Hardware Engineer Manufacturing Process

Allen (Tzu-Hsien) Chang San Jose, CA ***** 626-***-**** *************@*****.***

Hardware Engineer Project Management Manufacturing Processor

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Hardware engineer with knowledge in manufacturing process, designing SOP and has experience of supporting production line. Skilled at analyzing production margins from finance reports and resolving production issues. Proficient in evaluating and improving the manufacturing process performance by tracking quality control and production schedule. Excellent in maintaining strong professional relationships with suppliers, manufacturers and customers while continually improving business practices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: CAD (Solidworks), CAE (Abaqus), CAS (CES EduPack), CAM (simplify3D), MatLab, Polar Si9000 Application: MS Project, Excel (vlookup), Word, PowerPoint, Agile Tools: Scanning electron microscope, X-ray Diffraction Language: English, Chinese (Mandarin)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Product Engineer, Compeq, Taoyuan, Taiwan Aug 2023-Mar 2024

• Evaluate the requirements for customer’s PCB design and provide stack up proposal and the DFM (design for manufacture).

• Support manufacturing engineers to define the production routing and track the production status.

• Coordinate with quality team and provide the root cause corrective plan when receive customer complaint.

• Introduce the improved process and new material from R&D team to customers.

Manufacturing Engineer (Kitting), Veev, Hayward, CA Jan 2022-Nov 2022

• Define BOMs (Bill of material) with mechanical and electrical engineers for projects or sub-assemblies.

• Support procurement and sourcing team to select primary and secondary suppliers for cost efficiency.

• Coordinate with factory and design team to estimate assembly lead time, calculate labor cost and maintenance process.

• Assemble prototype units for functional and reliable test and define the assembly process to train operators.

• Coordinate with quality and logistic teams to define the quality inspection standard and shipping process.

Project Engineer, Bizlink Technology Inc, Fremont, CA Nov 2019-Jan 2022

• Supported quotation center to estimate assembly lead time, labor cost, and present to customers for strategy decisions.

• Acted as a liaison between internal process engineer team and external customers to resolve manufacturing issues.

• Analyzed engineering documents and coordinate with sales to select the best global team to fulfill customers’ needs.

• Collaborated with project manager to identify products’ profitability and modify prices based on demand and cost.

• Analyzed root causes of parts function failure at Tesla Gigafactory 1 to improve production process and minimize fail rate.

Manufacturing Engineer, Wellex Corporation, Fremont, CA Aug 2017-Oct 2019

• Defined manufacturing SOP (SMT and reflow) for PCBA and production line setup to resolve quality issue.

• Reviewed customer’s engineering documents (BOMs and drawings) and estimated labor cost and production lead time.

• Designed and trained 20 operators for mechanical assembly processes and maintained production tools.

Process Engineer (intern), PolarOnyx, San Jose, CA Aug 2016-July 2017

• Establish R&D material portfolio by using laser 3D printing, focused on metal and plastic.

• Experimented and improved 3D printer functions by utilizing CAD to create 3D models.

• Collected process parameter to optimize printing process for metal and plastic and improve product quality.

EDUCATION

MS in Material Engineering, University of Southern California May 2016 BS in Material Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology Jun 2012

PUBLICATION

Chang, Tzu-Hsien. “Porous Ni/8YSZ anode of SOFC fabricated by the plasma sprayed method” ELSEVIER, 2011

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