Frank Chai

Frank Chai

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Supply Chain Manager at Intel

  • Education

    • University of Waterloo

      1999 - 2003
      BMATH Joint Honor of Mathmatic and Business Administration
  • Experience

    • TD

      Sept 2003 - Jan 2004
      Industry Analyst

       Conducted industry and company specific analyses on the listed oil and mining related companies. Gathered information, updated presentations, and updated financial models for senior analyst.

    • Shanghai Blooming

      Jan 2004 - Feb 2009
      Vice President

       Traded wide variety of consumer and industrial products, spanning peripherals such as MP3 players, feature phones, tablets to raw materials and industrial machinery. Closed deals such as sourced LCD panel for Panda electronics with revenue 6 millions USD, Chromite from Philippine with annual revenue ranges from 3 - 4 millions USD / year.- Also managed Nanjing Kaobao chemical: Plastic injection factory with 30 ~ 70 people.

    • MiTAC Inc.

      Apr 2009 - Apr 2010
      Deputy Sales Manager

       Helped win city surveillance consulting project for Qatar with III (Institute for Information Industry). Serviced and fulfilled all requests from foreign governors and customers introduced by III. Acted as a sale to find and bid system integration projects mostly in the government sector and prepared the proposal needed for bidding those projects with members across BU. Work with solution vendors and team to conducting system requirement analysis for both software ( DB, Workflow, IP Managing, MDM, Backup and more ) and hardwares (Server, Switch) compatibility and suitability for projects.  Provided management supports for project implemented CMMI LV 5. Show less

    • 3CEMS, FIC Group

      Jul 2010 - Oct 2012
      Sales Manager

       Implemented process improvements, quality improvements, and supply chain best practices to saved over 500K USD for the air conditioner control board business with annual revenue over $7M USD as well as board's manufacturing defect rates reduced from 1200 DPPM to <300. Grew revenue 20% annually, project profits went up from 3% to 15% by shifting clients' order from OEM to ODM. All 2013 annual contracts were settled with higher estimated profit than 2012 before resignation. Sale's performance ranking went from over 20th in 2010 to 2nd in 2012 cooperate wide.  Leaded sale team and integrated cross functional departments to manage PCB, PCBA, Box Build, LCM, and box build OEM/ODM businesses to manage over 10 accounts included companies such as Broadcom, Daikin/Goodman, and FIC / Everex Communication. Conducted cost and benefit analysis for investment opportunities to reduce material and manufacturing cost, industry analysis, supplier reliability analysis, BOM cost analysis, and component risk analysis. Show less

    • Chen Hsiong Enterprise Ltd.,

      Nov 2012 - Dec 2014
      Special Assistant to the President

       Help president to oversaw companies' operation from sales, finance, supply chain, and logistic.

    • Simplr

      Sept 2014 - Apr 2019
      Director of Supply Chain and Operation

      - Worked with Foxconn to ensure our products ( Wireless charging power bank / charging pad ) were delivered on target schedule, reviewed BOM / IE costs / idle materials / forecast / quality , bid wireless charging automotive ODM projects from auto brands such as Nissan / Renault.- Conducted researches on the latest wireless charging technologies, components' prices, commodities' prices, components suppliers, and key players' movement.

    • 英特爾

      Feb 2019 - Mar 2023
      Supply Chain Manager

      - Managing Intel outsourced products ( Severs / SSD / PMemy / AI processing boards / Graphic card ) with $200M+ annual spending with overall cost reduction 4% in 2020 and 1.9% in 2021. $3M was achieved as MPM in 2019.- Commercial negotiation, stakeholder management, cost projection, material sourcing strategy planning, AOB, QBR. - Conducted MI analysis and worked with team on create key indicators for Intel Global sourcing.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • PMP

      PMI
      Nov 2008
    • SCJP

      Sun
      Oct 2009
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Data programming

      Issued by Habitat for Humanity Canada on Feb 1999
      Habitat for Humanity CanadaAssociated with Frank Chai