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Richard Creith's Experience:
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Quality Supervisor - Mechanical Operations Center at Raytheon
February 2014 - May 2014Supervised over 25+ Collective Bargaining Unit Employees supporting the Airframe and Guidance & Control Section Factories with values streams: Tomahawk, MALD, JSOW, Paveway, Maverick, HARM, TOW, & Griffin. o Supervised 3 Materials, Processes & Producibility (MP&P) engineers performing test and verification via High Performance Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF); measuring of surface finishes assuring physical properties of parts & materials meet the intended quality requirements per MIL-STD-750, Department of Defense Test Methods for Semiconductors Devices. o Eliminated line stoppage from back log of over 500 Inspection Lots requiring Electrical Test Inspection. o Improved Test Inspection performance by 184% completing over 800 Priority Inspection Lots ahead of schedule by 3 months and returning area to normal work flow. o Updated Supplier Quality Performance Report planning, yielding an increased inspection accuracy of 10%.
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Quality Supervisor - Radio Frequency & Electronics Integration Center at Raytheon
2013 - 2014Assumed responsibility of additional areas to resolve deficient department budget, saving ~$308,000 annually. Supervised over 35+ Bargaining Unit Employees covering 10+ Production & Engineering programs 7 Factories with value streams; RAM, Sparrow, Standard Missile, SM2, SM3, SM6, David Sling, HTS, and AMRAAM. o Achievement award: American Society for Quality Certification; Certified Quality Inspector (ASQ - CQI) o Designed PRISM change allowing inspectors to create F1 Quality Notifications to document shipping discrepancies. This improved the Quality History Report by creating easily accessible and comprehensive defect data. o Revised 23 pages of the Manufacturing and Test Center Depot Process. Produced a method detailing the completion of 16 Government Furnished Property (DD157X) Tags. Formed a new standard to reduce defects.
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Quality Engineer - Guidance Integration Factory at Raytheon
2012 - 2013Provided Quality Engineering support to world-class production capabilities for the manufacture of Radio Frequency (RF) & Electronics Integration (EI) assemblies. Conveyed inspection guidance for a Quality team. o Achievement Award: Raytheon Six Sigma Qualification through project completion of "Inspection Communication Tool" and its deployment. Improved inspection response times by up to 142%, using the macro tool. o Represented RMS Quality Inspection supporting our sister division Integrated Air Defense Center's (IADC) PRISM Go Live; aided over 30 Receiving Inspectors and 10 Engineers to resolve growing back log of over 2,000 Inspection Lots (IL). Produced several training guides to assist the integration of PRISM with IADC's SMARTVIEW Tool, a tie-in for multiple data sources to create real time SPC driven changes. o Modified the AMRAAM Guidance Section Depot Unit Final Inspection Planning for CABS Remove and Replace process resulting in 20 hours of work per week diverted from Inspection & moved to Configuration Management.
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Quality Supervisor - Missile Integration and Test Facility at Raytheon
2011 - 2012Provided 2nd Shift supervision of inspectors within 319 acres of Air Force Plant No. 44, designed to perform final assembly and test on Hazard Class Division (HC/D) 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 explosives. Supported various weapons systems, including SM-3, Stinger, Griffin(TM), Tomahawk, MALD(R), AMRAAM, TOW, AIM-9x, RAM, and Maverick along with special test, flight and engineering development efforts. o Acquired Letter of Clearance under the Federal explosive license / permit via Raytheon. o Improved inspection cycle time of TOW RF Missile Case Assembly Unit by 5 minutes per case. o Led team on AIM-9x Depot to implement planning change eliminating ~8 hours of error corrections to configuration data. o Led Quality Prove-in of Navajo Army Depot off-site storage of Pre-DD250 Material resulting in approved contract.
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Quality Supervisor - Rita Road Facility Receiving Shipping Inspection & Test at Raytheon
2010 - 2011Supervised 24+ Bargaining Unit employees and led three separate RCCA teams resulting in cycle time improvement, quality compliance, and safety improvements at Rita Road. Drove long term enhancements and cycle time reduction (from 12.5 days to 3 days), ensured department maintained its efficiencies to process compliance & initiative support. o Acting Quality Manger during 2010 Corporate & National Quality Assurance (NQA) audits. o Successfully led a multi-organizational team, creating a process "Electronic Data Retention Initiative" (EDRI) to electronically store the quality history records for all supplied hardware, eliminating need to retain paper copies. o Eliminated 38 pallets & 44 file cabinets of physical paper storage within Inspection Areas. o Reduced ~138 hours a month of Planners searching for paperwork, costing an estimated $200,000 a year. o Reduced ~68 hours a month of warehouse specialists filing paperwork saving an estimated $57,000 a year. o Eliminated reliance on services by Iron Mountain (3rd Party Off-site storage) costs to Raytheon ~$111.43 per file retrieval and ~$30,000 a month in storage cost totaling $360,000 annually. o Achievement Award: EDRI Project matured into Enterprise level tool & process used across all of RMS off-sites.
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Quality Supervisor - Airport Facility Receiving Shipping Inspection & Test at Raytheon
2008 - 2010Front line supervision of 10+ Receiving and Shipping Inspection/Test personnel to include planning, scheduling, and evaluation of work load; assist inspectors with problem resolution; evaluate projected workload and equipment and supply needs; informs, advises, and assists internal and external customers on inspection procedures; prepares various productivity reports from SAP system and other spreadsheets; support continuous process improvements. Performed internal audits of quality system to ensure continued compliance with ISO 9001. o Led team of two certified inspection instructors & two engineers to revise 9 aged Process Instructions. o Development & Supported OP9990 Pack out Process project to reduce risk of Foreign Object Debris escapes. o Created 2D Barcode system via embedded script, eliminating 32 mouse clicks & reducing PRISM Transaction time. o Reduced inspection overtime hours by 74% from 2009 to 2010. o Standardized shift times across entire plant; yielded 183% increase manpower during peak hours. o Hold Processing System (Material Holds): 88% Reduction in Approval Cycle Time over 2009 from 2008. o Reduced building 801 shipping holds by 38% by implementing key inspection characteristics in the planning.
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Project Engineer at CME Enterprises. L.L.C.
August 2007 - August 2008o Coordinate/supervise construction process from conceptual development stage through final construction, completed on budget, on time. Manage budget in excess of $100,000. o Design/authored blueprints for construction permits, optimizing floor space. Hire/managed sub-contractors to complete work. Acquisition contractor for entire project. Conducted necessary coordination with City of Tucson officials for required building codes and permits. o Develop/Design state of the art Audio & Visual systems, and conducted installation to blue print spec.
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Independent Contractor at Adelante Educational Services
January 2007 - May 2007o Prepare lesson plans for disadvantaged children (grades K-12), provide supervision and tutoring services from lesson plans, administer textbooks, workbooks (Math & Reading), and personal journals. o Conduct research for extra curricular activities to incorporate in conjunction with standard lesson plan from teacher edition textbook. Help students understand their attitudes about school and making connections with their personal lives with their education from school. Finger Print Clearance Card.
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Business Development Engineer at NANOFINISH Corporation
January 2006 - December 2006o Constructed Business plan; set company objectives, mission statement, calculated start-up summary, performed market research and analysis, competition analysis and sales strategy implementation, website planning, sales forecast analysis, financial planning, break-even analysis, projected profit and loss, cash flow, balance sheet and business ratios. o Sales and Business management; establish customer relations, maintain company goals, coordinate efforts with offshore business affiliate, international relations, industry research and analysis, maintain business planning.
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Computer Product Specialist and Support at Best Buy
January 2001 - December 2006o Customer assistance and Sales; implement sales strategies from corporate, aided customers with purchasing, maintain product knowledge through training and personal research, assisted management with new sales strategies, leadership seniority priority supervision of other department employees. o Assisted with computer product support; aided in-store computer technicians with customer support from walk-in and telephone tech support customers.
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Engineer Consulting Services at PACE Technologies
January 2006 - June 2006o Assisted with Business needs; assess current environment and quality control, conducted the following: Computer system diagnostics, Computer parts and Software purchasing, Updated Computer Systems, Network Installation, Data back up and security, Internet bandwidth testing. o Assisted with Business operation and planning; advise cost effective solutions to better the daily business activities and problem solving business needs, such as secure remote access to computer system to conduct business out of the office during business trips.
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Supplier Quality Engineer - Centralized Distribution Center at Raytheon
2014Provided quality engineering support to the Receiving Inspection & Test facility. o Chosen by leadership to support resolution of a level 2 Corrective Action Request (CAR) by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). Answered the CAR (consisting of 74 action items) in 4 months, ahead of schedule. o Authored Foreign Object Elimination (FOE) Plan for Receiving Electrical Mechanical Inspection Lab. o Performed Date Code Analysis to support X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Testing of Lead Weight % and Thickness of Discrete Semiconductor Tin-Lead Terminations, utilizing data from Supplier Quality Performance Reports.