Ching Ho Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Leading MX, MG, vMX platform and security teams, driving strategic planning, synergy and growth across the different platforms

San Francisco, California, Us

• People and technical team management of a growing team of 15+ embedded firmware engineers in the US and India for the MX product line.• Manage and prioritize team initiatives and deliver on commitments on NPI board bringups with ARM and x86 platforms and sustaining efforts on resolving internal/external bugs, kernel upgrades, security patches, tech debt, etc on wired, wireless and cellular interfaces to meet and exceed team and company level OKRs.• Drive technical aspects of embedded platform software including requirements definition and refinement, design, estimation, implementation, unit and system-level testing, as well as deployment.• Partner with Product Management, Hardware Engineering, cross-functional Software teams, test teams, third-party vendors defining, strategizing and executing the platform roadmap for low/mid/high tier markets with programs in various stages of its lifecycle.• Identify and review existing embedded, manufacturing, DevOps processes and codebase and work on refactoring and improving them with the goal of enhancing ROI, simplicity, team efficiency and productivity and product quality.• Manage team performance and accountability with daily standups, regular 1:1s and 360 feedback, and strive to promote a positive and inclusive culture. Look for and initiate process improvements to enhance team efficiency and productivity.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• People and technical team management of ASP’s team for capital sterilization systems, with 5 concurrently running projects and a team of 30+ embedded firmware and application software engineers, V&V(Verification & Validation) engineers and technicians in the US and India building a portfolio of embedded real-time medical sterilization products• Review existing processes and documentation in the software life cycle for efficiency improvements and productivity together with the SQE team. Transitioned documentation, code reviews, feature testing from Waterfall to Agile methodology• Collaborate with multiple global product teams to drive new product developments and sustaining development/maintenance of existing product lines with a focus on safety, quality and ROI

Kortrijk, Be

• People and technical team management of the division's 17 embedded firmware and UI application software engineers, including test and validation engineers in the US and India on concurrently running projects building a portfolio of real time embedded video processing products. Responsible for building the team in India from scratch in 2012 and successfully integrating activities between the 2 sites.• Manage team performance by coaching, mentoring, and holding regular 360 feedback and a strong believer in leading by example to set the pace of the team. Look for and initiate process improvements to enhance team efficiency and productivity.• Serve as Product owner and interface with product management (in Europe and the US) by grooming product requirements to detailed specifications for cross functional R&D team of project leads / architects / developers / testers / tech writers / customer service. Strategize and agree on product and release roadmap and recommend adjustments to the release plan as needed. • Coordinate and build relationships with hardware / mechanical / test / quality departments to ensure R&D activities are progressing cohesively, roadblocks identified / mitigated and schedules are met and within budget. Communicate high level progress to management weekly and during product stage gates.• Collaborate with the test department to review test cases for releases / patches, provide direction in test automation architecture / roadmap and integrating them into DevOps workflow• Serve as 2nd level go-to resource for product feature questions / troubleshoot and resolve issues from internal and external customers. Filter bug reports from field service engineers, customers, Facebook group posts, and internal bug tracking system to cross functional R&D team and prioritize them based on priority/severity.• Spend about 25% on code reviews / providing technical direction and execution of ongoing projects with a focus on modularity / code reuse

Kortrijk, Be

• Software Project lead engineer on 10+ low latency image processing products through its complete product life cycle following ISO9001 standards, including being the main engineering contact for customer support. • Lead a team that consists of onsite full time / part time software engineers and off site consultants.• Responsible for the product software architecture, development schedule, determining project interdependencies, setting project priorities, identifying and removing project roadblocks / risks, and communicating project status to upper management. • Communicate with international field service engineers and customers to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Traveled to customer sites to identify/resolve issues in high pressure situations (ex: concerts, trade shows, fixed installations)• Embedded SW development: Multi-threaded, object oriented C/C++ development on Windows, Linux and MQX RTOS running on custom hardware with FPGAs and other ASICs.• GUI development: For PC and touch devices in Qt and Borland C++ Builder. From 2008, collaborate with other engineers on web applications using Sencha, Node.js, jQuery.

• Embedded SW development: Multi-threaded, object oriented C/C++ development on Windows / Unix• Write low level PCI drivers and device drivers for NOR / NAND flash, clock generators, video receiver/transmitters, etc using PCI, ISA, SPI, JTAG, I2C and other board level communication protocols to communicate to FPGAs and ASICs on custom HW• Communication to products via Ethernet (TCP/UDP) / serial port for control and customer firmware upgrades.• GUI development: for PC and touch devices in Qt, Borland C++ Builder and Xlib/Motif (in UNIX Solaris)• Design, develop, and test embedded firmware on PCI / VME bus Radar Scan Converter products. Customers include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.• Created scripts and documentation for Test and Production teams. Edited user manuals and engineering documentation

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Engineering