Candidates About

 

^{Russell Lin}

Summary

 

Ø  Over 10 years of working experience in Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Price Negotiation, Project Development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, MRP), Cost Analysis and accomplished different jobs rotation to fulfill company needs.

Ø  ISO 9001 auditor, Quality Improvement and Green belt certificate

Ø  Bilingual (English, Mandarin)

 

Accomplishments

 

Ø  Setup 3^rd party test house for FireTV, Smart TV and Echo devices families

Ø  Commodity Cost Reduction and PPV management

Ø  Built up quality system for CM in Mexico for smartphone

Ø  Successfully launched FireTV, Smart TV and Echo Devices testing under controlled budget

Ø  Built a supply chain from proto and mass production as needed

Ø  Built up factory testing at CM/factory sites in China cross all products for lab126 (Amazon)

Ø  Successfully transferred testing to in-house India team

Ø  Built up the first manufacturing site of HTC for Pocket PC/Mobile at Houston TX

Ø  Implemented ISO 9001 Quality System to manufacturing site at Houston for HTC

 

Skills

 

Ø  Leadership skills: Product Lifecycle Management, CM management, Supply Chain Management, Cross-Functional leadership and Price Negotiation

Ø  Technical skills: Reliability/Stability Test, Quality Audit and improvement, Manufacturing and Operation Management, Cost Analysis, Product Development Management, Fishbone/CLCA analysis

Ø  Soft skills: Motivator, Problem Solver, Critical Thinker, Detail oriented, Goal oriented, Effective communicator, Team player and Customer oriented

 

Education

 

Ø  Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, Tunghai University Taiwan

Ø  Master of Science in Industrial & Manufacturing System Engineering, Iowa State University

 

Experience

 

Amazon (lab126), Sunnyvale CA                                                                                                     Apr/2015– Present

Quality Engineer

 

·         Managed CM and 3^rd party vendors in China and in-house quality team in India

o    Created test plans on new project (Integration Test, functional, Stability, Reliability)

o    CM supply chain management (cost reduction, NPI and project milestone)

o    Product quality plan enhancement and improvement

o    Resources and budget arrangement

o    Monitored execution and escalation

·         Manage and mitigate risks, make timely and justified escalations with complete and accurate information

o    Weekly review meeting with offshore vendors

o    Weekly internal dev/TPM/component owners review meeting and report

o    Escalation and status update for management

·         Integration Test generation

o    Developed integration test plan on FireTV, Alexa Echo, DVR and Kindle

o    Automation test execution

o    Coordinated vendor functional, Smoke\Sanity, Power\Performance and Stress\Stability tests

·         Own QA bug flow (JIRA), follow up and drive bugs to resolution

o    Bug scrub meeting with CMs, SoC vendors and internal team

o    Reviewed bugs, Issue validation and bugs review/fix follow-up with cross team.

o    Anticipates, identifies and drives resolution of technical challenges

o    Postmortem bugs analysis and lesson learn update

 

Amazon (lab126), Sunnyvale CA                                                                                                     Mar/2014– Apr/2015

Technical Program Manager

 

o    Defining and executing mobile devices roadmap for Amazon/HTC Fire Phone

o    Responsible for managing relevant programs through the agile product lifecycle and delivering on the committed roadmap

o    Established programs plan baseline: defined project scope and plans.

o    Controlled and monitored programs execution: tracked projects activities, controlled changes, conflicts and escalation

o    SOW, BRD review and Kick-off meeting with vendors for new project

o    Milestone progress review and action follow-up

o    Commodity cost reduction and 2^nd tier raw material cost and forecast management

 

 

HTC, Bellevue WA                                                                                                                    Aug/2010– Mar/2014

Technical Engineering Manager

 

·         Defined and delivered requirements (DFX) for product qualification

·         Root cause analysis and corrective action implementation in early phases of product quality.

·         Continued to improve product quality.

·         Maintain ECN/ECR on all new project issues.

·         Facilitated and drove manufacturing product build improvement

·         Designed, developed and implemented products working with cross-functional teams and vendors to launch programs for at&t, TMO, deliver staff training and ensure program and product effectiveness.

·         Worked with customers to deliver root causes and corrective actions for quality issues and drive design team to improve prior to implementing in manufacturing

·         Supply Chain vendor management in cost reduction, allocation and inventory

 

HTC, Houston, TX                                                                                                                    May/2007 – Aug/2010

Quality Account Manager

 

·         Drove ramp up readiness with internal and external plans and items.

·         Lead OEM quality team in planning and execution product quality testing coverage

·         Developed quality process to meet customer requirement and MRP requirement

·         FAI inspection and root cause and correction action drive.

·         Ensured reversed logistic operation processes complied with customers, product launch and quality issues

·         Operation efficiency improvement and cost evaluation

·         Lead product launch schedule and repair activity.

·         Created standard processes and indices with CMs and customers and successfully managed quality index (Quality report, CLCA, 8D, SCARS)

 

 

 

 

 

 

HTC, Houston, TX                                                                                                                                Jun/2002 – May/2007

Operation Manager

 

·         Cost analysis and process improvement for operation efficiency

·         Resources arrangement for optimal solution. 

·         Served as subject matter expert for ATT and TMO hubs, managing troubleshooting, service delivery, debugging and technical support. 

·         Inventory control and management

·         Managed all operation related and schedule planning

·         Enabled ISO 9000 manufacturing environment and certified ISO 9000 auditor.

 

TYCO ELECTRIC, TAIWAN                                                                                                             May/2000 – May/2002

Marketing Engineer

 

·         Negotiated parts price, cost analysis and deliverable schedule with vendors.

·         Supported product reliability testing on PCs and laptop connectors, developing reports, conducting quality reviews and creating production plans.

·         Audited 3^rd party operations and production plans, providing KPI plan and establishing and reviewing operations for ongoing reliability tests.

·         Certified outsourcing vendors to create an approved list and certified manufacturing operations. Collaborated with vendors to ensure on-time product

 

Silitek (Lite-on Group), TAIWAN                                                                                                     Jul/1998 – May/2000

Quality Engineer

 

·         Supported keyboards product reliability test, providing report, and conducting quality assurance control on keyboards of DELL and HP projects.

·         Collaborated with internal manufacturing sites in China to ensure outstanding quality product.

·         Review CLCA (8D) report and deliver root cause and action plans with customers.