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Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Manage and coach supply chains team at Trexo Robotics to execute overall operation in procurement, demand planning, supplier management, shipment logistics, and quality management activities.
• Negotiate Supplier Quality Agreement and price contracts with critical suppliers and execute regular supplier scorecard and qualification review for all service/finished goods/customized parts suppliers.
• Designed and implemented supply chain dashboard to visualize shipment status, inventory turnover, prototype project timeline, and lead Material Review Meeting with CTO, and head of Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing.
• Strategize and delivered 100% BOM material readiness for production ramp up in Q3 2022 by utilizing multiple channel logistics such as ocean and air, sizes forecast modeling, leadtime planning and multiple shipments.
• Subject expert and process owner to review and approve all supply chain related SOP such as supplier management, purchasing and receiving controls, non-conformance review; and all associated workflow, forms, to support.

Taoyuan City, Taiwan

• Achieved average 35% cost reduction on cable commodity by new supplier onboarding, BOM review, forecast consolidation with volume buy, and commodity localization to reduce leadtime and freight cost.
• Managed supplier scorecard of all cable commodity suppliers including: RFQ execution, cost saving, shipment inspection report, material planning on projects, on-time delivery and expediting urgent need.

Hong Kong

• Developed supply chain dashboard to streamline and resolve leadtime bottleneck, optimize WOS, analyze sales trends and forecast adjustments – improved supply chain efficiency by +23% in 2018.
• Executed and drive Supplier Scorecard for all vendors include: RFQ execution, reserved capacity, pricing, contract negotiation, risk management, regular audit and certification, on-time delivery and warranty.
• Managing Asia Supply Chain team hiring, training, coordination; lead as subject matter expert (SME) on any supply chain issue regarding import/export, demand planning, contract terms, strategy, etc.
• Executed data analysis of various supply chain data sets such as sales history, client PO and forecast, to measure performance, identify trends and discover optimization opportunities to send out new RFQ.
• Execute risk management by setup and maintaining approved alternate vendor list (AVL) for all critical materials and regularly review strategic material inventory level to adjust demand forecast regularly.
• Implemented supply chain migration to avoid 25% added US tariff cost impact. Drive new supplier on-boarding, vendor selection, and cost/contract negotiation. Executed transfer $30M USD shipments out of China during.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Managed supplier scorecard of AAP’s Direct Import suppliers in Asia to drive RFQ, cost saving, shipment inspection report, expand category assortment, audit compliance, on-time delivery and warranty.
• Partnered with McKinsey and BCG Team on cost out project on AAP’s lead-acid battery to achieve cost reduction target $1M through cleansheet BOM analysis, price negotiation, Ariba reverse auction, etc.
• Resolved critical supply chain emergency such as import/export HTS code issue, material shortage, capacity overload, product callback, rework, packaging UPC update, shipment audit compliance, etc.
• Reduced average leadtime -12% by negotiate key processes with factory such as components volume purchase, packaging inventory build, regular forecasting update, capacity reserve, etc.
• Awarded best performance and achieved highest category growth in 2016 in Sourcing Department: +51% SKU Count Growth in Product & Service Offering expansions. +20% Annual FOB Shipment Growth ($ USD) increased sales.

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

• Gogoro is an electric vehicle startup in Taiwan scheduled to IPO in 2022. I joined Gogoro as first 90 employees to help set-up and scale up electrical modules supply chain to meet the first vehicle Gogoro 1 launching.
• Work closely cross-functional teams such as Design Engineering, Project Manager, and Process Engineers, and Production Team and Quality Engineers to source, select and approve key suppliers.
• Responsible as main contact window with key IC/OEM suppliers Panasonic, TI, Lumex, Atmel, and Foxlink, etc. to build and maintain supplier relations, drive RFQ, and escalate any issues to director.
• Established end-to-end supply chain framework for electrical modules from prototype to production.
• Coordinate strategic materials planning include cost, process, schedule, and quality to achieve product readiness and resolve any sourcing risks to ensure that supply can scale with sales forecast to support launching.
• Implemented customized SAP procurement modules at Gogoro by refining workflow requirements such as consignment, bailment, special processes etc. to SAP consultants and suppliers to meet delivery.

Taipei, Taiwan

• Execute all direct procurement of projects on construction material and manage labor contract with 3rd party. Drive indirect sourcing such as office/car/equipment rental, lab supplies, marketing material, etc.
• Drive supplier localization to control project deflation. Achieved cost saving over $6M USD in 2012.
• Drive APAC DTP (Days to Pay) Controllership – manage payment terms with major GE international and regional suppliers; achieved driving improvement ~$800K USD impact across APAC region.
• Executed supplier scorecard for Taiwan: conduct annual EHS audits and frequent FAT visit for quality assurances.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Exchange Program

Activities and Societies: - Active Member of LBS Music Club, Sundowner Club, LBS Asian Club, Future of Mobility Club, Women in Business.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: - Class President of HKU MBA 2018 Cohort - Organized and hosted HKU MBA Annual Dinner 2019 - Active member of.

Systems Design Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Kinesiology, 3.9