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Gardena, Ca, Us

• Ensure on-time delivery of cutting-edge ADAS and Self-Driving HW/SW technologies, including state of art SDCM (Self Driving Control Module) for automotive series production; while working closely with all stakeholders and suppliers to plan schedules, and milestones which integrate and align with overall vehicle program schedule • Execute and maintain project management processes in an agile environment under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross functional teams and customer; and enable the design and development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, streamlined process • Collaborate and facilitate communication across engineering managers, design managers, marketing and executive management to meet ambitious cost, schedule, and quality goals • Build strong communication channels with stakeholders, various departments, and cross-functional teams and suppliers.• Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management; offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to management • Understand basic technical issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key stakeholders for decision-making, plus facilitate team meetings, providing meeting minutes and action items where needed and prepare regular status reports to executive team.• Monitor day-to-day activities to meet overall project objectives

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Directly working at customer site, in charge of end-to-end program management of customer’s Entry, Mid-range and Reference series products program, including all HW and SW development using Agile methodology based on SDLC, content streaming and delivery, testing and qualification.• Main interface to the Vizio and ODM partners (Foxconn, TPV & Wistron) in day to day program management activities where Sigma delivers the complete Smart TV software solution with our OTT partners. • Work with Sigma’s global software and system engineering teams, ODMs and tier-1 customer’s engineering and product management teams to coordinate activities, track development, manage OTT (Yahoo, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc.) certification and other interoperability testing processes for successful deployment of Smart TVs in a very competitive market.• Develop and maintain standard project documentation, project plans, agendas, action items lists, deliverables and ensure adherence to company Project Management Standards and Software Development Lifecycle best practices.• Lead discussions among Development and QA teams to resolve issues and roadblocks in delivery; in addition evaluate business unit and IT decisions to ensure they are in the best interest of customers and company goals and escalate concerns and issues to executive management as needed.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

• Manage the overall performance and delivery of technical cross-functional Video-On-Demand infrastructure and software development with DirectTV partners; including scope, schedule, risk, and issues.• Organize and direct preparation activities within various IT teams to support cross-departmental testing and manage post go-live stabilization efforts and establish operational procedures. • Manage and orchestrate overall testing phase and defect resolution process across teams; including test environment setup for functional testing and performance testing, deployment of builds in environment for defect resolution.• Review test strategy and test plans to support overall project goals; bring disparate test teams together to align test plans and test schedules.• Strategize and plan out Production cutover and rollback activities with technical teams; document tasks in MS Project plan to determine and track schedule impacts.• Ensure that risks and issues are identified, understood early and dealt with in a manner that mitigates surprises, risk to scope, cost, and schedule.• Provide clear and consistent communication of project status both internally to IT and with Business Stakeholders and provide input to executive level presentations for project stakeholders.• Prepare meeting agendas and distribute meeting notes including action items tracking.

Irvine, California, Us

• Creation of Project Plans by participating in the development and analysis of customer requirements and deliverables that include production items (mechanical, electronic and/or electromechanical assemblies), software, media, customer racks, documentation and systems. • Identifying internal deliverables which include plans, schedules and other documents, prototypes, test equipment, software, test racks and more and securing resources required for all project tasks. • Coordinating the procurement and selection of parts, materials and components with suppliers and lead the team to establish a comprehensive, end-to-end project plan and schedule• Tracking, maintaining and executing the project plan and schedule• Leading the team to coordinate design, development, documentation, integration, test and certification activities across functional groups to meet committed deliverables to customer schedule, cost and scope. • Manage third party development, coordinate pre-production and design transfer to manufacturing and initial customer deliveries.• Ensure excellent communication between Panasonic’s functional groups, external vendors and customers by conducting weekly review meetings and driving action items.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

• Managing full life engineering cycle state-of-the-art HW/SW IC/RF design and test in a fast pace global environment, ensuring cost-effectiveness, correct scope, quality and customer satisfaction up to 20 projects simultaneously. Providing customers with project status and coordinating and preparing detailed reviews of customer contracts such as Work Breakdown Structure, Technical Specifications and Statement of Work (SOW) in ISO9001/AS9100.• Establishing product schedule and drive a world wide engineering team and global design centers towards successful completion of projects. Ensuring excellent technical performance on programs that are pushing the edge of science, while mitigating risks. Proactively resolving program execution issues; improving performance by including accurate, realistic program planning while keeping program team focused on customers’ objectives• Monitoring and leading projects progress and projects execution and facilitation cross division communications. Increasing development efficiency and driving products to market up to 20% faster. Negotiating effectively with key suppliers, analyzing the impact on the program, budget and anticipating customers’ needs.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Managing complex projects by planning, coordinating, tracking, executing and risk analysis for Third Party Vendor's development of Logic Analyzer Interface, designed with technical support from Intel engineering team • Supervising a team consisting of product, validation, mechanical and electrical design engineers. Increased team work efficiency by 30% by recognizing and eliminating redundancy by switching responsibilities from Horizontal to Vertical.• Responsible for relationship and business development issues with Intel's strategic tool vendors. Charged with evaluating Intel vendor base and proactively identifying and correcting deficiencies.• Negotiating financial term and condition and delivery schedule with customers and supplier. Advocating vendors design requirements and needs within Intel and support all products launch activities. Recommending the procurement of multi-million dollars capital for on-time delivery to evaluate billion dollars of processors investments. Ensuring customer's requirements are adequately defined, uniformly understood and appropriately planned to achieve the successful program execution• Assisting vendors and customers with the interpretation and application of microprocessors, chipsets and platforms bus electrical specification; and software interface such as BIOS and drivers. Representing vendors' requirements to 20 different products design teams. Working with technical writers and design managers to publish products definition/specs• Maintaining daily contacts to coordinate requirements, exchange status, resolve issues or problems and negotiate changes as well as frequent face to face meetings for technical coordination, program review and business management• Developing and maintaining program plans that identify work scope, schedules, milestones, and program team members. Leading the program team by conducting regular team meetings, ensuring that action logs are kept and integrated schedules are available

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering