1. William (Bill) J. Sagy Sr. 330 Oak Leaf Circle
Pell City, Al. 35125
937-231-2074 wsagysr@gmail.com
Plant Manager/ Operations Manager / Industrial Engineer / Supplier Quality Engineer
HISTORY
WKW Automotive N.A. - Pell City, Alabama 10/05/12 to present
Industrial Engineer / Lean Manager for Tier One Supplier to Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, and
General Motors; Metal Fabrication aluminum to anodized trim (IE); window frames, belt moldings,
roof-rails. www.wkw-erbsloeh.com
Industrial Engineer / Lean CI – WKW-Erbsloeh N.A 10/05/2012 to present
• Promoted Lean practices and implementation throughout each operation with current data.
• Developed time study spread sheets with current set PPH capability with actual OEE.
• Recommended changes to SAP data which controls inventory and production planning.
• Advised and coached first line supervisors and team leaders on one piece flow practices.
• Focused on bottle neck areas of production organizing team efforts to improve flow.
EHD Technologies, Birmingham, Alabama 9/22/11 to 10/5/12
Contract engineering firm sourcing manufacturing engineering and quality engineering to the major
OEM’s and to Tier One and Tier Two Suppliers: Most recently deployed as:
Supplier Quality Crisis Engineer–Mercedes Benz USA, Vance, Alabama www.ehdtech.com
• Charged with managing critical suppliers in crisis mode.
• Dispatched to suppliers to assess quality and supply chain issues
• Developed quality management improvements through the collection and analysis of online
data and implemented quality gates where necessary for immediate feedback.
• Implemented containment of parts quality issues for suppliers and monitored 3rd
party sorts.
• Reviewed daily end of line audit data, customer satisfaction audits and final ship “point of sale”
audit reports to identify any recent exterior group’s supplier quality issues.
• Established root cause actions including requests to suppliers for 5 why’s, 8-D, with
breakpoints.
Supplier QE APQP Engineer EHD Tech@ Johnson Controls Inc West Point,Ga.8/15/11 to 9/21/11
• Managed launch PPAP of supplier initial quality for new Kia Optima program.
• Performed APQP / ISIR and supplier parts submissions reviews with G / NG decisions.
• Updated and maintained PPAP matrices for all Door Module and Seat Module Parts.
• Reversed a severe backlog of pre-launch documentation and supplier quality parts
submissions.

2. • Coached, mentored and trained quality staff and inspection teams on new systems.
HTI Staffing Inc. Greenville, S.C l4/14/11 to 7/31/11
Contract house and outplacement source for Manufacturing, Administrative, Quality and Operations
Professionals most recently deployed as: http://www.htijobs.com
Supplier Quality Engineer – @ ZF Industries, Tuscaloosa, http://www.zf.com/
• Managed quality and delivery performance of final build out of front and rear sub-frames
manufactured at Benteler Automotive and sent to ZF for the assembly of a finished module.
• Implemented hourly tracking boards at each work cell collecting JPH, downtime and reasons,
reject rates per hour and calculating daily FTC % performance and OEE.
• Tracked on time delivery data with close watch on WIP and min / max buffer levels.
• Escalated downtime and JPH issues to remove road blocks to targeted production rates.
• Determined corrective action measures and assured that proper root-cause analysis was
completed in a timely and effective manner. Coached and mentored as needed.
• Coached and directed supervisors and team leads on effective labor utilization skills.
O/E Learning Inc. Troy, Michigan 5/1/06 to 6/1/09
Developer and Designer of customized performance improvement programs and training courses
designed to add value to a company’s leadership, quality, safety and operations. http://www.oe.com/
Management Consultant–Safety-within five Heavy Trucks and Bus Mfg. Plants in Carolinas
• Coached and trained all levels of management, UAW representatives and floor associates in
the implementation of a pro-active, database driven workplace safety culture turn around
• Saved Daimler Trucks of North America over $6 million dollars in Workers Compensation costs
training the floor level associates and safety reps to identify hazards and eliminate them before
any near misses, incidents or lost time injuries occurred
• Led the formation of the Safety Strategy Teams consisting of the Plant’s executives who would
meet monthly to review the Hazard Inspection Team’s reports.
• Directed the formation of weekly Hazard Investigation Teams meeting once a week to review
the data from their weekly hazard inspection walks and to ensure communication of these
items of potential hazards to all areas of the Plants.
• Coached supervisors on proper root cause analysis of hazards/ injuries & all incidents.
Mitsubishi Motors of North America, Normal, Illinois 8/15/05 to 4/30/06
Original Equipment Manufacturer of Mitsubishi Motors vehicles in North America
http://www.mitsubishicars.com/MMNA/jsp/index.do
New Vehicle Launch Quality Specialist / Quality Engineer for Product Service Group
• Managed and Directed the pre-launch quality of two new models for ‘06 and ‘07
• Presented up stream quality reports to the plant management and attended daily product
quality reviews with department managers at the main assembly plant.
• Coordinated the accessory work and delivery preparations at the Product Delivery Center.
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3. • Managed and organized the initial quality reviews for the 2007 Spyder Convertible and the
new 2006 Raider Pickup trucks built on the Dodge Ram platform in Warren, Mi.
• Position reported to Cypress, California N/A headquarters. Reorganization in April ’06.
ASC INCORPORATED, Southgate, MI. 1/18/84 to 4/28/2005
AKA/ American Specialty Cars-American Sunroof Corporation-Automobile Specialty Corporation
Tier 1 supplier of specialty vehicles, trim sub-systems and open air systems to the international motor
vehicle industry. Corporate offices were in Southgate, Mi; now in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
http://www.ascglobal.com/
Plant Manager-Operations Manager-Manufacturing Planner-Quality Engineer
Launched and managed three plants for ASC Inc. (Automobile Specialty Company) over
a 9 year period that spanned several states producing several unique specialty vehicles.
(Operations Manager from 1988 to 1994 after 4 years as assembly technician leading to line
supervision and Ops Manager)
• Facilities launched as a Plant Manager in Doraville, Georgia 1997-2002; Moraine, Ohio 2002-
2004; and Normal, Illinois 2004-2005.
• ASC implemented the first video entertainment systems into the GM Mini-Vans produced at the
General Motors Doraville plant with an off-site non-union facility of 200 employees.
• Implemented a Management Operating System using scorecard approach to set goals and
measure the effectiveness of Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Morale on daily basis.
• Integrated the UAW workforce during an “in-sourcing” of our non-union production facility into
the GM UAW Doraville plant and did so with no lost production time and a seamless transition.
• Next Plant Manager Position required a launch of a Specialty Vehicle Assembly plant in Huber
Heights, Ohio. 2/10/02 to 3/9/04
• Modified General Motors Moraine, Ohio Chevy Trailblazers with ground effects and door
cladding with special rocker molding design and wide wheel lip moldings.
• Added specialty accessories to the Trailblazers which were then branded as “The NorthFace
Edition” for the Chevy Truck Platform Family.
• This “NorthFace Edition” was a short lived market for GM and project cancelled in early 2004.
• After the Moraine operation I became Plant Manager at the ASC Bloomington/Normal, Illinois
Mitsubishi Motors convertible systems top stack assembly plant between 3/10/04 to 4/28/05
• Managed this tier one non-union plant providing just in time deliveries of top stacks to MMNA.
• ASC facility began production in 1998 delivering convertible top stack assemblies sequenced
into MMNA with zero delivered defects QPPM throughout its tenure in Illinois.
• This ASC Normal plant was consolidated in early 2005 with our Toyota top stack plant in Ky.
• I was offered a severance package in April 2005 and left the Company to work at Mitsubishi.
Due to the Sole owner and CEO of ASC, (Heinz Prechter’s), untimely death by suicide in July of
2001, the Company was later sold to an Investment Firm in 2002. From that point on the direction of
the Company changed and it was obvious that no real new business being actively courted and no
new investments in capital expenditures. This led to the closure of many of the Company’s assets and
plants. In 2006 ASC filed for bankruptcy which, having foreseen this coming, led to my request for
severance after consolidation of my top stack plant in Normal, Illinois with a plant in Kentucky.
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EDUCATION
BBA, Northwood University, Midland, Michigan
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4. AAA, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
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