Engineering System

Tony Zhou_OEM NaviRadio System Architect

Objective: In pursuit of an organization that can utilize my

experience and offer the opportunity for continued skill and career

Development and advancement.

Contact Information: abmgnl@r.postjobfree.com, 734-***-****;

Nationality: US Citizen

Education:

9/86 - 7/92: Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Southeast Univ.,

Nanjing, PRC

9/90-9/92: Ph.D Candidate Electrical Engineering, Southeast Univ.,

Nanjing, PRC

11/97-5/99: Master of Electrical Computer Engineering, Wayne State

Univ. College of Eng., Detroit, Michigan

CAREER SUMMARY

10+ yrs Both in OEM and PND Infotainment System & Navigation System

& Satellite Radio, and System Architecture Design.

10+ yrs Simulation system design w/ using .net/Framework software

development tools.

10+ yrs In-vehicle communications protocols (J1850, J1939, LIN and

J101708). MLAN diagnostics, Class II, GMLAN, GMLIN, ODI, NGR, Global

Delta, Chrysler Gateway and all kind of Vehicle Serial Data

Communication and OBD

10+ yrs Develop business, commercial and engineering stratagem.

10+ yrs Establish engineering and commercial relationship w/ OEM

10+ yrs System Efficiency Engineering

10+ yrs Software life cycle and CMMI (3-5)

9+ yrs System and Sub-System Interface and Sub-System/Process

Integration

8+ yrs Management annual and mid-term reengineering and development

budget

8+ yrs Analyze market data and further OEMs need and Engineering and

Quality Assurance..

8+ yrs Supervision/lead NaviRadio/Telematics RFQ

8+ yrs Negotiation of annual price reduction for current and further

product w/ OEM

8+ yrs Engineering and commercial activities for the North American

region

8+ yrs OnStar telematics system test validation

8+ yrs DOORS and ClearCase/ClearQuest

8+ yrs Rational Rose (UML) - Object-Oriented Design

8+ yrs Software Design Life Cycle and Design Processes (CMMI 3-5)

8+ yrs XM CMOS integrated Satellite System and I2C CBM

communication,

8+ yrs XM Radio Real time traffic Info & Weather Service and its

configurable data pattern.

8+ yrs RSA, RSE and various Vehicle Infotainment System (Digital,

Composite, Component);

8+ yrs Media/Mechanisms (HDD, DVD, RAM, Flash memory)

8+ yrs WiFi Protocol/802.11 X Protocol

8+ yrs RF Technology

8+ yrs Telematics System (OnStar, SYNC, FCP/VCP, HFC/UHP, TDMA/CDMA

and GSM) w/ its HMI design

8+ yrs HMI development experience for telematics, Infotainment and

vehicle multimedia system display w/using Altia and EB tools

8+ yrs Flash ActionScript, EB Guild Studio and Altia HMI tools.

7+ yrs WinCE, Linux, Enhance Embedded OS based NaviRadio System.

6+ yrs Speech Interface and Nuance VoCon EDS App

5+ yrs GPRS platform

5+ yrs Portable Devices and PDIM module

EXPERTISE

NaviRadio System Architecture Design/Development

OEM navigation Radio/Telematics Program Management

Business, commercial and engineering stratagem

Telematics/Infotainment/Intelligent Box

Engineering and Business Development Strategy and R&D Development

plans.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

05/09-Present: System Architect/Technical Leader/Engineering

Manager, NaviRadio/OnStar Emerging Services, GM/OnStar, Detroit, MI

*Led Engineering, commercial and sourcing activities for North

America and China regions. Management engineering and advance

development budget. Negotiated of annual price reduction and cost

severing w/ suppliers, established short-term and long-term plan for

re-engineering plan, monitored activities and results regularly.

*Developed MY12 HMI simulation w/ using .net, utilized Nuance speech

engine in the application, created GMLAN interface (TX/RX FCP

related ODI message). Developed the external sound-card for live

speech input.

*Support HMI spec owner to improve spec accuracy for user interface

flow /user interface table (UIT/UIF) logic flow. Developed and

modified current UIT/UIF MS -Access database for the usability test.

Prepared bench and performed bench and vehicle test for the HMI

simulation.

*Support integration of software items (SI) on the Linux host

machines and on the real-time target machine running LynxOS-SE in a

dynamic fast pace environment and then later support software

integration on the vehicle.

*Perform market analyses to identify current and future PND and OEM

NaviRadio market elements to generate competitive strategies to

determine insured successful product Development plan. Create

product business plan, defines further product requirements to

insure the features of product could meet market to gain the market

share, revenue and to meet company financial targets.

*Proposed & Developed NGA, Linux, Enhance embedded OS based

NaviRadio for GM Delta program. Perform advance research &

Development, such as next generation, IPC, HUD, NaviRadio, Lane

departure warning, and other safety system.

*Developed AM/FM/XM radio related HMI for Panasonic Radiohead for GM

black-tie with using EB Guide Studio 3.4,

*Developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) and generic speech

output (GSO) within modern speech dialog systems for Automatic

Speech Control for Speech-Controlled HMI Solutions with using EB

GUIDE Speech for Medion GoPal system and VW/Audi system.

*Developed Matlab/Simulink modeling for Multi-Modal HMI Solution

Speech Dialogs with Matlab/Simulink/Real-time Workshop to evaluate

the consistent and logical unit of graphics (HMI) and speech of the

modeling. Developed test plan for IBM and Nuance speech engine and

perform road test.

Consultant Service: 05/08-03/09: Engineering Leader /OEM NaviRadio

Advisor, Elektrobit INC, Novi, MI

Aisin AW, Plymouth, MI

*Performed market analyses to identify current and future PND and

OEM NaviRadio market elements to generate competitive strategies to

determine insured successful product Development plan. Create

product business and engineering plan, defines further product

requirements to insure the features/functions of product could meet

market to gain the market share, revenue and to meet company

financial targets.

* Supervision Ford SYNC SW component Development/design/test.

Developed test spec/procedure for Elektrobit PND, Wireless and

satellite phone products and Ford SUNC V2/V3 system. .Analysis the

impacts of power mode for SYNC V2 platform in both system bench and

vehicle, to propose further feature function of next generation of

SYNC V3 performance at different power modes. Developed test

spec/procedure for Elektrobit PND, wireless and satellite phone

products and Ford SUNC V2/V3 system. Supervision Ford SYNC SW

component Development/design/test.

*Support GM R/D group to define next generation PDIM infrastructure

and capacity and propose related GMLAN diagnostic messages and

specified the silicon chip solutions for the products. Supervision

AW 08/09/10MY Cadillac Escalate program Design/Development/Test in

US.

*Plan and perform NavTeq and Tele Atlas mapDB tests included in

route, bench tests w/ using MapViewer and Desktop Navigator

application. Plan and perform 3D landmark test w/ using

MapDevelopeder.

*Interface customer; communicate with company design ctr to solve

all the issues and management program schedule. Create project and

R&D Development plans including resources and expenses for review

and approval, and budget control. Responsible for NAR region

engineering and businesses Development and personal management.

06/06-05/08 Program Management / Technical Expert in Robert Bosch

LLC, Plymouth, Michigan

*Worked with GMNA R&D group to define low cost NaviRadio

infrastructure: DVD drive replaced by CD; Reduce to 256 MB Flash; -

Gyroscope eliminated; SD card Navigation; USB Hub (for multiple

devices); Rear Camera (RC) Video input; Personalization (selectable

animations); Jpeg Backgrounds; Downloadable POIs; On-screen User

Manual (comfortable help); Green Route (most economical route);

Voice Recognition; Travel Guide; TMC Message Resolution, CD

mechanism replaced with DVD; DVD Video for RSE; ADAS Interface;

Gyro; Microphone Input; Tour Concept; Logbook; Onboard Map Link to

Internal Flash; 2D Sensor. Define and specified the silicon chip

solutions to meet the requirements of system design performance.

*Proposed & Developed 1. WinCE, Linux, Enhance embedded OS based

NaviRadio for OEM, 2. Vehicle intelligent system (to analysis all

kind of dynamic data from telematics <include in V2V_ DSRC>,

satellite data service, safety, infotainment, vehicle motion

management system, NaviRadio, etc, to give correct real-time

response). Perform advance R&D, such as next generation IPC, HUD,

Lane departure warning, and other safety system how to associate

with NaviRadio. Defined, specified and architected further the

silicon chip solutions to support the system design performance of

next generation NaviRadio.

*Proposed next generation NaviRadio infrastructure, such as 3D

landmark, map-view, online-radio, etc

-Enhanced Virtual Earth 3D with Intermap Data - Live Search Maps,

-The integration of real-time information delivered by

over-the-network services (on-Board WiFi service);

-Full integration with vehicle CAN, and wireless communications

protocols (TDMA, CDMA and GSM), broadband satellite downlink for

multicasting, and two-way satellite for ubiquitous coverage.

-etc.

*Interface customer spec owners, review customer management

requirements/specifications and gather customer requests, Developed

function matrix for GM Global A NaviRadio, especially for OnStar/BT

and XM (Weather & Traffic and other data services)

*Developed full XM DCM architecture, XM Life data extraction system

and configurable data test patters (traffic and weather, etc).

Defined XM related vehicle CAN diagnostic. Developed full

OnStar/Bluetooth & Hand Free Phone system concept and OnStar

emergency call trigger procedures (AACN <segment 1 &2> event in the

case of an airbag Developed event coincident) and verified the

precedence of airbag deploy event, and detail impact situation/data

during all kind of power moding.

*Defined all kind of phones related functionalities with and

verified all the related dynamic ODI events and HMI Display

Sequence. Developed OnStar/ Bluetooth & Hand Free Phone

Feature/Function Matrix, defined test case and Developed full

telematrics test plan and performed full tests.

Developed B/P Bosch Vehicle CAN message translation & GMLAN

diagnostic proposal. Worked with GMNA to update GMLAN Diagnostic

Spec.

*Developed full XM TA1&2 test plan to performed the entire pre-TA

tests and its diagnostic. Worked with XM and Mitsumi to solve all

kind of details spec issues and TA 1 & 2 tests issues. Performed

bench tests with using XM defined test patterns and vehicle test

with using XM life data to verify XM radio performance in both audio

and data. Performed SW bug management, root cause analysis, and

system & sub-system integration and regions calibration.

Troubleshooting the bench system.

01/05-05/06 Program & Engineering Manager/Senior Engineer at Alpine

Electronics of America, Farmington Hills, Michigan

*Supported GMNA R&D group to improve common architecture (vehicle

CAN communication) and proposed Global Epsilon architecture (for all

the NaviRadio related CAN communications). Provided improvement

propose for CAN communication in between external XM module and Navi

core server. Defined Demo mode HMI screen flow for both Navigation

and XM Radio.

*Proposed HMI screen flow for MapDB incremental updating for further

OEM platform approach. Support ed NavTeq to propose map-enhanced

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Defined North America POI

category content and XM HMI screen flow. Worked with Map DB provider

to update POI category and created China Map DB Installation

processes accorded to CHN government regulation.

* Negotiate specifications gathering requirements for applications

design. Developed cooperative relationships with co-workers and

contribute to global teams for design, review, and testing.

Communicate with GM and the company Design Center. Gather all the

issues from all design phases, solve the issue locally and or assign

some of them to oversea design center. Prepare component samples for

IVER build; perform bench level and vehicle tests. Supervision

samples and software release activities, track all the bugs until

fix.

*In charge of test spec Development and SW test validation and

release, to cooperate with oversea program managers to management GM

Global project. Built system bench and performed vehicle test.

Interface to GMNA for all kind of technical/business matters.

Defined and Developed SW QA control process, and engineering

Development process improvement procedure. Supervision all the

related activities for CMMI levels 3 implementation. Attended GM SW

peer review in GME/GMNA and supplier mfg QA audit.

01/00-12/04 Senior System Engineer at Yazaki North America,

Electronic, Instrumentation and Switch (EIBU), Canton, Michigan

*Provided systems engineering support for on-going and future

programs, and product Development. Developed systems engineering

management & Software V Module plan, technical proposal, scope of

work and program schedule, product Development plan. Analyzed and

reviewed customer specifications, coordinate technical issues with

customers and Development team to develop systems engineering

interfaces, and systems specifications with using structured

modeling methods. Developed systems test specifications, conduct

systems test at the both module and vehicle level, performed

configuration management, and participated product design review.

* Performed customer requirement analysis, validation & verification

with using the requirements management database (DOORS, PVCS), and

designed auto tester and setup the end of line test process.

Supported functional analysis and system functional architecture

Development.

*Setup customer requirement trace-ability processes & System for

software Development process, ensuring software quality. Defined

and specified the requirements of microchip solutions for the

products. Supported continuous improvement system efficiency (DMAIC

& CMMI). Worked with various Development teams and engineering

groups to improve system efficiency to avoid duplicate effort and

insure system quality software design. Developed Quality System

Processes for Improvement of System Engineering Efficiency in order

to Adopt to ISO/TS 16949:200; ISO/IEC 15288, etc. for Engineering

System Improvement.

* Development of Re-useable Test System. Supervise ED & DV & PV

Phase test; create DVP&R, test flow and test plan and Fault Analysis

(Design FMEA, Process FMEA, System FMEA, and Root Cause Analysis in

all the levels). Worked with the customer, test/validation group and

Development team to perform fault results analysis, requirement

analysis, modeling, and verification and validation.

*Partner with Purchasing and R&D to qualified new suppliers, both

domestic and overseas. Developed and delivered vendor on-site and

internal supplier quality systems training. Provided vision and

leadership for corporate quality and strategic initiatives. Made

detail-engineering plan for reducing overall product costs and

improving manufacturing efficiency from the inception to completion

of projects.

5/97-12/00 WSU Research staff and Graduated Student (11/97- 5/99)

(OEM/Suppliers Consultant)

*Designed dSPACE HIL Simulation System with using MATLAB, and or

SimuLink Data Acquisition (Open and closed loop vehicle simulation)

in testing of advanced control systems involves interface physical

control device to simulated version of the electromechanical system

needing control. Design & Developed and Setup Environmental Test

System.

Remarkable and Highlights:

*Defined MY12/13/14/15 GM OnStar HMI screen logic and display and

developed the HMI simulation and associate logic/screen database.

*Defined next generation NaviRadio function/feature for both OEM and

PND platforms.

*Launched the Ford 2nd generation SYNC for 09MY and defined the 3rd

generation SYNC.

*Launched the most successful GMX322 CTS High Navigation Radio

program that was named the car of 2008, and defined next generation

XM and OnStar related feature/function for Global Epsilon NaviRadio

program. Developed GM Global A Navigation Radio program for 2009MY

*The successful RFQs: a. GM Global Delta NaviRadio, b. Nissan super

NaviRadio c. GM Global A Mid-NaviRadio and Development, d. Next

Generation Ford SYNC V3.

*Designed XM DCM (radio, traffic & weather feature) and OnStar DCM

for GM Mid Epsilon NaviRadio

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