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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

● As part of the US Operations Platform, involved and leading business transformation and operations strategy projects with a team of 3-7 consultants. Clients include mid-market PE firms, distributors, manufacturers and retailers.● Operational highlights: ─ ­­Conducted operational due diligence on a leading industrial goods distributor's transportation assets. ─ ­­Restructured a leading specialty fabric retailer’s direct material sourcing strategy. ─ ­­Pressure-tested margin improvement initiatives in a sales of specialty chemical producer. ─ ­­Assessed economics of the virtual power plant participation model for a home goods manufacturer.

Taipei City, Taiwan

● Led a team of 4 consultants to analyze supplier portfolios and quantify operational risks for 3 clients totaling $120 million procurement spend across 3,200 suppliers. Identified and decreased number of high-risk Tier 1 suppliers by 18%. ● Implemented supplier scorecard dashboards for 2 clients to leverage trade and transaction data to screen suppliers in bidding process. Prevented $25 million cost of non-compliance.● Engaged in methodologies and sales kit development of supply chain service line, including digitizing an AWS-based local B2B suppliers / buyers ESG risk data exchange platform, creating incremental revenue growth by 12% (2020-21 YOY)● Selected to be the liaison with Malaysia’s UNDP (United Nations Development Program) initiative, and jointly developed supply chain sustainability assessment framework for local telecommunication and oleochemical companies.

Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands

‘’Re-Teck, a leading reverse logistics service provider backed up by top-tier private equity firms‘’● Led a team of 6 direct reports across 3 facilities in EMEA and oversaw e-waste recovery and reverse logistics operations of 4 key accounts with full P&L accountability, totaling $10 million revenues and 2,500+ tons of materials annually.● Co-established 2 facilities from scratch, as a Dubai branch founding member, and worked in a 6-member taskforce led by COO to pitch business growth strategy in the Middle East market to investors. Notable outcomes included: ─ ­­Received $45 million series B funding from PE firm a mid-market private firm. ─ ­­Won 3 bids totaling $7 million profits that facilitated the branch to turn around. ─ ­­Outlined a 2-year 6% EBITDA margin improvement plan through network optimization.­­● Operationalized a free-trade zone warehouse centralizing 25 countries’ reverse logistics operations for a world’s top 3 smartphone maker. Reduced $14 million working capital and shortened client’s distributors’ accounts receivable days by 15 days.● Established 2 asset recovery facilities and transboundary battery return-to-recycle networks covering 3 EMEA regional distribution centers for a US smartphone maker. Drove process improvement that increased per kg financial returns of the recovered materials by over 17%.

Abu Dhabi, Uae

Involved in a team of 5 RF research engineers & post-graduate researchers led by project instructor to design functional blocks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for Internet of Things (IOT) application in mm-waves at 60GHz In collaboration with Globalfoundaries, MIT & TI Research Highlight:● Ultra-low power (ULP) 60GHz receivers without LNA, mixer, VCO and PLL● Plain vanilla digital CMOS implemented clock-data-recovery (CDR) circuit● Continuous weight monitoring wearable hardware for heart failure patientsTeaching Assistant: ● Ph.D level course, Design and Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits

Taipei City, Taiwan

Taipei City, Taiwan

Master'S Degree, Supply Chain Management

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Transportation And Communication Management Science