Timothy P. Jett

**** ***** ***** ***

Clarksville, Ohio 45113

513-***-****

i6mzsh@r.postjobfree.com

Quality Professional

Seasoned, energetic Quality professional with expertise in providing leadership and direction company-wide for today’s challenges with limited resources. Proven skills in all Quality and management matters. A result-oriented person known for tackling difficult problems by using modern Quality tools and techniques.

Professional Experience

Sperry and Rice Manufacturing Brookville, Indiana

Quality Manager 11/09/10 - Present

Hired to build a Quality Department for a manufacturer of extruded rubber gaskets recovering from the recession. Management representative for ISO 9001:2008, recertification audit. Planning and implementing of Lean processes and overall process improvement.

Nolte Precise Manufacturing Cincinnati, Ohio

Quality Manager 11/1/08 – 10/13/10

Invited to join the Nolte team as Quality Manager to enable the owner’s plan to move from a small, family owned business of 5 generations to a growing, diversified manufacturing leader. I trained the staff, hourly and salaried, in Operator Precontrol, SPC, and directed the acquisition of state of the art measuring equipment to assure their ability to exceed their customer’s expectations and abilities. As management representative for the QMS, I lead the company through one surveillance audit to ISO9001:2000 and a registration audit to ISO9001:2008 with only 2 Minor Nonconformances. Laid off.

TSS Cincinnati, Ohio

Quality Manager 3/1/08 – 10/31/08

Started as Quality Supervisor, promoted to Quality Manager in 2 months. Responsible for 13 hourly and salaried inspectors and engineers in 3 facilities. Product lines included aerospace, automotive, energy and military customers.

Amtex Inc. Lebanon, Ohio

Supplier Quality Engineer 8/31/06 -3/1/08

Recruited to complete the transition from QS9000 to TS16949 from start to finish in 4 months. We were registered by Intertek on time with 3 minor nonconformance’s. I was tasked with developing supplier rating, new supplier qualification and corrective action. I created a Cost of Poor Quality/Supplier Quality database now used by two plants including the Accounting functions. Supplier rejections were reduced by 32% process efficiency increased and my process model was adopted by 2 sister plants with similar results.

J&M Precision Machining Inc. Blanchester, Ohio

Quality Assurance Manager/Safety & Health Director 9/15/04-7/27/06

Responsible for the daily management of Quality Assurance department, two full time and one part time hourly employees for a Tier 1 Supplier of gear and bearing blanks to the Automotive Industry. Duties include APQP coordination, PPAP development and submission, Ford Q1 attainment (including implementation of MMOG/LE, MP&L and MRP) 5S, Lean Manufacturing, the upgrade from QS9000 to TS16949/2000 and the development and implementation of ISO14001:2004 for an operation of 80 employees on three shifts. OSHA certified (900045182) General Industrial Safety & Health training. Experienced with 29CFR Part 1910 General Industry Code of Federal Regulations and employee training. Company closed.

Wall Colmonoy Corporation Dayton, Ohio

Quality Control Manager 9/25/01-5/17/04

Responsible for the daily supervision of Quality Control Department, Customer Liaison, Internal Audits and Maintenance of the Quality Management System for Aerospace Heat-Treating, Hard Surfacing and Brazing Facility.

• The Nadcap certification was in danger of being canceled due to numerous unresolved nonconformances from the preceding yearly surveillance audit. With less than two months before the next scheduled audit, I authored a new quality manual based on ISO9002/1994 and revised all relevant operation procedures to the aerospace standard. The audit was so successful that the registrar (PRI) awarded Wall Colmonoy a reduced frequency schedule for surveillance audits with the next audit due in three years. This represents an annual savings of $10,000.00

• I have prepared a new quality management system compliant to ISO9001/2000, and AS9100 Rev B for the aerospace industry. This new system was completed in four months and received a perfect score when audited by Eagle Registrations of Dayton, Ohio.

• Developed and implemented in-house gauge calibration saving $1,000 per year.

Production Manager 9/25/01-5/17/04

Planning jobs and scheduling, coordination the movement of work and personnel. Work directly with customers in scheduling production, coordination delivery schedules and shipping requirements. Maintain inventories, plant and equipment maintenance and personnel training.

• Developed a shop order system superior to the one being considered for purchase saving $20,000.00

• Replaced their manual Production Control system with an MRP that I created based on the Microsoft Office Pro suite, which resulted in reduced data entry and man hours equaling $95,000 per year.

General Manager 5/17/04-9/15/04

Appointed by CEO to replace outgoing G.M. In the first full month in this position, sales set a record and profitability improved by 20%.

Valeo Climate Control Hamilton, Ohio

Project Manager Production Line Transfer 4/9/01-8/24/01

Responsible for completing full Process Documentation (APQP, ISR, PPAP), Process Integration, Process Proving, and Process Improvement for product line transfer from Illinois facility to Hamilton, Ohio facility (a QS9000 certified tier 1 supplier to Isuzu, Subaru, Mazda, Daimler-Chrysler, Saturn).

• Thirteen individual product assemblies submitted and accepted on time

• Unconditional approval stutus achieved on the first audit

• Designed and implemented document control process to standardize formats and automat documentation process

Senco Products Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio

Senior Quality Engineer, Global Fastener Manufacturing 1989-1/29/01

Responsible for design, development and implementation of DRMEA, PFMEA,DOE, gages, gage R&R, sampling plans and systems for Global Manufacturing Operations (43 facilities, worldwide). Certified instructor for Senco’s TQM Process (STQP) at primary and intermediate levels, Six Sigma, & Lean Manufacturing Processes.

• Lead Quality Department from auditing product to auditing process resulting in greater Manufacturing efficiency, less scrap, shorter delivery time. Saving: $413,000 per year.

• Designed gages and inspection system that reduced customer complaints from 3 per day to 1 in 36 months Saving: $405,000 per year.

• Identified sub-standard material from supplier as Root Cause for excess tool wear, Saving: $74,000 per year in tooling costs.

• Identified tooling features critical to performance, revised tooling drawings, & reduced cost of manufacture Saving$100,000 per year.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer 1979-1989

Responsible for design, development and implementation of Tooling, Fixturing, Processes and Proess improvement, New Technologies, Quality Improvements, Reduction of waste, Process Mapping and Cost of Nonconformance. Areas of responsibility included: CNC Machinery, Turning, Broaching, Milling, Drilling, Plastic Injection Molding, Aluminum (Sand, Prmannt Mold and Die) Casting, Steel Investment Casting, Welding (MIG, TIG, Arc and Acetylene), Assembly and Design utilizing standard Drafting and Cad Processes.

• Designed and built tabletop size CMM to measure critical hole locations in 2 axes. Improvement in quality & efficiency: $50,000 per year.

• Worked directly with suppliers to implement a targeting system that could be used to standardize the requirements for products from multiple suppliers saving: $250,000 per year in inventory and tooling costs.

• Procurement of G.E. P5 Pick & Place robot to perform repetitive, high precision welding of formed sheet metal components. Improvement in efficiency & quality; saving $200,000 per year.

• Generated all in-process drawings for manufacturing of company’s largest product redesign in 20 years. (CAD, and Standard drawings). Project schedule allowed 6 months to complete this phase; I finished it in 3 weeks.

Education

IQA#A004402, RAB#Q01945 Certified Auditor

Completed Certified Lead Auditor Training, ISO9000,

Diehl & Associates, Cincinnati, Ohio, RAB Certified Trainers

Completed Certified Lead Auditor Training, ISO9001,

Applied Quality Systems Inc. St Paul, Minn. RAB Certified

Completed Internal Auditing Training, QS9000,

American Society for Quality, St Paul, Minn.

Completed Industrial Process Control, Control Chart Interpretation and Analysis,

Arizona State University, Extension Studies

Complete Time and Motion Analysis, Accounting, Advanced Algebra, English, History,

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Vietnam Era Veteran

United States Army 82nd Division, (Airborne)

383rd M.A.S.H.

512th Combat Engineers

1969-1971

Cincinnati Milacron Engineering Training Program, Two years participation before termination of program due to downsizing

References

Lee R. Woody

Vice President of Manufacturing, Eagle Mfg.

859-***-**** (Home)

Jim Pennington

Engineering Mgr, Nolte Precise Manufacturing

937-***-**** (Home)

Charles Weaver

Productivity Manager J&M Precision Machining

937-***-**** (Home)

George Denniston

Former VP of Operations, Sperry & Rice Mfg.

714-***-**** (cell)

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