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Akinori Koyama

Product Assurance Engineer at Cosmo system LTD.

Headline: Engineer
Industries: Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Food and Drink, Health, Information Technology, Lifestyle
Skills: Business, Computer Engineering, Engineering, English, French, German, Industrial Engineering, Languages, Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Sales, Viral marketing
Next step: I would like to startup for the eco-business.
Location: Chiba
Groups: International Network of Social Entrepreneurs (INSE)
Interested in: Brainstorming, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup, Trading services

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Cosmo
Position: Product Assurance Engineer
Time period: September 2006 - Present
Description: 1. Quality inspection for the surge counter and control of the manufacturer in Italy
2. Publishing the catalog and the manuals at Dehn Soehne's product in Germany
3. Infrastructure for the surveillance system ( 500 units for one CMS)
4. Planning and check as the member for ISO9001 and ISO14001
5. Carried out through quality control based on the quality assurance regarding to the surveillance system ( made in Korea)
1) DVR defects: 15 / 100 -> 0 unit, HDD defects: 10/ 6months -> 0/6months
6. Sales promotion
1) Lightening system: 8 M /3months <Dehn Soehne > (from Nov. in 2006)
2) DVR system: 20M/3months, 50M /3months( Modification units by myself)

Employer: INA bakerry / Eastbolt Japan
Position: Enginnering manager / PAE
Time period: March 2005 - August 2006
Description: 1. Achievement of the best staff assignment and efficiency based on the staff’s talents
2. GMP, HACCP, McDonald's audit and AIB (A member of promotion committee )
The part where the trouble part can be happened and the contaminant can mix by the round every day is listed and the staff is improved.
3. Technical information exchange with engineer of headquarters
The counter measure is confirmed to the engineer of the headquarters when one million or more hangs by the one and remodeling, etc. not to understand the above-mentioned improvement from the staff and it executes it.
4. Machine maintenance spending cut in factory
The change of domestic parts from foreign parts as a reduction in the maintenance expenditure during year and the idea processing thing The drawing is written by CAD, the miller and the lathe are put in in-house, the rest is subcontracted, and 40 million yen a year (compared with the previous year) is reduced.

Employer: Tasman Oversease
Position: Product Assurance Engineer
Time period: June 2003 - February 2005
Description: 1. A) Quality control at the factory in New Zealand /
Defective ratio 45% ->7% ( Checking the process and the materials, and was standardized.)
B) Production management at the factory in New Zealand
C) All promotional items to be serviced for all customers: Manual, Color Chart, Cut Sample
D) Installation manual to be updated
E) Instruct and train the installation to the installer
2. Sales promotion
* Construction materials sales => Daito Kentaku
( 200M / Month) Sekisui(100MMonth)

Employer: DKSH Nihon Siberhegner Co. Ltd.
Position: Field Service Manager
Time period: July 2000 - May 2003
Description: A) Educated 15 German engineer and management in the filling machine ( Morinaga Milk, Meiji Milk )
B) Design change as QA
As we had much troubled the brand-new machine, so I visited to investigate and change the deign of the machine based on the data of defect ratio in Germany. 35%->6%
C) Product Assurance the coffee roaster ( Probat, Germany) / Cheese machine ( Meiji Cheese )
D) Construction of system that prepares for emergency response from factory around the clock

Employer: Sterling Imaging KK ( Nihon Agpha Gebalt at present, Tokyo)
Position: Sales Engineer Manager
Time period: December 1995 - June 2000
Description: A) Performed setting up the theme of the exhibition or the conference, putting out the bulletin of the advertisement of the exhibition, attending the VIP after communicating to the headquarter, explaining the products and the demonstration.
B) Responsible for the arrival inspection of the 50 equipments per every month
Defect ratio 89 % -> 45 % -> 3% after redesigning and change parts Yield ratio: 97%
(After the breakdown frequency and the breakdown contents are analyzed, it changes in the part specification.)
C) Responsible for repairing equipment, setting up the imager in the hospital with the network, analyzing the trouble on the emergency contact
D) Responsible for maintaining statistics regarding to the claim and the defect items, the modification issues
E) Built long-term supply agreements with 50 sales agents.
F) Managed OEM company on strategic marketing planning.
G) Conducted weekly rolling sales forecasts and analyses.

Employer: Smith & Nephew KK
Position: Sales Marketing Responsibilities, Osaka branch
Time period: December 1991 - November 1995
Description: A) Performed setting up the theme of the exhibition or the academic conference as the job of the product manager, communicated to the headquarter, attending the VIP of the headquarter, explaining the conventional or the new design products. I reached the agreement of 70% people on the business meeting after finishing the conference.
B) Performed the plan to sell the equipments depending on the doctors and the hospitals after doing market research.
C) Performing all duties in regarding to the sales, marketing and the dealer education.
These duties included strategically sourcing new client, maintaining clientele, and
establishing a productive referral network.
D) Gave satisfactory results that I sold 5 M annually with the equipment and the articles of
consumption in charge of the hospitals which are in Osaka, Nara, Wakayama,
Hiroshima,Shimane, 4 prefectures in Shikoku Island ( 40 hospitals )
E) Modification and design of the equipment requested by the Japanese
doctor-specification at the design department in the head office in the USA. (110% of target)
F) Built long-term supply agreements with 20 sales agents for each prefecture in Kansai area. ( Education of the sales planning with 200M annually ) => 105% Achievement
G) Conducted weekly rolling sales forecasts and margin analyses.

Employer: Smith & Nephew KK
Position: Customer Service, Dyonics department, Tokyo Head office
Time period: December 1989 - November 1991
Description: A) Performing all duties in regarding to the replacement and explanation of the
equipment(1CCD &3CCD camera system and so on at the surgical operation in the hospital
B) Performed the modification for the medical equipment which doctor needs at the manufacturer in USA and stayed for three months
C) Responsible for preparing for the presentation paper as the product manager.
The paper will be regarding to the investigation of the system that use for the laparoscopic
surgery or the arthroscopic surgery in the hospital over the 250 bed
D) Performed the presentation and the workshop for the doctor

Employer: NOSS KK
Position: Field service Engineer
Time period: March 1984 - November 1989
Description: A) Set up the pulp and paper system in Indonesia, Malaysia,,Australia
B) Support and check the system at the pulp mill in Japan
C) Designed the plant system with the design office on site in Indonesia, Korea, Malyasia
D) Designed and modified the plant flow system

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