Richard L. LaFay
4873 Pontchartrain Drive Slidell,

Louisiana 70458

985-641-4587

• Manage personnel in a fast paced manufacturing company              
• Implement safe work practices
• Develop strategies to continuously improve quality
• Manage and streamline departmental budget
• Coordinate quality needs with manufacturing
• Develop and design reporting systems via corporate network
• Report directly to Vice President

GENERAL MOTORS TRUCK GROUP – 1973 to 2006

Positions held at GM:

Assembler                                                                    Stock keeper                                                                Relief man

Shop Power Truck                                                      Mechanic                                                                      Driver Vehicle Other

Apprentice Toolmaker, Jig & Fixture Builder        Journeyman Toolmaker, Jig & Fixture Builder      Journeyman Tool, Gage & Jig Inspection

Metal Model Maker

2005 – 2006   Metal Model Maker

• Hand build vehicles on production tooling to specifications

• Verify and troubleshoot build problems.

1987 – 2005    Inspector Quality Assurance Laboratory

• Dimensional inspection of supplier parts
• Verification of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• Review design specification and compliance with supplier

1990 – 1994         Paid Educational Leave from GM

2/86 - 8/87           CMM System Analyst, Pontiac East Assembly

• Supervised design and building of Metrology Lab.

• Supervised and trained operators of Coordinate Measuring Machine.

• Conducted seminars on the benefits of CMM’s at GM.

• Scheduled jobs for CMM.
• Simplified and debugged CMM software.
• Created and implemented training schedule.
• Trained hourly personnel in PC usage.
• Supervised and/or wrote software applications for personnel.
• Reviewed and upgraded the computer system, both hardware and software.
• Responsible for debugging and troubleshooting system.

4/85 - 1/86           Salaried position in department 3950

• Helped set up and configure CMM.
• Tested and debugged software for CMM.
• Established procedures for implementing CMM on both plant and corporate level.
• Trained personnel on CMM software.
• Downloaded part data from Computer Graphic System and converted to CMM compatible data.
• Gave seminars to corporate personnel on CMM effectiveness.
• Developed part and or assembly inspection programs for CMM.
• Developed utility programs for data and inspection reports.

8/84 - 4/85            Worked with Brown & Sharpe to debug CMM system.

• Redesign and debug CMM software.

1973 - 1983  Worked for GM

• Worked several jobs from assembler to stock keeper

• Served apprenticeship for Tool Maker, Jig and fixture builder

• Transferred to Quality Assurance Laboratory in 1983

 1975 – 1978         Owned and operated LaFay Racing (owned store while at GM)

• Retail auto parts store with the emphasis on racing cars. 
• Engine building for racing vehicles, primarily 468 to 511 cubic inch Chevrolet engines for endurance racing.
  

1967 – 1971 United States Marine Corps

1968 – Avionics Technician:

• Repaired communications and navigational electronics for A-6A attack aircraft.

1969 – S-2 Intelligence:

• Initiated proper accounting procedures for classified material handling.
• Revised squadron level security procedures.
• Instructed squadron department heads on proper handling of classified material.
• Set up security procedures for handling Top Secret material.
  

May, 1994 Bachelor of Science, Central Michigan University

• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for manufacturing
• PC-DMIS CMM software for both CMM's and Faro arms
• Research and development of computers and systems (on going)
• Val-Meas II (1984) Software for Brown & Sharpe CMM Machine
• Tool, Gage, Jig & Fixture Inspection (1983)
  • GeoTolerancing and Virtual Simulation Modeling
• Oakland Community College (1982)
  • Introduction to Computer Programming, Computer Programming Fortran 7, Computer Programming Cobol, IBM Assembly language

• Toolmaker, Jig & Fixture Builder (1981)
  • Tool Design, Template & Fixture Layout, Geo-Algebra, Plane Trigonometry, Solid Trigonometry, Compound Angles