San Diego, California, United States
Technical Program Manager with 20+ years of experience leading complex hardware platform development across semiconductor and networking industries. My background includes driving large-scale engineering programs from architecture planning through product development, silicon bring-up, and mass production ramp. I have extensive experience coordinating cross-functional engineering teams across global organizations, including R&D, manufacturing, and supplier ecosystems. I have worked on SoC platforms, consumer networking devices, and large-scale hardware programs supporting product delivery from concept to market. My work focuses on program execution, system integration, and aligning engineering teams to deliver complex hardware platforms on schedule. Currently based in San Diego and open to relocation for hardware platform and technical program management roles.
Technical Program Manager responsible for coordinating cross-functional engineering teams supporting automotive SoC development. Lead requirement management, product specification integration, and development processes across the product development lifecycle. Key responsibilities include ensuring end-to-end requirement traceability, aligning engineering teams on product specifications, and supporting automotive hardware development processes aligned with ISO 21434, ISO 26262, and ASPICE frameworks.
- Strategic Execution: Orchestrate the development of next-generation automotive SoC platforms, bridging the gap between customer requirements and system architecture to ensure 100% engineering alignment. - Requirement Traceability: Spearheaded the consolidation of 30+ functional block specifications into a unified Product Design Specification, achieving end-to-end traceability from silicon architecture to final validation. - Compliance Leadership: Authored the ISO 21434 hardware development flow and integrated ASPICE and ISO 26262 frameworks into the hardware lifecycle, ensuring the platform met rigorous automotive cybersecurity and safety standards. - Global Playbook Standardization: Spearheading the optimization of the Technical Feasibility Evaluation (TFE) framework into the corporate Playbook, standardizing the transition from architecture to execution across global engineering sites.
- SoC Architecture & TFE Workflow: Founded the SSA team and pioneered the TFE framework, institutionalizing a standardized process from marketing requirements to design specs and risk alignment for all subsequent SoC projects. - Schedule Integration & Discipline: Directed company-wide smartphone project timelines by synthesizing marketing, documentation, and milestones. Optimized execution by balancing IP readiness and resource allocation. - Stakeholder Management: Resolved complex organizational conflicts through data-driven reviews, streamlining collaboration and fostering a high-trust culture between engineering and executive leadership.
Led cross-functional war-room operations at Tier-1 customer manufacturing sites in China to rapidly resolve critical blockers during high-volume mass production ramp phases. Coordinated hardware and software engineering teams to align internal development roadmaps with customer manufacturing schedules, improving readiness for product validation and production ramp. Designed and assembled a small anechoic test setup using customized acoustic materials to support R&D audio debugging, reducing test infrastructure procurement costs by ~90%.
Managed hardware product development and new product introduction (NPI) for early-generation 802.11 pre-N Wi-Fi router products, coordinating engineering, manufacturing, and supplier teams through product launch. Led cost optimization initiatives achieving a 15% reduction in accessory BOM costs across multiple product lines. Resolved FCC compliance issues and coordinated cross-border engineering teams supporting product shipment to the U.S. market.
- Managed hardware product development and new product introduction (NPI) for early-generation 802.11 Wi-Fi router platforms, coordinating engineering, manufacturing, and supplier teams through design validation, production ramp, and product launch. - Led cost optimization initiatives achieving 15% reduction in accessory BOM costs across multiple product lines. - Resolved FCC compliance issues and coordinated cross-border engineering teams to support product shipment to the U.S. market.