Kevin Joseph Cooper
Fremont
Summary
To obtain a position where I can demonstrate my background in management, quality, and production.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
CDL Class B Driver
Black Tie Transportation Service
Pleasanton
04.2023 - Current
- Operated buses safely and efficiently, ensuring timely transportation for passengers.
- Conducted pre-trip inspections, maintained a clean and safe bus environment, and complied with traffic laws.
- Maintained high standards of safety and professionalism while driving limo bus.
- Ensured the safe and timely transportation of children and adults to various events.
Cooperate Quality Control Specialist
Lucid Motor
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Receive defective parts from Service centers to inspect and evaluate.
- Collaborate with engineers and Technicians to do a root cause analysis.
- Assign Technicians for testing defective parts
- Use Salesforce software for tracking purposes
- Ship parts as needed
- Order parts for engineering and technicians
Centralized Flow Manager
Waymo
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Track vehicle lifecycle from production shipment through delivery.
- Serve as liaison between the hands-on technical teams and the tracking system.
- Monitor issue resolution on inventory, personnel, process, and timeline concerns.
- Manage physical location of each vehicle.
- Inform staff on inventory priority and next vehicle in queue.
- Locate and reconcile any process flow deviations.
- Coordinate vehicle handoffs.
Operations Manager/Owner
Dolce Amore Restaurant
01.2012 - 01.2021
- Manage A/P, A/R, cash activity, collection calls, contracts, proposals, and payroll.
- Code and enter vendor invoices and expense reports.
- Prepare weekly checks, bill clients, and prepare bank deposits.
- Reconcile general ledger accounts for accuracy.
- Process employee timesheets and weekly payroll checks for employees.
- Track employee vacation and personal time, garnishments, and workers compensation.
- Reconcile bank statements.
- Evaluate, change, and implement policies and procedures to improve internal controls.
- Create weekly, monthly, and quarterly summary reports to review.
Production Control
New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc (NUMMI)
01.1991 - 01.2010
- Oversee the production process to ensure delivery of high-quality products per customer's specifications.
- Redesign workflow to eliminate safety hazards.
- Implemented standardized work procedures for each job.
- Ensure appropriate production rate to reduce delivery delays.
- Collaborate with multiple departments to identify and resolve quality concerns.
- Identify any bottlenecks or delays in production.
- Manage labor, materials, and other resource availabilities to relieve production bottlenecks and delays.
- Use production planning and scheduling to limit materials shortages.
- Ensure production machinery complies with professional and safety standards.
- Schedule maintenance and repair of machines to avoid downtime or delays.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Education
High School - Biology
James Logan High School
Union City, CA06-1984
Skills
- Highly organized
- Detail oriented
- Strategic thinking
- Strong verbal communication
- Strong written communication
- Excellent customer service
- Prioritization
- Multi-tasking
- Fast paced work environment
- Accuracy
- Timeliness
- Minimal supervision
- Collaboration
- Self-motivation
- Basic Microsoft Office
- Excel
- Power Point
- Access
- Word
- Outlook
- 30 wpm
- 10 Key by touch
Technology Skills
- Basic Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Access, Word, Outlook)
- 30 wpm
- 10 Key by touch
Career Accomplishments
- Recognized for reducing overhead while maintaining a quality driven workplace.
- Awarded for optimizing and coordinating multi-level scheduling and cost reduction.
- Certified Toyota Production System Trainer
- Hazard Communication Certified Trainer
- Quality Control Analyst
Timeline
CDL Class B Driver
Black Tie Transportation Service
04.2023 - Current
Cooperate Quality Control Specialist
Lucid Motor
01.2022 - 01.2023
Centralized Flow Manager
Waymo
01.2021 - 01.2022
Operations Manager/Owner
Dolce Amore Restaurant
01.2012 - 01.2021
Production Control
New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc (NUMMI)
01.1991 - 01.2010
High School - Biology
James Logan High School