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Berkeley, California, United States

Fremont

Fremont, CA

Managed the development of a new innovative generation of custom solar manufacturing automation to produce a brand-new industry leading solar technology, shingled cell high efficiency solar modules-Managed company’s automation development team to improve equipment performance, institute new processes, reduce costs, develop maintenance procedures-Main.

Singapore

Manage a team of 10 engineers/technicians to design, prototype and deploy manufacturing equipment for the solar industries-Successfully doubled company sale revenue after one year from $5mil to over $10mil-Provided leadership to capture and win large deal business that enabled KayTa Design to exceed revenue and profit expectations-Successfully negotiated.

San Jose, CA

Managed an off-shore engineering team in Philippine that developed the next generation of equipment for a low-concentrating photovoltaic (LCPV) technology for power plant applications called the C7 Tracker.-Executed on product development of C7 receiver through a phased approach from conceptualization to release in high volume manufacturing-Organized the.

San Jose, CA

• Played a lead role in taking a 25MW back contact module line from paper concept all the way to full qualification. This line involved the following backend automation equipments: automated glass loading and washing.
• Product design - Design/prototype and tested new bus bar system for 96-cell back end module.
• Technology scoping - Detail technical evaluation of 6 soldering technology (laser, magnetic induction, Infared, CO flame hot bar and hot air,) under tight time constraint. Down selected to induction soldering which.
• Developed an industry pioneering back-contact cell stringing process that enable stringing of very thin cells in production with high mechanical yield
• 99.8% mechanical yield with 145um thin cell
• UPH of more than 900 cell/hrProject management – cross functional collaboration, active worldwide vendor interaction and management. Qualified and managed vendors in Germany, Japan, Singapore, China, Philippine.

Freemont, CA

• Complete responsibility for mechanical engineering of weather hardened outdoor electronic enclosures and chassis meeting Telcordia GR-487, UL, FCC, and NEBS.
• Responsibilities includes cost effective designs of injection molded housings and sheet metal using Inventor 3D CAD, stereo lithographic modeling, thermal management analysis, shock and vibration testing, temperature.
• Plastic injection molded design includes: GE lexan plastic housings, ABS disk drive ejector, environmentally sealed connector cover with pre-mold polypropylene and over-mold santoprene.

Fremont, CA

Perform a myriad of engineering duties associated with New Product Design and Development of sheet metal enclosure for electronics. Responsible for thermal management of electro/mechanical enclosure utilizing CFD tool

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

High School