WORK EXPERIENCE
2000 - 2002
INNOVATE@, a Booz Allen and Lehman Bro's JV, Chicago, New York, McLean, VA
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
· Objective: Transforming innovations into new business opportunities.
· Directed teams of up to 7 managers in three service offerings: Business Incubation, Venture Capital, and Venture Consulting, in areas such as information technology, telecommunications, e-business analytics, supply-chain management technologies and nanotechnology.
· Venture Capital:
~ Led multiple teams to develop investment strategies and visions, generate deal flows, conduct due diligence research and analysis, and structure partnerships with other investors.
~ Communicated findings and recommendations to managing partners and senior
investment committees in both formal and informal sessions.
· Business Incubation:
~ Directed 3 managers in Booz Allen's business incubator to set up the infrastructure for idea flows, identify business creation opportunities, and support the investment life cycle.
~ Pitched opportunities to executive investment committees for fund acquisition.
· Venture Consulting:
~ Developed 3-4 engagement managers in leading their teams to assess and advise clients' corporate venturing programs in various industries such as defense, hi-tech, and automotive.
~ Reported progress and recommendations to senior client executive committees.
· Accomplishments include:
~ Created two new businesses for Booz Allen (Global Security Services, Best Practice Benchmarking Services).
~ Three of the startups evaluated became Lehman investments.
~ Developed two client engagements in new venture strategies.
~ Authored white papers on industry perspectives for Telco's, CLEC's and Info Security.
2000
COVAD COMMUNICATIONS, Santa Clara, CA
DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS STRATEGY
· Objective: Setting strategic direction for increasing customer installed base.
· Led team of 10-15 to design and implement rollout strategies, set operational targets and improve processes for increasing the number of DSL customers brought online.
· Generated buy-ins from the executive officer committee through proactive
communications at each stage.
· Accomplishments include: lines installed per day improved by 60%; first run quality improved by 50%; order-to-delivery cycle time improved by 35%.
1997 - 2000
BOOZ·ALLEN & HAMILTON, INC., Chicago, IL
ASSOCIATE
· Objective: Delivering value to Fortune 500 clients by offering practical management strategies.
· Led and managed client engagements (typical team size of 3-5) in: strategy formulation, business development, strategy execution, technology management, and risk counseling.
· Experienced in corporate strategy, merger integration, operations strategy, value chain optimization, and strategic decision planning.
· Accomplishments include:
~ Business strategy to improve product investment decisions for a data service provider resulted in the avoidance of $10 MM in annual losses.
~ Operations diagnostics and strategy helped a national clinical lab reduce its new information systems rollout time from 12 to 6 months.
~ Supply network strategy achieved 18% in annual savings for a tier one automotive supplier.
~ Presented the Commissioner's Award for leading a team in the Internal Revenue Service's modernization effort.
Summers 1995 - 1997
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY
LECTURER
· Objective: Preparing engineers for commercial practice.
· Taught course to survey all aspects of managing an engineering enterprise, including the design of products and processes, technology choices, the analysis and control of operations, and the application of engineering economics and capital budgeting.
· Emphasized the impact of modern approaches such as the Just-in-Time paradigm, core competency, outsourcing, activity based costing, simulation and total quality management.
· Applied method of experiential learning to build students' intuition, awareness and sensitivity to real-world issues through in-class and field activities and team projects.
1995
AEROQUIP, TRINOVA CORP., Jackson, MI
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
· Objective: Applying analytical insights to improve strategic planning.
· Proposed decision tools for managing customer behavior to improve service quality, balancing workloads to improve process quality, using statistical process control to improve product quality, and managing bottleneck resources to improve the effectiveness of the ERP system.
· Based on recommendations, facilitated the preparation of major capital acquisition requests that included the participation of top and middle managers, engineers and shop floor staff.
· Accomplishments include: on-time delivery improved from 67% to 90%, capital
requirement reduced by 20%.
Summer 1992
MITAC COMPUTERS, Hsin Chu Science Park, Taiwan
INTERN
· Objective: Improving new product rollout.
· Conducted industrial diagnosis in the assembly line to improve new product rollout.
· Accomplishments include: proposed recommendations that improved the first-run yield of prototype products, and the accuracy of the ERP program maintained by the information system.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Operations Research, Cornell University, 1997
B.S., Indus. Engineering, summa cum laude and 1st in dept, University of Michigan, 1993
HONORS AND AWARDS
James Angell Scholar, and Dean's Honor List (all semesters)
Cooley Award for Creative Writing: 1992 and 1993
Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Pi Mu engineering honor societies
SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
Served as referee for various research publications such as the Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, and Operations Research Letters.
PERSONAL
Fluent in both written and spoken Chinese (Mandarin).
Familiar with the Asia Pacific Rim. |
