Project Manager Quality
Resume:
Joe Chen
Canton, MI *****
734-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***
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SKILLS:
Commodity management, global sourcing, supplier quality and project management
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Global mindset to grasp the total value of a given scenario from cost, currency, duty and logistics
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Identify potential supplier, supplier audit and supplier development.
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Extensive experience with ISO9001, TS16949 and quality tools
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Identify and implement cost savings through strategic sourcing, quality improvement and VA/VE project
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Strong value analysis and negotiation skill
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Experience with consumer product and automotive industries
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Strong technical background to interface with engineering department and understand commodity
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Manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines effectively
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Fluency in Chinese and Japanese
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EXPERIENCE:
Jeda International, Canton, MI
Purchasing Manager, 11/07 – Present
• Responsible for budget, forecast, sourcing strategy, cost break down of purchased materials. Negotiate
price, payment term and long term supply agreement
• Audit, develop and qualify potential vendors.
• Effectively reduce cost of purchased part and ensured competitiveness in bid for new OEM projects
• Identify cost saving opportunity and lead cost saving projects to mitigate price increase of raw materials.
Purchasing, Black & Decker, Lake Forest, CA
Global Sourcing Leader, 10/06 – 11/07
• Manage supply base: Develop and maintain solid working relationship with suppliers to work out issues
concerning product, price, manufacturing capacity, delivery, quality, product launch, and cost reduction.
• Drive cost reduction through commodity strategy, new suppliers selection and audit, process
improvement and VA/VE project
• Implement low cost country strategies and manage strategic sourcing activities in Asia
• Develop suppliers up to company’s expectation: monitor and communicate supplier performance, address
quality and delivery issues. Contact supplier for replacement or adjustment of non-conforming products.
• Work closely with internal engineering, quality, marketing teams on product specification, new suppliers
and new materials qualification, design change and cost impact.
• Project management for the timely and flawlessly launch of new product. Prepare and distribute RFQ
according to BOM. Negotiate terms and conditions of orders or contracts with suppliers.
GM Asia Pacific, Shanghai, China
Consultant, 3/05 – 9/06
• Strategize and manage GM’s Top Focus Suppliers Project in China. Convey GM North America’s
expectation to GM Asia Pacific’s local supply chain management team and develop Chinese suppliers up
to expectation of GM North America.
• Coach and lead local procurement team to audit and qualify Chinese suppliers against TS 16949 and GM
supplier audit forms such as: Quality Standard Basics, Functional Supplier Assessment, Shop Floor
Excellence, Lot Traceability and Potential Supplier Assessment.
• Set up War Room to monitor the progress of supplier qualification process. The War Room displays each
and every supplier’s status in compliance to GM requirements.
Purchasing, Yazaki North America, Canton, MI
Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, 5/03 – 3/05
• Communized the Supplier Assessment Form for Yazaki Japan, North America and Europe Operations.
Identify and qualify the potential sources through supplier audit.
• Lead the cross functional team member from engineering, purchasing and suppliers for the flawless
launch of new products. Identify and perform supplier quality activities such as APQP, PSO and PPAP.
• Continuous improvement of quality through the application of quality techniques such as, problem
solving, 5 Whys and 8D corrective actions.
• Lead a cross functional team of supplier quality and commodity procurement to develop a tailored
Quality Improvement Plan for selected high impact suppliers. The process monitors and measures overall
supplier performance, and meets with supplier on monthly basis to communicate about their performance
and any other open issues.
• Lead and train supplier teams to implement the Toyota Production System as an effort to reduce cost.
Global Validators Inc., Rochester Hills, MI
Commodity Manager, 10/96 – 5/03
• Manage the growth and performance of Asian suppliers in terms of cost and quality.
• Manage strategic supplier accounts representing significant spend
• Audit and develop suppliers into strategic partners who bring value and innovation to the company
Department of Material Science and Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant, 1/94 – 5/96
• Researched application of metal matrix composite to jet engine under a National Science Foundation
grant.
• Assisted in teaching undergraduate Materials Science and Engineering class. Received Excellence in
Teaching Award from College of Engineering, WSU.
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Visiting Researcher, 10/90 – 12/93
• Discovered that the rare earth oxide and alumina additives are effective on the densification of sintered
silicon carbide. Results published on Journal of American Ceramic Society etc.
China Building Materials Academy, Beijing, China
Project Manager, Engineer, 9/85 – 10/90
• Project management for launching an automotive windshield glass program.
• Developed an on-line quality control method for manufacture of tempered glass by using surface stress as
feedback. Theoretical part published on the Journal of American Ceramic Society.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING/CERTIFICATE:
Lead Auditor for ISO 9000:2000 Quality Management System
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Lead Auditor for ISO/TS 16949:2002 Quality System for Automotive Suppliers
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Project Management
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Quality tools: PPAP, APQP, corrective and preventive action, team problem solving, mistake proofing
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Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle 8 Database Administrator
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EDUCATION:
MS in Materials Science and Engineering, 1/94 – 5/96, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
BS in Engineering Physics, 9/80 – 7/85, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
1. Effects of gadolinia and alumina addition on the densification and toughening of silicon carbide
Zhao Chen
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 79(2) 530-2, 1996
2. Pressurelessly sintering of silicon carbide with additives of samarium oxide and alumina
Zhao Chen and Lingfang Zeng
Materials Research Bulletin, 30(3), 265-70, 1995
3. Influence of surface structure on the fracture toughness of tempered glass
Zhao Chen, Zongzhe Jin and Jingyi Chang
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 71(10) C434-5, 1988
References Available Upon Request
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