Singapore
Joo Hou is Hardware Manager in Continental Automotive Singapore. He has over 21 years professional experience in the product design and development. With leading responsibilities, he leads a team of 30 engineers, including both Mechanical and Electrical members. He is experience in driving and managing several teams concurrently with delivered results.
• Lead and manage both Mechanical and Electrical teams. • Overall responsible for Hardware team delivery in term of Quality, Delivery and Cost. • Driving continuous improvements in the department and identification of synergies across projects • Recruitment, resource management and staffing plan. To ensure project staffing is fulfilled and balance the project team strength and capability. • Manage succession planning for key roles in the team, i.e. Group Leader, Project Leader and Architect • People development. Motivates and supports individuals to achieve their objectives and improves output on a continuing basis. • Ensure team skills are maintained to a professional level. • Review and monitor project status. Timely feedback to the team when issue arise, from both customer or internal stake holder (Production, Supplier, Validation Test) • Leading the team to sail through crisis situation. • Manage team conflict when it arises within department members or between member and project team. • Set goal and target for individual and perform appraisal and assessment. • Review and approve new project acquisition and quotation for HW department. • Work with global Mechanical community in aligning design and development processes, design review, lesson learnt, new quotation, etc.
Principal Engineer 2009 – 2016 Senior Engineer 2007 – 2008 Engineer 2004 – 2006
Mechanical Engineer 1 2003 – 2004 (promoted from Engineer 2) Mechanical Engineer 2 2001 – 2002 I started mechanical design and development in Toshiba TEC. I went through few development cycles, from architecture to detail design, coordinating prototyping activities, support production set up from development to mass production Other development and project management skills that I picked up at Toshibas TEC are, engineering change management, supplier management, engineering verification evaluation and design to cost. I was involved in new product quotation and product benchmarking.