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Drove ecosystem partnership for mobile and IoT markets. Fostered partnerships with major cloud players, ISVs, and built ecosystem to drive adoption of Qualcomm solution (XR/AR/VR, audio/voice assistant, Always Connected PCs, ML/AI, IoT).• Voice assistant.o Achieved approvals with pre-integrated / pre-validated external cloud SDK, which created performance / feature differentiations and accelerated adoptions by leading team on engagement with few major cloud players for approved reference designs.• XR / Virtual Reality.o Founded partnership with VR platform providers to accelerate device HW development and drive compelling content ecosystem, collaborating with internal (legal, finance, PdM, BD, engineering) and external resources for agreement negotiation.o Closed content revenue share agreements in exchange for redistribution rights of Snapdragon VR SDK.• Always Connected PC.o Established ISV partnership program with good traction on app migration, creating compelling, ARM-optimized apps leveraging Snapdragon processor’s low power and always-on connectivity.• IoT / embedded devices.o Worked with third-party partners, creating reference designs to serve long-tail customers.Championed product management and marketing for Global Pass, a cloud-based software product with pre-certified regional carrier packs and device management capability to help smartphone OEM / ODMs launch devices in global markets with faster TTM and lower NRE.

Served as account manager for chipset business at China Telecom to grow share / revenue for QC-based products.• Achieved significant competitive advantage for Qualcomm chipsets by leading team to drive China Telecom Carrier Aggregation and All-Mode migration (2015).• Executed CT entry-level 4G PCBA program, involving market / competitive analysis, coming up with and executing proposal to drive Qualcomm share, resulting in business grabbing 75% share despite strong competition in low tier (2015).• Resolved relationship tension which allowed strengthened collaborations on key initiatives by managing several rounds of pricing negotiation with operator effectively (2014).• Drove 8Mu of CDMA devices and realized about 6Mu YoY growth in segment which was dominated by TD-SCDMA by championing CT 299RMB EV-DO smartphone program successfully. Led agreement negotiation and execution (2014).• Led technical teams in aligning Qualcomm roadmap and carrier requirements (4G, 4G+, VoLTE).• Pipeline managementPerformed as overall lead for 4G roadmap alignment for China carriers (CMCC, CT, CU).• Aligned requirements of different carriers and maximized leverage of company’s modem/RF/RFFE capability by guiding technical leads in distilling carrier requirements and communication to headquarters and establishing in-depth relationship with key infra partners to drive advanced modem features.• Worked with wireless infrastructure vendors for feature planning.

Performed as technical operations lead for and main technical interface to China Telecom account to champion network technology adoption for CDMA and EV-DO. Managed team of 16 engineers to drive various related projects in CDMA and LTE.• Established connections to key China Telecom departments (network and device), building trust from customers as reliable, respected partner.• Collected and analyzed information from various sources, making roadmap recommendation to product management and Engineering.• Gave QC products a competitive advantage by promoting chipset features to China Telecom and infra vendors.• Led team to support successful carrier network deployments and optimization by working with the operator and infrastructure vendors.

Served as system engineering lead for several 3G modem projects to contribute to successful commercialization of multiple generations of chipsets.• TD-SCDMA system engineering: Achieved successful chipset launch / commercialization by creating searcher design, Rx AGC strategy for initial acquisition, and Tx and Rx front-end design.• CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO Rev. A system engineering: Led cross-functional development teams (systems, firmware, software, system test, application) on RTCMAC systems algorithm, preamble detection, MAC channel demodulation, Rate Control Loop.• WCDMA system engineering: Guided team of engineers in design and optimization of offline pilot processing (OPP) for WCDMA modem.

Implementation of the rate determination algorithm on 1x EV-DV forward fundamental channel. Proposed required DMA interface with TI UMX2.x Direct Memory Access.