Frank (Sanchu) Han

CARIAD China CEO, Executive Vice President of Volkswagen Group China - CARIAD

Beijing, China

About

Engineering manager & software engineer of cloud platform development, technology realization & product development leader, real-time big data analytics and AI modeling professional in self-driving vehicle and network operation & automation

Experience

  • CARIAD China CEO, Executive Vice President of Volkswagen Group China at CARIAD
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Take the lead of CARIAD’s business in the Chinese market, drive the development CARIAD China into a stake-of-the-art software house of the Volkswagen Group in China. The primary focus is leading CARIAD in implementing and integrating its new local E/E architecture (China Electrical Architecture-CEA)which will bring competitive software competency to the Volkswagen Group and its brands in China.

  • Corporate Chief Software Architect & CTO of Software Technology Company at Changan Automobile
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Form a direct vehicle industry supply chain with vendors, Create one vehicle service platform with strategy partners, Enable one open application and service ecosystem for customers

  • Principal Software Engineering Manager at Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Nov 2018 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    1. Take the open approach to build one new vehicle grade operating system, through one modular EV and software defined platform to enable a new supply chain for connected autonomous driving and Mobility as a service, drive open dataset and AI algorithms' improvement in AV motion planning and decision 2. Leverage open source technologies including Kafka, Hadoop/Spark, TensorFlow etc. framework to build a cloud platform enabling applications development and operation in network design, deployment, operation and optimization areas

  • Huawei (Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
    • Chief Architecture & Technology Strategy Officer, Global Technical Service
      Apr 2013 - Nov 2018 · 5 yrs 8 mos

      1. Set technology strategies and initiatives for cloud platform, SDN/NFV, big data and ML/DL in business areas of network service planing, optimization, operation, and customer experience management, drove USD $40M+ technology investments annually 2. Took the industry initiative to work with AT&T, China Mobile etc. global 50+ operators to have established the first Telecommunication industry most influencing open source project - ONAP(Open Network Automation Platform) for network service life-cycle orchestration, automation and intelligence ; 3. Cultivated the team and leaders development to ramp up the technology realization team to 50+ developers from scratch, worked with service engineering team to have implemented the "Service cloud" platform framework to have achieved 30%higher service delivery efficiency

    • Chief Software Architect
      Jan 2011 - Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Chief software engineer of a solution product development team with 200+ staffs including product management, architecture, software development and service delivery, built the first version "SmartCare" product which is a service solution based on a big data analytic platform for network performance, service optimization and customer service management. This product has enabled service teams to serve global 1/3 network operators' networks and supports service revenue over 2 billion $USD annually for Huawei Global Service business unit

  • Tektronix Communications (Plano TX, USA)
    • Principal Software Design Engineer
      Feb 2009 - Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

      Chief software architect has implemented next generation IRIS probe product to support network intelligent management solution for global tier 1 operators. IRIS probes have been monitoring worldwide 30% of operator network traffic including 3G, 4G mobile network and fixed/IP network. Responsible for customer requirement analysis, architect design, software framework implementation and product development

    • Software and Product Development Manager
      Feb 2006 - Feb 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Led a development team of 20+ developers to develop Tektronix Network Intelligent Management product serving global 100+ customers. Responsible for software design, implementation and initial product rollout & customer support. Took agile software methodologies to have improved product delivery time to market, actively interacted with external and internal customer discussions and requirement analysis

    • Sr. Sofware Development Engineer
      Aug 2000 - Feb 2006 · 5 yrs 7 mos

      1.Developed the Tektronix 3G real-time distributed probe system for network monitoring solution; 2.Technically Led 20+ developers for Tektronix offshore development in India. Took the responsibilities of training all the developers in a short period and ramped up the team quickly to take over multiple development projects with clear software design guidelines; 3.Took a model-driven approach to come up with the design and implementation of the generic transport layer monitoring framework