Costing Manager
Resume:
Matthew Kai Loung Chan
*** ******* ***, *** ******* CA 90026 818-***-**** *************@*****.***
EDUCATION:
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA
Bachelors of Science in Statistics Sept. 2010-March 2013
Cumulative GPA: 3.12, Major GPA :3.72
El Camino College Torrance, CA
Associate of Science in Chemistry Sept 2007-June 2010
Cumulative GPA: 3.42
RELEVANT COURSEWORK:
Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Linear Model, Design and Analysis of Experiment, Regression and Data Mining, Computational Statistics with R, Monte Carlo Methods, Statistical Consulting
EXPERIENCE:
Cost Manager Jakks Pacific Analyst/ Engineer April 2017 – Present
Manage and provide guidance to new employees for costing engineer position.
Maintain and update Line Review Program (LRP) on all the new items for the company in each season.
Extract data from the JD Edwards database for packaging cost estimation and data analyst.
Review the work from my employees to ensure the accuracy on the info we provided in the emails.
Create reports on the product expense and tooling expense for the company to track expenses.
Senior Cost Engineer Jakks Pacific Analyst/ Engineer March 2016 – March 2017
Create and Analyze profit and loss statement (PNL) to measure Profited Margin (PM), Marketing Contribution (MC), Operation Profit (OP) on Boys’ and Girls’ toys (Nintendo, Star Wars) worth $100M Sales to support decision making.
Work closely with Logistics team for the shipping and trucking cost on toys from China to different locations.
Work closely with Logistics team for the HTS code on each toy item.
Review approval forms with Purchasing team to release fabric material, packaging material, Integrated Circuit Chips(IC chips) and purchasing orders to HK for production.
Cost Analyst Jakks Pacific Analyst/ Engineer Feb 2014 – Feb 2016
Work closely with Hong Kong Engineers to monitor and manage product, schedule, product testing and quality control.
Estimate the cost of plush, Electronics toys and dresses for initial decision making.
Review and validate Cost of Good (COG) and Bill of Materials (BOM).
Negotiate tooling cost with Chinese Supplier (Factory) and review tooling model to ensure parts able to produce in the injection mold machine and rotational mold machine for massive production.
Collect and generate Packaging, Fabric and Electronics cost dataset for cost estimation on toy manufacturing.
Develop regression model and correlation matrix to predict Sale Prices from Product Cube size, cost of tool mold from tool mold size, Cost of packaging from Packaging die line.
Research Project on NBA data and Mixed Distribution University of California Los Angeles
Researcher Sept.2012-March 2013
Collected and generated NBA dataset for historical top 10 in each category.
Developed a statistical model (logistic model) to predict NBA All-stars using AIC,BIC and anova for modification.
Investigated Beta-Weibull Distribution and Beta-Normal Distribution by checking the Skewness and kurtosis and determine the behavior of the graph (unimodal or bimodal) by alternating the parameters values.
Research Study in Statistical Models in Finance University of California Los Angeles
Researcher Sept.2012-March 2013
Performed individual research projects according to specific criteria and provided reports for research products.
Computed the monthly returns for each stock to determine the monthly return for Equal allocation, Single index model, Constant correlation model, and Multi-group model portfolios.
Explored portfolio risk management using several statistical models to estimate the variance-covariance matrix in real world stock market data (in the open source statistical package R).
MESA Program El Camino College
Chemistry and Math Facilitator Feb 2008 - June 2010
Facilitated study group sessions for students and administered weekly homework and assignments to students.
ACTIVITIES & HONORS:
UCLA Statistics Club Officer Sept 2012-June 2013
UCLA Dean’s Honor List Spring 2012
El Camino College Dean’s List Jointed Since Sept 2012
Foundation Donors Award, El Camino College Jointed Since Jan 2012
SKILLS
LANGAGES: Fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese
SKILLS: Proficient in Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook,Access, Latex, R program, SAS, STATA, SPSS, SQL
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