Roberta Reynolds

I started my career in quality 23 years ago when I was a single mom who needed to make money. I was actually homeless, living at Home of the Sparrow 22 years ago, and I applied for a job on the board. They said they thought I could do it, and that's when I started at Coilcraft, where I spent 9 years doing material breakdowns and reporting compliance for ROS overseas and different places around the world. From there, I moved to Engineered Molding Solutions in McHenry as their quality supervisor, kind of manager but didn't have the schooling for the full title, and stayed there about a year and a half to two years. Then I went to Durex Industries in Cary, Illinois in 2017, where I started as a CMM inspector running parts, then moved my way up into calibration and stayed for about 7 to 8 years until April of last year. Now I'm a quality inspector at Seiko in Wheeling, Illinois, where I've been for nearly a year as of April 14th, and I'm in the process of potentially transitioning into tool gauge calibration. In my current role, I'm working to get our company in line with our gauges, hand tools, and calibration, making sure the items we're using are within tolerance levels so we're not making any product that's out of tolerance or creating scrap. My daughter was my drive - there was no giving up when you have a child to feed. That push of never giving up because you can't has continued even in my career.