LIM JOO SONG
OFFICE ADDRESS: HOME ADDRESS:
INTEL PRODUCT (M) SDN. BHD. 159, Jalan Permai 3
Lot8, Jalan Hi-Tech 2/3, Kulim Hi-Tech Park Taman Desa Permai
Kedah, Malaysia Kedah, Malaysia
Phone# : (60)-4- 433-7126/7068 Phone# : (60)-4
Mobile# : (60-16-495**** 484-9519
e-mail: ***.****.***@*****.*** or ********@*****.***
Summary:
Sr. Bios engineer with 8 years plus of experience in Bios/PC Firmware
project and architecture development.
Sr. Microprocessor Test and Product Engineer with 6 years plus of
experience in Microprocessor Test Development, Test Program Optimization,
Process, Cost and Factory Improvement projects.
Skill Set:
Bios Engineering
Architecture: EFI/TIANO (since 2004), Legacy
Intel/AMI Core 8 (since 2002)
Work experience: Project Team Lead, Architect, Baseline
developer, Module
developer, Reference Codes
porting, Product bios development,
Debug, Customer on-site
support, Group operation, First Level
Manager.
Platform: Lynnfield-Clarkdale P55/G55, Nehalem
X58, Atom, Soft SKU,
3 Series, 965, 945, 915, 865,
845.
Modules: Core Baseline, IMC, Chipset, CPU,
PCI, SPI, Fan Control, ACPI,
CSM, OpRegion, ME, etc.
Programming Language: C, x86 Assembly Language, Python Script, C#
Tools: Intel's ITP (In-Circuit Test
Probe), America Arium, various Bios
utility.
Test and Product Engineering
Work experience: Functional Test Program Team Lead, Platform
System
Validation Team Lead, Test
Program development, Platform Test
Suite development, Test
Coverage improvement, Test Time reduction
and optimization, Socket
reduction, User function development, first
Silicon debug at Sort.
Tester: S9000 ATE, Trillium, PC Platform
Programming Language: C, x86 Assembly, Pearl script, VB, Pascal.
Others: Test Methodology, DFT, SBL
Education:
Degree: Bachelor Degree (Hon.) of Electrical Engineering
University Technology Malaysia
Major: Electronics
Graduation: April 1994 (CPA: 3.86)
Language: English, Chinese-Mandarin, Malay, Chinese-Cantonese
Work Experience:
Intel Corporation (Malaysia) :
BIOS Engineer (Jan 2001 to Present)
Microprocessor Test and Product Engineer (May 1994 to December 2000)
Bios Engineer (Board Design Center Malaysia, Intel Channel Board
Division)
Designation: Sr. Bios Engineer (2002-Present)
Responsibility:
Bios Technical Lead and Developer for the BDCM Bios team.
In charge of the next generation platform Baseline and module Architecture
creation, CPU-Chipset RC porting, MRC, Core features development, new board
power up and debug support.
Provide project supervision and technical consultation to internal project
team. Involve in the new project planning and help to drive internal and
external team delivery.
Successfully led the development and deployment of the DX58SO Bios on
Rel8.6.3 baseline. Involved in re-architecting and development of the new
baseline to support the Lynnfield and Clarkdale CPU in single bios.
Pioneering the development of the Intel Upgrade Service board Bios piloted
in 2008. Led the power on effort of the first Intel's Netbook board project
in 2007.
Managed to help Intel won design win from NEC APAC on 845, Korea Trigem on
865, Japan Sotec on 915, Gateway on 925, Philips/ONKYO on 945 and SONY on
965.
Hold the KM Bios team manager position from 2002 to 2005. In charged of the
Bios team operation, hiring and training new bios engineer. Managed to grow
the team capability from projects sustaining to bios module owner.
Switched to technical path in 2006 to focus on Technical Career
development.
Involved in multiple projects assignment in Oregon USA: Oct. 2004 to May
2005 for EFI based TIANO project early involvement, Dec. 2006 to Jan. 2007
on Bear Lake platform development, Sept. 2007 to Nov. 2007 on Q33 Soft
SKU project and Dell power on support in Austin Tx, July 2008 to Sept. 2008
on Nehalem platform development. March 2010 to April 2010 Sandy Bridge
project involvement.
Bios Engineer (Board Design Center Malaysia, Embedded IA Division)
Designation: Sr. Bios Engineer (2001-2002)
Responsibility:
Bios development and support for EID's workstation/server motherboard.
Involved in Chipset porting and Bring Up of the Pentium 4 LP Plumas/ICH3
telecommunication server board for Radisys/Nokia project. Others task
included sustaining the 440BX based server board.
Relocated to Irvine CA under work assignment with Intel's EPSD Bios team to
hand-on workstation/server Bios project from March 2001 to October 2001.
Microprocessor Sr. Product Engineer (Test Manufacturing Group)
Designation: Timna CPU Product/PPSV Team Lead (1999 to 2000)
Responsibility:
Microprocessor Functional Test (S9000 ATE) program owner and factory Team
Lead. Primary tasks include developed, optimized, transferred and
maintaining Timna Functional test program. Involved in Timna first silicon
debug in Arizona's Sort Factory.
Lead the Virtual Factory test coverage and productivities improvement
projects on Socket Reduction, Test Time Reduction, Test Hole resolution,
Bin Split improvement and Speed Path analysis. Manage to hit all the PDQ
requirement and target run rate 1Q ahead of POR schedule.
Lead the cross-site Product Platform System Validation (PPSV) Engineering
Working Group to drive PPSV test suite development and productivity
improvement project. Successfully achieve test time and DPM budget before
HVM.
Key contributor in the GHz product start up task force. Complete the test
program setup and tester qualification within short notice to start up the
GHz product in KM factory.
Designation: Pentium II/III SECC Product Engineer (1997 to 1999)
Responsibility:
Microprocessor System-Test (SysTest) test suite owner and developer. In
charge of developing and creating Pentium III SysTest test suite for
Intel's CPU factories. Pioneer the new Seed-based test suite for platform
validation which became standard format for all latest Intel PPSV test
suite.
Chair the Virtual Factory PE forum to coordinate test suite deployment,
Test Time Reduction project and test coverage improvement activities for
the Pentium III product.
Undergo a total of 12 months early involvement in Santa Clara and Folsom to
develop the SysTest test suite and coordinate factory deployment around the
globe for new product start up.
Designation: i486/Pentium/Pentium MMX CPU Product Engineer (1994 to 1997)
Responsibility:
Pentium MMX Functional test program owner. Responsible in test program
transfer test program from Division to the factory and product
qualification activities. Also own the PC Platform Validation test support.
Involve in test suite enhancement and new test platform startup.
Project engineer for the P54CS Cold Socket Elimination task force. In
charge of unit level failure analysis, new Functional creation, Sort screen
development, Over-Under kill study and documentation. Help Intel to achieve
the first complex microprocessor cold socket reduction project.
I486 CPU product engineer. Responsible for maintaining and sustaining the
I486SX/DX Functional tester program ( in PASCAL ). Involve in low yield and
test failure analysis.