Greater Lyon Area
I bridge two worlds that rarely sit together: the disciplined precision of high-performance manufacturing and the strategic, analytical mindset of MBA-level business thinking. Over seven years at Eclat Textile (Taiwan's tier-1 supplier of technical textiles), I owned the full product lifecycle — from sampling and pilot through qualification and mass production — for global sportswear brands. Along the way, I earned a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and contributed to the early adoption of 3D digital-twin workflows in our development process. Now, at emlyon Business School in France (Financial Times #4 in France, #10 in Europe), I am scaling that mindset beyond one function or one industry. Recent work includes leading a multinational team at the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge — designing a $110M sustainable investment fund that connects hyperscaler hardware refresh cycles with emerging-market sovereign AI infrastructure (recognized by independent reviewers as "truly differentiated"). At ETH Zurich, I studied robotics and manufacturing automation through GM and Tesla case studies under Prof. Dr. Markus Bambach—reinforcing the principle that automation must follow lean discipline, not precede it. What I bring to a team: hands-on manufacturing execution, structured business thinking (PESTEL, VRIO, CAGE, DMAIC), cross-cultural collaboration (live in France, work in English, native Mandarin), and a creative problem-solving instinct shaped by an early career in design.
6-month consulting project for International MBA • Owned the Asia market entry workstream for a 25-year strategic expansion roadmap, identifying priority geographies, partnership models, and entry sequencing for the Asian printing & packaging market. • Applied PESTEL, VRIO, and CAGE frameworks to assess macro environment, internal capabilities, and cultural-administrative-geographic-economic distance across target Asian markets — translating qualitative analysis into a defensible market prioritization matrix. • Collaborated with the financial modeling sub-team to align market sizing assumptions with the broader business case. • Built and delivered the executive-level client presentation, distilling complex multi-market analysis into a single decision-ready narrative — a skill directly transferable to cross-functional BU/GTM alignment.
• Managed NPI program lifecycle across 4+ global sportswear brands — from concept bring-up through pilot, qualification, production ramp, and sustaining • Coordinated cross-functional build schedules (design, materials, QC, production) aligned to customer GTM windows across multi-site manufacturing in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Taiwan • Drove closed-loop customer complaint resolution — translating brand and consumer feedback into seasonal spec updates across material, construction, and fit • Scaled NPI processes and quality standards to newly onboarded sub-factory sites during capacity expansion • Contributed to virtual prototyping (CLO 3D) workflow stabilization, reducing physical sample dependency and accelerating design iteration
• Translated brand design intent into mass-producible garment specs, bridging creative and manufacturing requirements across global sportswear clients • Resolved cross-functional technical issues spanning pattern, construction, fabrication, stitch tension, SPI, and colorway execution • Served as primary point of contact between brand teams and factory engineering, driving alignment on development and production challenges
• Held independent approval authority for product sign-off on behalf of brand, making final decisions on materials, construction, and quality standards across full product lines • Balanced multi-variable trade-offs (design intent, cost targets, supplier capability, quality thresholds) to drive commercial and technical outcomes simultaneously • Leveraged 3D virtual development (CLO 3D) to align cross-functional stakeholders and reduce physical validation cycles prior to production commitment • Owned end-to-end product decisions that directly impacted supplier economics and brand positioning—operating as a de facto product owner on the technical side
• Defined and enforced fit standards, grading logic, and size consistency specifications across full production runs—functioning as a quality systems owner at scale • Embedded early-stage risk identification into pre-production workflows, preventing downstream manufacturing defects and reducing costly late-stage corrections • Collaborated cross-functionally with factories, pattern engineering, and QA teams to ensure production feasibility and repeatability at volume • Applied tolerance management and failure-mode thinking to bridge the gap between sample approval and mass production reality