CURRICULUM VITAE

OBJECTIVE:

Obtain a consulting position that would allow me to utilize my education skills in management and engineering where a strong sense of work ethics and teamwork are prevalent and rewarded.

EDUCATION:

University of Colorado / Boulder, CO / May 2003

Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (GPA 3.5/4.0)

Project: “Multicultural Perspectives on Workplace Environments”

Project Management
Quality Improvement / Finance for Engineers
Accounting for Engineers / Leadership and Management
Quality, Strategy and Value Creation
ColoradoStateUniversity / Pueblo, CO / May 2001

Master of Science in Industrial and System Engineering (GPA 3.7/4.0)

Operation Research
Project Planning and Control
Facilities Planning and Design
C++ Programming / Quality Control and Reliability
Stochastic Optimization
Manufacturing Processes
Ergonomics / Scheduling and Sequencing
Simulation Experiments
Engineering Economics
Engineering Safety
SrinakarinwirotUniversity / Bangkok, Thailand / May 1997

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering

Senior project: Designed a machine to measure the strength and tensile of the metal and alloy.

Operation Research
Engineering Work Study
Scheduling and Inventory / Quality Control and Reliability
Manufacturing Processes
Engineering Economics / Reliability in Production Design
Optimization in Engineering Design
Supply Chain System

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:

Consultant

/ True Corporation / Mar 2006 – Present

Lead the task force called “Process Improvement and Revenue Assurance”

Managed projects which involve with customer management

Involved in the proposition design process

Involved in the business development team and took charge in execution process.

Senior Industrial, Process, and Operation Engineer

/ Ducommun Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd. / May 2005 – Feb 2006

Lead the team in setting up the new aerospace facilities in Thailand

Lead the team in feasibility study on the new Boeing 787’s production in Thailand

Took charge in Lean manufacturing team for Ducommun Technologies Thailand

Lead the team in Supply chain management for Ducommun Technologies Thailand

Involved in Lean production reengineering for Ducommun Technologies USA which included:

-Manufacturing space reduction by 40%

-Process optimization for cycle time reduction

-Process improvement

-Inventory reduction by 50%

Industrial Engineer Level 2

/ Western Digital (Thailand) Co., Ltd. / Jan 2004 – May 2005

Lead the team in setting up the new production plant

Planned the production schedule

Took charge in the process optimization for cycle time reduction

Designed the new and also improved the process flows

Organized activities involved with the new products

Feasibility study on projects

Took charge and laid out the new building’s layout

Laid out the lean manufacturing structure

Managed and evaluated the new project (2.5 inches disk drive)

Took charge of the capacity planning, controlled headcounts for the factory production lines

Simulated the possibility of the project by using a simulation software

Involved in the Total Quality Management project

Involved in the design process of the new machines

Research Assistant

/ University of Colorado at Boulder / Jan 2003 –May 2003

Designed, conducted, and edited a research called “Multicultural Perspectives on Workplace Environments” to understand and smoothen the miscommunication and misunderstanding problems in multicultural workforce which conducted at Seagate Technology and Westin Banyan Tree Hotel in January 2003 in Thailand.

Delivery Assistant Manager

/ Pizza Hut, Inc. Pueblo, CO. USA / May 2000 – July 2001

Controlled the raw material inventory

Planned the production schedule

Managed the diverse delivery team

Distributed the daily work to other drivers

Process Engineer

/ Kao Industrial (Thailand) Co., Ltd. / Sep 1997 – Dec 1999

Monitored quality control of liquid department (bottle production, liquid mixing, filling processes)

Identified bottlenecks of the production process

Lead the engineering team for the process improvement

Planned the production schedule

Lead the team for “Six Sigma” project

Designed the Total Preventive Maintenance and Total Quality Management schedule

Involved in the design process of production procedures for Bacteria Contamination Prevention

Involved in the design process of new production lines

Designed the work study processes for the production department

Standardization of Procedures

Involved the ISO 9000, 9002 for the production department

TRAINING:

Senior Industrial, Process, and Operation Engineer

/ Ducommun Technologies (USA) / June 2005 – August 2005

Transferring the microwave switches, chassis, and metal sheet bending production lines to Thailand

Involved in the lean manufacturing improvement with American team

Involved in cycle time reduction project

Involved in the process improvement

Involved in re-layout process

Involved in the inventory reduction project

Industrial Engineer

/ Western Digital (Malaysia) Co., Ltd. / 15 May – 11 June 04

Capacity planning

Designed the future layout for the Thai plant

Involved in the design process for the new automated machine

New Project implementation

/ Western Digital (Malaysia) Co., Ltd. / 26 Apr – 1 May 2004

New project implementation

Feasibility of new project (new hard disk drives)

Engineering Intern

/ Toshiba Semiconductors (Thailand) Co., Ltd. / Summer 1996

Identified the standard time of semiconductor production

Monitored quality control of semiconductor production

Involved in the planning process

AREA OF EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Process improvement and optimization

Total Quality Management in the industries

Production simulation

Production planning and control

Lean manufacturing

Diversity and its effects in multicultural workforce

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: MATLAB, VISUAL C++

System software: All versions of WINDOWS, DOS

Simulation software: ARENA, WITNESS

Application: MS Office

Optimization software: LINDO

Other software: AutoCAD2004,AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD LT, Minitab, LINDO(Optimization)

PUBLICATION

Purswell, J.P., and Apipat Vithakamontri “A Preliminary Usability Analysis of the CPSC Website.” “Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting 2001”

RESEARCH DONE

Lead the group in the research term paper about ENRON and its bankruptcy

Carrying out a research project as a researcher to understand the role of six sigma in modern industries

Was the head of the real life simulation project on Pizza Hut’s production line

Designed and conducted a research called “A Preliminary Usability Analysis of the CPSC Website” to analyze the usability of the website by many groups of user

REFERENCES

Mr. Rueangyut Kingrungphet, Plant manger, Ducommun Technologies (Thailand) Co.,Ltd.

(081)626-7248

Mr. Sathaporn Plosean, Staff Engineer, Western Digital (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

(02)-5297098

Professor Rochelle Young, University of Colorado,

Professor Jane M. Fraser, ColoradoStateUniversity,