1. Personal Information:
Name：Zhou Changhai（Joseph）
Sex：Male
Age：42（Born in Aug 1972）
Phone：13011301730
Education:
1991-1995 Dalian Railway University
Major: Casting
Degree: Bachelor of Casting
Minor: Mechanical Process & Manufacture Technology
Work experience:
2007- Now: John Deere (Tianjin) Co., Ltd (CEC) 约翰迪尔(天津)有限公司
 04/2014-now: Manager, China Materials Engineering
1. Be responsible for managing materials engineer team and metallurgy
lab team
2. Continue to provide casting technical support to units
3. Technical cooperation with global core technology team
 12/2011- 04/2014 : Senior Casting Material Engineer, Materials
Engineering
1. Provide Casting technical support and expert training to JD units in
China, including Casting material, standards, casting process control,
castings design,
2. Quality action support and focus on supplier issue, including big
quality defects improvement and failure analysis, part level quality
planning; Trouble shooting of quality problems; NCCA root cause analysis,
PPAP approve support, including DPAR, PFEMA, Flow charts, Control
Plan and Work Instruction review and audit.
3. Provide foundry SPA (Special Process Audit) and qualify potential suppliers,
including Iron casting process, Steel casting iron and Al Die-casting process.
4. Casting material application and substitution and ISO, ASTM standards
transform
 04/2010— 12/2011: Casting Design Engineer, Engineering
1. Providing casting expert support to Drive Train design team , including

2. casting process and manufacture , castings structure , casting
standard
2. Conducting some CI&VI projects of GT-5 production
3. Cooperation with sourcing and quality team for some new part
development and attend DPAR
4. Global technical communication with US engineers
5. Take part in design of S, Apollo and GT-5 projects
 08/2007—03/2010： Supplier Development Engineer
Supplier Management Department
1. Focused on foundry for casting technical support as expert, provide
suggestion to supplier for improving casting process and reducing
defects, follow up the effectiveness of corrective actions
2. Cooperated closely with Strategic Sourcing Management team to
assure on time deliveries with qualified product, and new part
development on site support
3. Reviewed supplier casting process based on control plan and analyzed
root causes and suggested corrective action to reduce casting defects.
4. Quality assurance system (JDS G223) audit and casting process
assessment (SPA) and OFP audit to casting suppliers
5. Casting defect analysis and robust solutions and promotion of casting
supplier technologies
6. Conducted supplier capability studies to determine true supplier
production capacity and develop contingency plans
7. Lean production supported and trained to supplier (VSM and LEAN)
8. Accepted six sigma training and got green belt
1998-2007: Tianjin NewWeiSan industries Co., Ltd (Taiwan Foundry)
 08/2004—05/2007: Casting R&D leader 新伟祥工业有限公司
Research& Development Department
1. Audited pattern design, casting process and casting layout drawing,
held and passed the casting technology. Knew about the actual locale
of foundry workshop, made action to improve quality
2. Communicated with customer about casting structure and
improvement suggestion
3. Establish casting technology leadership
4. Casting quotation assisted General Manager for customers such as
Honeywell, BorgWarner, PSA, VOLVO, Deere. Received 2D/3D
drawings and information from customers to make casting quotation
sheets. Knew about PPAP/APQP process from machining to
assembling of production. Assisted customer optimization products for
cast ability.

3.  03/1998—08/2004: Casting Technical leader , Casting Department
1. Casting process analysis to get layout drawing based on customer
drawing
2. Cooperated with other team to track casting quality, including sand
treatment, molding, core-making, metal, pouring, shaking, grinding &
cleaning
3. Organized pattern design and manufacture. Managed daily team job
including production plans and organization, employee training,
technology supervising
4. Pattern designed of some complex castings, such as Turbine-housing,
Center-housing, Manifold-exhaust, Housing
5. Be familiar with some kinds of software in CAD/CAM/CAE, such as
CATIA, Pro/E, AUTOCAD, MDT, HYPERMILL, MAGMA
07/1995—03/1998: Tianjin Locomotive and Rolling-Stock Machinery
Works (Government-owned Corporation) 天津机车车辆机械厂
 Casting Technical engineer , Foundry workshop
1. Be in charge of Brake housing, Turbine Housing casting process,
Designed raw casting drawing and made casting process and layout
drawing, including gating system
2. Tracked part quality and improved casting defect to assure stable
production
3. Cooperated with workers on site for getting good ideas
4. Communicated with machining department for casting improvement
information
5. Practiced in Iron, Steel and Non-ferrous casting workshop to know
casting process, including pattern design, sand treatment, molding,
core-making, metal, pouring, shaking, grinding & cleaning.