Formerly in Quality, MBA with over 20 years’ experience, now in Health, Wellness & Fitness as E-RYT500 yoga instructor: QualityLeadership• Created, and drove continuous improvement initiatives that promote optimization, standardization, and best practice sharing. • Led several quality turnarounds in factories in regaining customer confidence from quality spills.• Led annual hoshin strategic quality planning sessions with factory management since 2007 resulting in significant improvement seen over five years.• Achieved more than 70% quality improvement in supplier quality.Quality management • Knowledge of quality system standards such as ISO 9001 and TS 16949.• Start up new corporate quality office as well as a factory quality department, with regional management responsibility.• Implemented key quality initiatives such as Cost of Quality and internal specification review system in conjunction with corporate IT.Communication and interpersonal• Developed influential relationships with site leadership in leading quality improvement in 7 sites in China.• Worked closely with key stakeholders as key business partner to obtain buy-in for quality improvement in meeting business requirements.• Named the best speaker in a Lean Six Sigma conference in 2008.• Fluent in English and Chinese, with conversational ability in various Chinese dialects.Operational Excellence • Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Six Sigma Regional Champion, Lean Champion.• Mentored Six Sigma Black Belts and Value Stream Mapping teams in operational excellence projects in realizing annual savings exceeding US$ 9 million.• Led and conducted full Six Sigma training sessions for managers.• Set up Business Continuity Management system from scratch.• Developed “Best in Class” training materials in Root Cause Analysis, Report Writing, and Advanced SPC for Six Sigma Black Belt training.