• Manage a team of 8 engineers across 3 product lines responsible for process engineering to achieve excellence in cycle time, quality and costs.• Lead cross-departmental problem solving for key customers. Visit customers and discuss process and product pain points and align criteria of acceptance levels. Coordinate with engineers from front-end manufacturing, back-end, QA to resolve issues on entire process chain.• Train and empower engineers on ownership and execution of development and improvement projects.• Design and develop process chain for manufacturing with optimized cycle time, costs, quality and ergonomics.• Source or develop materials and equipment providing technological edge for manufacturing process.

• Lead initiatives to expand and improve process capabilities which includes developing new asphere/freeform products, improving existing processes and cost reduction. Products are applied in different optics applications including imaging, laser optics, semiconductor etc.• Project manager for development of automation systems and solutions to reduce reliance on manual labor. Collaborate with world class robot providers and in partnership with local system integrators. Define project requirements, design and develop the system in collaboration with the supplier. Define and execute Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) and Final Acceptance Tests (FAT). Conduct statistical analysis to ensure system meets defined capability.• Design, develop and transfer automation processes to reduce reliance on manual processes, improve process capability, as well as cycle time.• Coordinate and align with key stakeholders on project status and direction. Communicate with process engineers, facilities and maintenance on requirements related to acceptance tests, new machine installation, process transfer etc. • Developed an in-house machine platform with lower capital and operating costs. Responsibilities include software development for optimization using operations research model, hardware design and development, process development, validation and tests, supplier management etc.• Train and guide process engineers and technicians in new processes and new products. Provide advice and guideline in process troubleshooting.• Application of interferometry and other metrology methods to characterize lens surface form and use it as feedback for further surface corrections.

Formulate business case proposal.Collaborate with consulting firm to establish distribution of mobility demand.Automate business report generation, reduced man-hour required from 5 to 1 hour.

Background Summary:• Sep 2013: Joined Denselight as Epitaxy Engineer.• Mar 2015: Additional role assigned as R&D Engineer to work on navigational optical device. (Completed Dec 2015)• Jul 2016: Promoted as Fab A Section ManagerAccomplishments:1. Epitaxy wafer production and NPI execution.2. Establishing of new Fab report platform to enable proper cross departmental communications.3. Standardization of report and documentations.4. Recruitment and training of new Epitaxy Engineers.5. Devised new valve switching sequence as a temporary workaround for aging 5/2 way valves.Major Job Scope:1. Production planning and execution.2. DOE of New Product Introduction (NPI) programs for data comms laser.3. Supplier and vendor management.4. Growth recipe tuning, growth outcome analysis. End applications include FBGL, DFB, VCSEL, Fabry Perot Etalon, SLED, LED etc.5. Conduct XRD, PL, FESEM and scope inspection of grown wafer.6. FMEA of growth issues.

Accomplishments:1. Solved issue of high optical loss of optical assembly by correcting fiber splicing procedure.2. Wrote demultiplexer program to process digital data from DUT using Python.3. Corrected temperature dependence calibration of DUT.Major Job Scope:1. Firmware debugging for optical sensor system.2. Optical assembly.3. Calibration and verification of DUT.4. FA of DUT.

Major Job Scope:1. Synthesis of gold nano particles of different shapes and sizes.2. Characterization of fluorescence properties of gold nano particles.