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Taipei City, Taiwan

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Led & Coordinated the overall ME team’s innovations development (premium design/process optimization/sustainable), defined the process governance framework, and communicated proposals and achievements to stakeholders.
• Led Patent Champion Team’s Premium Strategy Consulting.
• Represented ME team’s Sustainability Focal Point to lead and promote Low Carbon Product Design, Sustainable Manufacturing, Venus Automation & Digital Transformation achievements to ID/Sustainability teams for HP 2040.
• Instructed Workshops for Future Ready tools (presentation, GenAI), presented Innovation Roadshows to the executives and Process Intro. to the cross-functional teams for efficient collaboration.

Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Led ODM/supplier and collaborated with industrial design, marketing, and global engineering teams to drive new Desktop PC mechanical design from concept to mass production including prototyping, tooling development.
• Developed and managed mechanical development schedule, and timely Identified risks and created mitigation and contingency plans to resolve technical issues.
• Drove $11.1M savings by initiating ODM/supplier cost reduction workshops and competitor product analysis with the Design to Cost (DTC) team in FY19.
• Improved issue field return rate below 3% by coordinating sustaining quality review with operation and supplier quality teams to drive suppliers to optimize injection molding and stamping processes.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Developed and managed mechanical operation schedules and deliverables, such as label/cable/connector matrix and assembly SOP from concept phase to EOL.
• Initiated Design for Manufacturing Assembly (DfMA) to work with R&D, global cross-functional engineering teams, and ODMs/suppliers to mitigate/resolve 90%+ Gen-to-Gen lesson-learned issues before product launch.
• Led 15+ HPE, ODM, and CM worldwide factories on all aspects of assembly to timely identify and resolve technical issues, manage BOM, and process engineering change order (ECO) to enable quality build through the.
• Developed LEAN/Kaizen projects to improve cross-platform processes such as improving ECO update efficiency by 83% in mass production to fulfill customer urgent order requirements.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, System Control, Gpa: 4.07 / 5.0

• Captain of Mechanical Engineering Basketball Team, 2011 - 2013

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical And Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Gpa: 3.86 / 5.0

• Excellent Student Award: top 3% of 100+ graduates • The Presidential Award: top 1 in class • Vice President of Graduate Student.