Edward Dai Email & Phone Number

Taipei, Taiwan

Coordinate OEM, ODM, and SoC teams to build the best computers!

Taipei City, Taiwan

• As Deputy Head of Sony Mobile Taipei Software Team, I* Perform manager’s duties when he is absent from the office.* Support my manager to lead a team of over 10 members of Software Project Managers and Software Engineers.* Provide training to new team members on Sony Mobile software process.• As SW Program Manager, I* Make software development plan of feature phone and Android smartphone products including ODM vendor engagement, 3rd party software vender engagement… Show more • As Deputy Head of Sony Mobile Taipei Software Team, I* Perform manager’s duties when he is absent from the office.* Support my manager to lead a team of over 10 members of Software Project Managers and Software Engineers.* Provide training to new team members on Sony Mobile software process.• As SW Program Manager, I* Make software development plan of feature phone and Android smartphone products including ODM vendor engagement, 3rd party software vender engagement, product specification review, requirement management, SW BOM, etc.* Manage a virtual team with more than 50 members including Software Project Managers and Software Engineers from Sony team, ODM team, and 3rd party software vendors to execute software development plan to fulfill product launch target within planned budget to secure good product quality.Key Achievements:• Contributed to create ODM software working model when Sony Mobile initiated mid-low end Android smartphone product line and refined it with business condition changes.• The only Software Project Manager who was promoted from Senior Project Manager (2010~2013) to Program Manager (2013~2019) among 50 Software Project Managers of ODM software team in Sony Mobile Taipei office and Beijing office because of the excellent performance and great contribution to company business.• Completed more than 10 projects with more than 20 million volumes in collaboration with both Qualcomm and MediaTek platforms.• Project List: * Android phone products on Qualcomm 8210 & 8926 platform in 2014: Xperia E1, Xperia M2* Android phone products on MediaTek 6795 platform in 2015: Xperia M5* Android phone products on MediaTek 6737T & 6757 platform in 2017: Xperia XA1, Xperia XA1 Ultra, Xperia XA1 Plus, Xperia L1* Android phone products on MediaTek 6737T platform in 2018: Xperia L2 Show less

Taipei City, Taiwan

Key Achievements:• Android phone products on Qualcomm 7225AA & 7227A platform in 2012~2013: Xperia Tipo, Xperia Miro, Xperia J, Xperia E

Taipei City, Taiwan

Key Achievements:• Feature phone product on ST-Ericsson PNX4910 platform in 2011: Sony Ericsson txt

New Taipei City, Taiwan

• Managed a newly created software development team with more than 10 engineers to develop & maintain OS, UI, and applications of Symbian based smartphone products and feature phone products.• Built source control system (SVN) & auto build system (Hudson) for the Symbian based smartphone projects.• Involved in CMMI Level II appraisal as a role of software group leader.Key Achievement:• Contributed to create the first Symbian software team in Foxconn Group.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Planned graphics card specifications of value workstation product line and made qualification plans of graphics cards of workstation products (HP xw4550, HP xw9400).• Managed a test engineer to execute qualification plans mentioned above.Key Achievement:• Created graphics verification team of HP Workstation Taipei R&D center.• Project List: * Workstation desktop PC product on AMD Opteron CPU platform: xw9400 (high-end workstation), xw4550 (low-end workstation), z200… Show more • Planned graphics card specifications of value workstation product line and made qualification plans of graphics cards of workstation products (HP xw4550, HP xw9400).• Managed a test engineer to execute qualification plans mentioned above.Key Achievement:• Created graphics verification team of HP Workstation Taipei R&D center.• Project List: * Workstation desktop PC product on AMD Opteron CPU platform: xw9400 (high-end workstation), xw4550 (low-end workstation), z200 (low-end workstation) Show less

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

• Managed 4 Software Engineers to develop Video Telephony applications on Windows Mobile 5.0 & 6.0 for O2 Atom Life (Quanta’s first 3G PDA phone product).• Integrated audio, video, MIDI codec, and RTSP streaming solution developed by 3rd party on Windows Mobile 5.0 & 6.0 for O2 Atom Life.Key Achievements:• Promoted twice in 3 years due to excellent performance.• Contributed to create the first 3G phone product of Quanta Computer.• Project List: * Windows Mobile 3G… Show more • Managed 4 Software Engineers to develop Video Telephony applications on Windows Mobile 5.0 & 6.0 for O2 Atom Life (Quanta’s first 3G PDA phone product).• Integrated audio, video, MIDI codec, and RTSP streaming solution developed by 3rd party on Windows Mobile 5.0 & 6.0 for O2 Atom Life.Key Achievements:• Promoted twice in 3 years due to excellent performance.• Contributed to create the first 3G phone product of Quanta Computer.• Project List: * Windows Mobile 3G smartphone products on Intel XScale PXA270 platform: O2 XDA Atom Life Show less

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

• Evaluated new software vendors and managed them when co-working with then.• Involved in CMMI Level II appraisal especially in SAM (Supplier Agreement Management) area.Key Achievements:• Windows Mobile 2G smartphone products on Intel XScale PXA272 platform: O2 XDA Atom, HP iPAQ rw6828

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

• Developed multimedia framework & camera applications of Symbian based smartphone products

New Taipei City, Taiwan

• Developed & maintained graphics drivers on Windows & Linux platforms, VGA BIOS, diagnostic tools of graphics chips, and 2D & video model design for new graphics chips.Key Achievements:• Ported the first Linux video driver of VIA graphic chip product line.• Obtained two patents, one each in Taiwan and China.

Master, Computer Science & Information Engineering

• Thesis: “An Implementation of ITU-T H.263 Encoding & Decoding System” • Research areas: video compression, image processing, computer.

Bachelor, Computer Science & Information Engineering

Activities and Societies: Fundamental Cultural Service Club