Experience

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  Lapp Asia Pacific

  • Tuas

  • Purchasing and Product Development Manager

    • Oct 2010 - Dec 2015
    • Tuas

    • New product development innovation to meet customer needs, new-product and catalogue launch.• Bridging the gap between Germany and Asia supplier to resolve language barrier, currency, copper price calculation.• Provide technical support on cable, connector and cable accessories.• Perform sourcing for cable manufacturing and component for cable harness to meet high mix low volume demand.• Handling of price/contract negotiations to meet cost goals.• Planning and implementing enhancement programs for supply chain improvement on fast moving cable and salvage dead stock item.• Provide rapid respond on customize cable RFQ.• Resolving quality issues with vendor.

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  Sanmina-SCI Pte Ltd

  • Global Component Engineer

    • 2006 - 2010

    • Work with Global Supply Management (GSM) in the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) and Program Managers to identify areas of potential savings by qualifying new parts or suppliers.• Identify and develop Preferred Supplier List (PSL) suppliers for connector and cable assembly.• Analyze and develop of all major suppliers; points of contact and their strengths and weaknesses.• Provide technical perspective for supplier score card input.• Identify and reduce the number of single sourced parts.• Participate in qualifying new suppliers to include site visits.• Source, select, and qualify components.• Work with Program Managers to obtain approvals from customer for alternate sources.• Clean-up, maintain, and manage commodity codes to ensure the proper assignment of major and minor codes.• Provide technical support to work complete Bill of Material (BOM) for cost take downs and alternate sources.• Investigate new technologies for potential of reducing cost or improving quality.• Maintain technical road maps to GSM, Global Commodity Engineer (GCE), Design, etc. for supply base and relevant commodity technologies. Design support• Work with Design Engineering on new product design to identify component sources, alternative parts and suppliers to drive cost, quality, and reliability.• Work with Joint Development engineers and other GCE’s to identify low cost component sources, alternative parts and suppliers.• Coordinate with the GSM, Business Win Team (BWT), regional quote teams, Design engineers, and Program managers to ensure best application fit on components.• Act as technical interface between component suppliers and development engineers.

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  Kulicke & Soffa Pte Ltd

  • Electrical Engineer

    • Apr 2002 - Oct 2006

    From June 2004 to 2006 1. Machine cables design involved in selection of cables and connectors.2. Provide proper cable routing to the manufacturing.3. Support 50% on development and 50% on sustaining.4. Work closely with suppliers for prototype and mass production cables in term of price; spell out the requirement and the delivery schedule.5. Assist in cost reduction by sourcing an alternative equivalent China manufacturing cable or mold the cables to the requirement.6. Hands on to fabricate prototype cable in term of urgency. From April 2002 to June 20047. Establish procedures, with guidelines, for the management of Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) Master Series data used in engineering design and documentation.8. Setup and maintain a proper applicable documentation.• Drawing Release Policy• Commercial Parts Library Release Procedure• Engineering Change Order (ECO) Procedure• Part Drawing Number Procedure

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  Scarborough (S) Pte Ltd

  • Design Engineer

    • Aug 2000 - Mar 2002

    1. Member of the Cross functional team, supporting Sales in their Sales pursuits.2. Translate customers' needs into design specification, generate design conceptual, and evaluate design feasibility.3. Lead the engineering team to work on design details4. Source for vendors to quote and co-ordinate the projects, test run and qualify the machine.5. Ensure timely machine buyoff and fulfillment of contractual obligations6. Provide design support for product modification and other technical support activities.

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  Molex (S) Pte Ltd

  • Automation Engineer

    • Jan 1996 - Aug 2000

    1. Design and spell out specifications and requirements for automation process.2. Review of the project requirement with project team. Such as FMEA, SOP, type of process to be used for production and etc.3. Source for vendors to quote and co-ordinate the projects, test run and qualify the machine.4. Support production to meet time and volume to market.5. Providing documentation of spare tooling and training to maintenance technicians so that they are fully competent in maintaining and running production.6. Co-operate with process engineering and maintenance on joint projects so as to execute the projects efficiently.7. Received Achievement Awards on two projects hitting Million-Dollar sale.