Edward Lee Email & Phone Number

Ventura, CA, US

Oxnard, California, US

• Identify opportunities for company's growth and sustainability by setting department goals and objectives. Mentor, guide and support department directors and managers to be successful in their roles.
• Lead business development efforts by developing new customer relationships and expanding product offerings and capabilities which will create value for customers.
• Developed cost effective processes for cost prohibitive product lines to convert them to commercially feasible products.
• Grew fuel additive business by 168% and engineering service business by 824% (by revenue) over first 2 yrs in position.
• Developed and registered fuel additive products (both gasoline and diesel) with the US EPA for the North American market.

Oxnard, California, US

• Oversee Production, Prototype, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Supply Chain operations for the company. Develop and/or improve department and operational processes to optimize resource utilization and increase.
• Developed a new inventory and bill of material database system and re-establish cost of goods sold (COGS) for new business structure to better analyze gross margin, ultimately to increase profit for business.

Oxnard, California, US

• Manage production and prototype department for the company leading teams of salaried and hourly employees. Manage overall production activity and prototype department projects to achieve goals set for profitability and.
• Work with R&D engineers and scientists to develop preliminary engineering processes for technologies and products for scale up and manufacturability.
• Create Bill of Material, calculate Cost of Goods Sold, and propose preliminary price estimates in response to customer RFQs for prototype and production samples.

Oxnard, California, US

• Establish and manage R&D’s coating department, responsible for fabrication of all research and customer ordered parts ensuring all safety, quality, productivity and delivery goals are met.
• Develop and support the launch of new products, defining initial product concept and demonstrating product feasibility and capability with customers.
• Designed and implemented new operational process and system resulting in increased annual sample throughput by 329% while reducing labor cost by 62% per lot built.

Oxnard, California, US

• Lead a multi-disciplinary customer focused NPI (New Product Introduction) team to scale up and launch 17 different OEM automotive catalyst products over 2 production lines.
• Reduced cost and time to scale up a product by ~75% on average while achieving lowest scrap rate at production launch (same scrap rate as on-going production).
• Championed use of Statistical Design of Experiment in continuous improvement projects to drive down cost in production.

Oxnard, CA, US

• Research and develop automotive catalyst products and processing technologies.
• Developed process and product which resulted in 50% increase in production capacity while maintaining company's core technology within the product resulting in equivalent, if not better, product performance.

Oxnard, CA, US

• Manage customer focused R&D team to develop cost effective gasoline catalyst product for European OEM customers. Train and lead incoming technicians and engineers to strengthen R&D resource base.
• Developed first European product for the company resulting in ~$50MM in revenue over 3 year program cycle.

Oxnard, CA, US

• Manage automotive gasoline catalyst development projects for global market (North America, Europe, and Japan).
• Member of multidisciplinary customer team which managed the start to end of product life cycle.
• Co-developed and assisted in scale up and launch of first North American gasoline product for the company resulting in ~$200MM+ total revenue for the company over multiple 3-5 year program cycles.

Oxnard, CA, US

• Design, fabricate and test automotive gasoline and diesel flow through ceramic and metallic catalysts for both OEM and aftermarket customers
• Created laboratory documentation system for sample preparation

US

• Produce radioactive sources and calibration standards for nuclear and medical industry.