Dave Baxter
QMC Auditor at American Institute of Steel Construction
Eaton Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Baxter is an experienced quality and manufacturing professional with 8+ years in quality-focused roles and over two decades in operations and metrology across North America, Asia, and South America. Currently a QMC Auditor for the American Institute of Steel Construction, he previously led global manufacturing, supplier development, and operations as Director of Operations at DAVCO Technology, where he drove efficiency, APQP/TS-16949 compliance, and large capital/tooling programs. His hands-on background ranges from CMM programming and SPC to fixture design and automation, and he has led cross-border audits and continuous improvement initiatives that measurably reduced scrap and expedited freight. A journeyman-trained metrologist and former union steward, he blends shop-floor technical depth with strategic oversight of quality systems and international supply chains. Less obvious: he has contributed full-stack enhancements to an open-source coffee-roasting visualization tool, demonstrating practical coding fluency alongside manufacturing expertise.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Journeyman Program at TRW JacksonUniversity of PhoenixGraduate of Northwest High School
Github Skills (8)
user-interface10
ui-design10
python10
graphical-user-interface10
computer-engineering9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
artisan-roaster-scope/artisan
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
artisan scope: the world's most trusted roasting software
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2204 releases, 434 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dave's commits focused on enhancing the user interface and adding new features to the coffee roasting application. Key contributions included adding the ability to selectively display event types, adding an optional metric indicator for the ET curve, expanding event value display, and implementing click-and-drag measurements to improve the user experience. The changes involved modifying Python code to integrate these new features and improve the presentation of data.
yoctopucephidgetsartisanprobatcoffee
roasterdave/artisan
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
artisan: visual scope for coffee roasters
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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