Ricky Sim

Experience

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  Miniscribe Pte Ltd

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1991

  Supplier Quality Engineer

  Responsible for Supplier Quality Control activities. Worked with Suppliers to ensure the quality of parts and components so that assembly line of new program or product can run smoothly.

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  Maxtor

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1994

  Product Engineer, Mechanical

  Responsible for mechanical engineering functions to support production of HDD. Part of the team that was trained in HQ office in Colorado, United Stated and transferred new products for manufacturing in Singapore.

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  Micropolis Asia Pte Ltd

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

  Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

  Responsible for supplier quality of disk drives parts. Played instrumental role in qualifying numerous start-up production in Japan and Asia on managed parts so that new products can be launched successfully.

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  Iomega

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2002

  Senior Commodity Specialist

  Responsible for worldwide procurement of mechanical commodity for removable drives. Managed 34 suppliers that are located all over the world.

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  InFocus

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2007

  Commodity Manager

  Responsible for worldwide procurement of projector and projection engines parts: covering Mechanical, Electro-mechanical, Electronics and Accessories. Managed a total of 20 suppliers across Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan and Germany) with an annual purchase spend of approximately US$20M

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  Dell

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2019

  Responsible for managing the quality of printers and accessories products from suppliers that were launched in Singapore and did operational role to launch such products at various Dell sites in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Successfully qualified over 100+ products and accessories without any major quality issues. Responsible for world-wide procurement of optical drive products with annual spend of at least US$400M. First team member to spearhead the procurement transfer of the optical drive commodity from Austin, United States to Singapore.

  • Global Supply Quality Management / Global Operations Engineering

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2019

  • Global Commodity Manager / Global Supply Manager

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2012