KATHRYN DESJARDINS Phone: 586-***-****

***** ******** **** ***** ****: 810-***-****

NewBaltimore,MI48047 ietoo0@r.postjobfree.com

SUPPLIER QUALITY ENGINEERING MANAGER

Highly motivated engineering professional with diverse quality background. Demonstrated ability to assess supplier/manufacturing systemic issues and define a managed action plan with positive results. Creative and dynamic team player with proven capacity to build and develop highly motivated teams through exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

·1 Certified Green Belt ·2 Root Cause Analysis ·3 Control Plans

·4 Failure Mode Analysis ·5 Statistical Process Control ·6 Containment

·7 Supplier Program Launch ·8 Design of Experiments ·9 Cost of Quality

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visteon Corporation, (Areotek/Direct), Van Buren Township, MI 2005-2008

SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERR

Worked with supply base to ensure launch of new product and continuous improvement of current quality issues.

Lead APQP to ensure all suppliers PPAP’ed and met all project timing with good parts for each build schedule.

Assessed and developed new suppliers allowing them to reach the required level of resulting in seamless transition.

Met and exceeded key quality metrics for 25% reduction in PPM’s and reduction in written quality rejections.

Successfully reduced headcount and improved cycle times for manufacturing process for three different suppliers and reduced PPM’s to none.

Led team to sustain bankrupt suppliers and product until banks and new suppliers were up to speed and resulted in a seamless transfer.

Visteon, Utica Plant, (Manpower), Utica, MI 2004-2005

SUPERVISOR

Quality liaison for launch of Ford 500 resulting in new setup of warehouse to sequences door panels that met the changes in production at customer.

Supervised press technicians and established documentation for deviations in processes that improved downtime for color changes by 30%.

Visteon, (Manpower), Canton, MI 2004-2004

INTERIM QUALITY MANAGER

Managed quality department, tracked quality issues and initiated programs to meet customer goals and expectation objectives.

Setup quality operating system that graphed measurable to show the month to month improvements.

Lead quality team to be more effective on manufacturing floor in determining how to resolve quality issues.

Reviewed supplier corrective actions and setup resolution tracking quality issues.

Visteon, (Manpower), Chesterfield, MI 2002-2004

SENIOR QUALITY SPECIALIST

Managed inspectors, worked with manufacturing and supplier issues, established containment, investigated root cause and follow up to closure of issue.

Assessed quality issues and issued quality rejects and followed them until problems were resolved.

Assessed employee performance and disciplined to resolve non-conformance.

Barbron Corporation, Fair Haven, MI 2001-2002

QUALITY MANGER

Responsible to establish a quality system and procedures that supported the manufacturing process.

Developed and implemented quality system which met QS9000 requirements. Awarded certificate for results.

Established in-house quality and safety system that reduced scrap costs by 80% and lost time to 0%.

Developed quality system with monthly tracking and monitoring that became part of company’s statement of work.

SPI, LLC, Shelby, MI 2001-2001

QUALITY MANAGER

Maintained quality performance, documented PPAP process and to manage the quality department and maintain QS certification.

Established training program for quality inspectors which defined performance standard they were evaluated to.

Successfully managed quality team through QS9000 audit with n non-conformances.

Radar Industries, Roseville, MI 2000-2001

SPC COORDINATOR

Reviewed and imitated process change based on data collected from processes and established change over and tool life to ensure good product.

Developed a gauging system to electronically send data to customer and debugged system until data was able to be batched correctly.

Restructured inspection procedures using statistic process controls to make recommendations that improved quality and reduced scrap by 13%.

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer/Manager, Instructor-Plastic Testing

EDUCATION

Coursework at Lawrence Technical University

Southfield, MI

CERTIFICATIONS

Green Belt

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