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Irvine, California, United States

• Plan, manage and monitor fiscal departmental Opex and Capex budget.
• Manage a team to support daily operations of a 4,400 sq. ft SSD Hardware lab.
• Project Lead for the cross-functional Adapter Request Management Tool.

Irvine, California, United States

• Managed internal and external cross-functional team collaboration to complete Enterprise SSD projects within project budget and on schedule.

Irvine, California

• Responsibilities:
• Translated Marketing's requirements into Product Requirements Document.
• Reviewed contract and generated Statement of Work (SOW) to ODM and CM.
• Review and negotiate with ODM and CM on project and product cost.
• Established and maintained effective working relationship with internal and external ODM cross-functional team to develop products from prototype to mass production on time.
• Track ODM’s deliverables and project schedule to meet critical deadlines.

Selangor, Malaysia

• Responsibilities:
• Manage WDM and WDTh NPI Engineering team and its deliverables for new HDD development builds and initial ramp phases into WD HDD operations.
• Coordinate introduction of new product/new process/model numbers to WD operations and ensure projects meet set objectives and committed timeline.
• Provide factory program management support on multiple product configuration changes during development build phase.
• Provide product change control support through documentation and product configuration system (PCS).
• Analyze and monitor cost model based on weekly key performance indices to ensure products are produced in optimize cost and meeting business needs.

Selangor, Malaysia

• Responsibilities:
• Coordinate with various departments to ensure factory readiness before a new product is transferred to the factory for HVM.
• Sustain product from HVM through EOL. The focal person in components evaluation on qualifying new suppliers, new sites, new materials and new processes.
• Deploy problem-solving skills, apply win-win solution when encounter roadblocks.
• Product label team lead. Coordinate design and implement new changes on the product label.Major Accomplishments:
• Project Manager for the WD first ever 1.0” Micro Hard Disk. (2005)

Selangor, Malaysia

• Responsibilities:
• Lead a group of supervisors and operators to achieve on-time delivery and committed production output, maintain high product quality with lowest cost at the same time.
• Involve in production planning and scheduling.
• Schedule and execute engineering evaluation run, compile data for review.
• Deal with unexpected and difficult situation by deploying available resources.

Singapore

• Responsibilities:
• Review and monitor quality performance in the factory.
• Perform failure analysis on field returned.
• Liaise with supplier, subcontractor, and customer quality personnel on quality issues.
• Conducted internal quality audit and facilitated customers' quality audit.
• Trained engineers and production supervisors on product functionality and quality awareness. Major Accomplishments:

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Aeronautical Engineering

Master Of Science (Msc), Industrial Engineering