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Staffing Industry Position Type?

Account Executive/Sales, Recruiter-Temp/Contract, Staffing Professional-Blended Desk

Staffing Discipline?

Accounting/Finance, Administrative/Office, Engineering, IT, Light Industrial, Manufacturing

Company Name

Journey Employment

Years worked in (or serviced) the staffing industry?

6-10 years

Bio/Summary/Resume

Objective:
To obtain a position as a Manufacturing or Quality Technician where I can utilize my team working, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

Career Competencies:
Progressive responsibility with a major company, emphasizing manufacturing and distribution, cost analysis and productivity improvement with experience in the following functional areas:

• Six Sigma-Black Belt • Project Management
•Lean Manufacturing • TQM (Total Quality Management)
• HEIJUNKA (Just In Time Management) • Leadership
• Cell Manufacturing • Problem Solving
• Strong Analytical Skills • CCNA Certification
• ISO 14001 Certified • Team Building Skills

Education Development:
Electrical Engineer Technology GPA 3.0 Rochester Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineer Technology GPA 2.9 Monroe Community College
Career Track:
Xerox Corporation - Progressive career path with 9/92-12/00
Quality Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Operations Supervisor, Engineer Technician

Manufacturing and Quality Engineer
Task/Action • Combine experience, effort and vision for total quality management to improve operational effectiveness and impact the bottom line per Six Sigma methodologies
• Ensured timely completion and closeout of all engineering issues including costs saving and quality assurance
• Engineered cost downs in the form of materials cost reductions yielded more than $1millon
• Revitalized production competencies by revamping plant layout, with additional $400K favorable produced through creative engineering solutions in the form of workforce re-balances, production optimization of facility layouts, and productivity tooling
• Analyzed operations on the plant floor to evaluate if organizational objectives would be met and if the changes would be cost effective. Updated the contingency plan for the area, enabling employees to be aware of modifications on the plant floor: this resulted in less down time
• Preformed layouts reengineering and implemented continuous process improvements that accelerated production output and strengthened quality performance
• Lead defect analysis corrective action teams consisting of Engineering, Quality Control, Planning and Test personnel
• Evaluated defect trends to determine causes and corrective actions
• Analyzed and disposition defective material and assemblies
• Analyzed assemblies for automated, and semi-automated processing opportunities
• Developed documented, and implemented post wave and product assembly process applying quality workmanship standards
• Supported new product introduction through Design for Manufacturability analysis
• Purchased tooling and equipment



Operations Supervisor
Task/Action • Concentrated on cross-training employees, enabling company to maintain same level of productivity with 15% fewer personnel
• Organize and schedule daily operations of 33 hourly employees producing more than $600K in assets per shift with both union labor and support personnel. Foster cooperative relations with labor union leadership; ensure adherence to labor union contracts
• Held complete responsibility for all industrial production lines and sub-assembly operations including production, safety, and quality, ensuring cost effective delivery of quality products on schedule
• Responsible to successfully complete, meet, and monitor asset production, defects quality, operator safety, and workforce efficiency
• Empowered employees by holding them to benchmark, promoting camaraderie, and allowing them the freedom to achieve success

Quality Assurance Technician
Task/Action • Worked as a Quality Assurance Technician providing technical support for Electrical Characterization
• Tribo Testing, Conductivity, and Voltage Breakdown
• Charge Spectra Testing, Statistical Test, Homogeneity Studies
• Control Charts, Dielectrics Procedure
• Developed Procedures for New Products
• Profile Rating, and Charge Spectrograph Maintenance
• Establishing, and Maintaining Lab Supplies
• Reference Sample Inventory system, Ordering, and Shipping Electronic Record Keeping
• Interfaced with various Vendors throughout the day

Assembly Operator
Task/Action • Worked as an industrial operator on a progressive line producing Marking Imaging Modules
• Directly responsible to reach daily asset, production and efficiency targets while ensuring safety, maintaining costs, and delivering quality
• Provided management staff suggestions for ergonomic and production enhancements
• Suggested improvements offered substantial cycle time reductions and have effectively minimized possibilities for operator injuries
• Worked as Loader/Packer in the Distribution Warehouse using various hand trucks, hand lift, and fork trucks



CAREER TRACK:
Delphi Automotive (Contract) 12/00-6/02
Supplier Quality Engineer
Task/Action • Perform quality/Reliability analysis and implement design changes to improve quality and,
reliability of components and systems.
• Utilize various quality tools such as Statistical Process Control (SPC), Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Failure Mode And Effect Analysis (FMEA), Cause and Effect Analysis; 8-D problem solving techniques to evaluate design data and recommend implementation plans to improve quality and reliability.
• Implement Quality Operating Systems (QOS) to meet quality requirements per ISO 9000 and QS-9000 quality standards.
• Participate in product development/design engineering teams and coordinate their efforts towards achieving quality and reliability goals of the program.
• Interact with design, engineering, manufacturing, testing, and CAD/CAM/CAE departments to implement Design of Experiments (DOE), Taguchy Methodology, Parameter Design and Tolerance Design for quality improvement.
• Implementation of System Designed Specifications (SDS) for reliability improvement.
• Analyze and address warranty issues and recommend reliability improvements.
• Prepare written reports and present to management.
• Perform Toyota Deep Dive Module for Quality, Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Lean Manufacturing.
• Perform Run@Rate analysis on suppliers manufacturing parts.


CAREER TRACK:
LH Quality Staffing 6/02-4/05

• Recruiting Specialist (perm)
• Represented client companies through helping to fulfill their employment needs in the field of Information Technology.
• Extensively used MS Word, Excel, and Outlook and Brassring/Top Echelon recruiting software.
• Used all resources necessary to find qualified candidates, including existing candidate database, Internet services, networking, job fairs, cold calling, etc.
• Full life cycle recruitment included matching candidate skills to current positions both locally and nationally.
• Interviewed candidates and performed reference checks.
• Maintained candidate information via company database, national network database, and various Internet services.



Journey Employment Services, Inc. 4/05-Present


• Sales Business Development with clients
• Review budgets of all departments or divisions for reasonableness of assumptions, quality of projections and relevancy in light of recent corporate changes and goals
• Evaluate sales, marketing, distribution, forecasts and trend lines for improvement opportunities in all areas, so as to generate more cash in the short-term.
• Ensure the company is in compliance with all required regulatory and licensing agencies, etc. and if not, take action to resolve these issues.
• Identify and take steps to immediately defuse all visible, or suspected, ticking time bombs
• Manage by roaming around" gaining insights into attitudes and problem areas from within all levels of the organization.





Technical/Implementation:

• Microsoft Word • PowerPoint • Photo Editor
• Microsoft Excel • AutoCAD LT • Visio
• Microsoft Office • Windows XP • N+ Certification

Type of networking you are open to?

Any

LinkedIn Profile URL

http://www.journeyemployment.com

Cell Phone/Email

585-503-0081/orville@journeyemployment.com