Brian — Quality Engineer/Quality Manager

• Senior Quality Engineer/IATF Consultant.

Supervised Eight Quality Auditors. • Managed Safe Launch and improved quality to a defect level of.03% during launch phase on G01, 02, 05, and G07 for BMW, Plastic Omnium, and Brose, simultaneously. • Managed all daily quality issues internally and externally without additional QE support. • Part of Baxter Management Team for start-up of new Westminster facility, IATF Prep, passed audit in July 2018.

Supplier audits to VDA 6.3 standard, BMW Group Standard Re-qualification (GS 90018) and TS 16949. • Built Quality Management System from scratch to achieve ISO 9001-2015 Certification. • Supplier Development, Trainer/Facilitator.

Blow Mold/Injection Tooling Evaluation and Preventive Maintenance System. • Project Management and Resource Planning. • Quality Management and Escalation Process Development. • Tolerance Evaluation and Feasibility Assessment. • PFMEA and Control Plan Evaluation. • Sequential Work Instructions. • D/TLD Compliance, TL 1010, TL 533. • Supplier Evaluation and Certification. • Incoming Material Receiving Procedure Development. • Process Flow Analysis. • Work Cell Auditing, LPA. • Contingency Plan Evaluation. • Blow/Injection Molding. • VDA Audit Preparation. • Product and Process Audits. • Trainer/Facilitator. • Gage R&R. • Volkswagen audits and VDA passage.

PQM and PCSQ Member. • Standardized Work instructions. • Process Engineering. • Quality Alerts. • Work Station Auditing, LPA. • Line Reconfiguration for Improved Product One Piece Flow.

Wrote Standard Work Instructions for all plant operations. • Created Visual Aids for training purposes. • Gage Design to improve TAKT times. • Developed Control Plans and operator sequencing. • Video and Still Photography for new employee training program. • Time Studies for new product launch. • 5S training. • DOE on paint coverage and curing rates.

PQM and PCSQ Member. • BMW/Faurecia Liaison Reports. • Quick Response Continuous Improvement (QRCI). • Kami Shabi Auditing. • Supervised 3 Liaisons at BMW. • Section Audit/QZ Audit. • 8D/ 3D One Pagers. • Interfaced with BMW QSB/QMT's to establish Defect Containment and Problem Resolution. • Root Cause Analysis.

Supplier Certification of Automotive aluminum castings. • Contract Metrology and Gage Certification and successful TS 16949 audit preparation • Provide quality support for numerous vehicle platforms and customers including MBUSI, Daimler/ Freightliner, Toyota, Fiskar Karma, Tesla. • Evaluate production, service and/or warranty component returns including reconciliation of corresponding charge backs. • Support new product launches and subsequent engineering change implementation. • Managed the Gagetrak System tracking calibration intervals and execution of tool and gage certifications.

• Outside Sales of CNC Machine Tools.

Implemented APQP, PFMEA, wrote all Control Plans, sequential work instructions and responsible for resolving and responding to customer concerns. • Suppler qualification and metallurgical traceability responsibility. • Maintenance, approval and implementation of quality documents/records. • Facilitate multi-functional team meetings to resolve product and/or process quality issues. • Responsible for evaluation and disposition of customer plant/warranty returns as well as the corresponding customer charge backs.

Define and document processes/procedures for this newly created engineering position • Provide quality documentation, PPAP and support for pre-production launch activities including review and approval of sub-supplier PPAPs. • Review new customer quote packages for quality requirements and acceptable warranty targets. • Responsible for resolving and responding to customer concerns (using 8D's, etc.). • Compile and submit monthly plant performance ratings and reports.

Injection molding, stamping, extrusion and fastener supplier certification/audit process implementation • Primary customer/supplier contact in APQP development. • Conduct multi-functional team meetings to define an overall customer satisfaction index. • Wrote Quality manual, APQP, FMEA, Control Plans, Sequential Work Instructions. • Trained labor force and Management in SPC. • Implemented plant wide SPC reducing PPMs from over 5000 to less than 100 saving hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. • Designed compound sweep gages for Ford and Freightliner (heavy-duty truck). • Designed variable data recording gage which virtually eliminated scrap. • Implemented 8D/MRB system. • Programmed CMM and ran Quality Department supervising 15 floor inspectors. • Review new customer quote packages for acceptable tolerance parameters. • Specified GD&T in APQP reviews. • $10M in annual sales.