Kan Liu
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Port Washington, NY 11050 Cell:516-***-****
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SUMMARY
** **** ***** ** *******/mechanical design experience in the Research and
Development. These designs included central office switches to handheld
consumer mobile devices. Specialize in architecting new sophisticated
designs with advanced technologies, from concept to material selection and
bringing these robust designs to market on time while optimizing the design
for manufacturability and quality. Was Fujitsu's lead Mechanical Engineer
manager of R&D for whole of North America. Well respected manager and team
builder for Lucent Technologies' physical design group. Detail oriented
with strong skills in supervision across multi-functional groups, including
marketing. Entrusted lead for all new high technology programs that
requires a person that is pro-active with the project plan and proven
problem-solving skills. The holder of 4 U.S. Patents for central office
optical equipment.
Experience
DY Consultants
12/05 - Present
Roslyn Heights, New York
Senior Director of Engineering
* Lead a team of Directors and Project Managements.
- Efficiently supervised/hiring for a group of 6 Engineers, 4
Construction Managers, 4 Project Managers, 2 Airport Planner,
Environmental Engineer, Marketing/Sales, 3 Designers and clerical
staff.
- Built a long term partnership with our clients via effective
communication and project presentations.
- Strategic planning for current and future growth projects.
- Determined staff and wrote scope of work inline with project cost
estimate.
- Developed quality assurance and control for the company.
- Authored and managed project timelines.
- Staff development to utilize their full potentials.
- Insured the healthy financial performance of departments and the
company as a whole.
B/E Aerospace
2/05 - 7/05
Holbrook, New York
Director of Engineering
* Successfully supervised an Engineering group of 12 consisting of a
Technical Manager, Engineering Group, Document Control Group and
Lighting Engineering Group.
* Technical lead for all designs.
* Made much needed improvements in drawing control that vastly
increased efficiency and ISO compliance.
* Instituted engineering processes that brought it up to large company
standards.
* Brought on board additional staffing to help shoulder the work load.
* Chosen to represent the company on sales visits because of my ability
to understand the customer needs.
* Greatly improved the morale of the team by fostering a team
environment.
Inotech Solutions
2/02 - 2/05
Port Washington, New York
Director of Engineering, Consultant
* Lead a Project Management team.
- Efficiently supervised a group of 6 Engineers, 2 Project
Managers, Environmental Engineer, Marketing, Sales and 3
Designers.
- Successfully transitioned the company from a small to a larger
operated company by standardizing design and operational
procedures.
- Assisted the President in running the company.
- Acquired new accounts by teaming with the President to market our
services.
- Successfully elevated the company to perform within the ISO
standards.
- Improved morale and teaming which netted reduced staff turnover.
Fujitsu Network Communications
9/98 - 2/02
Pearl River, New York
Senior Engineer, Physical Design Department
* Chief architect for all new mechanical development effort for Fujitsu
in the United States.
- Assisted Fujitsu of Japan in their design reviews of new
mechanical hardware.
- Initiated companywide EMI/EMC design process and review.
* Project manager and technical lead for all new equipment development
in North America.
- Worked with Program Manager, customers and system teams to
determine project, schedule and budget requirements.
- Established a quality control program.
- Developed the project plan for the mechanical design effort.
- Determined resource allocation, processes and vendor selection.
- Assigned the tasks and gave technical direction to meet project
deadline.
- Managed the project deadlines, plans and schedules whilst
supervising the mechanical design team consisting of a Technical
Manager, 5 engineers, 5 M-cad designers and 2 circuit board
physical designers.
- Negotiated with and evaluated vendors capabilities to meet
company requirements for quality, delivery, capacity and cost.
- Chartered to lead and motivate teams in remote locations
- Proven ability to think calmly, mitigating changing requirements
and to remove barriers for team members to meet schedule.
* Prototype coordinator
- Initiate, developed and lead the prototype procurement team.
- Determined total prototype needs based on budgetary and system
test constraints.
* Lead Physical designer:
- Developed the next generation of faceplates to shield against
EMI/EMC
- Essential contributor to a product that is projected to achieve
$200 million per year in revenue.
- Considered the primary mechanical expert on optical equipment.
- Developed the company's first backplane incorporating an optical
patch panel.
- Reviewed and authorized all design and requirements documentation
before releasing to Engineering.
- Advised and reviewed all the testing associated with NEBS and UL
requirements.
- Editor of the installation manual.
- Developed the circuit board physical design process for the
company.
- Development of circuit board packaging.
- Designed the next generation of shelves to be used as the
platform for all future products.
* Received company acknowledged, Patent awards for the following:
- Backplane and Shelf Arrangement with Front Access Features.
- Optical Fiber Cable Management Apparatus.
- Water Resistant Wall Mount Enclosure with Pivoting Removal Cover.
- Wall Mount Enclosure having Installation Features for Multiple
Separately-Installed Components.
Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories)
6/89 - 9/98
Holmdel, New Jersey
Member of Technical Staff, SONET Development Department
* Acting Technical Manager:
- Supervised the work effort of 2 groups between Holmdel and Boston
which consisted of 15 engineers.
- Maintained project deadlines, project plans and schedules.
- Developed and planned the implementation dates and quantities for
internal customers.
- Created the test plan for the system to meet customer
requirements.
* Physical design Project leader for handheld consumer devices,
backplanes, circuit packs and chassis for Nodal Bandwidth Manager as
well as the Digital Access Cross-connect System product line.
- Lead the design for forward looking handheld consumer devices.
- Designed and implemented the physical architecture for a very
large central office switch.
- Designed a new backplane consisting of a total of 60 layers,
shared between a parent /child configuration.
* Quality assurance:
- Developed and implemented the Quality Improvement Story (QIS),
improving and standardizing the quality of technical drawings to
reduce manufacturing errors.
- ISO representative for the department.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
9/79 - 6/89
Whippany, New Jersey
Senior Technical Associate, Loop Transmission & Lightguide Design
Department
Fiber To The Home" project at Hunters Creek in Orlando, Florida,
designed and supervised the manufacturing processes and implementation
of:
- A Controlled Environment Vault (a remote terminal).
- A Portable Test Optical Network Interface, to locate faults in
the optical lines.
* Designed a lightweight optical connector for extreme environment
applications for the Military.
* Design of a Lightguide Cable Interconnection Module, used as a means
to cross connect fibers.
* Designed a splice tray to accommodate new fiber optic single-mode
rotary splice.
EDUCATION
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Masters of Science: Telecommunications (uncompleted)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey
Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineer
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Knowledge of: Software Applications:
* LAN, MAN and WAN topology * ProEngineering
* Applications of Centrex and PBX * MS Project, Excel, and Word