• Review factory production schedules (Gantt charts, P6, MS Project, etc.) and align schedule with commitments to identify production/delivery risks • Payment approval based on the supplier's projection budget and the actual completion • Validate purchases of materials from upstream suppliers/vendors (confirm invoice amount matches contract / anticipated costs) and ensure payments are made to suppliers on time • Validate receipt of raw materials and components (I.e. steel, piping, valves, rack integration etc.) • Approximate the status of specific jobs (I.e. percentage complete of fabrication, galvanization, integration, etc.) by visually inspecting the shop floor as well as data-driven analysis • Interact with the production team to identify hurdles and obstacles holding up progress, such as shop drawing and submittal issues • Make efforts to remove obstacles, speed up production, enhance safety and reduce costs • Perform checklist-driven QC activities at various stages of production • Investigate and adjust customer complaints regarding quality. • Responsible for taking appropriate action and effectively communicating, where necessary, any observations that may impact the ability to manufacture a quality product. • Initiate action to prevent any Non-conformance related to the product, process, and quality system. • Makes recommendations and suggestions that promote continuous improvement.

• Collaborate actively with engineering, manufacturing, quality, product teams, and suppliers, to ensure all components and systems are built to spec and delivered on time.• Lead the vendor selection and contract negotiation process with internal partners and Suppliers.• Drive cost reduction initiatives to ensure that Outrider’s commodity prices are best in class, and drive supply base consolidation where possible.• Partner with appropriate internal stakeholders and lead the evaluation process of bid award with the evaluation team and drive the closure of a sourcing decision.• Drive capacity planning, ramp readiness, yield, throughput improvement and issue resolution.

• Lead the cooperation-wise supply chain and product strategy to fit into the company’s goal. • Development and formal execution of global procurement strategies and best practices associated with bidding, negotiation, and supplier development.• Manage cross-functional team to track deadlines, dependencies, decisions, and action items to ensure project delivery. • Build and maintain relationships with all department heads, external stakeholders, and vendors to construct strategy goal, execute planning and make decisions based on data statistic.

- Lead members of 4 to help the series A funded NYC startup for their next funding round of business expansion with various strategies: 1) Integration with smart city concept2) Partnership with New York City building management3) Global business expansion4) Series B financial opportunity

- Worked with CFO to performed primary and secondary market research. Design thinking ideation workshops to understand sustainability solutions for the online grocery delivery industry.- Developed comprehensive white paper with a blue ocean opportunity. - Determined unknown future trends that will change the grocery delivery landscape, including governmental, regulatory, behavioral, technological advances, and competitive shifts.

- Support HW Operations, Engineering, and Product teams to efficiently resolve supplier quality and supply chain issues.- Understand supplier processes and process validations to assure internal and external processes are adequate to meet specification and produce quality components.- Responsible for building supplier quality performance statistics from the ground.

• Led members of 3 engineers and 4 inspectors to assist to execute supply chain and quality strategy with suppliers• Implemented SPC quality software in 3 areas and 8D report software across the entire company• Prepared company monthly presentations to escalate top issues to management to drive change• Managed 5 reports, including weekly IMRR report & 8D progress report, monthly supplier PPM report & on-time delivery report, quarterly supplier scorecard

• Monitored and composed of 15 suppliers performance, including on-time delivery, quality PPM, and responsiveness• Partnered with 4 internal teams cross-functionally to drive suppliers to establish optimized process flow and robust service infrastructure, including supply chain, sales, quality, and R&D department• Managed internal and external audit as AS9100 auditor to ensure company and supplier met regulatory requirements at least 2 times a year

- Founder of OUTnia, construct the project idea, form the project team and lead the team to realize the frame of the website - the revolutionary outdoor social network platform.- Lead the technical development, maintenance and web operations for the web services team.- Establishes web project scope by discovering and validating business technical requirements and parameters; obtaining input from subject-matter experts; examining and recommending changes to current business practices; developing and writing proposals.- Performed market research needs and outcome definition including collection of data and voice of customer. - Performed pitch presentation in front of well-known investors and ventures

• Led members of 3 to discover process bottleneck, develope improvement plans, and implement actions• Decreased materials flow process from incoming area to production by implementing bar code scanning system, 3 kanban material areas, and 5 customized materials carts• Validated successfulness of project by performing 4 time studies, material cycle count, and 2 round operators' survey

• Ensured 30+ right materials are available for production with lean manufacturing practice, where materials value more than 100k USD per PO• Organized price break-even analysis to determine parts needed to be sourced oversea or manufactured in house with 5% cost-saving per part in average• Spearheaded communication with 5 suppliers with plan delivery schedules, price negotiation, and purchasing activities• Audited pricing data, revised suppliers' data, and facilitated cycle count to improve data accuracy in ERP system

Company Background: New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII)'s Motion Simulation Lab located in Furnas Hall location on UB's North Campus. The facility includes a 6 degree-of-freedom motion platform with vehicle buck and surround screens. In addition, a zero degree-of-freedom simulator is available for mixed-fidelity applications. The facility has been used for studies on driver behavior and as part of driver-training initiatives. The facility can be contracted by industry and academic groups for numerous uses. Objective: Expand the potential outreach in three major categories of collaborations in the industrial, academic, and government sectors so that company can obtain a conceivable impact through collaborations. Outcomes:• Enhanced strong engagement and built relationships with current and future customers by executing 2 marketing strategies with the marketing team, including print materials creation and customer lab tour• Established multiple level customer contacts and identified business development opportunities and created strategic approach of how best to add value for customer on a national and global level• Product opportunities was identified for 4 potential business development sectors opportunities with 200+ potential candidates and created a business plan to approach add value for each sectors

Company Background:This company is located in Buffalo, New York. They have university apartments and townhouses which are an exciting option for students. The complexes offer close convenient living for today's busy students. Objective:Examine and make possible improvements to the package delivery system at UB. Outcomes:• Engaged with the team to develop standardization and improvements for 3 package rooms to enhance students'packaging collection experience and workers' operations flow• Leveraged six sigma theory, DMAIC to approach problem and developed with 4 possible new layout• Improved layout designs helped to reduce average student wait times about 30% during peak time and workers packaging picking time 10% in average

Company Background:AMC's facility is based in Lockport, New York. AMC' specializes in finding coating solution to meet customers' medical performance needs. Customers' products can be coated with different kinds of chemical coating. These coatings are used for surgical instruments, electrosurgical devices,hospital and lab equipment, and others. Objective:The present facility is up for relocation due to the various issues faced presently. The advancement in technology has brought about the induction of many new and better performing machines. As a result the dependency of machines has changed too. This has caused an alteration in process flow of the product. As with any manufacturing or production based organization, Quality Control is of utmost importance, therefore adjacency for different departmental areas and processes flows have to be carefully and optimally addressed. 1) To relocate facilities from old warehouse to new warehouse. 2) To optimize the process of production and production activity. 3) To minimize the amount of cluttering.4) To ensure compliance with department restrictions. Outcome:• Designed new optimal facility layout in AutoCAD leveraging Industrial Engineering concept• Led project to minimize adjacency of restricted department at least 15% with 3 different floor plan• Created 3 iterations per each floor plan, cluttered layout is avoided, saved transit tme from by about 15%