Brandy Laed

· Work with internal engineering teams and supplier engineering teams to move through open engineering change orders and process requests through to resolution · Lead and support the development of a quality improvement plan with the supplier, while additionally supporting the learning curve for 8D RCCA activity · Present monthly on program risk level of supplier to senior management · Support continuous improvement by my personal participation with the current supplier team, enhancing their abilities to better understand product flow through visual controls, cycle times through standard work, which in turn will enhance their ability to support master schedule delivery. · Ability to facilitate joint meetings related to quality, engineering or delivery concerns with the customer and supplier · Lead continuous improvement events with cross functional teams at supplier sites

· Work with internal engineering teams and customer engineering teams to move through open engineering change orders and process requests through to resolution · Lead and support the development of a quality improvement plan with the supplier, while additionally supporting the learning curve for 8D RCCA activity · Present monthly on program risk level of supplier to senior management · Integral in setting up twice daily operations meetings with the current supplier to better understand delivery to end customer when supplier delivery was poor · Implement my supply chain management / scheduling knowledge into the current supplier to enhance product flow · Support continuous improvement by my personal participation with the current supplier team, enhancing their abilities to better understand product flow through visual controls, cycle times through standard work, which in turn will enhance their ability to support master schedule delivery. · Implemented daily SQDC production walks and supporting the KPI metrics for each area with supplier · Ability to facilitate joint meetings related to quality, engineering or delivery concerns with the customer and supplier

· Create organization tool for open projects the quality team has in process · Conduct cross functional team meetings to create and implement a Customer Return Process · Establish TAT for operations on customer returns and provide management with metrics · Create Value Stream meetings and begin targeting product based on the trends

· Oversee three locations for shipping of product (Kent, Redmond, Bothell) for 100% Quality & 100% OTD · Create and bolster a healthy team environment through team building activities and heighten awareness of quality standards and training classes · Increased throughput after implementing process flow lines for single cart flow by 12% · Worked with leadership to create training courses for the quality team to understand quality and root cause analysis · Implemented cost savings in the customer returns process for a gain of $80,000 annually

· Review and interrupt customer purchase order for compliance. · Ability to accurately use micrometers, calipers, permiscopes for drawing compliance determine go and no-gage size based on charts referenced in drawings or calculate the pitch micrometer size · Basic blue print reading · Ability to create non-conformance tags during inspection process · Ability to review customer returned product and determine rework steps

· Plan the production capacity report monthly and 13 weeks · Status open orders and review incoming purchase orders · Review material on hand using MRP system, work close with purchasing to bring in material · Coordinate with shipping and sales to adjust shipments based on production · Work with engineering to for revisions to parts and alternates for components · Work with management to understand company KPI's and TTI's on quarterly basis · Working in a lean factory, participating in lean events annually