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China

Global leader in door and lock manufacturing with operations in more than 70 countries;Post II: Operations Excellence Director (2013 Feb. – Present), Fire Door & Window Hardware Group, reports to President. Duties: 1. Formulate strategic plan of operations excellence in 6 factories; and drive for implementation;2. Drive for operations management improvement and lean production;3. Provide training & coaching on lean approaches & lean tools; Identify key projects of cost reduction; Work with the team of each factory on implementation and hands-on coaching;4. Regularly follow project status and actual saving in each factory.Achievements:1. Identified projects for cost saving as 25 million in year 2015;2. In year 2014, led one company (Golking) to obtain the highest score of Lean Assessment among all the factories in China, and another one (Guli) to be the second highest;3. In 3 months, improved the productivity at one main line (Sanhe) more than 40% in one factory;4. In half year, made one factory (Shenfei) to be profitable after loss in 3 years by restructuring and management improvement under instructions from the Group.Post I: Operations Director (for factory of Baodean & Shenfei, 2012 Feb. – 2013 Jan.), reports to GM. Duties: Manufacturing engineering, purchasing, planning & warehouse, quality and production; Lean production;Achievements:1. Reduced inventory more than 18 million RMB in the first 4 months in 2012 (Baodean);2. Improved productivity more than 10% on assembly lines by focusing on components’ quality and good material handling (Baodean);3. Identified root causes & solved several critical quality issues (Shenfei);4. Improved stability (quality and output) of Die Casting (Shenfei) which previously was the bottleneck;5. Implemented ERP system (Shenfei).

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson Electric, main products as electric heater; main customers as GE, Whirlpool and LG;Post II: Operations Director, reports to GM. Oct. 2009 ~ Jan. 2012.Duties: Manufacturing engineering, purchasing, planning & warehouse, production; Lean production; Achievements:1. Improved productivity 5% in year 2010;2. Reduced cost (from cost reduction projects in Operations) 2.5% of revenue;3. Improved on-time-delivery from 93% to 97%;4. Created many good mechanisms for much smoother operations.5. Helped sales revenue for Asia market increase 50% in one year.Post I: Engineering & Quality Director, reports to Vice President of Engineering. Jan. 2005 ~ Sep. 2009Duties: R&D, manufacturing engineering, quality; Establishing robust quality assurance system;Achievements:1. Established 6 new product platforms;2. Developed 2 highly effective engineering teams with team members loving their jobs and established long-term career development plan for key personnel; 3. Decreased the number of customer complain more than 50% in one year; Increased accept lot rate for incoming material from 85% to 95% in one year;4. Established and optimized Advanced Product Quality Plan (APQP) for new product development, Project Management & Tracking System, New Product/Component/Material Evaluation Plan;5. Was promoted to Engineering & Quality Director in August of 2006 from Product Engineering Manager.

Dongguan, Guangdong, China

American company, main customers as GE, Whirlpool, Mid South, and Japan Servo, with more than 90% market share in North America in some platforms.Post: Manager, Engineering Department. Reports to Engineering Director (located in USA).Duties: Transferring Production lines from Mexico to China; Tooling design and process improvement; Troubleshooting quality issues with experts from headquarters and Mexican plant; Developing local suppliers with sourcing team; Achievements:1. Established a brand new factory with 6,000 sq. meters and 200 employees in China;2. Transferred 5 production lines from Mexico and set up in China plant successfully;3. Decreased hi-pot failure (main defect) from 0.6% to 0.1% for several models by equipment improvement.

Fushan, Guangdong

Biggest home appliance manufacturer in China, main products as air conditioner, refrigerator, dishwasher, oven;Post: Project Manager & Mechanical Design Engineer, for air conditioner. Reports to department managerDuties: Project management; New product design; Following up on tooling/sample building and pilot run.Achievements:1. Developed one miniature model with decreased noise level more than 4dB, which then was taken as standard model and became lead-marketing products in year 2002. About a dozen of new models had been developed based on this model in year 2003 and 2004;2. Developed one luxury model of floor-standing air-conditioner with brand-new design, which is one of the most complicated projects with 5 patents such as wet-film humidifier;3. Prizewinner of technology contribution in year 2001.

Stated-owned company with main business on hydroelectric station and dam building, such as Three Gorges DamPost: Chief Designer, for new equipment design and development. Reports to Engineering DirectorDuties: Equipment design & project management; Process development and tooling design; Production management.Achievements:1. Designed and built one concrete batching plant with computer control system; 2. Designed a 13-meter-long standing milling machine (worth more than $50,000); 3. Developed process for machining oversized water gates for Three Gorges Dam and Ertan Water-power Station;4. Led manufacturing process development for steel structure (5,000 ton in total) of Shenzhen power station through implementing group technology;

Bachelor Of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Fair at the first 3 years, and good at last 2 years