• Define the objective, requirements, and assumptions to structure a project. • Develop project plans and schedules with appropriate detail with other teams.• Execute the plans and readjust accordingly when new issues are discovered.• Communicate changes and drive consensus closure with parties involved.• Lead, coordinate, facilitate, and motivate team members to gain alignment on project goals and deliverable; track progress closely against the plan.• Quantify impact and trade-off in terms that can be used for communication.• Handle multiple projects at the same time on different product lines.• Developed and retain engineers for their long term growth and contribution.• Work with wide range of technical areas: software, hardware, layout, and tool.• Filter noises and focus on primary goal and task.• Scale team size to incorporate cross-regional resources for burst executions.• Make decisions based on priority, trade-off and risks.• Build and foster relationship and trust with stakeholder of area of expertise.• Deliver on-time within-budget products that exceed customers’ expectation.• Built strong and efficient team with zero turnover rate.

Manage and completed 22, 32 and 45nm standard cell libraries. Planned and streamlined layout design and validation flow to improve overall productivity by 25%. Planned, scheduled and tracked layout design process across multiple sites which peaked with 47 engineers. Reached all project milestones flawlessly. Enabled web-paged tracking system to better communication assignment among mask designers and enabled instant progress roll-up. Delivering layout flow and training to cross-site co-development teams. Prepare training material to communicate latest design rule changes and flow training to the mask designers. Evaluate schedule impact due to late changes and minimize the risk.

Lead a team to support corporate standard cell library team in designing, optimizing, characterizing and releasing the latest 90nm and 65nm technology libraries. Define design and flow methodology to increase productivity of the library team. Install and test new tools before the design team accepts them. Work closely with customer and co-ordinate CAD Team to address incoming issues. Planning for schedule and deliverables to better integrate library with in-house tools. Expert user of Intel P&R tool and support project RLS flows.

Maintain existing in-house CAD layout tool and developing next generation of layout editing platform. Support de-coupling capacitor insertion flow. Perform functional validation on sequential standard cell w.r.t. different skew corners.

Provide technical support on the NEC’s general-purpose 4 and 8 bit microprocessors for the NEC distributors in Taiwan. Frequent travel to customers to establish tighter communication and answer technical questions. Develope sample application using the NEC micro-controllers. Act as a liaison between the Japanese Engineers and Taiwanese customers.