Sam Kuo

Global Supply Manager

San Jose, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Global Supply Manager at Etched
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • EMC (Elite Material Co., Ltd.) (Full-time · 6 yrs 7 mos)
    • Tech sales/service department manager
      Jul 2017 - Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      - Managed a department of 9 members. - Provided the material recommendation and engineering solution about PCB processes to customers. Mostly contacted with R&D, engineering and design team of fab houses. - Provided the service of trouble shooting, failure analysis and all issues as consultant for fab houses. - Established good communication channel with customers to overcome their all difficulties with EMC materials, specifically on NPIs, qualification new projects. - Hosted the promotion meeting with customers who involved materials. - Successfully worked with SpaceX to pass qualification to achieve mass production for Starlink project. - Successfully quailed along with PCB fabricators for Apple projects, including iPhone, iPad and iMac. - Successfully hit the milestone for qualification for Cisco, Arista, Facebook, Google and Microsoft…etc for mostly focusing on server/switch products and others like card boards as well.

    • Quality assurance department manager
      Jul 2014 - Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      - Managed a department of 50 members - Managed IQC, IPQC, and OQC, all quality relating with the manufacturing processes. - Took responsible for the quality improvement with customers. - Regular quality meeting with customers including topics of continuous improving projects, quality strategy and RMA improvement. - 6 sigma and SPC leader of EMC group to drive the robust quality to customers. - Corporate quality leader of whole company, to be the representative of quality in front of customers.

  • Qaulity assurance manager at Tripod Technology Corp.
    Jun 2007 - Apr 2014 · 6 yrs 11 mos

    - Managed a department of approximate 200 members - Managed the IQC, IPQC, and OQC related the quality along with manufacturing processes. - Coordinated the continuous improvement project of whole fabrication departments. - Data analysis for pursuing better quality by six sigma / statistical method and quality control tool. - Maintained the quality system as ISO9001, TS16949 and UL, etc. - Continuous quality/RMA improvement project host along with customers including Apple, Cisco and Kinston these kinds of big OEMs.

  • Quality and Reliability insurance Engineer at Gold Circuit Electronics
    Sep 2005 - Mar 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

    - Took responsibility of managing laboratory including day to day operation and test vehicles such as CAF, IST, TCT, TST, reflow chamber and X-ray scanner. - Took responsibility of qualification procedure along with big OEMs such as Cisco, iBM, Arista and big ODMs such as quanta, Inventec, Foxconn….etc. - Took responsibility of making sure the reliability quality as out-going reports to customers.