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Sammie Wan

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Optical Assistant

Eyecare Concepts Optometry
03.2022 - 10.2022

Responsibilities:

  • Conducting pretest procedures to gather data before exam and make eye appointments more efficient and productive.
  • Filling and dispensing eyeglass prescriptions, fitting frames, lenses and contact lenses for comfort and convenience.
  • Helping patients with selecting and ordering glasses or contact lenses to encourage informed decisions.
  • Managing administrative duties with phone reception, appointment scheduling and payment processing.
  • Instructing patients on contact lens insertion and removal and lens care guidelines.

Achievements:

  • Fulfilled all the job requirements of the company.
  • Took all the optical training courses provided by the company.

Customer Value Specialist

Bupa Health Insurance
05.2021 - 03.2022

Responsibilities:

  • Recommending the most suitable insurance products to customers according to their own health and financial situations. Explaining to customers about the benefits of joining Bupa over competitors.
  • Setting up and activating new customer accounts.
  • Assisting customers with making payments and establishing payment plans to bring accounts current.
  • Making claims for customers and teaching them on using Apps to make claims themselves.
  • Developing strong customer relationships to encourage repeat business.
  • Maintaining knowledge of current promotions, payment policies and security practices, etc.
  • Answering inbound calls, chats and emails to facilitate customer services.
  • Resolving customer service issues to maintain ideal customer experiences.

Achievements:

  • Achieved the monthly targeted number of sales set by the company.
  • Achieved the targeted customer satisfactory rating set by the company.

Business Development Manager

SIM Lighting Design Co. Ltd.
08.2020 - 11.2020

Responsibilities: Carrying out out feasibility study of launching Sim Lighting spiral filament LED lamps to Australia. A number of key affecting factors were studied: compliance requirements to Australia standards; future LED lighting trends; logistics from China to Australia; profit margin; patent protection; cost of setting up and running a subsidiary of Sim Lighting in Melbourne; impacts of Covid-19 to lighting industry in Australia; budget for marketing and sales platforms on B2C business, etc.

Achievements: Carried out the above studies and wrote summary reports. Concluded it is positive to proceed to setting up a subsidiary in Melbourne.

Sales Manager

VPACK Australia Pty Ltd
01.2019 - 03.2020

Responsibilities:

  • Answering to all sales enquiries.
  • Confirming purchase orders.
  • Arranging couriers for delivering orders.
  • Stock control.
  • Arranging trainings and roster for warehouse staffs.
  • Assisting with the recruitment process and employment of warehouse staff.
  • Arranging samples for business partners.
  • Handling miscellaneous office administration work, e.g. Bookkeeping, BAS, data input, account payable and receivable.

Achievements:

  • Established 10 business partners while maintaining good relationship with old business partners.
  • Upgraded the warehouse system for better stock control of the products.

Assistant Project Manager

Philips Electronic Hong Kong
06.2015 - 05.2017

Responsibilities

  • Driving the finalization of the upfront product definition (e.g. commercial specification, user requirement specification, marketing introduction plan, etc.) to support the project execution.
  • Formulating overall project plan (including project timeline, budgets, resources, etc.) with the team and other relevant external parties.
  • Supporting & motivating the project team including external suppliers and internal Philips teams to realize project requirements (schedule, quality, and cost).
  • Implementing all project management related key processes, e.g. change control, project status, etc. and provide input to drive improvement.
  • Handling overall project risks (e.g. commercial risk, financial risk, etc.).
  • Providing regular, comprehensive, and accurate project status report (with quality, risk, planning etc.).
  • Driving the quality process to ensure compliance to quality and specification to meet marketing’s expectation (i.e. quality plan formulation and review process, design review and maturity follow-up, etc.)

Achievements:

  • Successfully launched a new PHILIPS hairdryer (BHD029) to the Europe market.
  • Led two mini projects which upgraded old Philips dryers (BHD184 and BHC209) with new features.
  • Established PTC Windchill System in the department for better product parts and specifications management.

Research and Development Manager

GEAN Technology Company Ltd
04.2014 - 03.2015

Responsibilities:

  • Running projects for innovative LED lamps.
  • Developing full patent portfolios of the lamps developed.
  • Providing inputs to upper management on LED lighting technology trends.

Achievements:

  • Developed Flexible-Filament LED light bulbs.
  • Developed a smartphone APP for detecting light flickering of lamps such to evaluate its harmfulness to human eyes.
  • Wrote and submitted worldwide patents.

Assistant Business Development Manager

ASTRI Hong Kong
09.2011 - 04.2014

Responsibilities:

  • Handling sales agreements/contracts.
  • Promoting the innovative technologies of ASTRI thereby creating technology transfers.
  • Providing market trends to internal R&D team leaders to support them doing strategic planning of their product roadmaps.

Achievements:

Successfully licensed out two technologies: “High Capacity Anode in Embedded LIB (Li-ion Battery) for Popular Consumer Electronics” in 2013 (USD62.5K) and “Intelligent Omnidirectional LED Bulb” in 2014 (USD80K).

Senior Research and Development Engineer

ASTRI Hong Kong
10.2006 - 08.2011

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinating two LED lighting projects.
  • Writing project proposals to obtain project funds.
  • Supporting different internal projects by running LED light source evaluation and design.
  • Coordinating and running workshops for promoting the LED lighting technologies.

Achievements:

  • Successfully coordinated two projects MR16 and PAR38 LED lamps
  • Developed a LED flashlight source for smart phones, which had strong and uniform white light with little yellow ring.
  • Wrote eight patents which were submitted to US and China.

Education

Diploma - Project Management

Monarch Institute
Victoira
09.2023

Master of Philosophy - Electronic Engineering

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
08.2006

Bachelor of Electronic Engineering - Electronic Engineering

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
08.2004

Skills

Project Management

Business Development

Product Development

Customer Services

Languages

English
Full Professional
Cantonese
Native or Bilingual
Mandarin
Full Professional

Timeline

Optical Assistant

Eyecare Concepts Optometry
03.2022 - 10.2022

Customer Value Specialist

Bupa Health Insurance
05.2021 - 03.2022

Business Development Manager

SIM Lighting Design Co. Ltd.
08.2020 - 11.2020

Sales Manager

VPACK Australia Pty Ltd
01.2019 - 03.2020

Assistant Project Manager

Philips Electronic Hong Kong
06.2015 - 05.2017

Research and Development Manager

GEAN Technology Company Ltd
04.2014 - 03.2015

Assistant Business Development Manager

ASTRI Hong Kong
09.2011 - 04.2014

Senior Research and Development Engineer

ASTRI Hong Kong
10.2006 - 08.2011

Diploma - Project Management

Monarch Institute

Master of Philosophy - Electronic Engineering

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Bachelor of Electronic Engineering - Electronic Engineering

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sammie Wan