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Shanghai, China

• Regional MT member, reporting directly to global R&D VP and APAC VP, lead cross discipline engineering team with electrical, software, mechanical and test engineers working on new, current and advanced product.
• Integrated multiple groups in one team and continuous improve R&D processes, improved time to market by 20% and technical support response time by 28%
• Build customer centric R&D culture, actively participating sales and dealer conference in past 5 years. Hold quarterly workshop with service team to collect customer feedback and share best practice with service and.
• Partner of product marketing collected Voice of Customer and conducted competitor analysis, defined product strategy and roadmap for APAC. New product contribution continually increase, Vitality Index from 26% to 48%.
• Responsible for Telemetry/ Asset Management (IOT) products development and implement in region, helped customers create their future by new technology adoption
• Involved development and trail run of Autonomous Guided Vehicle (Robotic) cleaning equipment

• As a senior leader, reporting directly to R&D VP, lead team of 53 engineers as electrical, mechanical, engineering and light source groups; manage 10M RMB budget working on new, current and advanced product development.
• Re-engineered development process and adopted a modular design philosophy that improved time to market by 33%, increased capacity by 17%, and reduced new product quality costs year over year.
• Defined cost down strategy: through VA/VE re-engineering major product line, archived 23% cost reduction and 30% efficiency improvement; doubled sales.
• Be the first one upgraded the whole series products to compliance ErP5 (Europe new energy standard) in lighting industry through innovative solution
• Creative solution for LED module, maintained professional performance while price close to consumer product, exceed 6M RMB incremental revenue.
• Setup cost model for key components and EMS to drive cost, 10% cost reduction

• Manage project planning and product costs, utilizing lean techniques and phase gate processes ensure on-time completion within budget. Establish and direct the efforts to develop both new products and enhance current.
• Collaborated with the Marketing Leaders to develop long-term strategic plans as well as align resources to current programs. Initialled Switch business of Philips which became a more than $100M business after years.
• Dived into market, identified customers’ pain point created new product line - Lighting Box through creative solution, which was unique in the marketplace and sales exceed 10M RMB
• Led co-development projects with NXP, Molex as next generation platform foundation
• Innovated solution for EHID system release reduced release timing 40+%, secured our leading position
• Successfully delivered 10+ projects new products and enhance current products, got awards several times.

• As initial member of project management office, setup project management process. Lead global team develop new product and enhance current products
• Setup project management process, enabled communicating different levels of the organization (board to floor) in a direct, fast, and efficient format.
• Extensive customer contact for highly customized CDMA/GSM BTS filter products, sales increased 27%
• Directed leadership responsibility for product transfer in the US, Denmark and China manufacturing facilities, which archived ~40% cost saving
• Led urgent high frequency PCBA supplier recover project, secured manufacturing and delivery, avoided massive non-delivery penalty
• Led supplier chain improvement project: defined supply chain strategy, classified supplier, optimized internal planning. On-time deliver improved 23%, supply quality improved 9%

• As pioneer of Intel Assembly Development team member in China, gained extensive knowledge, experience and process development methodology on semiconductor.
• Built first package development line in China, delivered training to new members
• Led team developed next generation world-class IC package, successfully delivered 5 new IC packages which are thinner, smaller but more powerful
• Invented creative tracing system which help tracing the whole process, improved data analysis efficiency and effectiveness
• Managed sub-contractors: chair weekly meeting with sub-contractor, drove project schedule and continual improvement.

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