EN announces quarterly awards Published July 31, 2009 By Engineering and Technical Management Directorate TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Employee of the Quarter Ciria Henry is a management analyst in the Operations Branch. Ms. Henry serves as program coordinator/manager of the military personnel program administration and unit deployment for the Engineering and Technical Management Directorate. Over the past year, she has taken on additional responsibilities by serving as unit deployment manager for all OC-ALC Home and Staff Offices, 498th Missile Sustainment Group, Global Logistics Supply Chain and all OC-ALC military engineers. Her ability to manage this additional workload keeps everything within her area of expertise on track and ahead of schedule. Her success managing programs was evidenced by the use of a tracking tool for performance feedback and Officer Performance Report, which has proved to be an excellent tool to manage OPRs and feedback for active duty and IMAs. This has resulted in a 100 percent on-time rate for OPRs and performance feedback reports. She also maintains an IMA participation matrix which shows a snapshot of all Individual Mobilization Augmentees along with their training days and it also helps her in determining when she needs to be available to assist them on their annual tour checklist. In preparation for the upcoming Operational Readiness Inspection, Ms. Henry scheduled several simulated exercises to evaluate the readiness of all personnel involved. During these exercises, she looks for shortfalls on active duty readiness training and develops a plan to resolve all problems identified. This is accomplished through the prioritization of training requirements and getting all personnel scheduled for needed courses. Team of the Quarter KC-135 Data Editing Air Force Smart Operations Team. Team members are Phong Do, Roy Kizzia, Chad Unruh, Bryan Harlow and Bob Wright of the Integrity Engineering Branch. This team identified that the KC-135 data editing process accomplished by OC-ALC/ENGI was taking too long and missed errors that were sent to Boeing for analysis. The team conducted a smart operations project, and their team efforts implemented a fix that saves 200 man-hours per quarter. OC-ALC/ENGI supports the KC-135 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program manager by editing flight-log data. The KC-135 ASIP manager requested the OC-ALC/ENGI engineers check the 80,000 line flight log data file for additional errors before sending the file to Boeing for analysis. The current process for this task is manual, time consuming and does not sufficiently capture errors. The team developed an AFSO charter and used the eight-step process to examine this problem and improve it. A current value stream map was built showing 309 hours total processing and lead time per quarter for this process. The team set an improvement target of 180 man-hours of total reduced processing and lead time. The team employed a fishbone and failure-modes analysis to focus improvement efforts on the most pressing root causes. A Microsoft Excel tool using visual basic was built to aid the engineer in the data-editing process. The improved process now only requires 88 total hours of processing and lead time per quarter. This means that more than 200 hours of effort are avoided per quarter. The customer, the KC-135 ASIP manager, recently sent an email stating he was very happy with our outstanding support and the improved data delivery with the new process. Members of this team are also planning future improvements on data editing of KC-135, KC-10, E-3 and E-4 flight logs.