Engineer Chemical Engineering

OBJECTIVE:

Interested in seeking a full-time job in a supply chain/procurement/engineering position, where I can contribute both my business experiences and my engineering knowledge, continuously learn new things, improve my professional skills, and meet new challenges.

EDUCATION:

8/2003 – 8/2005

University of Houston (central)

Master of Chemical Engineering

Graduation: 8/2005

GPA: 3.83

7/2008 – 12/2009

Tsinghua University, in Beijing China

EMBA classes, part-time

5/2000 University of Houston

BS in Chemical Engineering major with a minor degree in Chemistry

Graduation: May of 2000

EIT/FE Certificate: 4/15/00

EXPERIENCE:

6/2015 – Current Cheerford International Inc., Houston, TX & Shanghai, China (family owned business)

Supply Chain Assistant Manager/Engineer (Procurement and Quality)

Manufacturing and importing oil/gas pipeline valves and other industrial commodity valves, such as API 6D ball valves, gate valves, check valves, valve components etc.

Responsibilities:

Bi-lingual fluent in Chinese and English

Evaluates each supplier & sub supplier QA/QC systems, current certifications, equipment, process & capacity at each manufacturing facility

Evaluates owner & shareholder structure at each facility

Evaluates product & component costing landed into the US and provide recommendations

Supervises daily importing/exporting operations, including logistics, Customs, purchasing, production, and sales and identify areas to improve or correct, especially in sourcing area for cost reduction and budget control.

Works closely with overseas suppliers for pricing, delivery and quality requirements.

Negotiates contract pricing, terms, deliveries, and resolution of disputes and quality issues.

Works closely with Engineering and Quality for product quality improvement, as well as for informal and formal audit processes

Reviews invoices, packing lists, material certificates, and all other necessary shipping documents from the suppliers after each shipment for receiving and for Accounting to proceed payment process.

Regularly updates open POs after each shipment from each suppliers and review with each supplier for the upcoming shipments and delivery schedules.

Responds/Prepares quotes to the US/Canada customers

Prepares/Submits shipping paperwork to the Logistics and Customs Broker for each Import/Export needs including identifying the product clarifications/duty codes, as well as for duty drawback occasionally.

7/2011 – 5/2015 The Newdell Company – Eriks Valve Group

Supply Chain Engineer and Coordinator/Liaison (Reported directly to the ex-owner/ex-President)

The job responsibilities include, as a main and sole company supply chain personnel for all Chinese suppliers (valves, valve components, gears etc), mainly for Smith API 602 globe, gate, check valve components and Diamond Gear components.

Split time 50/50 between China and USA

Bi-lingual fluent in Chinese and English

Evaluated each supplier & sub supplier QA/QC systems, current certifications, equipment, process & capacity at each manufacturing facility

Evaluated owner & shareholder structure at each facility

Evaluated product & component costing landed into the US and provide recommendations

Engaged Quality & Engineering Technical teams for formal audit process

Assisted training new and existing Chinese suppliers and their sub-suppliers in order to fully understand and meet all the requirements and conditions, such as drawing requirements, ASTM material specifications, ASME/API design requirements and challenges,

Interacted with production, engineering and / or quality department to coordinate technical specifications, drawing requirements, quality improvements, as well as overseas either ocean or air logistics in a most cost effective way.

Negotiated contract pricing, terms, deliveries, and resolution of disputes and quality issues.

Worked closely with Sales department on the inquiries, to perform bid evaluations from different qualified vendors, and to monitor supplier deliveries on time.

Regularly checked inventory level and to expedite deliveries after PO is placed, (using ERP/MRP)

Identified the problems and discrepancies that may occur and assists in implementing corrective actions both inside the company, and from the suppliers and their sub-suppliers, for continuous improvement.

Worked closely with the company’s outsourced freight forwarders and other carriers for arranging and consolidating shipments from different suppliers in a most economical way while still on-time delivery for the overseas shipments either by ocean or by air and by truck, as well as assisting broker identifying the import duties.

Reviewed invoices, packing lists, material certificates, and all other necessary shipping documents from the suppliers after each shipment for receiving and for Accounting to proceed payment process.

Regularly updated open POs after each shipment from each suppliers and review with each supplier for the upcoming shipments and delivery schedules.

Directly managed and established a small joint-venture workshop in China for manufacturing of valve components with 10 foreign employees.

Overall, to ensure all suppliers and their sub-suppliers do a good job on pricing, delivery, and quality to support company’s supply chain needs, build a bridge and avoid disconnect in communications or language/cultural barriers, among company’s different departments and different level of communications, like sales/productions needs, quality and engineering, and vendors.

2/2008 – 7/2011 Cheerford International Inc., Houston, TX & Shanghai, China (family owned)

Manager Assistant, Process Improvement (Procurement and Quality)

Manufacturing and importing oil/gas pipeline valves and other industrial commodity valves, such as API 6D ball valves, gate valves, check valves, etc.

Responsibilities:

Supervised daily importing/exporting operations, including logistics, Customs, purchasing, production, and sales and identify areas to improve or correct, especially in sourcing area for cost reduction and budget control.

Worked closely with overseas suppliers for pricing, delivery and quality requirements. Regularly did pricing, terms and delivery negotiations with the suppliers for new inquiries and new purchase orders, as well as logistics cost bargaining with the freight forwarders.

Worked closely with Engineering and Quality for product quality improvement.

Maintained close relationship and communications with the clients in order to ensure product conformance to API, ASME, and ASTM specifications and per client requirements;

Discovered and implemented corrective actions and process improvement in the routine operations and processes, for example drafting new operations procedures to ensure correct and effective processes, and eliminate flaws and possible mistakes.

Helped the manufacturing facilities in China to obtain API 6A (Wellhead equipment and Christmas tree) and API 6D (Pipeline valves) certificates;

Assisted clients to get on the approved vendor lists of companies such as Formosa Plastics, Exxon, BP, and Petronas in Malaysia;

Proactively monitored and updated company’s Operations Manual and Quality Manual per most current API and ISO requirements, such as API 6D ball valve hydro-testing procedures, valve body casting inspection and approval process, etc;

Upgraded and expanded existing test facility to include API 6A Wellhead equipment and Christmas tree valves;

Developed and audited approved and potential raw material suppliers for forgings and castings, as well as to standardize purchasing/procurement process and to reduce costs while developing long term qualified suppliers;

8/2006 – 1/2008 CB&I

Process Engineer

· Development of process and utility P&ID's.

· Development of process instrument data forms.

· Development of Final pump calculations and pipe hydraulic calculations, including using of Flarenet for flare system.

· Coordination of the detailed process design and simulation effort (using HYSYS).

Example projects: two 650 MMSCFD Cryogenic Gas Processing Plants,

9/2005 – 7/2006 The Newdell Company

Chief Engineer & Supply Chain

Established the leadership in the engineering group for valve design verifications, including necessary improvement and modifications per API & ASME standards.

Established document control for the drawings and procedures per ISO 9000.

Provided technical support for the sales group and clients.

Helped communications with Chinese suppliers on both engineering and business issues.

1/2002 – 9/2005 RWD Technologies, Houston/TX

Associate Engineer/ Project Manager, Petrochemical Group

Consulted and provided technical and training documentation development for engineers, operators, and maintenance technicians in refinery operations, which included startup/shutdown operations manuals, process flow diagrams, process description manual, troubleshooting exercises, and etc.

Organized/instructed project work with team members and clients to ensure work quality, budget, and efficiency. As shadow project manager for the Premcor Gas Treating project to control the cost, budget, work load, and schedules (using SAP for project management).

12/2000 - 12/2001 Formosa Plastics Corp. Baton Rouge/LA

Process/Production Engineer, Chlorine/Caustic Unit

Internal ISO Auditor

Provided production report and cost analysis to upper management.

Responsibilities include: maintain and maximize chlorine/caustic production, reduce production cost, minimize and prevent any environmental or safety risks, continuously improve production process (PFD and P&ID modifications), and production rate by monitoring daily production process and equipment improvement/maintenance.

Worked closely with project engineers and outside vendors for improvement projects, such as evaluating and purchasing new process equipment, production expansion projects.

Monitored and supervised feed/product compositions and upstream/downstream changes to ensure product quality and production efficiency.

4/2000 - 12/2000 Enron - Houston Pipe Line Co. Houston/TX

Facility Engineer, Facility Planning Group

Responsible for natural gas analysis and pipeline simulation for Facility Planning group.

Constructed and designed models of natural gas pipeline processes in HYSYS and Winflow to analyze gas composition and to improve pipeline process under various critical conditions. Reported and provided gas quality analysis to the clients; conducted with Field Personnel to collect and update data from MIPS and Business Objects; calculated gas volume at various locations/meters in the spreadsheets.

AFFILIATIONS

5/1999 - Present Omega Chi Epsilon Student Member

10/1998 - Present Golden Key National Honor Society Member

COMPUTER SKILLS:

HYSIS, Flarenet, ProMax, ChemCAD, AutoCAD/MicroStation, Visio

FORTRAN, Oracle, HTML programming languages

Mathematica, Matlab, MS Office & MS Project

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

A dependable, organized, and self-motivated team worker, who loves to learn new things and has a strong commitment to meet the challenges in a professional environment.

Fluent in English/Chinese.

Certification:

EIT- Engineering-In-Training (Year of 2000)

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