Quality Leader (214785) CQA, CQE / Aerospace, Automotive, Defense, Oil-Gas Industry Parts Manufacturing

Detroit area Quality leader with over 20 years of experience in manufacturing and quality. She is a CQA and CQE. who has supported precision machining, assembly, welding, and fabrication operations manufacturing products for the automotive, aerospace, defense, and energy industries. She is skilled in all areas of the quality process and has designed quality databases from scratch. She is employed but is confidentially searching for a leadership position within an organization that needs a problem-solving, results-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal skills and a strong sense of urgency.

• Guide, coach, and train inspection personnel on inspection techniques, blueprint reading, and GD&T interpretation.
• Work with Production, Program Management, and Engineering to resolve customer issues and complaints.
• Updated QMS procedures to align with actual practices
• Lead, coordinated, and manage the day-to-day activities of 7 quality personnel across two facilities.
• Streamlined inspection and documentation process for an annual savings of 300 labor hours
• Implemented a program that contributed to a 25% decrease of customer PPM in 6 months and a savings of $46,000
• 96% on-time rate of corrective action closure
• Modernized archiving of quality records for an annual cost savings of $24,000
• Compiled gage R&R, and SPC data
• Programmed Brown & Sharpe CMM with Micromeasure IV software
• Designed and launched a database to evaluate customer concern, KPI, supplier performance, and corrective action data which had not been previously tracked, platform has been in use company-wide for 10+ years
• Customer Relationship Management
• Team Building and Leadership
• ISO/AS Quality Standards
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Problem-Solving
• Blueprint reading
• GD&T
• Metrology
• Supplier Validation / Qualification
• Using Quality Database Systems
• Process Control Quality Experience
• Creating SOP Training
• Quality Management Experience
• Shop Floor Process Quality
• Quality Training Experience
• Production Quality experience
• Performing Internal Quality system audits
• Setting Up Quality Systems from Scratch
• Using CMM Equipment
• Investigating Customer Complaints
• Documenting Initial Submissions
• Using Control Plans
• Poka Yoke Assessments
• Troubleshooting Root Cause
• Implementing Corrective Actions
• Implementing Continuous improvement
• Generating Process Control Charts
• Process Improvement
• Process Testing / Validation
• Product Reject / Defect Investigations
• Reducing Scrap
• Tracking Yield Metrics
• Sorting Suspect Parts
• Calibrating Equipment
• Directing Quality Techs
• Machining Operations
• Hi Volume CNC Machining Operations
• Assembly Operations
• Welding Operations
• Fabrications Operations
• Packaging Assembly

CERTIFICATIONS / AFFILIATIONS:
• ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)
• ASQ Senior Member

EDUCATION

• SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE /General Education
• 2018-2020 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA – CROOKSTON /Bachelor’s in Manufacturing Management, In progress, 4.0/4.0 GPA