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United States

• Developed project plans, schedules, budgets, and deliverables for both hardware and software development of commercial, industrial, medical, and aerospace defense products.• Closely and continuously monitored project progress against key milestones, budget allocations and pre-defined project success criteria.• Identified potential risks and issues, addressed internal and external technical challenges and production bottlenecks resulting in 20 percent cycle time reduction by product line.• Implemented proactive mitigation strategies to ensure flawless execution of multiple NPI projects with revenue greater than $5M and met 100 percent of monthly KPI targets.• Assembled and led diverse cross-functional project teams comprising Design Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Quality, Operations, Sales, Product Managers, and other specialists located globally.• Assigned tasks and responsibilities to team members based on expertise and organization priorities.• Fostered collaboration among team members to ensure alignment with project goals.• Facilitated effective decision-making by providing project updates, risks, and recommendations to the cross-functional executive team during phase gate reviews and executive forums.• Centralized resource requirements for all NPI projects managed by peers and drove capacity planning for required resource acquisition, including equipment, talent and floor space expanding.• Led product managers, sales, and legal team to draft and negotiate sales contracts and agreements with customers, ensuring revenue maximization.• Tracked project performance metrics on cooperate reporting dashboards to provide visibility and insights to senior leadership and stakeholders.• Facilitated project Lessons Learned workshops, identified areas for improvement, captured best practices and shared insights with peers to enhance future project performance.

Lisle, Illinois, United States

• Led project teams to successfully launch 40-plus customized wireless antennas to production.• Created project schedule and secured project readiness by ensuring internal and external resources were supplied on time including material, equipment, fixture, and design lockdown for each increment build.• Led the development activities and facilitated communication across customers, global engineering teams, operations, and supply chain partners through the entire product development cycle to meet customers’ aggressive cost, schedule, and quality goals.• Tracked outstanding issues, identified risks with mitigation strategies, and followed up with stakeholders on each action item to keep the project on budget and schedule.• Managed and monitored Design of Experiments (DOEs) progress related to manufacturing or customer field failures until their proper closure, boosting customers’ confidence level in Molex capability.• Collaborated with key customers to provide technical consulting and identified their pain points.• Worked closely with sales and engineering teams to facilitate technical bid responses.• Engaged in the new technology development roadmap activities and supported sales and business development team in technology campaigns such as roadshows and webinars. • Collaborated with the factory and sourcing team in the design and selection of appropriate components, materials, and processes to ensure final products met customers’ application requirements.• Led mechanical activities from cosmetic criteria definition, drawing review, deviation approval, and prototyping tooling/production tooling builds to the resolution of pre- and post-production issues.• Collected first-hand design issues at the factory assembly line during the prototype phase.• Provided on-site technical support to customers for outstanding product quality issues and helped significantly reduce scrap and labor sorting costs.

Lisle

• Provided technical support to Product Managers on quotation, price negotiation and debt collection.• Established and maintained BOM for more than 3000 parts from prototype to ramp.• Developed, organized, and maintained a shared project database used by over 30 engineers and managers that contains project schedules, meeting minutes, DFMs, tolerance analyses, quotations, pricing, and other project related contents.• Assisted principal engineers with product development activities including modeling, drafting, engineering open items follow-up and failure analysis lab work such as X-ray, Film Thickness Analysis, Confocal Roughness, and Cross-Section. • Coordinated with the reliability lab on various test requests and test progress such as Mixed Gas Flow Test (MFG), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis and CT scan.

M.S., Control Theory And Control Engineering

•Cooperated with project team in building mathematical models for customized fin stabilizer systems including motion module of ships.

B.S., Biomedical Engineering

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