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Corning, New York, Us

Lead 60 engineers/technicians/operators in process engineering, maintenance, facility, metrology, tooling, and project management. Strategically develop and support the manufacturing process. Coordinate engineering, business, and technology goals to provide quality, cost, delivery, and service excellence. Oversee capital portfolio to increase capabilities and reduce costs. Manage cost-saving and continuous improvement projects to meet business needs.• Operational Excellence: Leads and supports teams and projects to reach targeted objectives. Champions a culture of continuous improvement and problem-solving. Improved gross margin from 19% to 33% in three years by managing cost reduction projects. Won multiple Division Quality in Action Award. • Automation strategy & Roadmap: Lead and drive multiple automation/robots projects to reduce 10% manual labors. Implement SPC in process for a better process control.• Forecast and manage the plant’s capital $3-10M each year. Install new production line in 9 months and improve throughput by 20%.• Support multiple new products introductions with process improvement, transfer prototypes into high-volume products meeting customers’ requirement of time, cost, and quality. Install a brand new production line in 9 months with $10Million dollar investment.• Being acting quality manager for twelve months, reduce the average response time of Customer Complains from 90 days to 27 days. Lead multiple customer meetings to help supply chain to meet customer demands.• Being acting supply chain manager for six months, manage delivery to meet customer demand, organize customer interactions.• Lean Manufacturing: Systematically reduces waste and variation to improve production by implementing value stream mapping. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to combine lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies to improve efficiencies company-wide.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER (2018 – 2019)Develop and maintain a strategic partnership and leverage the supply base to meet the company’s requirements related to quality, delivery, and cost. Successfully execute the sourcing strategy through close collaboration with Business Unit. Manage Suppliers through quality control, document maintenance of Supplier requirements, Processed change notifications to FDA for customer process change and supplier qualification.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Managed a team of 10 senior engineers/principal techs high volume manufacturing environment. Provided employee training and coaching/mentoring to engage team and maximize performance. Responsible for engineering resources, budget, project management, equipment capital, and process improvement. Install/qualify/characterize new process and equipment. Oversaw outsourcing to global suppliers’ site and improve the supply quality. Assess, capture, and translate complex business issues and requirements into structured analytics use cases, including rapid learning of industry/domain/client dynamics and development of effective work stream plans. Certified coach of First Time Quality, applied First Time Quality toolkits at different stages of project development to optimize manufacturing process flow, reduce waste and reprocess steps.• Saved Medtronic Inc. $1.7M through improvements to line yield, resulting in an increase from 95% to 99.6% in 6months. Team won Corporate Star of Excellence award in 2016. • Earned Best Global Inclusion in Operations Award (2017) in recognition of innovative problem-solving work ethic, inclusion, and superior management.• Led a team of multi-functional and geographic team, to join Asian Health Care Innovation Completion; delivered the assessment of diabetes product brand recognition in China and develop methods to improve the awareness. • Led project of $1.4 M for process transfer to Global supplier’s factory (in Taiwan), this is one campus Must Do projects. Involve the team such as Global supply continuity, QA, planning, and buyer, process.• Lead project of $1.6M for component qualification and modification, with two external suppliers to ask for quotation, determine the strategy and lead the qualification activities to meet with compliance request.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Lean manufacturing: remove multiple visual inspection processes, implemented Automatic Inspection tool (AOI) in the process. Saved $ 1.6M annually by developing and executing automation solution to increase Inspection metrology tool accuracy and efficiency.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Project manager supervised global teams such as silicon fabrication back-end (California), test (Arizona), Design (Israel), and assembly processes (China) to deliver the integration of three generations of microprocessor product to the global factories. Led multiple cross-functional task forces groups to resolve production issues. Through failure analysis and problems solving methods, designed, and developed streamlined processes to improve overall line yield.• Within 3 mos. redesigned the wafer layout and integrated with multi location processes, and completed transfer to Asia for high volume production within 12 mos.• Worked in 1,000 clean room for semiconductor devices. • Recognized as Best Employee for support of flash memory production in 2007, 2008.• Achieved major cost savings of $10M as well as 8% yield improvement by defining design rules and delivering test vehicles.• Delivered 5 generation of Si technologies from development to production.

Stanford Lead Executive Education Program, Business Administration And Management, General

Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Material Science

Master'S Degree, Physics

Bs, Electronics Engineering