Quality Engineer
CAREER SUMMARY:
Outcome oriented engineer with 15+ years of diverse experience in the manufacturing, processing, and quality control of aerospace products. Considered to be results driven, drawing on a strong engineering education and experience with aerospace suppliers and manufacturing areas to quickly resolve manufacturing, and quality issues to ensure quality hardware ships on time to support customer needs.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Production Control
Vendor/Supplier Relationships
Process Improvement
Technical Data Analysis
Design Review
Specification Review
Supplier Reviews
Facility Inspections
Preparation of Production Schedules
Equipment/ Tooling review, and inspection
Technical analysis of supplier claims
Tooling Inspection/ Sourcing
Hardware Inspection
Root Cause Analysis
Technical Documentation Review and Approval
Manufacturing Planning Review and Approval
Hardware & Acceptance Testing
Process Surveillance/ Validations
Supplier Quality Audits
Strong Organizational Skills
Proficient in Multitasking
Effective Communicator
Self-Motivated
Highly Proficient in MS Office Computer Skills
Proficient in SAP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, CA
Senior Quality Engineer 2010 – 2011 Sunnyvale Campus
Staff Procurement Engineer 2002 – 2010 Southern California Suppliers Facilities
Senior Procurement Engineer 1996 – 2002 Michoud Assembly Facility New Orleans
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company is nationally recognized as a leader in the aerospace and defense industry, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Senior Quality Engineer: Support the Electronics Manufacturing Center (EMC) working as a Quality Engineering Administrator and Engineer. Support EMC Corrective Action Board (CAB) by collecting and organizing the required data, then generating the charts and presentation for the monthly meetings. Chair the Operator Verification Inspection (OVI) program in the Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Lab and the Electronic Cable Manufacturing area. Successfully serve as the Quality Engineer in the SMT Lab for the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile Program for the Destruct Activation Assembly and the Destruct Interlock Assembly electronic packages. Working closely with FBM Quality and Product Engineers to resolve hardware quality issues to support the end customer need dates.
Contributions and Accomplishments:
Shortly after beginning my assignments in the Electronics Manufacturing Center I was tasked with setting up a Process Surveillance program for the SMT & Cable manufacturing areas. This surveillance program is now part of the monthly presentations during the EMC CAB meetings.
Quality MRB Authority on the following programs:
Sunnyvale Miscellaneous Accounts
Space Based Infrared Systems
Global Communication Systems MUOS
Global Communication Systems AEHF
Commercial Space Systems
Special Programs P-734
Staff Procurement Engineer: Successfully conduct supplier oversight activities for contracts in excess of $10 million at a variety of aerospace suppliers and processing companies. Accountable for flight hardware production to support downstream customer production and assembly needs to maintain NASA flight support. Successful in continuously leading multidisciplinary efforts to resolve technical, quality, and delivery issues in the manufacturing and shipping of flight hardware. Oversaw and worked extensively with supplier quality assurance to review hardware qualifications to ensure conformity to procurement drawing and flight requirements.
Contributions & Accomplishments:
Discovered supplier used incorrect weld wire in the production of propulsion lines during a review of drawings, and production planning. Incident was investigated and all production planning was revised to require weld wire inspection and buyoff by qualit...
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