German Alonso Acosta

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT GERMAN ALONSO ACOSTA

26 years industry experience within design engineering and quality organizations with increasing levels of responsibility. During this time, I’ve worked cross functionally supporting internal and external customers to meet organizational goals and deliverables. The first 11 years were as a contributor focused on design, development, and release of complex systems (Electric Motor Drive / IC Engine components and systems). In that time frame I acquired technical/process skills including the design and release process, problem resolution, GD & T, DFMEA/DVPR methods, supplier development including APQP, Design for Manufacture, analytical evaluation of ferrous components, bench and vehicle testing including NVH/torsional analysis, and use of analytical tools including ANSYS, UGNX, TeamCenter, etc.While at Navistar Corporation, I was Director of both Integrated Supplier Quality and Powertrain Engineering. In the Quality role, I was responsible for delivering quality components which met functional performance and quality requirements to our various build locations in support of vehicle production and customer UPTIME. The approach was twofold, both Sustaining Quality centered around rapid response and the 8D problem resolution process as well as Proactive quality focused on an automotive APQP and phased PPAP process with production intent global suppliers. In the Engineering role, I lead the powertrain organization (engine to wheels), focused on delivering complete integrated solutions to the vehicle team using a number of different supplied systems (both internal and external). This was achieved with improved integration of the various systems to deliver overall performance and reliability to the end customer while meeting regulatory requirements. Currently, I am the Vertical Lift Quality Director at The Boeing Company. Primary responsibilities cover both the Philadelphia and Mesa sites where VL products include the Apache, Little Bird, Chinook, V22 Osprey, and MH 139 aircrafts, as well as internal make production components including electrical wire harness assemblies and composite aircraft components. My team has ownership of the QMS, and insurance of customer satisfaction to both internal and external customers including BGS, Functional Teams, and Program Teams ensuring product conformance and process compliance. At the enterprise level, our commitment to the organization is focused around quality achievement of critical metrics including DPU, CoRRS, Rework, and COPQ.