TIMOTHY WRIGHT

249 Woodwind Drive (H) 843-332-6748 (C) 678-447-5746
Hartsville, S.C. 29550e-mail: TimothyWrightGA[AT]aol.com



Cardinal Glass Industries Buford, GA March 2008- September 2009
Cardinal Glass Industries is a leader in the development of insulating glass, plasma vapor deposition coated, residential and commercial glass, laminated, tempered and safety glass. With more than 5,500 employees located at 27 manufacturing facilities around the United States.

Quality and Continuous Improvement Manager
My responsibilities included managing all aspects of quality operations in four high volume product manufacturing lines. I teach training courses for production workers in corrective and preventive action, statistical process control, 8D problem solving techniques, and lean manufacturing techniques. Also, as the continuous improvements manager my teams have refined outdated procedures, improved manufacturing equipment efficiencies and process flow. Quality has improved from 3.6% reject to <1% in 18 month period. Quality systems documentation control and internal / external auditing were key areas of improvement. I have built and maintained close relationships with customers to resolve quality issues. I worked with supply chain representatives to reduce lead times by 22% and inventory costs by 14%. I am management representative for our ISO, CE, and SGCC programs and safety, health and environmental program.

Heraeus Tenevo Inc., Buford, GA
Heraeus Tenevo is a German owned manufacturer and primary supplier of the highest quality fused silica quartz, substrates, over-cladding, and jackets for the manufacturing fiber optics telecommunication cable and semi-conductor components industries.

Sr. Quality Systems Engineer from 1998-2003
As the Quality Systems Engineer for Heraeus Tenevo, I provide leadership in the development and implementation of statistical techniques; supported customer feedback to assist in the continuous process improvement of manufacturing and quality systems for seven Heraeus locations and three different related companies in the continental US.

Principle Accountabilities:
Supervised the measurement and testing laboratory including infrared spectrum analysis, refractive index, chemical mix, and color analysis. Developed sampling systems, reliability testing, statistical techniques in a team oriented environment.
Supervised calibration and certification of critical measuring instruments and hand tools.
Directed the employee-training program and job certification testing programs. Mentored the new and experienced employees in quality systems, metrology, specifications, customer needs and current manufacturing processes.
Monitor, analyze and report to senior managers the production efficiencies, recommended process improvements, wrote procedures and work instructions, and managed the corrective and preventive action program for effectiveness.
Audited key production processes and developed useful performance metrics.


Kato Spring of Georgia, Inc., Suwanee, GA
Kato Spring is a Japanese high volume precision spring; insert molding, magnetic media and automotive / aerospace metal forming company founded in 1930 that established a start-up operation in Georgia in 1983 with five employees. By 1998, production was 90+ million precision springs/stampings and assembly components per month, with total workforce of 220 employees.

Engineering / Quality Manager from 1993-1998

Responsible for total quality management development, manufacturing engineering and technical sales support for an expanding customer base.
Directed new products engineering from concept through production.
I implemented a new documentation control system for automotive and aerospace customers with TS16949 - QS9000 - APQP - PPAP - FMEA - SPC requirements.
Directed the ISO 9002 certification from startup to completion as steering committee leader and wrote our new standard operational procedures and quality manual.
Studied Kaizen and JIT techniques in Japan.

Chief Engineer from 1988-1993

In our new 180,000 square foot facility, Kato Spring supplied over 1/3 of the world market for MFD (3.5 micro floppy disk) metal components and 60 million precision springs, stampings and assembly components each month, with a total workforce of 80 employees.
Responsible for tooling/machine and development and process improvement.
Created specialty engineered components team for developing new products, reliability testing, and product performance per JIS, ASTM, and customer standards.
Evaluated supplier performance / recommended capitol equipment purchase.
Managed a team of engineers in research and development of robotics, automated assembly equipment and new manufacturing techniques. Focus on increased productivity scrap / waste reduction, Just-In-Time inventory, increase quality and product reliability.

Engineer from 1983-1988

I began employment with Kato Spring of Georgia, a 5-person start-up operation.
Responsible for establishing engineering support to production, quality assurance, and technical sales departments.
I directed incoming inspection of Tier I & II suppliers for specification conformance.
I wrote operational procedures and quality manual.
Created teams within production and quality assurance
Conducted training employee courses to improve statistical process control and blueprint reading for non-technical employees.

COMPUTER SKILLS:
SAP, All Microsoft Office; Excel, Word, Access, AutoCAD, Solid Works 3D, Visual Basic, Statistical Software; WinSPC, StatLIB, MiniTAB, SQCpac, Analyse-it