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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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