Accomplishments:

• Effectively managed the entire hardware development cycle of Astro, Amazon’s first household robot for home monitoring with Alexa capability, resulting in a successful Q4, 2021 launch.

• Led a large cross-functional project team of 60+ engineers, program managers, and applied scientists, to deliver a highly complex product with multiple subassemblies and PCBAs.

• Effectively managed the integration of state-of-the-art navigation and obstacle detection sensor technologies.

• Owned, defined, and executed detailed build plan of all local and overseas engineering builds to qualify Astro’s numerous design iterations, manufacturing process, and its long chain of suppliers and CM.

• Contributed to the roadmap of future products and sensors architecture.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, program managers, designers, product managers, and product owners to drive key aspects of each robotic product’s architecture definition.

• Work with various engineering and technology teams to define detailed engineering requirements, performance targets and metrics as guardrails for all design and validation activities.

• Own, conceive, and execute each robotic product’s end-to-end HW program schedule, as well as the detailed schedule of each engineering build within each development (HVT, EVT, and DVT) phases.

• Manage all development milestone activities within each build cycle, including all design improvement efforts, build planning activities, actual build activities at each product’s CM, and post-build validations performed by 16 different functional teams.

• Lead each product’s cross-functional hardware team through important gate reviews with Lab126’s leadership team.

• Highlight performance/quality risks, mitigating strategies, and trade-offs to leadership team during weekly executive reviews and at important phase gates.

Self-motivated, results-oriented product development expert with effective combination of engineering, design, customer research, business development, marketing, and project management experience. Highly creative and design conscious with track record of developing and executing successful new product ideas in competitive marketplaces. Extensive experience in developing high volume consumer electronic products from concept stage to production.

Aether Things Inc., San Francisco, CA 2012-present Principle Mechanical Engineer Accomplishments:  Assembled a team of five mechanical engineers for Morse Project.  Participated in the effort of identifying a tier one contract manufacturing partner.  Participated in the definition the technology platform of the company’s roadmap  Introduced a successful and proven product development process to Aether Things. Core Responsibilities:  Manage a growing team of senior mechanical engineers in the development of the company’s FY13 and FY14 products.  Mentor mechanical engineers on industry’s best design and engineering practice.  Advise our ID team on material selection, manufacturing processes, and cost, during the product front end phase of each project.  Perform feasibility analysis on industrial design concepts referencing each program’s cost, schedule, and user experience requirements.  Own and create each product’s hardware design spec., part of the General Product Spec. (GPS)  Advise our program team on each program’s development schedule.  Lead the hardware development process of conceptualizing, implementing, and verifying the mechanical design architecture of each chosen industrial design.  Perform Engineering Verification Testing (EVT) on mechanical and industrial design concepts through various stages of prototyping and early pilot builds referencing the hardware design spec.  Lead the implementation effort. All low-level mechanical design is performed and documented in ProE.  Conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reviews with the company’s manufacturing partners.  Oversea the tooling release effort.  Participate in First Article Inspection (FAI) and prepare material for each pilot build.  Support EVT and DVT builds by trouble shooting all design and manufacturing issues on the line.  Perform design and tooling modifications to optimize the product’s functional performance and assembly process.