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Cliff Tsay

San Jose, CA *****

Cellphone: 510-***-****

Email: acuhej@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Profile

A committed and proactive professional with extensive experience in semiconductor industry with various engineering and management roles. Later devoted to cleantech project management and business development as a consultant. Quick to formulate and execute problem-solving strategy and solutions by assimilating new ideas, concepts and cutting-edge technologies whilst demonstrating a logical and analytical approach to solving complex problems and issues. Able to work well on own initiative while demonstrating the organisation and prioritisation required to achieve tight deadlines and deliverables. A motivational and inspirational leader who enjoys being part of a successful and productive team, and thrives in highly pressurized and challenging working environments. Key Competencies

Technical Project Management

Semiconductor Device Manufacturing

Inter-departmental Collaboration

Quality System and Readability Audit

Problem Identification and Solving

Logistics and Operations

New Product Introduction

Customer and Subcontractor Management

Supplier Management System

Business Process Integration & Improvement

Project and Business Development

Resource Identification and Integration

Career Summary

To date Independent Consultant/Contractor

Functioning as an operation manager to develop and manage desalination and solar energy projects in Asia Pacific region and China with focus on building local strategic partnership and sales channel.

Performing project management for solar energy project development including financial and technical feasibility study, investor negotiation, and partnership building.

Contributing to multiple consulting contracts in relation to solar energy project development, semiconductor sensor packaging and NPI, and power management IC packaging design and prototypes.

Demonstrating the ability to work at a senior level, coordinating strategies related to marketing, partnership and implementations

Mentoring and advising startups, NPO, small businesses on business strategy, product/project/ business development and M&A activities.

2007 Sr. Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Exar Corporation, Fremont CA

Personally accountable for the management and transformation of the packaging and assembly engineering department as department head through several company merger and acquisition processes including business process integration, document control merging, supplier consolidation, quality system synchronization

Performing key functions as manufacturing engineering member for corporate quality review board and supplier management committee

Instrumental in meeting and exceeding company expectations in packaging and assembly requirements, carrying out value added risk and crisis management as well as marketing, quality assurance, operations, finance and suppliers

Seamlessly coordinating assembly suppliers sourcing, consolidation and relationships leading to strong partnership working

Deploying strong problem solving skills on the packaging and assembly line and working collaboratively with IC and product design engineers to resolve various packaging design challenges 1992 Sr. Chip Packaging and Assembly Engineer, Altera Corp, San Jose, CA Page 2

IC packaging design and manufacturing, supplier collaboration, reliability and qualification 1990 IC Packaging Engineer, National Semiconductor, Santa Clara CA

Process/equipment development, technology transfer, production release, customer tech support Education and Qualifications

EMBA: Golden Gate University, San Francisco

Masters: Welding Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio Masters: Materials Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Bachelors:

Certificate:

Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Hsinchu Taiwan PMP Certification PMI Project Management, CSM Certified Agile Scrum Master with Scrum-Scale Certificate, Solar PV Design and Installation Certificate Key Skills

I.T.: MS Office/Project, CAD, Web/Intranet, Database, Record/Document Tracking Languages: Mandarin, English – Fluent

Membership:

NPO Volunteer:

IEEE/CPMT Member

CleantechOpen Accelerator Mentor

Electronic Packaging and Manufacturing Committee (former group head) Chinese American Renewable Energy Society (co-foudner) Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association (former board director)

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