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Lake Forest, CA

Irvine, CA

Senior PLM Business AnalystResponsibilities for Agile System integration in transferring all product data from Linksys Agile system to Belkin Agile system for home networking products

Irvine, CA

• Senior Engineering Manager
• Managed the product management group for releasing all new/update network products by coordinating with marketing, logistic, sales and ODM vendors in Taiwan and China.
• Managed the ODM vendor and chip vendors to finalize the product specification for wireless products.
• Expedited the wireless alliance certification by coordinating with WiFi group.
• Oversee and direct the timely schedule completion of product release by coordinating with Network ODM vendors in offshore to achieve defined project launch dates.
• Developed the product quality improvement process to identify the quality issues and to implement the product quality for minimizing the technical support calls.

Huntington Beach, CA

• Managed engineering department, product support and marketing department to release Remote Monitoring System that allows users to monitor in JEPG image and H.263 and G.273 video/audio streaming, through a PC or Apple.
• Managed whole engineering department including a group of hardware engineers, system/software engineers, project managers, QA engineering and Administration.
• Creation of the business plans, strategic and tactical marketing/engineering plans, scheduling, budgets and development contracts.
• Managed an Embedded System Development group in the development of Remote Monitoring System that allows users to monitor in JEPG image and H.263 and G.273 video/audio streaming, through a PC or Apple Macintosh accessed.
• Released the Remote Monitoring System product to the third party manufacturing vendor and managed all manufacturing issues/problems and delivered the production units to OEM and end users.

Irvine, CA

• AST Research Japan Product Marketing/Support Director
• Transferred from AST Irvine to AST Japan K.K. as a Product Marketing/Support Director and worked in Japan for two years.
• Managed a group of engineering, technical support and marketing to develop and support the localized PC systems..
• Established a support/service organization at AST subsidiary in Japan, by setting up a nation-wide Authorized Service Center to provide prompt and efficient technical services to customers.
• My organizations made a great contribution to AST Japan sales by increasing sales volume more than double in comparing with the previous year's sales volume.AST Research Inc., Irvine Manager, International Engineering
• Managed all engineering functions and developed an Intel 80386 based PC that has dual functions (Japanese NEC 9801 and IBM AT) in one system from an initial design concept to manufacturing.