Al Kwok Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Promote global collaborations to build cloud application platforms especially for SME to enter service market for recurring revenue stream.Promote business opportunities to generate real and sustainable market demands to utilize cloud infrastructure.Ref.: www.apcao.org

Promote Knowledge (IP-centric) Economy for Hong Kong through "IP Commercialization & Mentorship & Startup Incubation/Funding" to create jobs and opportunities for budding entrepreneurs/graduate students to bring R&D work from the Universities and Research Centers into the real world (being market demand driven) and to turn them into businesses.Ref.: www.hkiur.org

A startup developing a comprehensive "Social Network + ERP Platform" for "Shared Economy" in Knowledge Economic Era - wealth creations based on Intellectual Assets.

Wan Chai, Hk

A think tank dedicated to policy studies for Hong Kong's transformation into a world-class knowledge-based society under the one-country-two-systems principle focusing on SME, Middle-Class and Consumer Rights issues.Ref.: www.savantas.org

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Promoting business networking between US and HK/PRD region for IC/IT professionals as well as ecosystem-building for China semiconductor industry.Ref.: www.caspa.com

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Promoted business networking and industrial collaboration as well as professional career advancements for members

IIPCC HK Chapter was founded to be a non-profit global social organization promoting IP commercialization business ecosystem building for SME growth, job creations and industrial uplifting.Ref.: www.iipcc.org

Provided comprehensive IP services to enterprises to be world-class innovators through strategic alliance and service partner platform

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Helped build NMI’s IP portfolio (the best of its kind), core operation team, strategic partnership with key vendors, customer base in Asia and NMI’s leadership in Network Search Engines (IPO in 2004 as “NETL” & acquired by Broadcom for $3.7B in 2012).Helped make Network Search Engines and Knowledge-based Processors the mainstream critical components for Internet QoS solutions enabling Metcalfe's Law scalability.Helped lay the foundation for continuing innovation, customer relationship excellence and pursuit of technical excellence to enable NMI's world-class leadership in knowledge-based processors.

As a key member of the start-up team, developed strategic partnerships and established PMC’s intellectual property strategy and its impressive patent portfolio. Successfully licensed PMC’s PMOS Flash technologies to Matsushita and Toshiba for multi-million dollar license fees and established PMC’s ODM business with Matsushita. PMC was acquired in 2012.

Provided training in yield improvement and new product development methodology to semiconductor companies in Taiwan and China.Provided consultation services to US and Japanese firms.

San Jose, Ca, Us

As a core member of the start-up team at QSI (IPO in 1996 as “QUAL”), brought up from scratch and managed product engineering, test engineering and manufacturing operations. Expeditiously developed cutting-edge high-volume precision-test capabilities for ultra-fast SRAMs and FCTs as well as supply-chain ecosystem for QSOP (replacing SSOP) packages with close cooperations among assembly, tester/contactor and handler vendors.Developed and drove "Design-in Methodology"​ with in-house training manual for "Doing the Right Things Right at the First Time"​ mindset (to proactively solve problems at their sources of creation) to enable "First-Silicon" success: marketability (right feature set and market readiness), quality (design to last for 10+ years!?), reliability (what the proper stress tests are: destructive and non-destructive), scalability (multiple generations with product and technology roadmaps), reusability (modularized design on clock management, power management, data paths and control paths, etc.), testability (controllability, observability and test cost reduction), manufacturability (looking into end-to-end manufacturing and yield issues in a comprehensive manner), robustness (application margins), etc.Managed back-end engineering and back-end production together harmoniously - first-time in an IC start-up - to achieve JIT as well as quick time-to-market and time-to-volume production.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nl

Responsible for product development of a new family of cutting-edge memory products co-developed and co-owned by both VTI and Hitachi. Successfully resolved product characterization issues for Hitachi sign-off.

San Jose, Ca, Us

As the yield champion (the lead product trouble-shooter), led the product/technology development efforts for several generations of then cutting-edge high-performance CMOS technologies to secure IDT’s prominent leadership position (IPO in 1984 as “IDTI”) and helped establishing CMOS the mainstream process technology for VLSI and SOC, and launching the “Microelectronics Age” (making Moore’s Law scalability possible).

Santa Clara, California, Us

Held product engineering positions at AMD working on SRAM and Microprocessor (Z8000) family products

Bses, Ms, Physics, Ee, Mathematics

Electrical And Electronics Engineering