{"id":987,"date":"2021-03-25T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=987"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:43:10","slug":"quality-manager-91905-black-belt-cqa-cqt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/engineering\/quality-manager-91905-black-belt-cqa-cqt\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Manager (91905) Black Belt \/ CQA, CQT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quality Manager with 20+ years of experience in diverse industries. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt; a Certified Project Manager; a CQA Certified Quality Auditor; a CQT Certified Quality Technician and a Certified ISO9000 Lead Assessor. <\/strong> Ken has led quality teams while supporting multiple facilities. Trainer and Subject Matter Expert in GD&T, FAI, Standards, Drawings, Procedures, CAPAs, QMS\/Audits, FMEAs, and Quality\/Six Sigma Toolboxes. <\/strong>His experience includes working with a variety of casting methods\/parts and machining operations. he describes himself as a strong team builder, mentor, cross-trainer, role model, and contributor who enjoys hands-on work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CERTIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Six Sigma Black Belt
\u2022 Certified Project Manager
\u2022 CQA Certified Quality Auditor
\u2022 CQT Certified Quality Technician
\u2022 Certified ISO 9000 Lead Assessor<\/strong>
\u2022 Certified Material Review (PRB\/MRB)
\u2022 Certified Project Planning
\u2022 Certified Facilitation Leadership<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADVANCED TRAINING-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 DMAIC, Facilitative Leadership, Project Planning & Training, AS9100-TL-ISO9000-13485 and ISO-TS 16949, ISO14971, Supplier Certification, TQM, cGMP, GDP, DOE, SPC, FMEA, 5S, 8D, PPAP, APQP, MSA, GD&T, GR&R, Lean, FAI and Poke-Yoke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SKILLS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Quality Leadership \u2013 2 Engineers, 4 Technicians, 20+ Inspectors, 4 NDT Technicians, 2 CMM Technicians<\/strong>
\u2022 5+ years as Precision Mechanical Inspector\/Technician<\/strong>
\u2022 Hands-on experience in Machine Shop\/Sheet Metal environments for using complex drawings and GD&T to Subject Matter Expert and Trainer Level<\/strong>
\u2022 Provide metrics for OTIF, FPY, COQ, Scrap, Closed-Loop CAPAs, Audit Results for Management Reviews.
\u2022 Lead problem-solving events through 5S, 8D, CAPA, Statistical Analysis and 6-Sigma Methodologies.<\/strong>
\u2022 Interface with customers and suppliers on PPAPs and FAIs for manufacturing and engineering.
\u2022 Utilized the Product Surveillance Tracking System (PSTS) to review and evaluate customer complaints
\u2022 Trained engineers and suppliers on FAIs and the theory and use of GD&T to government standards.<\/strong>
\u2022 Established Inspection Methods, Acceptance Criteria and Sampling plans for components.
\u2022 Provided feedback to vendors via scorecard system and training for continuous improvement.<\/strong>
\u2022 Following company PPAP standards for the Aerospace products. <\/strong>
\u2022 Reviewed and approved Statements of Work and Quality Assurance Program Plans based on program, PPAP and customer contract flow down requirements.
\u2022 Trained Design and Manufacturing Engineers on the interpretation and application of GD&T.<\/strong>
\u2022 Executed APQP process in Design Control with customers and scheduled PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) submissions<\/strong>
\u2022 Managed the quality requirements for more than one hundred products transferring between manufacturing sites<\/strong> internationally with skillful communication.
\u2022 Used PPAP to submit automotive supplier customers for approval that includes control plans in production process. <\/strong>
\u2022 Specialized in GD&T and worked closely with manufacturing to support associates in training, of process and product integrity standards with PPAP.
\u2022 Supported 5 manufacturing sites. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Quality Database Systems
\u2022 Quality Experience in Process Control
\u2022 Quality Training Experience
\u2022 Setting Up Quality Systems
\u2022 Supplier Validation \/ Qualification
\u2022 Investment Cast Parts
\u2022 Die Cast Parts
\u2022 Sand Cast Parts
\u2022 Configuration Management Specialist
\u2022 Metrology & GD&T
\u2022 5S \/ 8D \/ CAPA
\u2022 APQP \/ PPAP
\u2022 TS16949 \/ AS9100
\u2022 GD&T
\u2022 CMM
\u2022 First Article Inspection FAI
\u2022 External Quality system audits
\u2022 Improving Jigs \/ Fixtures
\u2022 Internal Quality system audits
\u2022 Supplier Corrective Action Requests
\u2022 Kaizen Events
\u2022 Leading process engineers
\u2022 Lean Manufacturing
\u2022 NADCAP
\u2022 New Process Development
\u2022 New production line startup
\u2022 Close Tolerance Parts
\u2022 Product Reject \/ Defect Investigations
\u2022 Production Ramp Up
\u2022 Root Cause Analysis
\u2022 Statistical Process Control
\u2022 Troubleshooting Root Cause
\u2022 Using CMM Equipment
\u2022 Non-Destructive Testing
\u2022 Manufacturing Cycle Time
\u2022 Reducing Scrap
\u2022 Reducing WIP Inventory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education and Advanced Training:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Bachelor of Science, <\/strong> Studies in Manufacturing and Quality Engineering
\u2022 Associate in Liberal Arts, Math, Statistics<\/strong>
\u2022 Six Sigma Black Belt and Project Manager Certifications<\/strong>
\u2022 Six-Sigma Black Belt <\/strong>– DMAIC Methodology, Facilitative Leadership and Project Planning
\u2022 ASQ Certified Quality Auditor and Quality Technician, ISO 9000 Certified Lead Assessor
\u2022 TQM, AS9100-TL-ISO9000-13485 and ISO-TS 16949, Supplier Certification-Qualification<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quality Manager with 20+ years of experience in diverse industries. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt; a Certified Project Manager; a CQA Certified Quality Auditor; a CQT Certified Quality Technician and a Certified ISO9000 Lead Assessor. Ken has led quality teams while supporting multiple facilities. Trainer and Subject Matter Expert in GD&T, FAI,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,311],"tags":[34,117,152,162,279,391,393],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-production-operations-quality","tag-automotive","tag-machining","tag-casting","tag-black-belt","tag-cqa","tag-cqt","tag-iatf16949"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}