Engineer Project

LORETTA FRANCIS

Address:

**** ***** ** ** #* Cell: 913-***-****

Overland Park, KS Email: *******.*******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:To obtain a full-time/Part-Time/contract position in the Quality/Production/Manufacturing industry.

COURSES & CERRTIFICATIONS:

ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor Training (RABQSA CERTIFIED)

ISO 9001:2008 Certified Associate Auditor (RABQSA CERTIFIED)

Occupational Health and Safety Certification

Internal Auditor Training

Essentials of ISO 9001 and 14001

Hazardous waste training

Auditing Basics

5S and Kaizen training

Statistical Process Control (SPC) Design of Experiments (DOE)

Industrial Organization & Management Product Design and Development Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Shanin Training

Atomic Structure of Solid State Materials Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics Introduction to Glass Science and Technology Field Emission Gun- SEM

Project Management Refractories

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) X-ray Diffraction (XRD)

EXPERIENCE: EHS Coordinator/Senior Process/Quality Engineer, CertainTeed Corporation (USA) Nov 2009-Present

Identify and manage the environmental aspects of the plant

Ensure compliance with 1SO -14001 document management

Conduct and lead internal audits for ISO-14001 plant wide

Work with plant operations to identify, evaluate, and develop corrective action plans for workplace hazards.

Identify, implement and sustain 5S in all areas.

Be a part and lead the Kaizen efforts of the plant as and when needed.

Establish the safest way to perform specific job functions

Incorporate the best elements of behavior-based safety

Drive continuous improvement in all aspects of the environmental, health, and safety management process.

Contribute to a safety process to ensure that hazardous materials are handled, stored, used and disposed of in a manner consistent with best practices for worker protection and applicable regulatory requirements.

Operate and manage proactive Safety programs in areas such as Life Safety, Hazard Communication, Personal Protective Equipment, Lockout/Tag out, Machine Guarding, Electrical Safety, Chemical Safety, and Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response activities.

Contribute to an environmental compliance process for all environmental media (air, water & waste) including regulatory reporting and recordkeeping.

Conduct sampling, testing and evaluations and develop corrective action plans as needed for industrial hygiene and ergonomic issues.

Conduct environmental health and safety inspections and audits.

Drive continuous safety performance improvement through incident investigation, root cause analysis and corrective action processes.

Senior Process Engineer, CertainTeed Corporation (USA) July 2007-Nov 2009

Standardization of processes in all the CT manufacturing plants.

Solve day to day production problems

Ensure compliance with ISO-9001 document management

Assist and conduct internal audits for ISO-9001, plant wide.

Assist with document/training management for 1SO -9001

Constantly trying to upgrade processes which have good financial returns and improve the quality of the product.

Identify, implement and sustain 5S in all areas.

Be a part and lead the Kaizen efforts of the plant as and when needed.

Lead projects for the launch and training of personnel for new products.

Meet with vendors to discuss the implementation of ideas with alternatives, cost, payback etc.

Filled in as shift supervisor for 4 months Nov 2009 –Feb 2010

Quality Project Engineer, Kohler Company (USA) Feb 2006- July 2007

Solve daily production problems related to the production line

Assist and conduct internal audits for ISO-9001, plant wide.

Assist with document/training management for 1SO -9001

Ensure compliance with ISO-9001 document management

Continuous Improvement in different areas of production using Six Sigma and Lean.

Check the scope of implementation of innovative production technology.

Look for opportunities of automation in different areas of the production floor.

Handle start and completion of different defect reduction projects with different teams.

Graduate Research Assistant, (USA) Dec 2003–Jan 2006

TOPIC: Phosphate glass enamels for automotive applications

Analyzing and designing the raw materials and batch compositions in the zinc-iron phosphate system

Corrosion studies in the phosphate glass system

Study interaction of elements with thermal properties which included DTA, DMA, CTE and FTIR analysis along with sample preparation for SEM and TEM analysis and performing durability tests.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, (USA) Jan 2005 – May 2005

Introduce Glass lab to group of 26 students involving lab techniques

Organize and demonstrate experiments, implementing lab safety protocols and supervising students.

EDUCATION: Master of Science in Ceramic Engineering May2006

University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR) GPA: 3.5

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering May 2003

RVR&JC College of Engineering – India Score 74%

PROJECTS:

Led the new product launch “Easy Touch”

New Refire Kiln startup project.

Project on Redesign of Turnover Casting Using I-deas.

Project on “Interfacial analysis of the Phosphate Enamels on Auto Glass” using JEOL and HITACHI SEM

Paper submitted on “The Role of Six Sigma in Modern Quality Management”.

Project and presentation on “Pollution by Fluorine in Aluminum Industry”.

PRESENTATIONS:

Paper Presented on “Solar Cells for Home Appliances” at the GITAM College

Of Engineering-Vizag, India.

Poster presented on “Black Low Temperature Glasses for Coatings at the American Ceramic Society Conference

SKILLS:

Technical:

Hands on experience with JEOL and HITACHI SEM, Hummer Carbon coater, Metallographic sample preparation, Phillips TEM.

Experience on Hardness and Tensile Testing Machine, Spectrometer.

Experience in using and programming laboratory furnaces, workshop machines.

Computer:

SPC Tools: Minitab

SEM, TEM: Scion Image, Revolution Software, Transmission

Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy

Programming: C, Lab View.

Graphic Tools: HTML, Ansys, Abaqus/CAE, Nastran, AutoCad,

I-deas, Adobe Photoshop, Dream weaver

Application: MS Office (with Excel and Access), MS Project.

Operating Systems: Windows’95/98/NT/XP, Macintosh

HONORS &

ACTIVITIES:

Student Coordinator for the International Friends Program at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Member of American Ceramic Society

Awarded best project in final year of B.E –RVR & JC College of Engineering,

India.

Cultural Head for RVR & JC College of Engineering-Cultural Activities.

Choreographer of a fashion show “Fusion” for a Cultural event at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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