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San Jose, Ca

Highlights: • R&D Organization Transformation - Pioneered and tailored Lean product development methodology in semiconductor industry; cut new product development cycle time to 1/3, reduced average chip development cost in an order of magnitude(same product complexity). • Sales Operation Effectiveness - Synthesized corporate-wide top solution selling behavior/best practice and institutionalized findings into prospect management/opportunity advancements/new hire onboard. Lead and deployed trainings in 6 countries with average NPS scored 96%.• Partnership Development - Identified, built and advanced partnerships between Cypress Lean team and Stanford University, Silicon Catalyst and renowned VC firms. Day-to-day operation: • Business Process Improvement - Drove vigorous process restructure/improvements initiatives in product definition, product(silicon and software) development. Freeing up $11.5M/year engineering cost from rework, schedule mis-matches and resource bottle necks.• Business Analysis - Structured, analyzed and surfaced business system inefficiencies and designed solutions in both strategic and tactical level for R&D, Marketing, Sales, HR, Finance and operation; designed initiatives and track metrics and communicated progress in boardroom quarterly.

Stanford, Ca

• Stanford Leadership and Innovation Program for Executives: < Lean Transformation in Product Development, Experience and Lesson Learned In Cypress Semiconductor >• CEE-246, Entrepreneurship in Civil & Environmental Engineering: • Adaptive Execution of Strategy, Stanford Professional Development Program: < Team Collaboration And Business Process Improvement Best Practice>

Palo Alto, Ca

Education startup, seed round, current valuation $4M, www.palmdrive.cn• Product - Designed and implemented first MVP - experience sharing video catalog(45,000 views and 22,000 re-tweets); implemented Design Thinking Process, identified user persona, analyzed and prioritized feature set for current offering - online essay catalog. • Operation - Structured company’s build-measure-learn cycle focusing on vigorous customer needs finding and validation(10+ daily), product prototyping(2 week fast iteration); achieved product-market-fit within 4 months.• Sales & User Engagement - Attracted, retained and converted early adopters to evangelists(1000+) in pre-launch phase, enabled vigorously feature validation in engineering and design, viralized marketing effort(33x) with 0 spending.

Shanghai, China

• Industry Research - Conducted market analysis and research to evaluate the pertinent factors surrounding high growth industries - social network software, inbound travel market, logistic in B2C industry. Analyzed the overall competitive environment and potential company’s own market position, advantages and barriers

Shanghai, China

• Customer Research - Interviewed and deep dived into 300+ small and medium businesses across east China to screen for qualified OEM candidates, beat client deadline by 200 hours• Data Delivery - Assisted associates on collecting data on retail and real estate companies to provide important data to the client teams. Key fact data delivered far before the deadline

Shanghai, China

• Software Development - Implemented DLNA media broadcasting solution in C++ on Linux/Qt environment

M.S, Major In Electrical Computer Engineering With A Minor In Industry Engineering(Isye)

M.S. Telecommunication And Information System

B.S, Electronic Information Engineering