Sam Yang Email & Phone Number

Milpitas, California, US

• Introducing and establishing new NPI/JDM programs schedule/processes from Engineering Design,Development to Mass Production Manufacture w End to end NPI EVT/DVT/PVT processes;
• Managing the overseas factories on Eng/MFG. Contract, RFQ/schedule/cost review/negotiation
• Working with cross functional teams such as HW (EE, ME, RF/Wireless, Silicon, Regulatory), SW (Embedded,Cloud, FPGA, SQA), Operations (QA, Process, Testing, Logistic)

Los Angeles (Pasadena), California, US

• Managing Multiple Products Development programs in parallel w internal and external teams
• Working with Product Managers/Clients, and engineer teams such as o EE/HW (Electronics, Electrical, off-shelf boards, Motors, and Sensors-weight, thermal, range, pressure, etc.); o Very heavy ME (3-7 DOF robot.
• Plan/schedule, monitor, track coordinate, resolve conflicts, integrate, and guide very young teams to achieve those goals daily by utilizing Jira/Confluent/Slack/Google Apps/Microsoft Apps; From EVT/DVT/PVT process to.

• Bring run away programs into manufacture-able and marketable products in weeks
• Create processes/schedules/milestones, set priorities, and manage the risks from NPI (EVT/DVT/PVT) to Mass Production
• Work with internal and external engineer teams, oversea/US, toward defined goals, including, but not limited to, PLM, EE, ME, LED/Diode, packaging/artwork, regulatory, SW, Manufacture/QA, Logistic/Purchasing, and.
• Lead weekly meeting, provide status report, and track progress daily.

San Francisco, California, US

• As Riverbed/ Xirrus Wireless division Program Manager focuses on and manages all WiFi AP/Switches Hardware programs from NPI to mass production, mitigate risks of ECR to EOL with China/Taiwan CM/ODM/JDM vendors.
• Involving and supporting product requirements (RFQ), contract negotiation (NRE, tooling, regulatory, unit costs), schedule/milestones/reporting, engineer (EE/PCBA, ME/tooling, packaging dev/validation, RF/WiFi.
• Managed and coordinated schedule based on milestones, and priorities; Resolved conflicts and escalate issues with solutions promptly but not a bottleneck; identify risk / waste and clean up the mess; monitoring.
• Provide status report based on milestones and gates weekly; Hold meeting with ODM/JDM/CM weekly with internal and external engineers, QA/SQA, supply chain, PGM/account manager weekly; prepare and travel oversea to.
• Manage, collaborate, and support tasks including hardware design (PCB, layout, schematic) and engineering builds (EVT/DVT/PVT); wireless radio design and evaluation (antenna pattern, sensitivity); thermal/EMI testing.

• Liaison between China and US to support daily deals E-commerce in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, Malaysia, and more will be online soon.
• Product definition; engineering and operation (24x7) management; Mobile Website development, backend data warehouse, performance monitoring, social networking integration, and new countries launch and support with >50.
• Work with countries teams to resolve issues and enhance features.
• Transition leadership from China to US

• Manage China SW/HW outsourcing partners (WistronITS/Acer, Wistron, XinyiSoft), operation (resources planning, operation and program management, conflicts and relationship management and business development)
• Define governance establishment, program prioritization, business strategy and direction; manage current programs progress; prepare business proposal, program scope, and interface with client (i.e., Invensys Operation.
• Development China Market (acting as business development, marketing and sales); Interface and support with client’s China Channel Managers, Distributors, SI and Clients.
• Propose and define operation management system or service such as Cloud computing, smart grids-power/energy management system from smart meters, management system, and field device.
• Transfer and extend outsourcing business model to be ISV, SI, and service models to support and as part of clients Ecosystem
• Define operation and execution plans; proactive manage risk, cost, and progress with head counts over 100

• Build new products from requirements, design, built, certifications, PMC, manufacturing, QA/QC, packaging, delivering, and customer support with satisfaction. (Including H.W, S.W, mechanical, housing, packaging/artwork.
• Managing customer facing (Motorola, Bell Canada, Russounds, and others) -US/Worldwide
• Managing vendors facing such as EMS manufactures, and ODM/OEM vendors - China/US
• Establish and re-define engineering processes and procedures (In both hardware, software, mechanical, QA/QC, RMA, shipping, certification, and others) – China/US
• Schedule management, resource planning, risk and issues, management, and daily operations and supports.
• Powerline network technologies and services.

Frisco, Texas, US

• Stabilizing, build, balance, and refocus teams
• Implement, enhancement, operate, maintain, and support WISP authentication, authorization and account system (Radius)
• Interface and synchronize with backend billing system (account management, usage accounting, status synchronization)
• Devices (dual mode handsets – Brew/Symbian/Linux/PPC WM5 or other Wireless VOIP devices - Skype) configuration and management
• Implement, enhancement, operate, maintain, and support real-time access location, software model, pricing, login scripts, and other tokens update subsystems
• Performance, scalability, security, archiving, and processes measurement, monitor, and implementation base on business and operation requirements.

Bellevue, Washington, US

as a manager managing the platform (as white level) that powers the Cingular/T-Mobile/Verizon’s (3 largest Mobile operators in USA.) on-deck mobile portal (Averaging one millions download a day). I am responsible the platform, media authorizing tools, and billing systems in both operational and technical development (refractor)

US

Building remote office in China from ground up.Managing multiple teams in different countries and time zonesSIM application development (JavaCard), ODM/Handset Manufacture Relationship Management, GSM network interface (SMSC, SMG)OSS implemenation (J2EE) and interface (CDR, BOSS, IVR, etc)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

SaaS, Hosting, Financial Web Application (Dotnet)

Professional Service, Hosting, Web Application Development (Java)

End to End VOD, Cable System/STB/Guide, MMDS/Fiber to the Curb/Cable

Mobile Operating System, File System

Artificial Intelligent Lab(rule/knowledge base) /Autonomous Robotics

CPU Diagnosis, Microinstruction-set programming (114 bits), Lisp Programming