Bio
Origin: Born in Taiwan, Grew up in Canada, Made in US
Location: Portland, OR
Age: 42
Langs: English, Mandarin Chinese (Traditional)
Goal: Enrich Life
The Present
I'm currently NOT looking for work, but always open to discuss new and interesting opportunities.
Projects
I'm constantly working on multiple projects simultaneously, so make sure to check out my Projects page.
Skills
Core Competencies
China Strategy
Turnkey Strategy
Security Strategy
NFC (Payment) Strategy
P2P/AllJoyn (vs. iBeacon, Bluetooth LE)
Strategic Initiative for Strategic Realignment Plan
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Qualcomm Value-Add Software (vs. Competitions)
Qualcomm Advance Software Technologies (vs. Competitions): Speech Recognition, Fluence Noise-Cancellation, Camera(Optizoom, Chromaflash, Ubifocus, Low-Light Enhancement, Object Removal, Object Cloning), Security(SecureMSM, Enterprise Security (MDM), Antivirus, Payment, Secure APIs), Vuforia/FastCV, Gesture
Snapdragon, MSM7k processors
Modem (power/performance)
Windows RT (power/performance)
Nintendo
- GestureTek
- Atheros
- Thundersoft - To address application gap
- Bsquare - For custom design gap
- Dolby - For OEM/white label branding
- NXP - For NFC solution gap
- Security - for differentiation
Secure Element
Payment
Enterprise (MDM)
Antivirus
- Gesture - acquisition
- NFC - acquisition
- P2P - sell
- Multicore CPU Design - for differentiation
- Heterogeneous Compute - for differentiation
- Optional SW: Noise Cancallation - for revenue/profit
- Optional SW: Camera - for revenue/profit
- PC
- Wearable (Android Wear/Google Glass)
- M2M/IoT/IoE
- Server
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Unitech Industrial Device
Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp
Tiger Team Projects: HP/Foxconn, HTC, Sony, LG...
Qualcomm Strategy: Led Multiple teams for Modem performance and power benchmarking
Qualcomm Strategy: Led Multiple teams for Windows RT Benchmarking
Qualcomm Engineering: Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp, led Multiple (internal, customers, partner) teams
Qualcomm Engineering: As Tiger team, led Multiple internal cross-functional teams and customer teams to address urgent issues
Bsquare: Led a team of engineers to develop 2 windows mobile projects
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gpsOne, an E911 app / middleware, that is used in more than 300 million smartphones
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Web Apps
Mobile Apps
PC/ Embedded System / Smartphone
Extensive experience on System Architecture, Design Review, Device Bring-up, Cross-Functional Debugging, and Power Management
- Architecture: x86 and ARM
- Chipsets: Qualcomm (7k, Snapdragon), Marvell (Intel PXA), Intel, AMD. Experienced with TI OMAP, Samsung SC/Exynos, Nvidia Tegra, MTK, and Intel Atom as well
- OS: Windows Mobile/Windows Phone, Windows RT, Windows, Windows Embedded, Windows CE, Android, Brew, Symbian
World-class expert in Power Management: MP-DCVS, Sleep, Clkrgm, ISR/IST , PMIC, Battery, down to individual components. Experienced in ACPI and APM
Wrote 14 device drivers: Eboot, IPL (OMA DM/FOTA), Memory, GPIO, Serial (UART), i2c, GPS, Barcode Scanner, DCVS, Battery, Keypad, Remkeys, Backlight, and Notification LED.
Integrated/Modified: Interrupt, Timer, PCMCIA, USB, SDIO, RNDIS, RPC MUX, TAI, Display, Touch Panel, Camera, Audio, Bluetooth, and WLAN
Programming Languages
C#
Swift
JavaScript
C/C++
Java
Weapon of Choice
Windows
Mac OSX
Others: Chromebuntu
Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code
Xcode
Android Studio
Unity
Others: Eclipse, UltraEdit, TextEdit, Notepad, Pico…
Git/Azure DevOps/GitHub
Visual Studios Team Service
Older: Subversion, Perforce
Beyond Compare
Fiddler
Lauterbach Trace32 (JTAG)
Diagnostic Logs, Trace logs, Kernel logs,… serial port dump, led light
cmd, console, Kudu
SQLite Manager
Chrome, FireFox, Edge
Office Suites (Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Word, Outlook, Sway, Visio, SharePoint)
Paint/Paint.net/Paint 3D, Photoshop, Inkscape, GIMP
Garage Band, Audacity
Movie Maker, iMovie
The Past
Ex-hacker, Network Administrator, Security Consultant to National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
Web Developer, Teacher (JavaScript), Technical Consultant (C#/ASP.NET)
Public Relations Officer (RISC, Microsoft Consulting at University of Toronto)
Have been working in the Technology Industry (PC, Embedded, Smartphone, Mobile/Web Apps) as BIOS Engineer, System Integrator, Kernel Engineer, and Mobile (Android/iOS/Windows)/Web Application Developer. I have also spent 5 years in Corporate Strategy, focused on Technical Competitive Analysis and Strategy. I am experienced in M&A, Operations, Product Management, Technical Project Management, Technical Marketing/Sales, Technical Partnerships, Customer Engineering, Technical Talks/Presentations, Tradeshow PR and Event Planning. Extensive experience with 3rd party requirements, such as FDA regulations on medical devices, Carrier Technical Acceptance (TA), Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS), and Windows Hardware Certification (LTK/CETK, WHQL). Oversea working experience.
Previous Employers
CTO , Technical Entrepreneur, defined strategy and product roadmap, led product management and engineering organizations.
Commercialized Hippra, a HIPAA-Compliant collaborative platform for health providers.
Senior Quality Assurance Consultant to R&D and Quality Assurance teams. Provided Software architecture and System design reviews. Completed Abbott's training regarding to FDA regulations on medical devices.
Staff Engineer (Business Strategy & Analysis) , Strategy and Technical Advisor to Senior Executives, accountable for software strategy, competitive analysis, technology analysis, growth, and strategic initiatives. Senior Competitive Product Manager role for competitors’ Value-Add Software (VAS) and Advance Software Technologies for Snapdragon Chipsets. Collaborated with product managers, program managers, and engineering teams for strategies and roadmaps to highlight differentiations and close gaps. Additionally, worked with M&A and Legal for 3rd party partnerships. Led up to 7 engineering teams for competitive analysis. Managed multiple projects, ranging from competitive analysis, to building internal tools.
Led technical analysis projects for new technologies and new markets: resulting in over 10 new technology investments, 4 new business segments, and 2 acquisitions
Developed use cases and functional specifications to support development of product definitions: resulting in 12 commercial chipset products
Recommended marketing strategy and wrote selling guides used for technical marketing: leading to over 10 key design wins
Established competitive analysis process: leading to 4 partnerships and 6 organizational strategic initiatives
Formed competitive benchmarking process for modem and Windows computing devices. Led projects to develop benchmarking tools. Managed all modem and Windows performance analysis projects between 2010-2015: resulting in competitive data used by executives, finance, sales, marketing, engineering, and investor relationships
Managed projects and worked with teams for our customers: resulting several internal services with over 3000 subscribers
Senior Software Engineer (Customer Engineering) , Leading customer-facing technical staff, expert in system architecture, kernel, device drivers, and power management. Charged with design consultation and technical marketing. Drove requirements, change requests, and feature requests. Managed multiple complex projects that involves internal teams, external OS partners, and customers. As Technical Account Manager, managed up to 13 customer projects concurrently, including 9 onsite and 4 remote projects, and oversaw multiple supporting engineering teams across multiple time zones to provide 24-hours development updates. Directed up to 6 technology teams, resolving cross-functional technical issues. Published over 20 documentations. Taught over 18 customer training sessions, involving over 20 customers. Led in chipset commercialization, resulted in 6 commercial chipset launches.
Directed smartphone product development ranging from design review, gap analysis, software development, device bring-up, to passing carrier Technical Acceptance (TA): resulting in over 25 smartphone commercial launches
Managed projects including resource planning, status reporting, cross-functional triage, cross-departmental collaboration, negotiating and managing deliverables: leading to recognition by customer senior executives as principle point of contact
Led Windows Phone 7 bootcamp: leading a collaboration between Qualcomm, Microsoft and 9 customers
Senior Consultant / Senior Software Engineer , Interdisciplinary consultant to Qualcomm as system architect, commercialized first smartphones using Qualcomm chipsets. System integration lead, accountable for product development, specializing in kernel and device drivers. Designed mobile applications on Windows Mobile/Windows CE. Practiced PMP principles.
Managed 3 projects across all phases, from statement of work (SOW) to completion phase: exceeding customer expectations, while yielding additional 15-20% margin for the projects
Developed board-support-package (BSP) for industrial / military-grade mobile devices: completing 31 Windows Mobile / CE device drivers such as power management and Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA); winning awards from Microsoft
Architected gpsOne application and middleware: resulting E911 Emergency Locator used in more than 300 million smartphones
Designed Memory Leak Detector: resolving multi-million-dollar industrial application issue
System BIOS Design Engineer at world’s 2nd largest laptop ODM. Led risk reduction process with Six Sigma and Information Security Management System. Supervised factory operations in China.
Developed Phoenix BIOS for 8 notebook computer product lines, specializing in power management (ACPI) and security
Designed source control process and automation tools
Implemented tools to optimize manufacturing process
Network Administrator for class B, government network
Deployed internal fiber infrastructure
Deployed DHCP across the organization
Education
Activities and Societies: Microsoft Consulting, IEEE, ECE Club, Professional Engineers Ontario, Microsoft Devhood
FDA Regulation on Medical Device Training - Abbott Medical Optics
Business Acumen - Stanford Business School
PMP Certification Training
Six Sigma Training
CMMi Training
Information Security Management System (BS7799/ISO27001)
Intel EFI Training
Certified CSS Phoenix BIOS Engineer
Awards
Devhood (2001)
Gauss
Pascal
Cayley
Fermat
Euclid
Descartes
Life
I am an explorer, a philosopher, an engineer, a walking contradiction dictated by logics.
I'm rather versatile in a number of sports. My favorites are: Snowblading, Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Basketball, Biking, Dance, and Driving. I follow F1, Hockey, and Basketball. I enjoy Indie, Jazz and Trance music. I play Chinese Flute (Dizi), Classical Guitar, and Ukulele. I am into museum, art, and architecture. I am a movie buff and appreciate plays. I enjoy nature and camping. I love to travel and the culture experiences. Most of all, I love food. It’s my guilty pleasure.
Obsessions
While I have the tendency to quickly adopt a new interest, my true obsession is my thirst to learn, think, and do. I have moved away from obsessing over material goods to prefer knowledge and life experiences. Then again, I am obsessed about food… On a serious note, I often find myself reading about law, medicine, science, history, economy and finance (stocks).
Other Interests
Favorite Sports: Badminton, Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Skiing and Snowblading
Played competitive sports in Tennis, Badminton and Track-and-field (100m sprint, 4x100m relay, long jump, high jump)
Chinese Flute (Dizi)
Keyboard
Recorder
Trombone
Guitar (Classical)
Ukulele
Go
Chess
Contract Bridge
Magic: The Gathering
Real-Time Strategy: Dune, Command & Conqueror, Warcraft, Starcraft
Strategy: Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone
FPS: Wolfenstein, Quake, Call of Duty
Open World: GTA5
Interesting Facts
Performed as a standup comedian
Was in Cub and Venture scouts
Won several world ladders in competitive video gaming, particularly in Command & Conqueror: Red alert, Command & Conqueror: Red alert 2, and Command & Conqueror: Sole Survivor. Also placed in top ranks in Warcraft 3 and Starcraft