International Sales · Planning · Operations
For more than ten years, I have worked with customers, sales teams, factories, and suppliers across Taiwan, Japan, and Canada. My work is to make everyday decisions around pricing, production, inventory, and supply respond to market demand.
Worked inTaiwan · Japan · Canada
LanguagesMandarin · English · Japanese
EducationMcGill MBA
A project-based advisory practice
Helping small businesses clarify complex operational questions, understand their opportunities and constraints, and find a practical next step.
Insight · Structure · Impact
What I bring
I understand both sides of the conversation. I balance what customers and sales teams expect with what factories and supply planning can realistically deliver.
Selected work
01
Canada
At JVCKENWOOD Canada, I worked across sales, factories in Japan, teams in the United States, and global suppliers—bringing together market demand, pricing, inventory, production planning, and budgeting.
Product & Sales Planning · S&OP · Excel/VBA
02
Taiwan · Japan
In optical communications, winning an order was only the beginning. The work that followed required aligning customer needs, technical specifications, pricing, factory capacity, and realistic delivery schedules across borders so that an order could move successfully into production.
International Sales · Business Development · Manufacturing Coordination
03
Independent Project
I helped a service-business owner assess the feasibility of expanding to a second location. Through interviews, I mapped the customer journey and examined service capacity, current operating conditions, and the scale of the business, then translated the analysis into practical next steps that could be carried out in stages.
Business Assessment · Customer Journey · Action Planning
Creative work
Before moving into international business, I studied film, wrote screenplays, and hosted a live radio program. Photography and drawing are how I observe and record life.
Photography & drawing
Photography · Digital
Film
An experimental short film selected for the 2008 Taipei Women’s Film Festival.
Screenwriting
Winner of Taiwan’s 2010 Excellent Screenplay Award.
Radio
Hosted a live Saturday music and conversation program in Taiwan.
Career journey
01
I began in technology-focused B2B sales, working through customer requirements, quotations, technical specifications, delivery schedules, and factory constraints. My first role involved selling industrial adhesive tapes in Taiwan. Later, at Hitachi High-Tech, I moved into sales, supplier management, and international business development, gradually expanding my work into cross-border manufacturing coordination.
02
In 2019, I became the first Taiwanese colleague in my department to be assigned to the company’s headquarters in Japan, where I worked on new-business development between Taiwan and Japan. My focus shifted to connected-car and electric-vehicle initiatives—from researching unfamiliar markets and defining early concepts to coordinating partners across Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, and Europe. Working through multiple layers of investment approval taught me the practical importance of testing new product ideas with as little investment as possible—an instinct I would later recognize and formalize through the concept of the minimum viable product (MVP).
03
Through my McGill MBA and Product Manager Internship at Cerence, I began to revisit challenges from my earlier work through the lenses of organizations, business models, and user needs. Using surveys and interviews, I explored the road-safety needs of people driving rental cars abroad, then independently designed and built an interactive prototype in Adobe XD to test the concept as a minimum viable product (MVP). The resulting product concept addressed only a small group of users, but the process taught me to confirm the problem and understand the need before committing resources or choosing a product and business direction. It also changed how I understood operations: not only as execution and coordination, but as deciding what is worth pursuing when resources are limited.
04
After completing my MBA at McGill, I joined JVCKENWOOD Canada in product and sales planning. I managed planning across more than 400 models, connecting market forecasts and priorities with inventory, production, pricing, supply, and budgeting decisions.
05
CHING Advisory grew from wanting to apply the experience I had accumulated in a more direct and personal way. Alongside my international career, I work on a small number of projects with small-business owners.