Silvia Wixson

About Silvia Wixson

Results-driven professional with 21 years of experience in leading operational teams. Bilingual in Spanish and fluent in Portuguese. Proven track record of success in Quality Program Deployment across multiple operations through developing, leading, managing of Quality Assurance teams and driving standardization of best practices. Vast experience in cascading down of problem-solving techniques to not only solve problems, but to also develop teams in the process. Expertise in structured rollouts of operationally visible and meaningful KPIs to monitor effectiveness of efforts towards set corporate goals. Strong proponent of Next Operation as Customer methodologies as a powerful tool to engage, identify and promote Human Talent/Improvement Agents to impact Quality, along with Safety, Efficiency and Operational Costs. Specialties: Problem Solving, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Program Management, APQP. Bi-lingual skills (Spanish/English).Special recognition: 2014 Women in Manufacturing STEP award recipient through the Manufacturing Institute for women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Production.

Experience

1. Director of Quality Assurance and Lean Ci

   Leggett & Platt

   Mar 2021 — Present

   Director of Quality Assurance and Lean/CI, US Spring Business Unit

Education

• National University of Law and Social Sciences, Paraguay

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Public Notary

  1990 — 1993

• Pittsburg State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Plastics Engineering Technology

  1998 — 2002

• Pittsburg State University

  Master's degree, Engineering Technology, General

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Kaizen
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• Process Improvement
• Six Sigma
• Supply Management
• Manufacturing
• Lean Manufacturing
• Fmea
• Quality Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Apqp
• Iso
• Plastics
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Mrp
• Metal Fabrication
• Training