Quality Assurance Engineer

Verne Gordon

jxkkpb@r.postjobfree.com 714-***-**** [cell]

SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Articulate, outgoing business professional with extensive quality background in semiconductors and electronic products and services for the Military and Aerospace industry. Career encompasses Management, Manufacturing, Inspection and Auditing. Career reflects personal integrity, adaptability, and focus. Wishes to join corporation where hard work and excellence are sought after and rewarded.

Quality Assurance Corrective / Preventative Actions Internal Auditing

AS9100(C) Vendor Qualification Procedures/Manuals

ISO 9001:2008 Training and Coaching Military Standards

Inspection Calibration Environmental Testing

Non-Conforming Material, MRB (Material Review Board) Document Control

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DRS Sensors & Targeting Systems, Cypress, CA 2008 – 2012

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Provided senior-level QA engineering support to space, military and technology programs on a product

life cycle approach.

• Translated contract requirements into work requirements, processes, and tasks.

• Reviewed test procedures and drawings and other engineering documents to assure product/process

repeatability.

• Pre planned/reviewed processes to work with program ahead of time to solve problems and drive

processes.

• Active member of the Program Change Control Board. Initiated Material Review Boards,

nonconformance reports, identified and championed hardware and software program issues through

closure process. Proactively identified corrective action notice issues and facilitated root cause and

corrective action closure.

• Interfaced with program personnel to status quality assurance activities, develop requested reports or

program quality metrics to identify key area of concern to program and quality management.

Holt Integrated Circuits, Mission Viejo, CA 2004 – 2008

Quality Assurance Manager

• Served as ISO Management Representative leading the ISO 9001: 2000 program at an integrated

circuit house specializing in avionics IC’s.

• Directed Quality Management System including corrective actions, internal audits,

training, document control, inspection and testing, calibration, and all aspects of ISO 9001.

SQA Services, Inc., Rolling Hills, CA 2003 – 2004

Source Engineer

• Contract supplier source quality engineer for Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices in

Torrance, CA.

• Performed supplier development source inspection for EDD for printed wiring board

assemblies for WGS, Spaceway, Thuraya and other satellite programs. Provided other

supplier source inspection activities as needed outside of EDD for hi-rel and microwave products.

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Irvine Sensors Corp., Costa Mesa, CA 1999 – 2003

Quality Engineer

• Supported Quality Engineering functions at corporate level for (4) four major divisions of ISC.

• Production start–up for one division from inception to full production in an ISO 9001 setting that

manufactured stacked memory devices in an IPC 610, Class 3 subcontractor facility.

• Performed contract review, all configuration control, quality requirements, inspection

activities, and training of inspection and engineering personnel. Wrote Quality Plans and

Qualification Procedures for major Military Customers. Brought this division to full ISO 9001

compliance.

• Acted as Deputy Quality System Management Representative for ISO 9001 Quality Management

Program.

• Performed Internal Audits in accordance with ISO 9001 system.

• Tracked all Corrective, Preventive and Supplier Corrective Actions.

• Major Accomplishment: Reduced the number of ISO registrar Corrective Actions from 5 to 3

and then 1 at the most current surveillance audit in one year’s time at corporate level.

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

RC Electronics, Garden Grove, CA

Quality Manager

NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

Seniior Quality Engineer

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

A.S., Computer Science, Tech-Age Business School, Malden, MA

Certified by JPL (via NASA) for: 8739.3,Soldered Electrical Connections, Electrostatic Discharge Avoidance MIL-STD 883, Method 2010 and 2072, Precap Visual, MIL-STD 883, Method 2012, Radiography Inspection MIL-STD 883, Method 2018, Scanning Electron Microscopy Hand Soldering/Crimp and Wire Wrap Inspection [NHB 5300.4(3H)]Wire Wrap Inspection, Mechanical Hardware Assembly, Cable/Connector Cleaning, Connector Mate-Demate, Critical Hardware Handling, Harnessing and Cabling

Certification from GIDEP (Government Industry Data Exchange Program)

LICENSES AND AFFILIATIONS

California Notary Public, Commissioned September, 2009

Member National Notary Association

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