17+ years of engineering design, manufacturing support, and ODM management experience. Dedicated professional always looking for new challenges, result driven, and balance of efficiencies.
Specialties: - Strong cross fuction program management skills.
- Broad IT experience coverage from cellular to Mobile PCs.
- Solid design experience in area of wireless comm.
- 6+ years of managerial experience.
- Strong communication skills and leadership.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to meet goals.
Camera Engineering Program Manager @ From December 2013 to Present (2 years 1 month) TaiwanDevelopment Manager @ - Managing ODM engineering development activities.
- Supporting engineering deliverable as part of the core team functions.
- In-depth focus on engineering issue resolution, test plan, and coverage to ensure on-time Release From Development. From March 2013 to December 2013 (10 months) TaiwanProgram Director @ - Continue managing cross functional deliverables within Core Teams.
- Driving ODM engineering development deliverables.
- Co-operate with Supplier Quality Engineering and Global Operations to ensure production quality, part quality, schedule deliveries. From May 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 10 months) TaiwanSr. Program Management Manger @ - Perform general management function end-to-end of product life-cycle.
- Leads WW product and execution of cross-functional core teams.
- Managing programs including value stream mobile PCs to high price band laptops.
- Innovate of new business solutions to driving higher margin and balance business needs.
- Identify/manage major risks, program ambiguity, and issue through effective contingency plans and proper escalations. From March 2009 to May 2011 (2 years 3 months) Hardware Engineering Manager @ Program Execution -
- Leading electrical and mechanical technical leads for iPAQ ODM phone.
- Successfully launch first iPAQ 3G Windows Mobile based PDA phone.
- Experience with technology involving GPS systems, BT, and WiFi technology.
- Leading iPAQ products including QWERTY feature WM PDA phone, Keypad based WM Smart phone, and full QWERTY slider design PDA phone.
- Driving technical leads for issue resolution, risk management, and project management skills.
- Assisting program management on schedule delivery commitments.
- Supporting early program phase design validation and concept development assessment. Including overall product component overlay, critical components selection, Mechanical stack up, and advance feature set analysis such as optical sensor detection and etc.
- Supporting tier 1 customer on technical requirement specification analysis.
- Reliability test cases development for electrical and mechanical.
- Delivery online reliability and engineering testing cases for overall system issue tracking.
Advance Platform Engineering -
- Responsible leading advance engineering platform team on 3G system analysis and components selection.
- Build up subject matter experts in specific fields supporting advance engineering group.
- Setup engineering lab capability for HATS system measurement, EMC testing equipments, current drain acquisition systems (supporting WM DoU), conductive RF testing for WLAN and WWAN radios. From July 2007 to February 2009 (1 year 8 months) Product Tech Lead @ - Responsible on leading a engineering team to design a candy bar/clam type ODM UMTS product.
- Involved with Product Marketing on product feature requirements and competitive analysis.
- Working with business team on BOM cost reduction and supplier yield rate improvement goals.
- Lead engineers to solve issues in EE/RF, Mechanical, and as well as SW feature requirement capture in UMTS product.
- Experience on smart phone based design product using Microsoft platform.
- Cooperate with ODM vendor to develop first color dual band GPRS GSM platform candy-bar form factor mobile phones (Asia market only model E360).
- Responsible up to 10 dual band GSM phones for design schedule management, risk assessment, and validation for all Taiwan ODM vendors.
- Experience working with candy-bar, flip type, internal, external antenna, and postponetable dual band GSM mobile phones.
- Advice and validate in all area of electrical parameters at each production proto build for all ODM products:
RF/Wireless characteristics
LCD module performance (brightness, uniformity, cross talk)
Battery usage for all applications
Digital camera performance (frames rate/ optical quality)
- Develop product definitions, and technical specification for each ODM products.
- Help to coordinate compliance testing schedule such as SAR, FTA, and China type approval.
- Drive the ODM vendors to reuse components and existing accessories to reduce design cycle and improve product efficiency.
- Cooperate with quality sectors to improve the manufacturability by achieving minimum Cpk requirements. From May 2002 to July 2007 (5 years 3 months) RF Engineer @ - Design and develop the transmitter section for the wireless handset in GSM 1900 and Dual band GSM 850/1900 in North and South America market.
- Component evaluation for future project such as power amplifier, power detector diodes, voltage controlled oscillators, directional couplers, and ceramic filters.
- Document preparation and technical support for various certifications such as FCC, FTA, and IC standard.
- Familiar with HP8753D network analyzer for input output matching and discrete harmonic filter.
- Manufacturing support in transmitter section for GSM 1900 wireless handset by validating design for mass production.
- Familiar for various RF testing equipment. From August 2000 to April 2002 (1 year 9 months) Product Engineer @ - Testing and measuring components for high radio frequency area using HP8753ES network analyzer.
- Develop measurement and testing technique for impedance analyzer.
- Strong knowledge for measuring high/low impedance components by using HP4194A and HP4291A Impedance Analyzer.
- Reliability testing (including electrical, mechanical, and environmental) and data collecting to gain the manufacturing approvals.
- Publish application notes and specification datasheet to customers. From July 1998 to July 2000 (2 years 1 month)
BSEE, RF, Wireless communication, control systems @ Georgia Institute of Technology From 1996 to 1998 Chen Davis is skilled in: RF, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Mobile Devices, Program Management, Engineering Management, Product Development, Project Management, Wireless, UMTS, GSM, Engineering, Management, Mobile Communications, Testing, Product Marketing