Jason Liew

*** ***** ***** *****, *********, KY *0514 abm7bk@r.postjobfree.com (859) 806-

0490

ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

. Mechanical Engineer with 5 years of experience. Skills include Project

Management, Supplier Development, Quality and Manufacturing

Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, New Product Development, Injection

Molding, Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma,

APQP, Tooling, Secondary Equipment, and Check Fixtures.

. Demonstrated ability to lead change initiatives and drive process

excellence. Track record of achieving results in challenging

assignments. Successfully launched new and existing programs for

Toyota and their suppliers from conception to completion.

. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including

presentation planning and delivery.

. Utilize tools, processes, and training needed to implement

standardized work. Share knowledge with other lean manufacturing

leaders.

. Able to effectively communicate complicated concepts in an

understandable manner, matching the message to the audience.

. Skilled in finding broken systems and performing necessary change

through project management or other methods.

. Maximize resources to achieve customer satisfaction and increased

productivity, meet deadlines and goals. Implement and coordinate both

strategic and tactical plans to enhance performance.

. Adept and experienced in problem solving and providing solutions.

Excellent qualifications in leadership and interpersonal

communications.

. Persuasive, with ability to communicate effectively with culturally

diverse audience. Public speaking and executive management briefing

experience.

Professional Experience

Manufacturing Quality / New Project Engineer July 2005 - Current

Jackson Plastics Inc. Lexington, KY

Company supplies injection molded interior hard trim parts to Toyota.

. Performed advanced engineering activities for new programs. Submitted

Statement of Work to tool and gage companies for quotation

process. Administered RFQ process for toolings, check fixtures and

secondary machines.

. Completed Engineering Bill of Materials. Attend meetings with Toyota

Engineers to review designs, request engineering changes, and submit

approval for injection tooling and check fixtures.

. Assisted in production material selection and component sourcing,

development, and production readiness of suppliers. Administered RFQ

process for materials and components.

. Work with manufacturing facility and program management to design poke

yoke equipments and processes. Implemented a camera vision system to

detect defect on a Toyota part, eliminating customer complaints.

. Work with Toyota Packaging Specialist to design, trial and procure

packaging to support trials and new product launches. Worked with

major packaging suppliers like Orbis and Schaeffer.

. Support manufacturing facility to lead initial customer trials during

new product launch. Supported launches at manufacturing facility,

suppliers, and customers. Lead high volume production trial runs and

production running rate trials.

. Provided quality and manufacturing engineering support for the 2005

Toyota Camry, 2008 Toyota Sequioa, 2009 Toyota Venza. Determine the

need for error proofing in the production process, generate

standardized work, design work cell layouts, time and motion studies

and eliminate non-value added work from the processes.

. Work with program management on all product validation testing.

Completed and submitted APQP documentation to Toyota Engineers for

approval.

. Performed quality assessment and process audit of new suppliers.

. Provide customer detailed timelines on process, quality, and operation

readiness. Lead internal new program launch team with weekly updates

to management.

. Point contact for customer quality issues. Championed multi-

disciplined problem solving teams in performing root cause analysis

and implementing temporary and permanent countermeasures. Proficient

in using problem solving tools such as 5 Why, 8D and Fish Bone

diagram. PPM to Toyota for 2009 was 21.

. Point contact for product Engineering Changes and Implementation.

Conduct feasibility and cost studies. Managed both internal and

customer driven engineering change. Worked with 3M to add Thinsulate

padding to a Toyota part to eliminate BSR on 6 speed manual Camry

gearbox.

. Championed continuous improvement teams within Jackson Plastics.

Combined 4 processes into 2 processes running on alternating days.

Increase press efficiency and reduce labor cost by 75%.

Education

. Masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY CGPA 3.889 (May 2005)

Thesis title: Innovative Product Design For Sustainability

Enhancement in Aluminum Beverage Can Based on Design for

Sustainability Concepts

. Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY CGPA 3.04 (December

2001)

Lingual Capabilities

. English, Mandarin and Malay.

Computer Skills

. Software - AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, Minitab, FORTRAN, Visual

Basic, Pro-Engineer Wildfire, ProModel, ANSYS, Corel Draw

11, Photoshop and Microsoft Windows.

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