Ross Ashdown
Navarre,FL
Summary
Over thirty-five years of progressive career growth in manufacturing, field service and quality. Selling and maintaining capital equipment in the metrology and quality arena. Strong manufacturing and service orientation.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Engineer Level 3
Micro Systems Inc. / KRATOS Corp.
01.2022 - Current
- Quality data collection and management for KPI purposes
- Process development and process correction for new and existing products
- Supplier management of nonconforming product, root cause and corrective action
- Development of receiving inspection department through automated equipment, fixturing and proper metrology method.
QA Supervisor / Principal Metrologist
WEST Pharmaceuticals
01.2013 - 11.2021
- Manage 35 product quality auditors over 4 shifts across 3 QA labs at WEST's Phoenix site
- Program metrology vision and touch probe measurement systems for production, product qualifications, engineering studies and DOE's
- Collect and analyze multiple thousands of in-process measurements daily
- Prepare reports for management regarding product dispositions and cost savings programs
- Report product dispositions and cost savings programs to management
- Manage site MRB activity to ensure rapid resolution of nonconforming material
- Coordinate QA Kaizen and lean savings projects using six sigma tools and practices
- Write DOEs GR&Rs, first article inspections, operations qualifications and process qualifications
- Maintain and calibrate >50 OGP, MicroVu, B&S and ROI vision systems for WEST's 4 AZ sites
- Design new product fixtures and tooling using CAD systems and associated SPA software's
- Perform internal quality system audits to ensure conformance to ISO 13485:2016.
Quality Engineer
Clings Aerospace
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Prepare customer first article data packages per AS9100
- Conduct supplier audits, set-up and maintain incoming inspection program
- Create custom fixtures and tooling designs for efficient, comprehensive inspection of new products
- Program CMM for dimensional inspections for entire product line of rapid change fuel tanks for Apache helicopter program
- Perform internal quality system audits to AS9100 and A2LA standards.
Owner /Field Engineering Manager
Klontech Measurement Solutions
01.2007 - 01.2011
- Manage field install base of metrology equipment for 400+ customers in the four corner states and Mexico
- Perform equipment installations, calibrations, upgrades, repair and trainings at customer sites
- Create customer specific measurement and data management programs and processes for continuous data capture and analysis
- Design and Qualification of custom metrology fixturing and tooling for customer part inspection
- Manage service contacts and online advertising for KMS; administer accounts payable and receivable for service and inspection customers.
Contract Engineer / Contract Inspection
Advanced Coordinate Technologies
- Perform calibrations at customer sites on various metrology equipment, CMM's, vision system, comparators, and hand tools
- Teach software classes on wide variety of CMM metrology & SPC software platforms
- Perform first article inspections of complex customer parts and tooling
- Perform reverse engineering, primarily airspace and medical plastic injection parts.
Field Service Engineering Manager
Quality Vision Services (OGP)
- Management of 15 service engineers covering North and Central America performing installations, calibrations, system upgrades and software/metrology training on OGP vision measurement systems.
Field Service Engineering Manager
Tiros Semiconductor Inc.
- Management of 5 international field service sites and personnel (50 FSEs), servicing the semiconductor industry in the thermal reflow oven technology
- Design and build custom reflow system for batch processing as well as high volume semiconductor production.
New Product Design Engineer
Auer Precision Inc.
- Design tooling for high-speed stainless-steel stamping/forming for the semiconductor industry (Auer Boat)
- Consult with customers regarding designs of carriers to accommodate semiconductor packaging requirements.
Education
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Technology -
Weber State University
04.1990
Skills
- Product and Process Development
- Lean Manufacturing
- Project Management
- Quality Assurance
- Metrology
- GR&R, MSA, SPC, GD&T
- Fixture-Tooling Design
- Measurement System Programming
Timeline
Quality Engineer Level 3
Micro Systems Inc. / KRATOS Corp.
01.2022 - Current
QA Supervisor / Principal Metrologist
WEST Pharmaceuticals
01.2013 - 11.2021
Quality Engineer
Clings Aerospace
01.2011 - 01.2013
Owner /Field Engineering Manager
Klontech Measurement Solutions
01.2007 - 01.2011
Contract Engineer / Contract Inspection
Advanced Coordinate Technologies
Field Service Engineering Manager
Quality Vision Services (OGP)
Field Service Engineering Manager
Tiros Semiconductor Inc.
New Product Design Engineer
Auer Precision Inc.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Technology -
Weber State University
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