Candidate Profile

Candidate Ryan Wei (Mr. 魏剑锋)

Date of Birth April 26th, 1982

Nationality Chinese

Marital Status Single

Resides Currently base in Hangzhou, willing to relocate Salary expectation Negotiable

Mobile 1-825-***-****

Email adjfwl@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

09/2001-07/2005 BEIHANG UNIVERSITY, CHINA 211, 985 Material Science & Engineering (full time)

Bachelor

LANGUAGES Chinese (Native)

English (Fluent)

SUMMARY:

A leadership role through15 years of work experience on lithium ion battery and supercapacitor products, have a decent understanding and business sense on battery related industries;

Be stake holder for a startup project and several NPI projects, good experience on communicating efficiently and handling issues in different complicated environments, to gain edge in the process;

Work on products of coin cell, cylindrical cell, and pouch cell, for top tier clients; gain good capability on building pouch cell products through working on Apple IPad pouch cell project;

Play roles on R&D, New Product Introduction, raw materials trade, project technical and general management, gain abundant experience;

Used to work in domestic & US company environments, good ability to adapt to new work environment;

Used to involve in or run several business cooperation projects with partners, and deliver win-win solutions for both sides, meanwhile protect and maximize own interest, business partners including Japanese companies such as JSR, JME, etc.;

Gain good technical and business knowledge on battery raw materials such as cathode, anode, separator, electrolyte, binders, additives, etc., through involving in raw materials trade business;

Strong capabilities on raising new projects and gain proven success experience;

Good English capability for technical & business communication;

A good engineer and good at implementation;

9 patents on battery related areas;

Perseverant and be result-oriented.

WORK EXPERIENCE

06/2016-04/2020 Startup project incubation

Position: Founder (pre-open & startup project)

Brief file: A startup project incubation, focus on lithium ion battery, lithium ion capacitor and supercapacitor products. Founded a company called Zhejiang SACO Energy Technologies Co., Ltd., between March 2017 and August 2018, and it served as an introduced technology project for Changxing County government in Zhejiang province. Subordinate: 12

Key Responsibilities:

Be stake holder and raise a startup project on lithium ion battery and supercapacitor products, and responsible for the whole project;

Build functional departments and manage some departmental works;

Build sample and evaluate performance and keep improving performance;

Search and negotiate with potential business partners, maintain good cooperation relationship with partners;

Clients identification & contact, marketing negotiation and gain edge during the preparation stage;

Perform project demonstration and communication in different sorts of levels to attract investment and maintain good relationship with government departments;

Achievements:

Project initiated and won a 2nd prize on entrepreneurship competition in Changxing county, Zhejiang province;

Gain a cooperation partnership with a top Japanese company JME, cooperation on lithium ion capacitor products, a leading cutting edge product;

Gain some progress on novel electrode trial;

2 patents on supercapacitor product certified.

Reason for new opportunity: funding stress and pandemic is final blow. 12/2014-05/2016 Hangzhou Shanhejiang New Energy Technologies Co., Ltd. Position: Deputy Chief Engineer

Department: Chief Engineer Office

Report to: General Manager

Subordinate: 35

Company brief file: A startup company, was founded as a introduced technology company by government of Jianggan district, Hangzhou, focus on battery and supercapacitor products; main technology is its leading novel electrode technologies transferred from US top R&D team in this specific field.

Key Responsibilities:

In charge of departments of engineering, QA, marketing, sourcing and R&D ;

Lead a multiple team to accomplish 3000F cylindrical supercapacitor mass production;

Built a pouch cell evaluation line for raw material performance evaluation.

Responsible for whole project and the profit &loss for the project;

Achievements:

Successfully finish 3000F cylindrical supercapacitor product mass production launch;

Built pouch cell trial line successfully;

Re-organized marketing department and gained several new customers;

Improved cost performance of products through bringing down raw materials cost to remarkably bring down product cost, e.g., reduce separator cost by 30%;

Reasons to leave Shanhejiang: a. recognized and invited by Changxing County local government and contributes to be industrial reformation and promotion for local conventional industry; b. move up to be a stakeholder to run a startup. 06/2013-12/2014 SCM Hypnergy Material Tech Co., Ltd. Position: Technical & Marketing Manager

Department: Technical & Marketing

Report to: General Manager of New Energy Division

Subordinate: 3

Company brief file: used to be a division of Shanghai SCM Chemical Co., Ltd., and went independent in 2016. A leading and biggest trade company specialized on battery and supercapacitor raw material products in China.

Suppliers include: ARKEMA, Japan Synthetic Rubber JSR, Kuraray, LanXess, NISSAN CHEMICAL, Japan highly paper NKK, Hitachi Chemical, Solvay, Sibelco, TIMCAL, and so on;

Clients cover almost every battery and supercapacitor company in China, including CATL, ATL, BYD, Gotion, Lishen, EVE, etc... Website: http://www.scmbattery.com/en/about.php

Key Responsibilities:

Analyze new-energy industry on perspectives of marketing and technology to overlook the business development and long term;

Play as a consultant role for the senior management level, especially on li-ion battery industry;

Maintain relationship with critical suppliers and customers through periodic business visit abroad and domestically, such as Arkema, Timcal, JSR, Hitachi Chemical, etc.;

Develop new business and translate more valuable businesses into company;

Maintain an up-to-date awareness of trends on sides of marketing and technology, and analyze intelligence information of competitors, focus on products such as cathode, anode, separator, electrolyte, binders, additive, etc.;

Involve in key account sales work, through providing technical and marketing expertise;

Build a laboratory for material evaluation, and make it a useful asset for company;

Achievements:

Successfully work with a top Japanese chemical company JSR and build a joint battery material evaluation lab on Nantong city;

Maintain good relationship with critical suppliers to perform a win-win business cooperation;

Gain good knowledge on supply chain and trade business on battery industries, and provide good services to partner and clients, e.g., provide new service segments for various clients. Reason to leave SCM: In September 2014, “Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation” is initiated by central government of China, a chance to follow governmental initiative to contribute.

10/2012-06/2013 ATL in China

Position: Senior Engineer (3D level)

Department: PE

Report to: PE Manager

Subordinate: 2

Key Responsibilities:

Work as a project leader for new product introduction and coordinate with cross-functional team to phase in Ipad pouch battery project, ensure the delivery targets meet the requirements, including product performance, quality demands, and time schedule;

Play the organizer role and closely coordinate with multi- departments (Production, ME, QA, IE, PMC, etc.) to achieve the targeted goals and tough customer requirements in various project phases;

Promptly fix all the issues coming out of different area and summarize/document the process through all sorts of necessary techniques, e.g., brain storm;

Keep up with production capability optimization and continuous improvement on the equipment and process capability; Achievements:

Successfully meet strict requirement and quality demand for customer samples;

Successfully meet project timeline target and gain some advantage on the schedule;

Yield exceeded targeted level, and saved product evaluation cost of several hundreds of thousands of RMB;

Through the success of machine re-construction, saved a good amount of money on equipment investment.

Reasons to leave ATL: a. a chance to involve in technical and marketing sides in trade business; b. a chance to contact with top suppliers globally, a chance to contact with various battery and supercapacitor clients.

11/2009-10/2012 Dongguan Cooper Electronics Co., Ltd. (Eaton affiliates) Position: Senior Engineer

Department: PE

Report to: R&D team in US and Engineering team in China Subordinate: 30

Company brief profile:

Dong Guan Cooper Electronics Co., Ltd, wholly owned by Eaton Corporation, is located in Xin Min Industrial Estate, Chang An Town, Dong Guan City. It specializes in fuse, inductors, small transformers and super capacitors. The products have large markets in Europe, America, Australia, Asia, etc. There are about 2,000 employees.

Cooper industry was acquired by Eaton Corporation. Eaton is a power management company with 2016 sales of $20.6 billion. Eaton provides energy- efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton has approximately 102,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com. Key Responsibilities:

Personally do all the trial work onsite from scratch, e.g., test all necessary parameters, fix all trial issues, master all the processes, then transfer all the knowledge and techniques into procedures, also train and promote technicians and operators for each process, especially for critical ones;

Organize a team of engineers (including members from PE, ME, Test, SQE departments) and coordinate with departments of production, QA to launch NPI project from a scratch;

Work closely with the suppliers to follow technical & manufacturing requirements to guarantee their ability to meet design, test and quality requirements;

Keep up with process optimization and improvement and produce FMEA/WI/CER, PVPR and Green card;

Drive all technical and operational issues related to manufacturing, test and final assembly processes to ensure effective closure of all issues to enable operational success of the entire product introduction cycle and into mass production;

Serve as key onsite personnel and report all issues and updates to pertinent interest parties and ensure technical readiness for all phases of the introduction cycle. Achievements:

Well gain technical knowledge on suprecapacitor products and production process optimization capability during 3 years of solid onsite work;

Gain a solid experience in development of EDLC product through trouble shooting, data collection and analysis, finding the root cause and fixing issues;

Well organize and lead engineers and operators to achieve each project stage target;

Search domestic suppliers, and negotiate and bring down the cost for equipments and raw materials, meanwhile ensure the quality requirements for finished goods;

Successfully commercialize the mass production line in China, which is the 1st automatic production line in China, meanwhile contributed a critical equipment re-design advice to US team, and fix a project major flaw.

Reasons to leave Cooper: ATL is a top lithium ion battery manufacturer in the world, to transition career back to battery products to lead an important battery project. 08/2005-11/2009 BYD

Position: R&D Engineer

Department: R&D

Report to: Principal Engineer

Subordinate: 0

Key Responsibilities:

Lithium-ion battery materials research and development, materials include silicon, tin and other oxide;

Follow up lithium ion battery R&D progress in China and abroad;

Independent research and development works on other products;

Achievements:

Good test results acquired through adopting novel fabrication method on silicon anode material for lithium ion battery;

7 patents on lithium ion battery.

Reason to leave BYD: A good chance to lead a NPI project from scratch independently at a US company.

Appendix

Projects:

1. Supercapacitor coin cell product mass manufacture; highlight 1 st

automation mass

production line in China;

2. Apple IPad lithium ion battery pouch cell mass manufacture; 3. 3000F cylindrical supercapacitor product mass manufacture; 4. Lithium ion battery trial line for battery raw material evaluation; 5. Pouch cell trial line for supercapacitor and battery products; 6. Novel method of Dry Battery Electrode for electrode building trial line; Patents:

1. CN201710951898.4 Supercapacitor product; 1

st

author and owner

2. CN201710951948.9 Supercapacitor product; 1

st

author and owner

3. CN 200710188356.2 Lithium ion battery product; 1 st

author

4. CN 200710187831.4 Lithium ion battery product; 1 st

author

5. CN 200710196578.9 Lithium ion battery product; 1 st

author

6. CN 200910050543.3 Lithium ion battery product; 1 st

author

7. CN 200910106442.3 Lithium ion battery product; 1 st

author

8. CN 200710164009.6 Lithium ion battery product; 1 st

author

Publications:

Publish two articles on analyzing Tesla battery strategy. One is in Chinese, and the other is in English. Chinese article analyzes why Tesla acquired Maxwell, and English article is a follow-up mainly on potentials of Dry Battery Electrode method. 1. 为什么特斯拉收购 maxwell 是合理的 (in Chinese)

2. Tesla's acquisition of Maxwell, a bit more information (in English)

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