Manufacture Execution System Start-up

Take the lead in implementing the MES applications at Nanjing site, as required by the Celanese business and IT leadership.Provide application support for Maintenance of Business (MOB) and Break-Fix activities for the global MES applications.Build site contacts and maintain good relationship during support and project activities.Collaborate with the global team.Work as a mentor and coach to the MES team.

Lead a deployment team of 6 people to deploy the MES at multiple sites in US/Singapore/Hungary/China. Team build up: recruited, trained, performance scored and internal resource planning.Global supporting case (level I and II support): assignments, status monitoring, prioritization.Managed multiple projects using the CMMI approach: PA (process area), PP (project planning), PMC (project monitoring and control), RSKM (risk management), and MA (measurement and analysis).Provided status reports and KPIs to customer on weekly basis: resource utilization, development progress.

Led a QA team of 15 team members in cooperation with a US team to setup the QA process as defined by the customer.Built up the team and managed day-to-day activities to satisfy customer needs through daily testing activities.Designed test cases and create/review/execute test plan based on customer requirement documents. Submitted the test execution report.Reviewed technical documentations (API help, data dictionary etc).Tracked and verified bug fixes in test system. Ran regression and stress tests for each release.Acted as the liaison in English between the US team and Chinese team via email, conf calls, etc.Conducted internal training/knowledge sharing for team members at different levels.

Presentation to the key users on the concept and demo the to-be-implemented system.Consult, collect and assess end user's requirement. Helped users to prioritize scope base on budget.Drafted the business requirement and function specification as per the above gaps.Reviewed the technical specification written by developer.Coordinated with development team in India and China to get the delivery on time.Organized testing: Unit testing, Analyst testing, End user testing, User Acceptance testing, etc.Planned and coordinated all go-live activities and escalate urgent issues to the up-level management.Provided project status to site IT Director and the management team based in US headquarter on weekly basis, and assure the implementation steps in accordance with Internal Customer defined processes.Streamlined the shop floor process and improve the production efficiency.Documented all standard operating procedures or instruction and conduct the key user training.Coordinated the interface/integration effort to ensure smoothly working between BAAN and the MES system.

Design, coding, and unit testing, mainly by using JSP+ Java Bean with Struts Java pattern

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