Steve Whatley

Current

• Sr Electrical Engineer Consultant at Stewart Engineering Inc

Past

• Quality System Manager at M&I Electric Industries, Inc
• Quality Control Manager at M&I Electric Industries Inc
• Project Engineer / Manager at M&I Electric Industries, Inc.

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Education

• University of Phoenix
• Louisiana Tech University

Connections

2 connections

Industry

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Websites

• http://www.stewartengineeringi

Steve Whatley’s Summary

Results driven and process oriented professional adept at analyzing and improving processes seeking to use experience and education to serve society, industry and the organization.

● Reduced labor for project scheduling by 50%, performance reporting by 75% and monthly financial reporting by 87.5%
● Decreased time and material for project management by 50%
● Improved efficiency and increased productivity

Steve Whatley’s Specialties:

Process/Product Design, Engineering, Implementation, Monitoring & Measuring, Assessment & Improvement,● Internal Auditing ● Performance Analysis ● Change Management ● Non-conformance Investigations ● Root Cause Analysis ● Recommend & Implement Corrective / Preventive Actions ● Leadership ● Document Control ● Procedure Development, Implementation, Review & Improvement ● Testing ● Troubleshooting ● Project Management ● Training ● Consulting

Steve Whatley’s Experience

• Sr Electrical Engineer Consultant

  Stewart Engineering Inc

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  As an independent consultant for Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery, Inc., commissioned voltage regulation equipment for turbine generators.
  
  • Revised programs for protective relays and made wiring changes to the generator control panels
  • Corrected current transformer wiring errors that prevented proper operation of voltage regulation equipment
  • Analyzed and made recommendations for cross current circuit, testing procedures and paralleling turbines with a diesel engine.

• Quality System Manager

  M&I Electric Industries, Inc

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  April 2003 — April 2007 (4 years 1 month)

  Managed, analyzed and continually improved the effectiveness of the quality management system in compliance with the requirements of the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9001-2000. Recommended and implemented product and process standards, improvements, corrective and preventive actions.
  
  • Created and maintained databases used to collect and analyze project, product performance, enter and track non-conformances and create and store test certificates
  • Increased efficiency and productivity within material procurement process by revising input requirements
  • Assisted in product improvement by assisting in the design of high resistance ground system and improving design of blower assembly
  • Improved efficiency and use of manual by revising and aligning with process based system of ISO 9001-2000

• Quality Control Manager

  M&I Electric Industries Inc

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  April 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 10 months)

  Transformed two person team to a five person department accountable for validating and verifying final product met specified requirements by inspecting workmanship and testing for effective and proper operations. Interfaced with various stakeholders including engineering, production, purchasing and customers regarding project progress, performance and improvements.
  
  • Increased productivity and improved efficiency of incoming
  inspection process by realigning tasks
  • Prevented non-conformances by modifying testing methods
  • Provided more efficient and detailed reporting of test and
  inspection results by revising test reports
  • Improved efficiency of quality control by modifying and improving
  test equipment

• Project Engineer / Manager

  M&I Electric Industries, Inc.

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  December 2001 — April 2003 (1 year 5 months)

  Accountable for the design and development of power distribution and control products in accordance to customer, statutory and regulatory requirements. Created schedules, bills of materials, mechanical and electrical drawings and operational manuals.
  
  • Wrote programmable logic control (PLC) and Panel View programs
  to operate diesel and gas generators
  • Designed ground fault detection circuit
  • Designed test box for testing PLC program

Steve Whatley’s Education

• University of Phoenix

  MBA , Business , 2004 — 2006

• Louisiana Tech University

  Bachelor of Science , Electrical Engineering , 1996 — 2000

Additional Information

Steve Whatley’s Websites:

• http://www.stewartengineeringi

Steve Whatley’s Interests:

organizational improvement, quality improvement, electrical engineering, troubleshooting, analyzing

Steve Whatley’s Groups:

American Society for Quality

•    University of Phoenix Alumni
•    Louisiana Tech Alumni

Steve Whatley’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch