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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 development. Responsible for delivering new products, incremental revenue, margin improvement and maintaining brand quality. Build customer centric R&D culture and high competence R&D team.Major achievements: • 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 sales. • 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% over a 5 years period• 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• Target customer pain point, developed Li-ion battery which create 6M~10M RMB incremental revenue, and drive competitive advantage• Built and executed Design for Excellence process, successfully balanced R&D innovative culture and cost savings targets, improved gross margin 7%, delivered best in class margins • Strong partner of manufacturing, supply chain, quality and service to deliver and maintain maximum value of operations, warranty cost reduced 30% over 5 years

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 for global market. Continuous improvement and standardization of R&D processes. Served as key member of leadership team that increased sales 37% through technology• 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• Defined new material and component qualification process, release time improved 20%, yield improved 3% and customer complain reduced 9%• Built well recognized R&D team – best team of Year 2012 and 2013,

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 products. • 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 growth • 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% • Awarded as Excellent Employee of Year 2006

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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