using management tools to complete multiple, varied tasks.

• Coordinate all quality activities related to customer complaints, including coordination of sorting activity, identifying

• the root cause of problems and ensuring that countermeasures are put in place that will prevent problem

• recurrence

CATERPILLAR INCORPORATED- Peoria, IL

Global Purchasing Co-op January 2005 – May 2005

• Managed statistics breakthrough categories to deliver a year over QCLDM (Quality, Cost, and Logistics & Management)

• Learned to create purchase orders, invoices, and requisitions in EDS (Electronic Data Systems) system.

• Learned the processes, procedures, and workflow in Global Purchasing Department.

• Provided leadership for sourcing, logistics and resource management decisions.

• Responsible for managing policies, agreements, source and special purchasing programs, and supporting specific product lines such as NPI (National Pollutant Inventory) programs.

KIMBERLY CLARK- Conway, AR

Quality Engineering Co-op May 2002 - August 2002

• Designed incoming nip guard and assisted electrical engineer with integration of guard to PLC logic.

• Facilitated design reviews, created quality testing verification procedures, and control charts to graphically monitor machine processes.

• Trained and supervised operators on use of new testing procedures. Assisted the Mechanical Feature Engineer on assembling designs for the FDU (Fiber Draw Unit), HAK (Hot Air Knife), Treating and Drying, and web former sections of machines.

Education

Rice University August 2008- May 2010

MBA/Global Management

National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, National Association of Black MBA Association INC.

UNIVERSITY of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - Pine Bluff, AR Graduation Date May 2006

Bachelor of Science Degree - Industrial Engineering - GPA: 3.4

National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, National Association of Industrial Technology, Member of UAPB Baseball team, Member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, INC.

Skills

• Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, MatLab, Solid Works, Autodesk Inventor, DRCS, Minitab, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Lotus Notes, Statistical Process Control, Discover Oracle Database

Quality Skills

• 6 Sigma Green Belt, Certified Quality Engineer Certification, Certified Quality Technician , working knowledge of QS9000 / TS16949, PPAP, and APQP

Leadership Skills

• Project management, Meeting management, Formal and informal presentations, Conflict management, Reaching agreements

*References available upon request

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