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Senior Quality Engineer / Data Scientist

Pure Storage

•	Developed and deployed Quality plans to drive continuous improvement opportunities in factories world wide.
•	Responsible for identifying Root Cause Analysis on product issues and driving improvement efforts with engineering to improve product design and quality.
•	Worked with cross functional teams to improve product quality throughout the lifecycle. 
•	Defined and deployed FMEA plans to identify and minimize design and process failures.
•	Used Tableau to automate and present data analyses, improving data accuracy and efficiency by 50%.
•	Drove resolution on field failures by working with cross functional teams and repair centers.
•	Identified and documented issues using JIRA.
•	User tested a Quality Management System tool.

Quality Engineer

Sierra Monitor Corporation

•	Point of contact for all manufacturing, customer and supplier quality issues.
•	Responsible for setting up and driving formal quality processes at the organization.
•	Implemented Supplier Management initiatives including quarterly reporting of supplier performance.
•	Implemented and maintained Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) processes such as 8-D.
•	Responsible for ARENA PLM implementation and administration to drive up efficiency.
•	Responsible for all ISO 9001:2008 processes and transitioning to ISO 9001:2015.

Pexco

•	Responsible for driving Kaizen events and implementing LEAN principles at site level.
•	Implemented Kaizens which have improved productivity by over 30%.
•	Led Kaizen events which contribute to improving safety conditions in the facility.
•	Trained employees on LEAN manufacturing concepts and created a pool of talented employees, who in turn contribute with ideas for improvements.
•	Identified and created standard work instructions for running different products to ensure a standard work set-up was created.

Kaizen Manager

Foxconn

	Worked on cost of quality projects with regard to reduction of scrap and improving processes to prevent damages to components.
	Mentored and trained an intern during Summer 2012.
	Reduced failures of the Z1 Workstation by about 40% by implementing quality alerts and identifying critical elements for audits.
	Reduced production of defective product by at least 15% by implementing improvements in the assembly process. 
	Primary responsibilities include conducting OBA (Out of Box Audits) and executing CA (Customer Audit) processes. 
	Worked on optimizing and creating a more efficient audit process which focusses on maximum utilization of resources to achieve more Units Per Head Count (UPHC).
	Responsible for investigating failures and performing a failure analysis.
	Using E-Fox Shop Floor Control for preparing and maintaining reports with regard to operations of the Quality Assurance team.
	Responsible for training employees and also conducting internal audits.
	Working closely with supplier quality team to verify and validate material, including hard drives, optical drives, chassis and corrugated packaging material, supplied to the organization.
	Responsible for working with the Materials Review Board to identify root cause for each defect found and providing a viable solution to prevent recurrence of such defects. 
	Safety committee member for the Quality Team.

Briggs Medical Supply Company

> Worked on a process improvement project to clean up J.D.Edwards ERP databases.
> Project also involved setting up a process to maintain data integrity.
> Involved usage of MS Excel and MS Access to perform data clean up and analysis.
> Used MS Visio and MS Project to set up the process.
> Performed FMEA and Root Cause Analysis to identify and eradicate the main causes of defective data.

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Quality Engineering professional obsessed with great customer experiences and mistake proof process improvements : Make life easier for people.

Led  global Quality Management (ISO 9001 QMS, Hardware Product, Customer, Manufacturing and Supplier Quality) and Process Improvement teams with a keen focus on improving customer experiences and strong ROIs.
• Enhanced collaboration to resolve enterprise customer issues through data driven and proactive quality improvements across Engineering, Support and Vendor organizations.
• Automated manual processes and digitized programs, prioritizing error prevention during digital transformation; reduced Time to Resolve Failure Analysis cases by over 50%.
• Led Global Quality teams in root cause analyses and implementing preventive actions.
• Mentored hardware and quality engineers for technical and personal growth.

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