Timothy Hou Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nv, Us

Moses Lake, Washington, United States

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

• Designed and managed a new project which standardizes the merchandising fixtures in GIANT retail stores resulting in annual net savings of $220k.• Refreshed old cart corrals with a new lane divider design which gave rise to annual savings of $600k.•Led pilot testing and deployment of new deli operational process which resulted in annualized savings of $1.83M•Co-created new innovative yogurt merchandising fixture which reduced yogurt shrink by 1.67%.

Melbourne, Australia

• Addressed significant recurring visual defects on product using root cause analysis, leading to improvement in raw materials and reductions in spoilage and printing downtime. • Eliminated 3 hours of weekly downtime through development of a flexible heating system that maintains printing cylinder temperature enabling rapid start to production.• Collaborated with suppliers to redesign specifications of critical consumables resulting in lower variation and improved print quality of banknotes and passports.

Melbourne, Australia

•Refined manufacturing processes, by conducting regular onsite audits, to meet stringent part and product quality standards for medical safety, leading to 80% decrease in re-work of finished product.•Trained 6+ external manufacturers in quality testing procedures to ensure compliance with ISO standards.•Reduced customer complaints by 20% by applying statistical methods, including a dynamic data dashboard, to track safety incidents and supplier performance.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

•Researched, prototyped, and scaled novel high-volume atomization processes to eliminate production bottleneck in downstream annealing furnaces, leading to 35% improvement in productivity. •Successfully eliminated rust defect in finished product by 100% using design of experiments (DOE) and statistical analysis to optimize and stabilize powder metallurgy product during shipping.•Analyzed product batch data with Minitab to identify causal factors contributing to defects, including trend and correlation analysis, leading to development of new quality process.•Collaborated with manufacturing partners across 4 countries (Romania, Germany, China, Korea) to ensure implementation of best practices for quality and safety in production processes.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Materials Science Engineers, National Society of Business Engineers, Sigma Pi Fraternity,

Professional Certificate: Data Science, Data Science