Xingdan Li

**** ******** ***** ? Copley, OH ***21 ? 330-***-**** ?

acdzin@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

A data and process driven professional with extensive experience using

sophisticated process improvement methodology, Lean Six Sigma, and data

analytical technique and tools including Minitab, MS Office Pro, SAS JMP,

SAS and PRD for product design, manufacturing procedure control, production

process optimization and business model development and forecast. Thrives

in complex and demanding business environments requiring strong technical

skills and cross functional collaboration, commitment to excellence, along

with strong analysis and problem solving abilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH 2007 to

2014

World's 3rd largest Tire and Rubber Company with sales of $20B+ and

manufacturing facilities in 22 countries along with significant chemical,

re-treading and retail operations.

Quality Engineer

. Conducted Cause and Effect analysis on product data related to Consumer

Report assessment to identify correlation between company and third party

evaluator and to implement proper internal evaluation method to eliminate

gap.

. Conducted DOE (Design of Experiment) and analyzed experimental result on

commercial product to improve its performance for customer satisfaction.

. Applied data collection and data mining methodology and multi variable

FMEA (Failure Mode and Effective Analysis) technique to study product

data of North American plants to improve product performance through

optimization of design components and control of manufacturing procedure.

. Developed and delivered innovative SPC (Statistical Process Control) and

Gage R&R (Repeatability and Reproducibility) techniques to control and

reduce measurement system uncertainty and to improve test data quality

for more effective product design, development and evaluation.

. Worked with cross functional associates from design team and quality

control team at Akron and from manufacturing plant in North American to

integrate statistical hypothesis test method into North American plant

daily trial to automate production procedure and cut turnaround time.

. Developed and initiated reliability models to quantitatively predict

product survival lifetime to establish effective product adjustment

policy for cost saving and risk reduction.

. Applied various statistical models, such as Time Series model, Bootstrap

model, Boost model, and PRD Machine Learning algorithm to forecast

commercial product business trend.

University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY

2004 to 2005

Public state university established in 1872 with around 18,000 students.

Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

. Developed statistical Time Series model to provide forecast on the

national medical care expenditure.

. Explored relationship between medical care expenditure and medical care

service and accounted for their correlation and trend based on

correlation coefficient and RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error).

. Provided explicit result plots to visually explain relationships between

medical care expenditure and medical care service.

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Xingdan Li

Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VIRGINIA TECH), Blacksburg, VA

2001 to 2002

Top public state university established in 1844 with 30,000+ students.

Research Associate, Department of Material Science and Engineering

. Developed plan in managing multiple projects for Electronic Packaging

Laboratory Center to effectively and ordinarily apply experimental

equipments.

. Conducted experiments and tracked their results on package material.

Analyzed, computed and managed experimental results. Documented and

presented monthly progress report of project to National Institute of

Standards and Technology.

EDUCATION

. M.A., Applied Statistics, University at Albany, The State University of

New York, Albany, NY

. B.S., Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,

China

CERTIFICATIONS

. Six Sigma Black Belt Certification granted by Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Company, Akron, OH

. Project Management Certification granted by Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Company and Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH

. SAS (Statistical Analysis System) Certification granted by the SAS

Institute Inc., Cary, NC

. Accounting Fundamentals Certification granted by University of Akron,

Akron, OH

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

. Member of American Society for Quality (ASQ), 3rd Vice Chair for the

Akron-Canton Section 810 responsible for the Section Business Plan

. Member of American Statistical Association

VOLUNTEER

. Coordinator and Editor, Maintain, update and issue the Community

Directory for the Westridge Estate neighborhood, Copley, OH

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1) "Reliability Analysis and Survivability Prediction on Tire Performance

and Adjustment Policy" Goodyear Internal Report

2) "Correlation Exploration and Cause-and-Effect Determination about Tire

Design and Manufacture", Goodyear Internal Report

3) "Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Gage R&R Study about Tire

Measurement System Evaluation and Product Release Determination",

Goodyear Internal Report

4) "Statistical Analysis on National Medical Care Expenditure and Medical

Care Service" University at Albany Student Project Report

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