Skills:
Coordinated and managed Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, Information, Inventory Control, Safety, Planning, and Warehouse operations. Planned, organized, and submitted government, military, and commercial bids involving electronics systems, avionics, flight instrumentation, cable and harness assemblies Negotiated contracts for Customers: IBM, Pratt & Whitney, Harris Government, Sikorsky Aircraft, and Lockheed Martin, Managed 160 employees, scheduled hours, resolved conflicts, determined salaries, hired and trained professionals and technicians. Developed software applications for contract costing / pricing strategies, capacity planning, parts list generation, assembly estimating, labor costs allocation, finite scheduling, and tooling maintenance. Access, Excel, Quicksilver, and dBase. Proficiencies AS400 HarrisData, Office 2010, Visio, Project 2007, Planet Together APS. Managed Quality systems conforming to ISO 9001:2000, MIL-I-45208A and MIL-Q- 9858A. Management reporting: Resource allocation, labor utilization, KPIs, master production schedules, defect summaries, break even analysis, delivery performance, and Quality costs. Technical writing: Quality manuals, Safety programs, work instructions and training and process storybooks. Championed Lean Teams, strategies, systems and structure. Hand solder certified to NASA NHB, cable / harness assembly, box build / test stands. Electronics purchasing 7 yrs, Customer Service 5 yrs, Outside Sales Rep 3 yrs. Development