Santa Clara, California, United States
Accomplished engineering management professional with extensive experiences in tech concept investigations, NPI and sustaining program management in the AI hardware and smartphone industries. Proven track record of driving cross-functional teams to deliver complex technical projects integrating HW and SW. Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with experience in hardware and software development, program management, and technical investigations. Extensive experience in shipping consumer electronics, taking products from early concept to final product. Educational background in micro- and nanofabrication, device physics, lithography techniques, semiconductor characterization and VLSI design. In my spare time, I play piano/keyboard/organ. I'm very passionate about music and love composing. I've been performing since 2002 and composing since 2009.
https://www.etched.com
https://www.etched.com
- Lead technical program management for next generation AI centric products for automotive, consumer and enterprise applications - Drove the development of Blackwell generation products including GeForce RTX 50 series graphic cards, HGX B200 server board and Drive AGX Thor AI platform from concept to final production release - Aligning the team’s efforts throughout the product ideation, development, qualification, manufacturing, launch, and sustaining lifecycles - Drove priorities to ensure products are achieving schedule and milestone targets, proactively elevate risks and obstacles - Worked with matrixed team of partners from hardware, software, marketing, operations, and other teams to close gaps and resolve issues - Managed communication for product status to internal (including executive) teams - Engaged directly with enterprise customers to drive debug efforts and resolve field issues
- Built and grew the Engineering Program Management team to drive the development of various sub-systems including flexes, logic boards, technology investigations and project execution - Responsible for team planning, project assignments to align with each team member’s aspirations and individual development & coaching, focused on building a cohesive team - Engaged with the leadership team in industrial design, mechanical and electrical design, software, marketing, packaging and operations to define project strategy and ensure a successful launch - Owned roadmap definition and overall program schedules accounting for compliance and ramp - Communicated on a weekly basis the overall project status and technical highlights to executive leadership
- Drove overall program NPI readiness, spanning feature development, budget planning, technical investigations, vendor identification and qualification, and compliance testing required for product launch - Led multi-functional development teams for various HW sub-systems including flexible PCBAs, rigid PCBAs, and development boards - Managed multiple global suppliers, closely tracked component deliveries and engaged with cross-functional teams to identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies - Collaborated with cross-functional teams on system and module level validations to enable design down- selections and vendor qualifications - Drove investigations for key technology development including high resolution displays, next-gen Li-ion batteries, facial recognition, antenna developments for 5G and millimeter-wave (mmW) implementation - Defined priorities and project guidance for the engineering team to manage risks and allocate resources - Facilitated critical failure analysis investigations, mitigations planning and defining project strategies
- Worked closely with Quality, Engineering and Operations teams to identify, prioritize and assess technical risks, define mitigation strategies and compliance specifications - Drove the qualification of hardware design changes, quality improvements, and new suppliers on multiple product lines and drove failure analysis activities - Managed technology investigation projects both on-site at vendor and locally - Engaged with worldwide manufacturers such as Foxconn and Pegatron to develop new products, evaluate system performance, manage project planning and address manufacturing issues Projects: iPhone: iPhone 6, iPhone 6+, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S+, iPhone 7, iPhone 7+, (PRODUCT)RED™ iPhone 7/7+, iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, (PRODUCT)RED™ iPhone 8/8+, iPhone X iPad: iPad Mini 4, iPad Pro 12.9 (2017) Others: Apple Watch Series 1, 2015 iPod Nano & Shuffle refresh
- Participate in silicon bringup & post-silicon validation of new Tegra System-on-a-Chip and associated products with the objective of driving product to mass production - Help qualify specific chip performance, conduct memory validation and troubleshoot potential registry and fabrication problems - Functional stress testing to facilitate sku/speed binning and stability improvement - Debug activities include supporting root-causes analysis efforts of hardware failures through lab experimentation and collaboration with other teams within NVIDIA - Resolving silicon and board issues related to logic design & signal integrity - Supporting Application Engineering to resolve high exposure customer issues in time critical, high pressure environments
- Nanocarriers for delivery of nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapeutics - Synthesize polymeric nanoparticles that can encapsulate drug and deliver to tumour cells - Encapsulation and release study of novel polymer based drug delivery system - Developed seven new biodegradable polymers and their respective polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery systems for applications such as prostate cancer therapy - Characterized newly developed polymers based on their size, zeta potential, surface structure and geometry using zeta analyzer - Maintained cell culture by regularly changing media and splitting cells in highly sterile bio-hood - Experienced working with single emulsion techniques for analysing polymer properties Submitted Publication: MIT–Harvard Centre of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 5th, 2012 J. Wu, Z. Xiao, J. Shi, N. Kamaly, G. Hollett, R. John, R. Langer, O. Farokhzad. "Development and High–Throughput Screening of PLGA-Polycation-PEG Nanoparticles for Combination Cancer Therapy."