Gonzalo Gómez
Quality Engineer
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Born in Cd. Delicias, Chih. Mex. January 10th, 1973. Married with 2 children, excellent health, 1.82 m; 85 kg. Available to travel and change residence to other city inmediately. adaptive, efficient, communicative, Reference available if are requested.
I like Music, movies, travel, Internet, Racquet ball and Mountain biking.
I like Music, movies, travel, Internet, Racquet ball and Mountain biking.
Quality Engineer
Batesville
Since September 2010
- Quality planning; participate and support all the areas during planning / introduction of new products with prototype runs, samplings, trials runs, PFMEAS and control plan elaboration. Includes Kaizen events participation to improve finishing process.
- Responsible for the Quality and critical parameters follow up of the Whitewood, Finishing, Polishing and Interiors departments through layered audits.
- Following of the top 3 quality issues with cause and effect analysis and Gate charts to evaluate the tendecy and implement corrective actions.
- Active participation to give follow up to customer complains and corrective actions (CARS) definition with a first approach of prevention ( Error - proofing) to conduct to detection and elimination.
- Process control charts definition and daily follow up, applicable to the different process.
- Process capabilities studies to the process assigned and participation in fixtures design and their validation in the production lines.
- Provide the quality criteria and necessary training to the production personnel of new process, Engineering changes, customer complaints and Control graphs.
- Presentation of PFCs to the PCP committee of new materials or replacement to improve quality.
- Manage of 17 quality inspectors and 2 Quality technicians in 2 shifts.
- Lead efforts to reduce scrap through root causes analysis and give follow up to defective materials with suppliers / rework / ISCARs / NCMRs.
- Internal Quality auditor. Corporate Quality Audits responsible.
- Continuos Improvement projects and Six sigma Projects participation.
Quality Supervisor
Sonoco
May 2004
to July 2010
- Member of the CSTE winner team of the 2006 Technical Excellence Awards that successfully converted the metal can to composite can for our main customer Mead Johnson Nutrition.
- Projects Management: validation of new production line 3 and new products launching, starting from product specification, defects criteria standardization, Statistical Process Control, DOE, production runs and giving follow up to customer complains and corrective actions.
- Reduction of Product Disruptive impact from 17 in 2004 to 7.6 in 2006 by using Six Sigma tools to improve the production process and change of raw materials, participating in conjunction with the plant process improvement and and corrective action team.
- New software implementation / update in plant, like gage pack and SEAM SCAN.
- Active participation in the monthly performance evaluation meeting with our customer MJN.
- Follow up to all raw materials defects with suppliers until corrective actions completion.
- Change Control Follow up and production runs qualification for new raw materials change.
- Qualiy systems development and Quality department performance index, CARs and SCARs documentation and follow up with customers and suppliers, including audits in their plants.
- Preparation and follow upto AIB (plant qualifivation in 2010: Excellent) and customer internal audits. HACCCP food safety program implementation in plant.
- Ergonomic, incident investigation, Hand Safety, HACCP, Calibration, and GMP´s champion.
- Pest control coordinator in plant.
- Training course for new recruits, including Safety, GMP's and Quality defects criteria.
Planner / Buyer
Epic Technologies
April 2003
to June 2003
- materials requisition to suppliers using MRP systems and EPICS, based in production planning and the Kan Ban system.
- Participation in bond reports meetings with suppliers to verify shorts of materials, determination of improvement date to obtain material, verified vs. prodution plan to avoid production lines shut down.
- Paricipation in new product lunch in production ( APQPs) working in obtain all the new materials on time with the correspondent Kan Ban cards. Participation in Quality issues related to materials.
Quality Engineer
LG Philips Displays Mexico
January 1999
to December 2002
- ISO 9000: norm application through internal audits, generation and update of procedures, training to develop internal auditors in the 2000 review of the norm.
- Quality tools: knowledge of Quality tools such Paretto diagrams, PDCAs, 8Ds, ISOPLOTS, FMEAS, etc, to determine root causes and corrective actions.
- Process capabilities studies: Process capability of our process, to have reference and continouosly improve the process or if it is necesary improve the product specification.
- Control plans for the important characteristics of the product and process parameters.
- Assigned in the improvement process of Deflection units ( Yoke) and in the direct interaction with the customer to solve Quality complains.
- Development of suppliers: Engineering samples approval, materials evaluation and confirmation of defects in the materials to work in conjunction with our suppliers in the correspondent corrective action ( 8Ds).
- Participation in Quality Audits to suppliers to improve their Quality system.
- Product Quality control: Development of process control to Quality Inspectors and product Quality evaluationduring all the production process.
- Supervisión, training and administration of 12 Quality Inspectors in 4 shifts.
- Participation and leadership in teams: Determination of corrective actions through team participation to improve continously the production line performance. (CPK, Poka Yokes)
Industrial Engineer
Osram Sylvania
February 1997
to January 1999
- Studies in Time and Movements ( Production Standards) Capacities for the production plan, raw material and production process scrap.
- Design and improvements of Lay-Outs ( Just in Time work cells stations).
- Continous Improvement projects to reduce scrap in all the plant, like new equipment.
- Implementation and balance of new production lines.
- SPC, Just in Time and ISO 9002.
- Planning and Production control as Supervisor during 4 months.
- Elaboration of work intructions, visual aids fo work methods and Quality criteria.
- Participation in FMEA´s teams to solve production problems.
- Ability to use the following software: Micrsoft word, Power Point, AutoCad, Flow chart, MRP, Microsoft Project, Minitab, JDEdwards, SEAM SCAN and Gage pack.
- Good verbal / writting communication skills and effectively interact with peers, customers, suppliers and upper management. Highly organized and focus in lean manufacturing, proactive.
- Costant desire to grow professionally, leadership, team orientation, solving problems, continuos improvements, results and customer satisfaction oriented. Ability to manage multiple projects and maintaining a sense of urgency.
