Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

We're thrilled to announce that Intellex has acquired Expert by Big Village, effective March 22, 2024. This strategic move enhances our capabilities and strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional solutions to our customers.

Stay tuned for more updates on how this acquisition will benefit our clients and experts.

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Expert Details

Global Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Management; Cost Reduction; International Trade Dispute Resolution; New Product Development; U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule

ID: 724023 New York, USA

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Expert manages the global supply chain for a $200 million U.S. consumer goods company. Expert excels at solving complex and unusual international supply chain problems, particularly those involving suppliers in Asia, and especially in China. Expert speaks, reads, and writes fluent Mandarin Chinese. He has lived in China and Japan, traveled extensively in Asia, and visited hundreds of manufacturers around the world. Expert has been working in the fields of strategic sourcing, supply chain management, manufacturing services, logistics, and new product development for more than 20 years. He maintains personal relationships with a global network of manufacturers and supply chain professionals and service providers, and may be able to provide urgent and immediate (possibly on-site) assistance with global supply chain crises.

In his career, Expert has worked with small- and medium-sized enterprises and multinational corporations as an employee, supplier, and consultant. Expert enjoys helping U.S. companies solve their global supply chain problems, lower their costs, mitigate risks, and bring new products to market. He has an MBA in international business and entrepreneurship, is Lean Six Sigma certified, and is formally trained by the Association for Supply Chain Management.

Examples of Expert's value propositions:
- Global strategic sourcing: identify and partner with the right suppliers, wherever in the world, to reduce costs, improve on-time delivery, improve quality, mitigate risk, and bring new products to market faster.
- Cost Reduction initiatives: identify and capitalize on opportunities to reduce costs, through vendor negotiations, re-sourcing, other low-cost country sourcing, process improvements, material substitutions, engineering or design changes, or other methods.
- Importing: audit Harmonized Tariff classifications of imported products and offer alternate classifications for consideration that may reduce or avoid duties and tariffs.
- Supply chain optimization and problem solving: identify and report on the root cause of supply chain problems, recommend a solution, and support or take the lead in negotiating or implementing the solution.
- Project Management: manage or support the management of complex supply chain projects or new product development projects from inception to completion.
- Purchasing and Supply Chain Professional Development: train and mentor purchasing and supply chain professionals to achieve specific corporate goals.
- SOPs and Best Practices: assist with the design, development, training, and implementation of purchasing and supply chain best practices and standard operating procedures.
- Market Intelligence: obtain comparative quotes from alternate qualified sources, assess vendor capabilities and fit, and in some cases identify and evaluate competitors' suppliers.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2005 Degree: MBA Subject: International Business and Entrepreneurship Institution: Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College (NYC, USA)
Year: 1994 Degree: BA Subject: East Asian Studies Institution: Queens College, City University of New York (NYC, USA)

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2016 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Manager Department: Global Supply Chain
Responsibilities:
The largest manufacturer of musical instrument strings and accessories in the world, with $200 million in annual sales. Expert oversees operations related to company's global supplier base (300+ suppliers) and purchasing activities for raw goods, finished goods, and services ($55 million in annual spend). He leads a team of five buyers in New York and project managers in China and Vietnam to drive cost reductions, improve supplier management, and increase supply assurance and supplier quality. He works with external suppliers and internally with designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to develop new products from concept to completion. He sources new suppliers and manages existing suppliers to ensure that the global supply chain optimally supports the strategic goals of the company.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2015 to 2016 Employer: Project TriForce LLC Title: VP Production Department: Operations
Responsibilities:
Expert managed the process of developing and manufacturing limited-edition collectible statues and replicas for global brands in the the video game and movie industries, including Microsoft, Bethesda Softworks, Warner Brothers, and Electronic Arts Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2009 to 2015 Employer: Coda Resources / Cambridge Resources Title: Director of Product Development and Sourcing Department: Operations
Responsibilities:
Expert sourced industrial goods in East Asia for a customer base consisting of U.S. distributors, retailers, and OEM manufacturers, including 3M, Lowes, Costco, Daimler Trucks North America, Napa Auto Parts, and Carrier Corporation. Expert played a key and leadership role in managing Coda's supply chain, having responsibility for the cost, quality assurance, and on-time delivery of $15 million worth of manufactured goods per year.

Coda Resources and Cambridge Resources were sister companies under the same Owners.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2005 to 2008 Employer: Sourcery LLC Title: Director of Business Development Department: Business Development
Responsibilities:
Expert managed a division of Sourcery, a boutique NYC promotional marketing company for the pharmaceutical and information technology industries, to provide China business consulting, product development, and sourcing services for U.S. customers including Publishers Clearing House, Philip Morris South America, and Class Action Refund, LLC (CAR).

CAR is a global firm that specializes in assisting clients with the settlement of antitrust class action cases. In 2008, Expert helped them to establish their China office, and to successfully negotiate a partnership with the China Air Transport Association (CATA) and the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to represent China’s claimants in the billion-dollar Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation. This was the first-ever class action lawsuit in which a U.S. court ruled that Chinese companies are eligible to participate as claimants.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2000 to 2003 Employer: Smart Sourcing Inc. Title: China Manager Department: Operations
Responsibilities:
Smart Sourcing Inc. was formerly a publicly-traded company, and in 2008 the company was featured in Fortune Magazine as one of the Global 100 top outsourcing companies in the world. As manager of the company's China office in Shanghai during its startup phase, Expert helped to recruit and manage the company's team of engineers and operations personnel. Expert also helped to identify qualified manufacturers in China, and partnered with them to provide contract manufacturing services to the company's U.S. clients.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1995 to 1999 Employer: Schenker Stinnes Logistics Title: U.S. Sales Delegate Department: Shanghai China
Responsibilities:
As U.S. Sales Delegate in the company's Shanghai office, Expert increased sales of Schenker’s integrated logistics services to multinational corporations conducting business in China’s Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces and the greater Shanghai region.

International Experience

Years Country / Region Summary
Years: 1993 to 2003 Country / Region: China Summary: Expert lived in China for 10 years where he learned Chinese and worked in the fields of freight forwarding and manufacturing services.

Career Accomplishments

Licenses / Certifications
Lean Six Sigma green belt; APICS CSCP-trained.

Additional Experience

Other Relevant Experience
Mandarin Chinese language speaking skills: Expert's spoken Chinese is almost indistinguishable from that of a native speaker. He also reads and writes Chinese with a high degree of proficiency. Expert is authorized by the New York State Unified Court System to interpret Mandarin.

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
Mandarin Chinese Fluent

Fields of Expertise

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