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New Taipei City, Taiwan

Taiwan

Technology & Consumer Goods:IPO / Consultant for western companies that require "feet on the ground" support for sourcing qualified vendors and products, end-to-end product development, certifications, manufacturing, quality assurance and logistics. Highlights:• 2010-2016 Started MDP Global, a trading company working with western clients for sourcing and manufacturing products in China for export to western nations.• 2005-2009 Product development and certifications… Show more Technology & Consumer Goods:IPO / Consultant for western companies that require "feet on the ground" support for sourcing qualified vendors and products, end-to-end product development, certifications, manufacturing, quality assurance and logistics. Highlights:• 2010-2016 Started MDP Global, a trading company working with western clients for sourcing and manufacturing products in China for export to western nations.• 2005-2009 Product development and certifications for CEIVA Logic networked digital picture frames. Sourcing for power, wireless communications and display key components.• 2004-2005 Marketing/Business development for local Taiwanese IC design house startup. Provided market analysis, customer identification/engagement strategies. Drove design-win for their first 10-bit source driver IC with CPT (Chunghwa Pictures Tubes).• 2003-2004 Business development for TUL Inc. in Taiwan to reduce risk to single product line exposure. Helped set up a new thin-client business division and secured VAR relationships that generated US$3.5m revenues and added 2% to company bottom line. Show less

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Managed multiple cross-functional areas within PaceBlade Technology including sales, marketing, marketing communications, as well as key operational tasks related to finance and manufacturing.Highlights:• Spearheaded negotiations with VCs for startup capital and local banks and lending institutions for revolving lines of credit. Raised nearly US$1m in startup capital from local angels.• Developed and maintained OEM relationship with FIC (First International Computer) for… Show more Managed multiple cross-functional areas within PaceBlade Technology including sales, marketing, marketing communications, as well as key operational tasks related to finance and manufacturing.Highlights:• Spearheaded negotiations with VCs for startup capital and local banks and lending institutions for revolving lines of credit. Raised nearly US$1m in startup capital from local angels.• Developed and maintained OEM relationship with FIC (First International Computer) for manufacturing of PaceBlade’s unique PaceBook line of industrial convertible tablet PCs.• Developed sales and marketing campaign which produced positive market reception against tablet PC incumbent Fujitsu. Built distribution, VAR and SI channels from a standing start and drove revenues to over US$5m in the first 7 months of sales. Show less

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VP of Equities Research for Deutsche Bank in Taipei leveraging nearly a decade of technical sales and marketing expertise in systems, ICs and components. Initiated coverage for Deutsche Bank in networking, display and optoelectronics technology segments.Highlights:• Founding member of the newly-built core team responsible for covering the technology sector for Deutsche Bank in Taiwan• Provided research and analysis for Deutsche Securities first technology daily from… Show more VP of Equities Research for Deutsche Bank in Taipei leveraging nearly a decade of technical sales and marketing expertise in systems, ICs and components. Initiated coverage for Deutsche Bank in networking, display and optoelectronics technology segments.Highlights:• Founding member of the newly-built core team responsible for covering the technology sector for Deutsche Bank in Taiwan• Provided research and analysis for Deutsche Securities first technology daily from Taiwan aimed at global investment customers and fund managers.• Initiated coverage on D-Link and Accton in networking segment and Picvue Optoelectronics and Wintek Corp in optoelectronics segment. Show less

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Successfully evangelized Silicon Motion’s low power 2D and 3D graphics solutions to Tier 1 and Tier 2 Taiwanese notebook makers against major rivals NeoMagic and ATI.Highlights:• Engaged with key notebook accounts Quanta, Inventec, Compal, Acer/Wistron, Asus, Arima, Mitac and Twinhead and generated over 10 design-ins/wins by 1999; increased Silicon Motion global market share from 1% to 10% inside of 15 months.• Built and managed Silicon Motion’s disti channel and… Show more Successfully evangelized Silicon Motion’s low power 2D and 3D graphics solutions to Tier 1 and Tier 2 Taiwanese notebook makers against major rivals NeoMagic and ATI.Highlights:• Engaged with key notebook accounts Quanta, Inventec, Compal, Acer/Wistron, Asus, Arima, Mitac and Twinhead and generated over 10 design-ins/wins by 1999; increased Silicon Motion global market share from 1% to 10% inside of 15 months.• Built and managed Silicon Motion’s disti channel and provided continuous technical training for disti sales and FAEs.• Doubled Silicon Motion’s revenues for five consecutive quarters from US$1m to US$15m per quarter by 3Q99. Show less

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Successfully evangelized and engaged with key Taiwanese motherboard infrastructure partners to generate design wins with Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, ECS, Abit, Soyo, DFI and Biostar in a critical do-or-die situation to migrate from K6 and Socket 7 to K7 and non-Intel standard Alpha EV6 bus, despite an adverse climate heavily influenced by the “Intel Inside” co-marketing campaign.Highlights:• Evangelized to local PC media the advantages of AMD’s K6 platform over Intel’s Pentium II… Show more Successfully evangelized and engaged with key Taiwanese motherboard infrastructure partners to generate design wins with Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, ECS, Abit, Soyo, DFI and Biostar in a critical do-or-die situation to migrate from K6 and Socket 7 to K7 and non-Intel standard Alpha EV6 bus, despite an adverse climate heavily influenced by the “Intel Inside” co-marketing campaign.Highlights:• Evangelized to local PC media the advantages of AMD’s K6 platform over Intel’s Pentium II platform and successfully generated cover spots from local magazines for a record 14 consecutive months. The mindshare created by this media blitz was ultimately the key driver for infrastructure partners in Taiwan to adopt AMD’s proprietary K7 platform.• Delivered marketing analysis of local Taiwan market actionable segments and generated corresponding channel promotions and media coverage to drive sell through and revenue8.• Educated distis sales and FAEs. Built local sales channel from 35K/mo to 180K/mo and grew annual revenue over 300% from US$27m to US$105m by beginning of 1998.• Project Lead for K6 Retail (boxed ) CPU introduction in Taiwan – AMD’s first retail boxed product. Show less

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Transformed sales and product marketing of Philips Taiwan’s notebook manufacturing subsidiary, Featron Technologies. Provided competitive product and market analysis that formed the basis for Featron’s product roadmap, including a Byte Magazine Editor’s Choice Runner Up award for Best Notebook Design in 1996.Highlights:• Refocused sales away from reseller channels and generated OEM design wins at Philips, Tulip Computers and Canon. Sales grew from 300 units/mo to 15K units/mo… Show more Transformed sales and product marketing of Philips Taiwan’s notebook manufacturing subsidiary, Featron Technologies. Provided competitive product and market analysis that formed the basis for Featron’s product roadmap, including a Byte Magazine Editor’s Choice Runner Up award for Best Notebook Design in 1996.Highlights:• Refocused sales away from reseller channels and generated OEM design wins at Philips, Tulip Computers and Canon. Sales grew from 300 units/mo to 15K units/mo with annual revenue of US$290m by 4Q95, making Featron one of the top 3 notebook suppliers in Taiwan.• First to recognize the importance of the principles of ergonomic design and drive adoption in Featron's notebook products and roadmap.• Drove the design specifications for the FT-6600 which captured Byte Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Runner Up for Best Notebook Design at Computex 1996. Show less

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Provided exemplary customer relationship management and customer service for key ODM accounts Fujitsu-ICL, Triumph-Adler and Olivetti, resulting in rapid revenue and profit growth for the ODM division during my tenure.Highlights:• Turned around ODM division loss of US$300k on US$10m in sales in 1991 to a profit of US$6.5m on US$50m in sales by 4Q92.• Contributed heavily to FIC’s bottom line. While ODM division revenues represented only 8% of FIC’s US$650m revenues in… Show more Provided exemplary customer relationship management and customer service for key ODM accounts Fujitsu-ICL, Triumph-Adler and Olivetti, resulting in rapid revenue and profit growth for the ODM division during my tenure.Highlights:• Turned around ODM division loss of US$300k on US$10m in sales in 1991 to a profit of US$6.5m on US$50m in sales by 4Q92.• Contributed heavily to FIC’s bottom line. While ODM division revenues represented only 8% of FIC’s US$650m revenues in 1992, the ODM division accounted for 36% of FIC’s US$18m gross margins for the year.• Promoted as very first OEM Sales Manager of FIC’s new Notebook PC Division in 1993. Show less

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Business/Managerial Economics

Transferred to Florida State with a shift in studies focused toward business/administration.

Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

Early accepted to Emory University based on SAT score of 1360. Primary focus on biology/chemistry and pre-med studies.