Kyle Fonk
Kenosha,WI
Summary
Quality Assurance professional with strong background in quality control processes and standards. Proven ability to enhance team collaboration and adapt to changing needs, ensuring reliability and consistency in every project. Skilled in identifying defects, implementing corrective actions, and maintaining compliance with industry regulations. Known for delivering results and upholding high standards in quality assurance environments. Hard-working professional with extensive experience in construction/ building trades with a keen eye for detail and a strong focus on safety analitics and hazard prevention.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Inspector in Quality Assurance and Quality Control
We Energies
04.2023 - 06.2025
- Inspect and monitor construction sites to ensure adherence to safety standards, building codes, or specifications.
- Monitor installation of wiring, equipment, to ensure that installation is performed properly and is in compliance with applicable regulations.
- Review and interpret plans, blueprints, site layouts, specifications, or construction methods to ensure compliance to legal requirements and safety regulations.
- Maintain daily logs and supplement inspection records with photographs.
- Conduct inspections, using survey instruments, metering devices, tape measures, or test equipment.
- Ensure compliance to building plans and codes.
- Train, direct, or supervise other construction inspectors.
- Conduct environmental hazard inspections to identify or quantify problems, such as asbestos, poor air quality, water contamination, or other environmental hazards.
- Monitor construction activities to ensure that environmental regulations are not violated.
- Evaluate project details to ensure adherence to environmental regulations.
- Sample and test air to identify gases, such as ozone, natural gas, or particulates, allergens.
- Ensured adherence to safety protocols during installation and repair work, fostering a culture of safety awareness among staff.
- Contributed to a safer working environment through diligent adherence to company guidelines for personal protective equipment usage and hazard communication protocols.
- Collaborated with team members to complete complex projects, ensuring high-quality results within strict deadlines.
- Developed comprehensive diagnostic skills to accurately identify issues and provide appropriate repair solutions.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry regulations, ensuring full compliance in all work performed.
- Participated in cross-functional teams tackling challenging projects that required innovative problem-solving methods and technical skillsets outside traditional scope.
- Proactively identified potential hazards during routine inspections, mitigating risks before they escalate into significant problems.
Technician
JF Cook Overhead Doors
03.2016 - 04.2018
- Adjust/ service doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make adjustments to electric openers.
- Carry springs to tops of doors, using ladders or lifts, and attach springs to tracks to install spring systems.
- Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand and power tools.
- Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required.
- Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.
- Collect payment upon job completion.
- Install door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, or electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment.
- Inspect job sites, assessing headroom, side room, or other conditions to determine appropriateness of door for a given location.
- Operate lifts, firetrucks lulls, winches, or chain falls to move heavy curtain doors equipment.
- Fabricate replacements for worn or broken parts, using welders, lathes, drill presses, or shaping or milling machines.
- Run low voltage wiring on ceiling surfaces, using insulated fasteners.
- Study blueprints and schematic diagrams to determine appropriate methods of installing or repairing automated door openers.
- Install dock seals, bumpers, shelters and levelers.
- Order replacement springs, sections, or slats, parts.
- Lubricate door closer oil chambers, and pack spindles.
- Set in and secure floor treadles for door-activating mechanisms, and connect power packs and electrical panelboards to treadles.
- Clean door closer parts, using caustic soda, rotary brushes, or grinding wheels.
- Diagnosed and repaired mechanical issues in various door models, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Trained new technicians on installation procedures and safety protocols, fostering team competency.
- Collaborated with project managers to streamline installation schedules, improving workflow efficiency.
- Actively participated in continuous learning initiatives to stay updated on industry trends and advancements in technology.
Owner/Operator
DK Doors and More
02.2004 - 06.2016
- Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, product uses, and credit terms.
- Recommend products to customers, based on customers' needs and interests.
- Estimate or quote prices, credit or contract terms, warranties, and delivery dates.
- Consult with clients after sales or contract signings to resolve problems and to provide ongoing support.
- Prepare sales contracts and order forms.
- Developed strong relationships with clients, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and repeat business.
- Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales.
- Perform administrative duties, such as preparing sales budgets and reports, keeping sales records, and filing expense account reports.
- Led project management initiatives, ensuring timely completion of installations while adhering to budget constraints.
- Identify prospective customers by using business directories, following leads from existing clients, participating in organizations and clubs, and attending trade shows and conferences.
- Negotiate with retail merchants to improve product exposure, such as shelf positioning and advertising.
- Check stock levels and reorder merchandise as necessary.
- Plan, assemble, and stock product displays in retail stores, or make recommendations to retailers regarding product displays, promotional programs, and advertising.
- Negotiate details of contracts and payments.
- Forward orders to manufacturers.
- Managed day-to-day business operations.
- Complete and assure Quality control on work preformed.
- Improved safety standards by regularly reviewing protocols and implementing necessary updates.
- Installed and maintained systems, ensuring optimal functionality and safety compliance.
Education
Associate's degree - Architectural Structural Engineering
Gateway Technical collage
05.2023
Skills
- Team Work
- Leadership
- Computer skills
- Collaboration
- Data analysis
- Time management
- Project management
- Communication
- Deductive Reasoning
- Supervisor skills
- Engineering
Certifications Licenses Awards
- OSHA 30 (lapsed)
- Specialty equipment
- Fire Equipment/ inspection
- First Aid and CPR
Timeline
Inspector in Quality Assurance and Quality Control
We Energies
04.2023 - 06.2025
Technician
JF Cook Overhead Doors
03.2016 - 04.2018
Owner/Operator
DK Doors and More
02.2004 - 06.2016
Associate's degree - Architectural Structural Engineering
Gateway Technical collage