• Managing key enclosure components for programs from product inception to end of life, coordinating each of manufacturing build to meet project schedule and cost target, as well as mitigating any manufacturing risks• Collaborating with Product Development team, Product Process team, and Product Quality team to develop global supply chain to guarantee product quality and continuity of supply• Leading team for NPI cost and quarterly cost negotiation, achieved eight-figure savings annually• Developing global supply chain diversification for key enclosure components with long-term and strategic views

• Strategized nine-figure annual spend on electrical components across Microsoft consumer hardware business by understanding market dynamics and internal product roadmaps, and presented to executives and other stakeholders• Improved relationship with 15+ global suppliers to achieve established commitments on cost, volume, quality, compliance, and on-time delivery, as well as negotiated contract terms to Microsoft’s interests• Collaborated with internal cross-functional teams to drive supplier selection and component qualification both under strict engineering and commercial best practices• Managed Xbox, Surface, and HoloLens motherboards (motherboard PM) from product inception to end-of-life, including proactively influencing designs to align with category strategy and aggressively negotiating cost to achieve business objectives• Developed risk mitigation plans to guarantee 100% continuity of supply in real time with the support of Asian team

• Identified needs for Content Management Systems (CMS) for a >25MM business by analyzing functionalities, performing customers research, and evaluating potential vendors; persuaded management team to replace old platform with CMS• Collaborated with business development, engineering and UX/UI teams to implement features for mobile products; gathered user requirements, wrote feature specifications, and prioritized future improvement

• Awarded Cisco Professional and Leadership Award for outstanding display of leadership potential and contribution to the achievement of business unit and company goals in FY 2012 and FY 2013• Led cross-functional teams in analysis and implementation of critical component (PCI Express) for 10+ products in Data Center Business Unit, increasing the transmission rate by 400% through optimizing design architecture• Initiated a design change that leveraged unused bandwidth in another sub-chip, thus saving the production budget by 10%; persuaded senior management to adopt this innovative methodology by building a convincing business case• Owned a critical sub-chip and collaborated with software and physical design teams to meet customers’ requirements; convinced senior management to adopt a simpler design structure that cut the sub-chip size by more than 20%• Collaborated with global teams to effectively construct design solutions, identify and validate root causes of non-compliant results, and deliver products to customers with 100% success rate• Enhanced relationships with 3 multinational vendors by facilitating weekly meetings to solve complicated cross-company technical problems and optimize the respective solutions, leading up to 20% reduction in turnaround meeting time