Computer Hardware Engineering / Project Manager

ChanKoo (CK) Kang Orlando, FL ***** *******.****@*****.*** 978-***-****

Professional Summary Dedicated computer platform architecture and platform design professional with more than 15 years of experience in server platforms and client platforms. Demonstrated in technology leadership, engineering team management, project planning, innovation, and cross-functional customer design support teams management (hardware and software).

Skills

• Engineering team management

• Platform architecture and platform design

• Processor architecture

• Problem solving

• Customer design support engineering

• Performance optimization

• Technical leadership

• Mentoring

• Technology evangelism

• Feature definition and implementation

Selected Accomplishments

• Established a brand new server/workstation design support team and managed the global server/workstation design support teams.

All AMD Opteron processor based customer server/workstation platform designs support with less than 10 application engineers (2003 ~ 2012).

AMD server market share increase more than 20% in first two years by supporting Tier-1 server customer projects.

Strategic customers included – HP, IBM, Dell, Sun, Cray, Google, and key ODMs in Taiwan/China.

• Led the early design enablement teams and successfully supported all AMD APU (Accelerated Processing Unit - integrates both CPU core and GPU core) based customer client platform launches which include ultra low power notebooks (2008 ~ 2012).

• Architected and developed the automatic schematics review tool (SRTool).

Review result - less than 3 minutes vs. 3~5 days with manual review.

• Contributed to the forward-looking processor feature definition and evangelism (e.g. low power management, server platform management, memory system, processor virtualization).

• Designed x86 based server platforms and the first SPARC clone workstation.

Employment History 2002 – 2012 Senior Engineering Manager

AMD Boxborough, MA & Orlando, FL

1998 – 2002 Engineering Manager

API Network (a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics) Concord, MA

1991 – 1998 Senior Hardware Engineer & Engineering Manager

Axil Computer (a subsidiary of Hyundai Electronics) Santa Clara, CA & Concord, MA

Education BS Degree, Electronics Engineering, Korea Aerospace University, South Korea

Awards and Recognition

• 2012 AMD Executive Spotlight Award – one of key contributors to AMD Trinity APU launch.

• 2011 AMD STAR (Sustained Technical Achievement Recognition) Award.

• 2008 Recipient of AMD key employee retention program.

• 2003 AMD Executive Spotlight Award – one of key contributors to the 1st Opteron based IBM project.

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