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Vancouver, Canada Area

Leading the procurement, quality and e-commerce teams, driving change to improve efficiency and raising the return on investment in inventory.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Responsible for supplier performance, logistics, quality and cost across IC, discrete and memory commodity groups used in embedded wireless modules and wireless gateways. Managed annual spend of over US$60m.

Burnaby, Bc

Short-term contract to review supply chain organization and processes of this niche sporting goods manufacturer. Asian supply chain experience was critical to this role in which I brought currency stability, cost savings, and provided strategic direction in terms of procurement governance, risk mitigation planning, role assignment during NPI and quality management.

Taipei, Taiwan

Head of Asian procurement and legal representative of e2v in Taiwan. Led a skilled, multi-site team of supplier quality engineers, commodity and supply chain managers and administrative personnel dealing with lean manufacturing environments covering semiconductor assembly and test, electrical and electronic manufacturing, PCBA, PCB substrates (organic and ceramic), mechanical assemblies, metalwork, glass, and ceramics.Main Responsibilities ● Defined and drove regional… Show more Head of Asian procurement and legal representative of e2v in Taiwan. Led a skilled, multi-site team of supplier quality engineers, commodity and supply chain managers and administrative personnel dealing with lean manufacturing environments covering semiconductor assembly and test, electrical and electronic manufacturing, PCBA, PCB substrates (organic and ceramic), mechanical assemblies, metalwork, glass, and ceramics.Main Responsibilities ● Defined and drove regional procurement strategy. ● Set annual budget in collaboration with finance department. ● Performed due diligence on potential acquisitions. ● Executed regular benchmarking and reporting of activities and staff performance. ● Promoted strong collaboration with other sites and business units. ● Built and maintained effective relationships with internal and external customers and suppliers.Key achievements ● Led team to deliver cost savings and avoidances in excess of 10% every year on a total spend in Asia of over £6 million per annum. ● Implemented procurement, supply chain and knowledge sharing processes and procedures consistent with the rest of the organization and passed ISO9001 certification and recertification audits in 2012 and 2014. ● Controlled costs without compromising service to keep office more than 5% under budget three years running, ensuring that overall office efficiency was greater than 170% during entire tenure. ● Led the activity to support transfer and requalification from Malaysia to China when a key semiconductor vendor ceased manufacturing operations. Proactively managed safety stock inventory versus customer demands to ensure no impact to customer. ● Improved responsiveness of supply chain forecasting to high-volume vendors, switching from monthly to weekly meetings and successfully pushed for qualification of additional test platforms to increase throughput by approximately 30%. Show less

Taipei, Taiwan

Responsible for the sourcing, assessment and business management of e2v’s supplier base in Asia in the areas of metal, glass, ceramics, mechanical subsystems and components, PCBA, ODM/OEM projects and CEM/eMS+ subcontractors. Guided e2v’s first full “Asia for Asia” ODM project from conception and supplier selection to market and mass production.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Held responsibility for the technical management of e2v’s supplier relationships in the areas of metal, glass, ceramic and other mechanical subsystems and components, ODM/OEM projects, and CEM/eMS+ projects in all project phases from RFQ to mass production. Contributed to the identification of technical opportunities to reduce costs and production lead times, led process audits in the development, qualification and production phases. Implemented modifications and corrective actions at… Show more Held responsibility for the technical management of e2v’s supplier relationships in the areas of metal, glass, ceramic and other mechanical subsystems and components, ODM/OEM projects, and CEM/eMS+ projects in all project phases from RFQ to mass production. Contributed to the identification of technical opportunities to reduce costs and production lead times, led process audits in the development, qualification and production phases. Implemented modifications and corrective actions at supplier’s, customer’s or e2v’s request using quality management and six-sigma tools such as 8D, FMEA, and DMAIC. Show less

Taichung And Taipei, Taiwan

Developed business relationships with key producers and manufacturers in a spin-off branch of Gold Stone devoted to serving Taiwan’s UAV market, and was certified in the use, repair and maintenance of the air data test sets and UAV rotary engines that we imported and sold.

Taichung, Taiwan

Drew up contracts defining sales regions, manufacturing responsibilities, licensing agreements and other areas of cooperation between Semlima and its foreign partners in the industrial sewing machine industry.

Montreal, Canada

Master Of Science (Msc), Aerospace And Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechanical Engineering

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