Key Corporate Personnel

Stew McElhone - Chief Operating Officer

Stew has over 40 years of experience in all functional areas of manufacturing, including Operations, Quality, Production, Purchasing, PIC, and Customer Service. His experience spans 20 years in the automotive sector and another 20 years in the computer/HDD industry.

As an APICS CPIM, he successfully installed IBM MAPICS Manufacturing Systems in three companies. Stew is as an accredited ISO Lead Auditor and he has setup QDP’s ISO-based quality system.

Jon Murray - VP of Manufacturing

Jon is a certified Tool & Die maker with over 20 years experience in precision stamping in a design-build-run environment. He has worked with product engineers on part design for manufacture for over 15 years. This essential step is what creates our successful, long-term, high-volume programs.

Since coming to QDP in 2000 as a Toolmaker/Designer, Jon steadily advanced through several key manufacturing management positions of responsibility, leading to his promotion in 2006 to Vice President of Manufacturing.

Dwayne Nelson PhD- Technical Sales

Dwayne is a retired department head from 3M Co., with 35 years experience in polymer design and adhesive R&D.  In 1998, he joined QDP as a Technical Sales Representative shortly after leaving 3M.

Dwayne has extensive experience and knowledge in the area of polymer durability and reliability in a wide variety of process and application conditions.  Specifically, he has 30 years of experience in the use and application of constrained layer vibration dampers for the hard disk drive, automotive and aircraft industries.

Jim Scipione - Quality Manager

Jim is a highly-skilled stamping die mechanic who has over 25 years experience in the manufacture of vibration dampers for the HDD industry.  In the mid-80’s, Jim worked on the first-ever damper programs, including the now-famous IBM Winchester drive. 

Jim was the 1^st manufacturing employee of QDP Inc, joining the company in 1995.  He has been instrumental in the setup and development of QDP’s manufacturing equipment & processes, including lamination, slitting, stamping and packaging.  He has held a number of positions, leading to his promotion in 2006 to his current position of Quality Assurance Manager.

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