Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Design program manager - Lead PM for IOT & automotive switch business line. Take the full responsibility for end to end program/project from kick off to SOP. • Project scope – New product design and introduction, development for both HW and FW, Support end-to-end product strategies, marketing/VOC collection, customer prospect interviews and market analysis, competitive analysis, concept design, product cost control, design validation, production validation and PPAP. • Project schedule – Optimize TTM (time to market), market/product analysis, requirement clarification, product/test dev release plan, prototype/pre-series/ramp up plan, internal/external product release, general approve/handover process • Budget – Track the product finance analysis/sensibility and say/do including product cost, product price, forecast, capex, expense and labor cost.
New product introduction projects manager • Take the full responsibility for overall program/project. • Project scope – New product introduction, Product transfer, Production substitution, Sub-product release for both HW and SW • Project schedule – Optimize TTM (time to market), product release point, prototype/pre-series/ramp up plan, internal/external product release step control, general approve/handover process • Budget – Plan the budget based on baseline and evaluation, monthly follow up, update budget if needed, resource man-hour, training, travel cost and others. • KPI definition – Define score card, quality plan, yield, cost, product cost/production cost, ramp up fulfillment • Resource allocation – Clear organization Chart, allocate the resources in each functions, set up general rules, Competences setting up, Influence and engagement, Team building and cooperation. • Communication network set up – Global cooperation, function cooperation and team cooperation. Kista Sweden, Ottawa Canada, Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu as product design site, Tallinn Estonia, Nanjing as test development and supply site, Kista also as supply planning, Beijing also as region interface. • Risk analysis – Continuous risk collection and follow up by impact and probability, regular lesson learn. • Stakeholder management – Present project status in milestone for assessment, regular report, escalation channel, highlight risk in advance with stakeholders (Engineering/Product design/Test design, Inbound, Souring, Outbound, Global demand planning, Production site, Region customer support, Other partners) • Customer demand fulfill - Forecast, capacity and capability evaluation. • Product configuration - Exemption and change request control and follow up. • Project commitment – Time schedule, Quality, Delivery, Market, Product cost (Direct material + Value Add), Project cost, Risk, Checklist fulfillment.
Responsibility • Consolidate the network and refresh the ways of working with partner (Kista, Ottawa, Beijing, Shanghai) for design support program cooperation. • Define program/project scope, align clear responsibility with partner and local teams. • Control the cost/LT/quality for each project. • Build up team competence, plan pilot, verify efficient flow. • Set up network with sponsor and partner and establish good relationship with stakeholder. Project experience • Wi-Fi business transfer project – Period: 9months – Product owner: Ottawa Canada – Original business site: Guangzhou – Transfer flow: Ottawa and Guangzhou to Nanjing – Implement thorough study and proposal for location selection, budget absorb solution, execution option and work flow. – Make flexible decision to align facility requirement to meet technical requirement, local laws and regulations with limited budget. – Ensure production running smoothly both in ramp-up and maintenance. – Achievement: Deliver Toll gate 1-5 decision meeting with steering group. Keep result on time & on quality. Support product phase out. Handle the surplus in appropriate way. • Reliability business introduction project – Period: 12months – Partner: Kista, Ottawa, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Nanjing – Consolidate the network and refresh the ways of working with partner for reliability cooperation. – Vender selection and negotiate from technical perspective. – Implement facility improvement construction on time for low operational cost and high efficiency. – Build up team competence for test environment development and failure analysis. – Achievement: Contribute to introduce reliability method to secure product quality. Set up high efficiency facility. Implement reliability support for new release and finding analysis from supply aspect. In 2017, implement 24 power unit HALT test cooperated with Kista design & Shanghai team and 48 4TX product and 2TX product HALT test cooperated with Beijing.
Process improvement project driver Product claim process improvement project – Period: 8months – Partner: Wuxi, Nanjing, Tallinn Estonia – Clarify for project scope/request deeply with sponsor and steering group. – Definite project plan and drive change management. – Set up local team and cooperate with each site. – Achievement: Optimize process for internal and external claim. Improve the claim efficiency and save the cost. Test object leader for project Test development and maintenance in project – Coordinate overall test function issues, allocate test resource. – Lead design for Test (DFT), test solutions and test processes definition – Set up clear structure for test system and flow for team. – Drive test yield improvement and test time reduction. – Refresh test objects leader Ways of working/process summary. – 2month in Italy and 3month in Malaysia as short time assignment for quality audit and yield improvement to help the sites have quick ramp up to fulfill the customer demand.