David T. Chen, Phd Email & Phone Number

Brea, California, United States

• People Management & R&D Organization Transformation: Reporting to CEO, leading the full wireless engineering organization. Recruited senior engineering managers, top SW/HW/SQA engineering talents, and grew the engineering organization three folds in 2 years. People management scope up to 300 R&D employees.• R&D Organization Transformation: Commissioned by Moxa's Board of Directors and led the R&D organization transformation to ensure accountability, enhance quality while reducing product cost, and shorten the product development time by 50%. Developed Moxa’s 1st industrial private 5G cellular gateway in 18 months and won the deal installing many thousands of units in the top semiconductor fab smart factories in Taiwan & Japan.• Strategy Leading: develops and executes strategy to achieve key business objectives and shapes the company strategy, evaluates key business organizational challenges, directs the development of innovative solutions that optimize company performance, and acts as role model to inspire core values at all levels of the company.• Accountability: accountable for the performance and results of Moxa Industrial Wireless business, responsible for technology roadmap introducing new products (e.g., 5G, WiFi 6E/7, AIOT, LoRa/LPWAN, etc.)

Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, United States

• Assistant VP of 5G R&D, managing 300 engineers spread across Taiwan, China, and USA developing CM/JDM/ODM 5G module, CPE, MiFi, IDU, DTU, CV2X OBU/RSU, IP camera, small cells, and routers. • Established FII 5G R&D organization with success in drafting key missions, identifying strategy, building organization & planning headcounts/resources, and developing new technology.• Review 5G business plan (customers/products/estimated revenue/strategy & resource requirements) for regional markets (Japan, Korea, China, and USA) and their corresponding key accounts. • Review Belkin/Linksys/WeMo branding partner strategy on Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) restrictions and its business impact.

New Taipei City, Taiwan

• People Management & R&D Organization Transformation: Reporting to CEO, leading the full wireless engineering organization. Recruited senior engineering managers, top SW/HW/SQA engineering talents, and grew the engineering organization three folds in 2 years. People management scope up to 300 R&D employees.• R&D Organization Transformation: Commissioned by Moxa's Board of Directors and led the R&D organization transformation to ensure accountability, enhance quality while reducing product cost, and shorten the product development time by 50%. Developed Moxa’s 1st industrial private 5G cellular gateway in 18 months and won the deal installing many thousands of units in the top semiconductor fab smart factories in Taiwan & Japan.• Strategy Leading: develops and executes strategy to achieve key business objectives and shapes the company strategy, evaluates key business organizational challenges, directs the development of innovative solutions that optimize company performance, and acts as role model to inspire core values at all levels of the company.• Accountability: accountable for the performance and results of Moxa Industrial Wireless business, responsible for technology roadmap introducing new products (e.g., 5G, WiFi 6E/7, AIOT, LoRa/LPWAN, etc.)• Corporate Committee Member: executive member of Moxa corporate committees with corporate top-down decision-making authority.

Naperville, Illinois, Usa

• Verizon Cloud RAN Full Baseband Virtualization Project & Field Trial: Managed a Cloud RAN fronthaul and upper L1 full baseband virtualization project (VRAN) for Verizon. Assembled a global engineering team and established a FastTrack development center consisting of members in Espoo/Finland, Oulu/Finland, St. Petersburg/Russia, Krakow/Poland, HangZhou/China, Naperville/USA, Sunnyvale/USA, and Bangalore/India. A successfully field trial demo led to a Verizon press release on Multi-Access Edge Compute (MEC) and Network Slicing.• 5G Cloud RAN Fronthaul Gateway PoC: Led and managed a global team of HW/FPGA/RF engineers and SW developers, as well as Integration/Verification/Field Trial testing and demo engineers to develop: o A prototype 5G Cloud RAN fronthaul gateway (FHGW) handling the lower L1 functions and interfacing with Nokia 4G/5G OBSAI/CPRI/eCPRI radios o A prototype 5G Cloud RAN fronthaul proxy APP (FHProxy) handling the upper-L1 functions and running in the Real-time VM/Pod/Container inside the Nokia Airframe Open Edge Server with Intel multi-core processors• IEEE 802.1 TSN Principal Delegate: Principal delegate from Nokia contributing to the development and shaping the direction of IEEE 802.1 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) standards. Nominated and received two outstanding contribution awards from IEEE Standards Association. Worked with Senior Leadership Team and identified TSN as a vital technology for Nokia 5G communications infrastructure business, especially in the Radio Edge Cloud (REC) architecture with most demanding time-sensitive requirements in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 use cases.

Arlington Heights, Illinois, Usa

• Senior Manager: Managed a cross-functional architecture and software engineering team in Cloud RAN architecture & design, tackled 4G/5G C-RAN and VRAN challenges from LTE-A & 5G features such as EN-DC, Carrier Aggregation / CoMP, DSS, etc.• Small Cell Architect: Collaborated with small cell product team for Nokia FlexiZone solutions. Served as a principal technology architect, defining and experimenting street level solutions for the expansion of Nokia small cell wireless broadband portfolio.• Direct Customer Engagement: Direct Tier 1 Operators RFI/RFP engagement and led the strategic OEM partnership development program.• Nokia Synchronization Solution Alliance: Travelled, interviewed, and evaluated extensively telecom synchronization vendors Symmetricom, Brilliant Telecom, and Calnex. Successfully built their solutions into Nokia’s strategic Timing over Packet (ToP) synchronization solution offering.

Arlington Heights, Illinois, Usa

• Full Product Life Cycle Engagement: Full Motorola Canopy broadband wireless access product cycle engagement from market requirements, initial product architecture design, ecosystem OEM vendor management, prototype field testing, product deployment & network planning, new roadmap feature identification, market promotion, to product reliability & quality enhancement.• International Customer Engagement: Traveled to Japan, South Korea & Taiwan promoting Motorola Canopy broadband wireless access solutions. Expanded Canopy product outreach and sales in Asia. Earned Motorola CEO Quality Award for Motorola Canopy wireless unlicensed band radio achieving #1 worldwide market share position.• Merger & Acquisition Technical Advisor: Selected and commissioned by Motorola Venture Capital, Networks Strategic Business Management, and Senior Leadership Team to conduct technology Due Diligence in the evaluation of multiple innovative wireless backhaul companies, e.g., DragonWave, Ceragon, Stratex, Orthogon, etc. for potential Merger & Acquisition. Traveled and interviewed CTOs & engineering heads of these target companies and the efforts led to the successful acquisition of Orthogon (https://www.computerworld.com/article/2554408/motorola-acquires-orthogon-systems.html).• US Government Engagement: Defined the wireless backhaul spectrum strategy for Motorola small cell solutions, identified the need and company position to push FCC to release more spectrum for wireless industry.• Synchronization Architect: Developed and implemented Motorola macro/micro/small cell synchronization solutions: IEEE1588-2008 Timing over Packet, high sensitivity network assisted GPS, high stability oscillator, network listen synchronization technology.• WiMAX Pioneer: Orchestrated Motorola IEEE802.16j WiMAX Mobile Multihop Relay (MMR) standard activities with numerous contributions and inserted IPRs. Successfully influenced company decision to stop investing in MMR due to lack of industry buy-in.

Msee, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chairperson of National Taiwan University Science & Research Club

Phd, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science