Epalinges, Vaud, Switzerland
I am not looking for a job! I am using LinkedIn just to stay in touch with friends and colleagues. Specialties: Electrical Engineering (Analog & Digital & RF, Signal processing) Product development & Manufacturing in China Teaching
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Managing in Remote my team in China. Together we developed several high volume cordless and corded products. Frequent travels to China and teachnig for my team: General EE, RF, EMI, Measurement methods, good engineering practices, statistics and tolerancing, Matlab programming, etc... I am also involved in some broader, company-wide activities. Like contributing to our Product Life Cycle Management Process, or our Engineering Verification Testing (EVT) process (characterization and validation of products before mass production)
Based on my own initiative, I have setup a EE R&D and product development team in China, project for which I got the full responsibility: • Prepare the budget and plan the expenses • Move to China for executing more efficiently the project (I was the only western employee of the company in China) • Deal with the architect in China about the construction of the lab (floor plan, power cabling, etc…) and follow-up the construction • Define and purchase the measurement and lab equipment, including a test chamber for EMI tests. • Hire, train and manage the people • Define the operating procedures (calibration, maintenance, component stock management, etc…) 15 people are now working in this team. Over 50% of the business unit’s revenue is coming from products developed in China.
EE Design of several products from the idea to the end: Prototype, schematics, layout, characterization, implementation in manufacturing. Mainly RF cordless products. Bluetooth: • Murata (Japan): Define a miniature Bluetooth module on LTCC substrate that I integrated then in Logitech’s first Bluetooth product (cordless presenter). • USI (Taiwan): Define a cheaper but bigger Bluetooth module that I integrated then in next Bluetooth products (keyboards & mice) • CSR (UK). Implementation of BC03 in Logitech’s own made Bluetooth module RFID • EM (Switzerland): Define a custom made RFID IC and protocol for pairing our cordless products within the box in our distribution centers. Implementation of the technology in the first products and pairing stations. Keyboards • NMB (Thailand, Japan): Contract manufacturer for Logitech’s keyboards. Collaborate with NMB’s engineers for implementing our cordless design into keyboards made by NMB. Collaboration with component suppliers • HKC, TaiTien, Harmony: Crystals. Study oscillator startup problems due to impurities in crystals. Improve the manufacturing testing at supplier site. Study and improve mechanical shock resistance. Define testing procedures. • TDK, Panasonic: Inductors, resonators. Understand and solve alignment problems between Logitech and supplier. Define and agree on testing methods Test equipment development • Close collaboration with the Test Equipment Development team in Taiwan for defining then designing RF product test equipments for our production lines. Others • Setup an EMC testing facility in our EE lab in Switzerland. Deal with chamber suppliers. Write the testing software in Matlab. • Communication with lawyers in USA (Fenwick & West) for patents. • Write the software for a Lotus Notes database system for managing engineering data during projects. Now a standard tool at Logitech, used in more than 300 instances.
I started by designing the 27MHz RF technology that was implemented later successfully in several tenth of millions of Logitech products. I transferred this 27MHz technology to a keyboard manufacturer (Japanese company, NMB). RF training of NMB’s engineers in Chatsworth (CA, USA). Then implementing this technology in partnership with NMB in what became Logitech’s first cordless keyboard and cordless desktop, which was the trigger for the growth of the cordless business at Logitech. Once this 27MHz technology was mature (2000), I transfered all my knowledge to the engineers of our Taiwan site. Several trips and training organized in Taiwan. I completed more than 10 success products for Logitech
Responsible for Image quality of the ultrasound medical imaging systems. Description of my job: 1) From discussions with doctors, understand how to translate their requirements into technical specifications. 2) Implement the solution either with my own developments, or by subcontracting. Achievements at Kontron Instruments: Sigma 44/440 • Development of a 14th order real-time non-linear digital signal processing board • Development of an analog pre-processing beam filter and tracking filter board. • Development of a 3.5MHz transducer for Cardiology applications. Including real experiments with doctors in hospitals. Sigma 110 • Transfer the technology purchased from a USA based company (Universal Sonics, Mahwah, NJ) to Kontron Instruments. • Re-design the analog front-end and pre-processing filters of this machine • Specify and subcontract the development of the display monitor of this machine to a USA based company (Data Ray, Boulder, CO)