VP, Director of Power Design Engineering

THAI Q. NGO PhD

Currently, I am a Chairwoman Senior Advisor of Zinnia Corporation. Previously I held several positions such as President of MN Laser Medical Equipment, Vice President of Engineering and Quality at UniPower LLC. IBM Corporate Program Director of Power Supply Design Engineering and Supply Chain Management located in Southeast Asia, • Chair IBM Power Technology Symposium, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Chief Technical Officer of training for Power Supply Engineers and Auditing Power Supply Companies in Asia and Europe. Member of IBM Patents Evaluation. Second Line Manager of IBM Power Supply Research and Development. Independent Consultant for Overseas Power Supply Manufacturing Companies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chairwoman Senior Advisor of Zinnia Corporation: 06/2016 to Present

-Lead Corporate IT Engineering Department for two hospitals and hundred of Aesthetic clinics

-Lead Corporate Research and Development Engineering for Beauty Laser Equipment

-Lead Corporate Supply Chain Engineering including Purchasing

-Training MD and RN beauty treatment method using Laser Medicine

President of MN Laser Medicine: 09/2013 to 04/2016

Saigon, Vietnam, and Minnesota, USA

. The company is currently working with overseas customers on Beauty Laser Equipment.

. Represent several Beauty Laser companies World Wide

. Training Doctors, Nurses to operate variety of Laser Machine

Vice President of Engineering & Quality Unipower LLC

Coral Springs, FL USA 01/2013 to 08/2013

•Successfully built up from scratch to forty professional switching mode power supply design and technology group

•Delivered more than ten new products including Telecom Network, Power Supply for Lighting, LED products and High Density, High Efficiency, Low cost Power Supply for Server and Consumer Products within first eight (8) months

•Reduced failure rate down to 0.4%

•A strong contributor on Technology and improve revenue

•Developed a new strategy to reduce product cycle time and improve the MTBF from 500 thousand hours to 1M hours. Results to release a family of power supply with very high reliability

AT@R Power Supply, Consultant/Owner

Rochester, MN USA 12/2010 to 01/2013

•Auditing, Design support and Qualify worldwide power supplies vendors to comply with Industry standards

•Support ODM Power Development

•Qualify and Test Power Adapter and Power Supply for EVT,DVT, and MVT

Jabil Senior Manager Power Architect

Colorado Springs, Colorado 08/2010 to 12/2010

Responsible for providing a complete solution for new power supply strategy and architect for all servers’ products with high reliability and low cost. The solutions are included AC/DC and multiple DC/DCs power conversion with the low form factor.

Coaching the power supply design team in Jabil China and provide well-defining design responsibilities for both U.S and China Power Supply Engineers to avoid overlap works and improve design cycle

AT@R Power Supply, Consultant/Owner

Rochester, MN USA 02/2009 to 08/2010

•Auditing, Design support and Qualify worldwide power supplies vendors to comply with Industry standards

•Support ODM Power Development

•Qualify and Test Power Adapter and Power Supply for EVT,DVT, and MVT

IBM Director for X-Series Server in IBM Asia Pacific

Taiwan and Hong Kong 05/1996 to 02/2009

•Establish both Manufacturing and Procurement new hired Chinese and Japanese engineers in Asia and relocate them from China to Raleigh for hands-on training.

•Design Power Supply for x-series (from 120 Watts Power Adapter for laptop to 2000 Watts for Desktop, Server, and Telecom

•Strong focus on revenue to meet executive’s requirements on every quarter.

•Continue to reduce MVA and improve quality, schedule and cost for all Asia Pacific Projects. “Design Smarter” Quote from couple IBM Vice Presidents

•Customer interface and customer satisfaction.

•Hands-on design, responsible, and accountable for multiple projects

•Responsible for supporting IBM AP efforts to increase the Power Supply Engineering skills and workload.

•Support and make decision for Sales and Procurement teams to select the vendors

•Lead the Procurement, Quality Control and Manufacturing Engineers audit the IBM’s Suppliers

•The result in 2005, IBM Taiwan Development Center released 5 new products, 28 follow-on projects.

•Chairman of IBM Power Technology and Strategy Symposium with more than 250 Power Supply and Semiconductor companies participated in 2001-2003.

Compaq Desktop Power Supply Design Manager

Houston, TX 02/1996 to 05/1996

Manage Power Supply Design and Test Engineers for High Volume Desktop. Member of outsourcing teams (Design, Test, Quality and Purchasing) visit, Design Review, Qualify Industry Standards power supply and select the Power Supplies Core Vendors. The team has delivered the Lowest Cost, High Quality and on Schedule for over three hundred thousand power supply units for Compaq Desktop division in 1996

IBM Senior Technical Staff Member

IBM Rochester, MN USA 01/1984 to 2/1996

•IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in Power Supply Area

•Expertise in Feedback Control Theory and Design Simulation

•Design Power Supply with different topologies for high quality and low cost

•Design High-Frequency switching mode for AC/AC, DC/DC and Power Adapter

•Design Review and Qualify ODM design

•Design Multiphase (VRM) for IBM I and P series. Multiphase for IBM and Intel’s uP

•Design and analyze 3 Sigma Power System Calculation to prevent over design and saving cost

•Interface and Design with IBM’s vendors

•Responsible for quote pack, schedule, delivery, and cost negotiation

•Simulation of Power Generation and Transmission Line

•Design AC Motor control for IBM Printer

•IBM DC to DC World Wide Team leader

•Provide IBM Technology Road Map to internal IBM Power Departments and select core Vendors. Responsible for reporting industry technology availability to IBM Commodity Council and Design Development across IBM divisions

•Coach younger engineers

•Lead Power Supply that crosses functional teams to evaluate, select topology for the projects. Lead IBM Auditing and Qualify worldwide power supply vendors to comply with IBM and Industry standards

•Approve vendors design and resolve all technical problems to meet internal and external customer’s requirements

•Work with Purchasing and QA to select PS manufacturers.

•Analyze PA cost.

•Manage ODM PA suppliers in Asia.

•Responsible for designing power supplies that meet Engineering Specifications and Approved by UL, CSA, TUV Safety requirements

•Design “Virtual Memory Adapter” for IBM PS/1 and PS/2

•Design “Speech Recognition Adapter for IBM P/S 1

•Design AC/DC Switching Mode Power Supplier for IBM AT

•Design AC/DC and low cost DC/DC High-Frequency Power Adapter for Jet Printer

•Responsible for Power Supply Design Quality, Tests and System EMC

Power Supply Design Engineer

IBM Endicott NY USA 06/1982 to 01/1984

•Analog Circuit Design and Switching Mode Power Supplier for IBM Main Frame, Matrix, and Laser Printer at IBM Glendale Research and Development, Endicott, New York

EDUCATION

2001 Ph.D. in Engineering Management - Kennedy Western University, Wyoming

1984 M.S in Electrical Computer Engineering - Syracuse University, New York

1982 B.S in Electrical Engineering - the University of Texas at Austin

1973 M.D in Internal Medicine – Medical University of Saigon Vietnam

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