1. N i c k y Y i n g y a o H u a n g
(916) 471-8531 2045 Boulder Mine Way
yingyaoh@yahoo.com Gold River, CA 95670
P r o g r a m M a n a g e m e n t P r o f e s s i o n a l
Strategic Sourcing Manager / Manufacturing Manager
The extremely determined, creative, and passionate Program Management Professional has more than
25 years of combined experience in providing operations leadership and technical contribution in the
high tech industry. This reliable candidate is currently looking for a challenging position as a
Manufacturing Manager, or Strategic Sourcing Manager, ideally with a dynamic growing company
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills make the candidate successful in working with
stakeholders, executives, and / or suppliers in various areas across different job levels. Highly
accomplished professional demonstrates key abilities in leadership, program management, product
quality and reliability, negotiation, procurement, manufacturing, communication, and problem solving.
Effectively contributes towards organizational achievements, leads cross-functional teams by positive
focus, thrives in demanding team environments, professionally deals with increased challenges and
responsibilities, and performs extremely well under pressure.
Strategic Planning & Implementation Efficient in Organization & Multitasking
Adept in Leadership & Management Task & Result-Oriented Team Builder
Scheduling & Workflow Administration Resourceful & Creative Problem Solver
P r o f e s s i o n a l E x p e r i e n c e
Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA Aug 2011 – Present
Solid State Drive Manufacturing Operations Manager / Memory Strategic Sourcing Manager
Received numerous Divisional Recognition Awards for Operational Excellence; managed 2 cross-
functional teams in resolving product quality and factory process issues; exceeded every quality,
schedule, cost, and output targets.
Delivered a record of over $1 billion in revenue from 2 product families in 2015; assumed
responsibility for all manufacturing related deliverables; achieved 50% of cost saving over 2
quarters of production of GDDR5 used in Intel Xeon Phi project in 2012 (estimated $80 million
memory spending per year).
Completed selections of memory/storage solutions for soon-to-be-launched automotive and set-
top-box products; facilitated procurement activities.
Eliminated all unnecessary monitors and cost out of high volume manufacturing processes and
guaranteed that the contract manufacturers were ready for all NPI builds.
Micron Technology / Numonyx, Folsom, CA 2007 – 2011
Strategic Sourcing Program Manager
Achieved 3x of organizational goal on cost saving; secured capacities for key memory products
under worldwide memory capacity constraint environments.
Directed cross-organizational efforts in achieving goals; executed plans through supplier selection,
relationship maintenance, as well as negotiation.
Provided recommendations to senior management on sourcing strategies for specialty memory and
NAND controller products.
Reviewed internal customers’ needs and participated in the selection of right products with
comprehensive knowledge of supplier product roadmaps.
2. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu, Taiwan 2005 – 2007
Quality and Reliability Department Manager
Reduced subcontractor-induced quality incidents by more than 50% per year from 2005 to 2007;
reorganized and transformed four engineering teams: component packaging, bumping, testing, and
integration teams.
Assumed responsibility for supervising a department of over 20 engineers responsible for quality of
internal and external post-wafer-fab capabilities.
Guided efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities,
controls, as well as safety and security systems.
Managed group headcount, budgets, and stakeholder communication; developed engineering
solutions to problems that affect operations.
Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA 1990 – 2005
Memory Strategic Sourcing Manager (2003 – 2005)
Quality and Reliability Group Manager (1998 – 2003)
Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer (1994 – 1998)
Senior Product Engineer (1990 – 1994)
Negotiated a gigantic 40% price reduction year-over-year on the sole-sourced CellularRAM™ (with
over $300 million in annual spending). Received a TMG Excellence Award
Directed and coordinated the health of multiple memory wafer supply lines (more than $400
million yearly spending) and consignment inventory levels; reduced manufacturing and product
excursions by 10x in 1998 to 2003; shortened supplier qualification time and enabled on-time
product launches.
Conducted price and contract negotiation with key suppliers; managed a group of supplier Q&R
managers in order to support Intel’s MCP products; facilitated cross-organizational efforts in
preventing, identifying, and resolving silicon, assembly, and packaging interaction issues or
problems. Received an Intel Quality Award.
Updated executive staff on supplier performance, customer issues, and excursion resolutions;
developed outgoing quality and coverage metrologies.
O t h e r W o r k E x p e r i e n c e
Supercomputing Solutions, San Diego, CA 1988 – 1990
Senior Development Engineer
NCR Corporation, San Diego, CA 1987 – 1988
Test Engineer
E d u c a t i o n & T e c h n i c a l S k i l l s
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Minor in Management Science)
Microsoft Office Suite
Language Skills: English Chinese
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