Product cost calculations for EMEA and India regions for Assa Abloy

ASSA ABLOY has 43,000 employees around the globe. My division's production and development is mainly done in Shanghai.• Currently running six projects in Door Automation with engineering done in China• Developed a new Quotation system for China, that gives better transparency for cost down• Focus on innovation and cost down projects

Xfire is the ultimate social application and network for gamers. Xfire has over 21 million users from across the planet using our value-added services such as capturing in-game screenshots and videos, broadcasting their game play live and chatting with friends in over 2300 gaming titles. • Set up a DataWareHouse optimized for Analytics, using Perl scripts and MySQL• Using Tableau Software; made live reports of all data on local Intranet with customizable dashboards• Worked with “BIG DATA” with 1bn row tables• Focused the company efforts based on real data

Joined Groupon China during their first week, built a US$ 500mn valuation in nine months. Groupon is currently valued at US$30bn. Tencent owns 40% of the China venture.• Set up the Analytics Department and developed Excel macros that were able to generate eight different reports and e-mail 1000+ individual reports to more than 1000 people on a daily basis• Worked with massive databases in Access and Excel; combined data from Salesforce, internal DataWarehouse, QQtuan, Taobao and Google Analytics into one database.• Saved the company millions of USD by developing an automatic report tool to discover fraud • Developed the corporate expansion strategy by defining suitable cities to set up offices in• Wrote a 60pages manual on how to set up a branch office; used to set up 110 cities in 2months• Set up the Quality Assurance department; 4 times more efficiency than head office QA and achieved zero quality complaints• Set up the HR department while the company hired it's first 125 people

A niche social networking site; which is the world’s first where the user is able to customize the profile page by drag & drop technology.• Developed the Business Plans and financial models and raised seed funding through VC within four months from seeking capital• Became the 2nd largest comparable site in less than a year, with the fastest monthly growth• Developed the specifications (100+ pages document) and got it implemented within two years• Reached above 100k users from 150+ countries with revenue from memberships, virtual currency and ads• Featured on CNN, AFP and Global Times• Successfully completed development and handed over the site to a new team (USA, Spain and China to focus on sales and marketing

Set up the China R&D center for Checkpoint, set up Hardware, Mechanical, Firmware, QC/QA, Purchasing, PM departments and an assembly line.• Made huge cost savings by re-engineering existing products and finding better vendors.• Opened 80+ injection molding tools• Negotiated price on tools, parts and components that saved the company several million USD per year.• Significantly improved quality and reduced cost on EAS tags (Electronic Article Surveillance).

Co-founded PaceBlade in 2000 and took charge of R&D, MIS, Purchasing, Sales, Marketing with main focus on R&D until products were ready.• Applied and received patents on unique solutions (see below)• Landed an order for US$8mn with Korean government• Developed more than 40 products for PaceBlade• Worked with NASA for 18months to pass all tests required for space flight, seven units are now on the International Space Station, NASA has another 43 in Houston• Represented the company on numerous TV interviews for CNN, TechTV, Bloomberg, and local news reports in 20+ countries. We were covered in 2000+ magazines/websites (with several front covers)• Took over responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Purchasing departments and all overseas sales offices in early 2003 and redefined the work procedures to increase efficiency (eight times faster delivery times), reduce warehouse costs by 50% and simplified order processes to reduce mistakes.• Sold the company to Tulip Holland and managed the handover of IP rights, contracts, personnel, etcSome of the many innovations I did for PaceBlade:• Made a Tablet PC with both an EM Digitizer and resistive touch screen (7 years before HP…)• Solved the problem with external DVD-ROM drive for one-spindle notebooks, by adding a power outlet together with 1394 connector, this helped SONY to save excess of US$10mn in 2002 and 2003• Created a round USB connector that allows devices to be connected quickly and easily and to rotate around the axis of the port, created a CCD camera for this connector• Designed a wireless keyboard solution that works on 255 settable channels, with a range of 30m without the need for a direct line of sight, years before 2.4GHz RF technology came out

Chicony was the first company in Taiwan to start notebook PC production in 1987; they are currently the world’s largest keyboard maker and top 5 camera producer.• As a project leader took more than ten notebook PC concepts to commercialization• Contact window for Intel, AMD, Cyrix, IDT, SMI, CirrusLogic, C&T, NeoMagic and other IC vendors• In charge of the company product roadmap, new technology and product specifications• Project manager on product cost reduction project

Spica Computer was a small family run notebook PC maker, with the world’s first commercialized Notebook with CD-ROM in 1994 and world’s first large screen 11.8” TFT in 1996.• Set up the Technical Support website (300+ pages), first company in Taiwan to do so• Increased the sales from 180pcs to 2000pcs per month by introducing customers and marketing efforts• Developed more than 80% of all the sales orders

Arima Computer is currently one of the world’s largest Notebook PC makers, also makes mobile phones, LED, etc.• Set up Arima’s Technical Support Department, with fax-on-demand and BBS support• First pro-active support department in Taiwan (I contacted customers prior to them discovering bugs)• Wrote all user manuals (34 books), technical manuals (12 books), presentations, etc