import & export

Shirley Lin ***-** ** Drive • Forest Hills, NY ***75

Mobile: (617) 775 - 3538

Email: ************@*******.***

Business Skills and Areas of Expertise

• 8 years handling import & export documentations

• 6 years logistics practice, dealing with freight forwarders, shipping lines and customs brokers.

• 4 years experience of purchasing processes, cost containment

• Detailed understanding of shipping document preparation for payment by Letter of Credit

• Fluent English, Mandarin (Chinese)

• Computer Literate, Internet Native (Expertise with Windows, Microsoft Office, ERP & MRP systems, Lotus Notes, Salesforce.com)

Professional Experience

Tea Forte Inc Concord, Massachusetts

Supply Chain Specialist June 2008 – June 2009

Tea Forte was founded in 2003 and aims to capture the “Art of Tea”. The company has its own design team, overseas manufacturing partners and operates its own distribution centers in the USA and overseas

Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities to facilitate direct communications with manufacturing partners and components suppliers in China.

• Creating and managing purchase orders according to the master production schedule with accessories manufacturing partners and suppliers.

• Update product landed cost model summary and individual costs models for all items.

• Managing logistics around import of raw materials to China and finished goods shipments to USA.

• Arranging import documents with customs broker and deliveries to warehouses in CA & MA.

• Negotiation with shipping lines and external logistics providers for best shipping costs.

• Sourcing and developing new products

China Export Finance Limited (BSF Sub) London, UK

Operations Controller March 2007 – March 2008

China Export Finance (CEF) Limited is an international trade solutions provider offering financial support specifically for imports from China of products to EU or US buyers. CEF acts as a service provider assisting in facilitating and promoting growth and efficiency of international trade with emphasis on exports from China market.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple client accounts and relationships.

• Proof reading of import/export documents to ensure customs clearance in buyer’s country.

• Dealing with banks for fund release to exporters.

• Established operational procedures

British Seafood (BSF) Ltd London, UK

Documentary credit controller March 2006 – March 2007

British Seafood is an international food group specializing in the global procurement, processing and distribution of fresh and frozen food.

Responsibilities:

• Working within the Documentary Credits team

• Liaising with banks with issuing letter of credit and approving presented documents are accurate and lease funds.

• Weekly reporting to the line manager on the subsidiary’s current position and pending issues.

• Controlling Inbound shipments.

Mint Apparel Ltd London, UK

Logistics Coordinator Jan 2004 – Feb 2006

Mint Apparel has an extensive sportswear distribution network and specializes in sales, marketing, design, manufacturing and sourcing services for Wilson, Russell Athletic, Urban Stone, Le Coq Sportif, Ocean Pacific, Fila brands etc in UK and Europe

Responsibilities:

• Liaising with Freight Forwarders, customs agents and shipping lines.

• Ensuring accuracy of import/export documentation for sea and airfreight shipment.

• Disseminate of shipping procedure manual to suppliers and ensure compliance with guidelines therein

• Control and administration of transportation inventories, ensuring that supply is at the right place to meet customer demand and service level agreements

• Ensuring deliveries to customers are cost-efficient and on time.

Peaktop Group Shen Zhen, P.R.C.

Sourcing, export/import Director July 2001 – Nov 2003

Peaktop is the world’s largest manufacturer of poly resin gift items and candles, employing 15,000 staff across Guangdong Province.

Responsibilities:

• Man management of ten person sourcing team.

• Guarantee on time production schedule and package requirement are followed correctly.

• Purchase order fulfillment.

• Negotiate with agreed suppliers optimum purchasing terms of quality, price and delivery.

• In conjunction with the Supply Development Manager, develop partnerships and seek new suppliers as appropriate to achieve cost savings and performance improvements.

• Coordinating shipping, tracking movements with freight forwarders and shipping lines.

• Ensuring export documentations are issued in accordance with letters of credit

• Liaising with customs brokers to ensure that import/export documents are declared correctly.

AZ Instrument Corp Taichung, Taiwan

International Sales Manager Jan 2000 – June 2001

AZ is one of the world’s leading design manufacturers of sophisticated high tech meters (hygrometers, agro meters, infra-red thermometers, etc.).

Responsibilities:

• Developing European market and maintaining customer service to current US customers.

• Preparing monthly sales statistics by spread sheet

• Purchasing order processing

• Answering customer inquiries by fax, email, phone or meeting

• Logistics administration such as providing scheduling and shipment arrangements as well as arranging import/export clearances through our in-house or external customers’ broker

• Dealing with freight forwarders to ensure a smooth and cost efficient transit of goods.

Education

Foreign Languages for Business, National Taichung Institute of Technology 1994-1997

Bachelor of Business Administration, National Taichung Institute of Tech

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