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Nangang District, Taipei City, TW

Executive leader of the Professional Audio Business unit with full P&L responsibility. Leading and developing an aggressive growth and transformation effort of the Pro Audio business through becoming the premier JDM/ODM partner of the most impactful and innovation brands in the Pro Audio and Unified Communications industry. Organization includes a global.

Nangang District, Taipei City, TW

Executive leader for Tymphany's global product development organization of 250 engineers across multiple design centers in N.America, Europe and Asia developing innovative audio products for major industry brands in professional and automotive audio.

Ripon, WI, US

Executive leader for the global engineering organization distributed across North America, Europe and Asia for this leader in the design and manufacture of commercial laundry equipment.Drove major transformation in the organizational structure, global footprint, processes and leadership in support of corporate efficiencies and effectiveness.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Leading and transforming a 120+ person, global, software and hardware engineering team, driving explosive growth in size, revenue and effectiveness.
• Provide vision and leadership to a multidisciplinary product development team of software, firmware, and hardware engineers, as well as the program management, supply chain, compliance, quality and operations teams.
• Transforming the legacy hardware focused organization to excel in software development as well.
• Established a high-performing senior leadership team driving cultural transformation through excellence, efficiency and accountability.
• Developed the vision and executing a global rapid expansion and reskilling, with greenfield facilities in Europe and the United States, and transformation of teams in Asia.
• Key senior leadership team member, developing and delivering strategies for aggressive profitable growth.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Led the transformation of the validation, reliability and component engineering organizations into a high-perfoming team with world class subject matter expertise, collaborating with the global product development.
• Created and implemented a vision and strategy for design assurance functions to add value through the entire product development life cycle and partner with design engineering to maximize performance and design quality
• Developed an effective strategy to globalize design assurance functions and effectively leverage internal resources and external partners to support product development in the US, Europe, and Asia
• Partnered with and influencing global leadership peers to transform practices, processes, and operating norms to effectively share and leverage engineering knowledge, design approaches, and subject matter expertise.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• An expatriate senior leadership posting in Malaysia responsible for establishing a greenfield R&D/Product development center and creating a motivated, high-performing engineering team.
• Rapidly grew the R&D staff from 0 to over 100 engineers, including design engineering (mechanical, electrical, software, industrial design and acoustics), NPI/Manufacturing (tooling, test, assembly, packaging), project.
• Recruited, mentored, and led a collaborative cross-functional management team, including expatriate leaders, to effectively deploy finite R&D resources designing and delivering multiple innovative products.
• Established engineering guidelines, standards, design practices, and operating norms by leveraging tools such as Lean, Six Sigma, APQP, FMEA, and Agile, as well as industry benchmarking and academic research.
• Created and fostered an organizational culture of continuous learning and improvement, through monitoring and performance metrics and KPI's to aggressively drive improvements to operating processes and norms
• Collaborated with and influenced global leadership peers to adapt processes, tools, and norms across the global organization, driving increased consistency and improved efficiency

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Senior leadership expatriate assignment in China. Transformed, matured, and expanded a multi-disciplinary product development and NPI team specializing in joint product development with China based contract.
• Managed a multi-disciplinary Chinese engineering organization including mechanical, electrical, software, system test, and project management teams
• Provided local management support for all other Shenzhen based engineering staff, including NPI, tooling, electronics test, industrial design, and manufacturing process engineers to augment their US based reporting.
• Created and implemented engineering practices, design guidelines, and operating norms to facilitate high quality product designs and efficient execution
• Continually leveraged internal resources and external partners, as well as resources in the US corporate headquarters and remote China based resources, to effectively drive efficient product development and.
• As the in-region business representative, pioneered joint product development model with key partners in Taiwan and China integrating external design resources and contract manufacturing services with internal.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Engineering manager for a product development team specializing in joint design and manufacturing with China based strategic partners.
• Managed and led a staff of mechanical engineers located in both the United States and China responsible for joint development and manufacture of Bose products with strategic supply chain partners in China and Taiwan
• Successfully established work processes and practices for effective global product development and joint development with external design partners, overcoming the challenges of cultural, language, and time zone.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Lead mechanical engineer, responsible for all technical and leadership aspects of a mechanical product development team designing and delivering to mass production high performance consumer electronics and home theater.
• Lead mechanical engineer for the revolutionary Bose Video Wave entertainment system, developing the world’s first high performance audio surround sound system to be invisibly integrated into an LCD television
• Lead mechanical engineer bringing multiple products from initial concept to mass production, including the highly successful, Red Dot award winning Bose Lifestyle V10/V20/V30 home theater systems
• Key mechanical engineering interface between the design team and internal customers, stakeholders, suppliers, and manufacturing facilities
• Extensive on the ground collaboration and leadership experience with manufacturing and supply chain partners throughout North America, Europe and Asia
• Provided design guidance and mentorship to multiple project teams as a senior technical consultant

Milford, MA, US

• Provided mechanical engineering leadership and design expertise for this manufacturer of custom industrial computing and display systems for military, marine, medical, factory automation, pharmaceutical, and food and.
• Created standards for mechanical engineering best practices, drafting, and 3D CAD protocols
• Provided technical direction and critical decision making for all mechanical engineering product development
• Developed products for the medical, military, and factory automation industries under aggressive development schedule and cost pressures

Melbourne, FL, US

• Lead mechanical engineer developing general aviation integrated flight deck avionics. Joined the company as a small start up which aggressively grew into the industry leader. A key member of the technical staff.
• Led the mechanical engineering team from concept to mass production for the award winning Flight Max Entegra integrated flight deck system – the world’s first integrated digital avionics system for light aircraft
• Led a geographically distributed engineering development team to collaboratively and rapidly design avionics systems
• Applied novel, innovative, and cost effective solutions to critical technical issues including vibration, thermal, optical, electronic packaging, structural and component challenges
• Developed work practices and processes to leverage commercial off the shelf (COTS) components to rapidly bring high performance flight critical products to market
• Established, hired, trained and then managed the mechanical engineering team within a corporate expansion site in Florida

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

• Mechanical design engineer for a world-class provider of airline, business aviation and military avionics as a technical member of the Display Center of Excellence.
• Designed flight critical high performance commercial flight deck avionics systems
• Responsible for mechanical detailed design, stampings, thermal management, optics, and vibration design
• Developed an innovative, high performance, passively cooled natural convection heat transfer system for deploying commercial CPU’s in aggressive mission critical avionics applications and environments
• Mechanical design engineer for the ProLine21 flight deck systems on the Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft
• Led investigation efforts to determine long term reliability effects on solder joint fatigue of ball grid array (BGA) CPU packages subjected to aggressive thermal cycling environments

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Masters Of Business Administration (M.B.A)

Certificate Of Achievement In Business

Bachelor Of Science In Mechanical Engineering (Bsme), Mechanical Engineering