Chao “Sonny” Hsieh

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408-***-****

Candidate Summary:

Availability to interview with multiple times: Prior Notice.

15+years of extensive technical, program and general management experiences in Aerospace and Consumer electronic industries.

A total of more than 15 years of managing engineering project, products, and large complex programs, interface definition, configuration management, risk identification and abatement, customer facing and program scope extension, and new business capture.

Experience in HW product development life cycle from requirement, design, prototyping, mass production.

Experience in system development (HW, embedded SW, FW, and microcode development (for pure perfor- mance), multi-disciplines and cross functional as well as program management; international experience.

Have comprehensive awareness and significant relationships with many OEM/ODM entities in Asia-Pacific region; Keen on pursuit of strategic partnership in products and technologies (International experience in Europe, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan).

Managed all digital (ETL, TTL, high speed transmission line) and analog (high linearity) design disciplines, and all attendant engineering development labs (including all H/W and S/W).

Managed RF design engineering, Low Noise front end, Power Amp, Transmitter Engineering, Antenna engi- neering including indoor compact range and outdoor far-field test range.

Managed cross-organizational teams responsible for interface between design engineering and manufacturing engineering, and responsible for final subsystem QA; Total of over 200 direct reports;

General Management with full P&L; new business pursuit in strategic partnership, resulting in new products and new lines of business;

Build high performance team and member retention through career coaching.

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

General Electric Corporate Management Development Institute, Manager Development Trac;

Multilingual (fluency in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese). Career Summary:

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering; Has extensive technical, program and general management experiences in Aerospace and Consumer electronic industries; Responsible for complete business operation, full P&L; Multilingual (fluency in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese)

A total of more than 15 years of managing engineering project, products, and large complex programs.

Steady progression in professional experiences and accomplishments, from individual technical contributor, to project leadership, to cross functional management, to fully matrix-ed program responsibilities in the successful delivery of large systems, adhering to best practices in systems engineering principles, especially to CM (Configuration management) per DoD and Risk Management (risk abatement on development risk, schedule risk, supplier risk) low volume aerospace products (ground and air borne large sensor platforms), and for high volume consumer products DIRECTV ODU (Dish + LNB); 802.11xx wireless dongles;

For Satellite radio (Sirius-XM radio) working with technology supplier (ATT microelectronic radio chip sets), review and select qualify parts vendor, managed BOM (price, quality, availability, and lifetime supply involving retest and re-certification); challenging was the high reliability military and aerospace product life cycles and lifetime buys).

1D phase array in ground-based air defense radar (FPS-117) in L Band, satellite dish in Ku Band, LNB with LHCP

(Left Hand Circular Polarization), TDR (Time Domain Reflection) sub-array in a multi aperture flat plate antenna for airborne synthetic radar.

Successes in high volume, high performance and low-cost consumer product definition, implementation, and market penetration, achieved high growth through strategic partnership.

Multiyear multi generation consumer product upgrade, re-certification, re-verification, and reintroduction to existing long term customer, and introduction to new customers (normally via CES).

Develop individual talents organically, or through outside recruiting, building up and retaining interdisciplinary high-performance team to serve the business objectives.

Interfaced with high level decision makers within customer organization’s (C-Level), domestic and international, acquired a decidedly global perspective over the years.

Comprehensive awareness and significant relationships with many OEM/ODM entities in Asia-Pacific region; Keen on pursuit of strategic partnership in products and technologies (International experience in Europe, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan).

Entrepreneurial in spirit, strategic in vision, always a quick study of new and innovative technologies and their impacts on products and application environments, guided by a broad system’s perspective.

Highly collaborative, with different teams and individuals with unrelenting focuses in operational management excellence.

Many successful large scale proposal preparations, written and oral presentation, in direct customer settings, throughout professional career.

General Electric Corporate Management Development Institute, Manager Development Track, (selected in house) for career planing and growth;

Work Experience:

2/2011 – Present H – Group International

Independent Senior Consultant

Modern technology evaluation; New Product Definition; Advises on the Pursue of Strategic Alliances and Partnership based on complementary strengths and mutual strategic objectives; advising on business strategies and change management (re-engineering as opposed to reorganization) for clients.

Some noted efforts in advising on products, technologies, and management practices:

Active fiber optic cable technology (fiber + transceiver) evaluation for large scale data network applications

(single mode laser diode for transmitter and dual mode PIN diode detector on receiver).

Wide area content delivery via satellites, fiber optic back hull for return path, special set top box with customized software app, identify special chip sets requirements and set top box architecture, with desired closed loop media delivery and customer (subscriber) management.

High-power laser (in relative terms) systems for special medical applications.

Automobile LED head light concentration device based on Fresnel Lens principle.

Potential new applications for a uniquely designed high-gain and low-cost Monopole antenna.

Advice to an ODM client on a specially designed connector for a home consumer product.

Novel concept of a narrow fan beam (in 2-D) antenna based on stacked multiple slotted wave guides in lieu of 3-D pencil beam design, thus extremely low cost, in satellite mobile tracking VSAT applications.

Advice to various clients on improving business operation efficiency and increase competitiveness, suggestions for solving complex business problems unique to individual client organizations, instilling the concept of

“execution - a discipline of getting things done correctly, swiftly, and efficiently” 1/1999 – 1/2011 President/GM

W-Neweb Corporation N.A. (subsidiary of Wistron-Neweb Corp of Taiwan)

Responsibilities included, for North America subsidiary, product definition, maintain tight customer relationships, innovative technology infusion, and market penetrations, including Latin America.

Turn around successes: Assumed position at the beginning of 1999, with full P&L, when the operation was only approximately $10M in annual revenue in North America and grew rapidly to $350M+ annually in less than 4 years.

Negotiated technology transfer from Mitsubishi (Japan) via UTSTARCOM (China) as OEM/ODM partner to produce PHS handsets (low power cell phones) for China market, achieved explosive growth from this business segment.

Secured the role as a dominant OEM/ODM partner for the Satellite Outdoor Units (ODU), a high volume, high performance, low unit cost product, in support of the major initiatives of DIRECTV “Direct to Home” satellite TV programming business for the US and Latin America markets, resulted in explosive revenue growth for this business segment.

In close cooperation with AT&T/Bell Lab wireless chip set division, became the only OEM/ODM partner in Taiwan for Sirius/XM satellite radio product portfolio, for personal (wearable and mobile), home, and auto (car) applications; Again, achieved explosive growth for this business segment.

Responsible for IEEE 802.11 a, b, g, and Blue Tooth (BT) chip set vendor evaluations and reference design partner identification, targeting PC wireless modules and dongle products for mass productions.

Driving Failure Analysis Lab (head quartered in Taiwan) for root cause identification in support of product RMA

(my division responsibilities) in North America.

Visited Philips N.V. R&D center in 2004 in The Netherlands for technology partnership/tech transfer of its RF- MEMS design and PASSI technology for circuit board miniaturization (particularly in cell phone applications), and its solid-state chip and foundry business in potential China market. Discussion ended when Philips spun out those business entities.

9/1995 – 12/1998 Managing Director – Asia Pacific

Telephonic Corporation, Farmingdale

My assigned responsibility was to capture the prescient Air Traffic Control market (primary and secondary radar systems and operator console displays) in China, achieved $10M+ revenues within this brief period through completion of the following.

Installation of a Secondary Beacon radar (Telephonic SSR) in Zhan Jiang City in Southern China.

Installation of an Airport Air Traffic Control Surveillance and Monitoring Radar in Zuhai City (Raytheon ASR PSR

+ Telephonic SSR) in time to support the First China International Air Show in 1996 on Zuhai City location, Southern China.

Installation of Air Traffic Control and Display operator consoles (Telephonic Software with Sony Display console) in Kwangchou City Regional Center of Chinese CAAC, for air traffic en-route control, a major Southern China ATC hub.

Initiated marketing and program efforts for other CAAC ATC centers throughout Eastern China in project definitions and scope of work, for many major Chinese cities such as Wen Chou, Shanghai, and Beijing. 2/1991 – 9/1995 Director - Electronics Engineering Norden Systems, Division of United Technologies

Had direct report of over 200 technical and supporting staffs, with annual personnel and laboratory facility operating budget of $18M+ for the Directorate.

Cross-functional management and technical leadership for all of the following electronics engineering design disciplines: Antenna Engineering (1D phase array, multi aperture flat plate), RF engineering(front end low noise, wide instantaneous bandwidth wave form generation), Signal (signal conditioning, clutter processing) and data processing (Clutter rejection and MTI) engineering, transmitter engineering (high voltage), power supply (stable low voltage, including special D/D conversion), airborne display (1553 interface), test set engineering; All digital (ETL, TTL, high speed transmission line) and analog (high linearity) design disciplines, and all attendant engineering development labs (including all H/W and S/W), and also managed multiple antenna test ranges (indoor compact range and outdoor far field test targets, with full instrumentation);

Managed cross-organizational teams responsible for interface between design engineering and manufacturing engineering, and responsible for final subsystem QA.

The Directorate provided all design engineering and program management resources (personnel and facilities) in support of company annual sales of $350M for multiple major radar and other sensor systems with a total program sale of approximately $2B, for US Air Force, FAA, and a major Middle East Customer, in the following major products and platforms:

Multi-Mode Radar System (MMRS), installed on Phantom F-4 air frame, state of the art Synthetic aperture radar technology for a Middle East customer; later received USAF designation as APG-76

JSTARS (Joint Strategic and Tactical Radar System) for USAF, now designated as AN/APY-3, a wide area air borne high resolution surveillance radar based on synthetic radar technology; seen wonderful use and impact during Iraq/Kuwait war.

Radar upgrades and test sets for attack aircraft A-6E.

Radar upgrades and test sets for electronic surveillance and jamming aircraft EA-6B.

Upgrades to B-52 navigation and terrain avoidance radar.

Design engineering and manufacturing support to the original Airport Surface Detection Radar (ASDE3) for FAA.

MRLS (Multiple Rocket Launcher System) fire control upgrade (also seen wonderful use in Iraq/Kuwait war. 10/1981 – 12/1990 GE Aerospace Group, Electronics System Division Manager, Advanced Signal & Data Processing, Advanced Development Engineering

Maintained Division and Department technology relevancy and leadership, responsible for technical, schedule, budget, and resource management (laboratory facilities and personnel); Be a focal point of Division and Department annul IR&D (Internal Research & Development) planning, budget, and project selection, performance monitoring, and liaison with GE Corporate R&D Center for new technology adaptation and transfer back to operating Division/Department to support business pursuit.

Participated in multiple major proposal teams while also being individual technical contributor for the winning efforts.

Division IR&D management, in project selections and resource allocations.

Sustained effort in long term new talent acquisition and retention of experienced technical talents with high potentials in leadership roles (technical and/or managerial) through one-on-one guidance and mentoring, on career progression and growth.

Supported Inter-Division program efforts as needed, Support own Division International Marketing and sales. Some notable personal accomplishments:

Served as technical program manager for a highly sophisticated signal and data processing subsystem for an operationally and environmentally demanding mission critical area artillery defense radar system (ADLS) with multiple international government customers (Britain, Germany, France, and US) and respective in-country industrial partners (BAE, Siemens, Thompson, and GE), and a special Middle East customer; Technical Studies and Prototype Program valued around $60M.

Special Computer processor architecture study IR&D for the radar pulse scheduling and energy management for a long-range strategic radar system, for North America Ballistic Missile Early Warning (BMEWS) radar; Results also extended for application in Ballistic Missile Defense Radar.

Internal efforts (IR&D) on Embedded Multi-Micro Processor architectural studies for signal and data processing subsystems for future applications in radar and sonar system platforms.

Proposed, and led internal studies (IR&D) of voice, text, and tactile technologies for Sensor MMI (Man/Machine Interface), in support of Man-in-the-loop system operating concepts and interface, early efforts in AI technology application to Sensors.

Designated as Department technical focus in the industrial participation of DoD DARPA very high-speed IC

(VHSIC) initiative, defined special ASIC chip sets to incorporate the technology into own sensor system applications; long term impact was the introduction of high-speed ASIC into existing product upgrade program plan, and for future proposal efforts.

Led Departmental effort to participate in DoD Architectural studies in MCF (Military Computer Families), and viability of COTS processor applications in DoD programs (Potentially very high-cost savings).

Participated in GE Corporate Research Center (CR&D) internal IR&D program to develop a computerized, thin film based proprietary imaging sensing and signal processing system for high value, high speed, and high precision production inspection and quality assurance system (to detect issues of cracks at molecular level due to metal fatigue or material imperfection due to manufacturing process), a very important high valued QA system for turbine fan blade manufacturing, greatly contributed to GE Jet Engine and large turbine generator multi- billion dollar systems business;

Participating member in GE CR&D corporate-wide AI task force with own Divisional perspective and interests

(Pilots Associate, and intelligent man/machine interfaces to sensor platforms.

Working Member of GE Aerospace Group Design Automation Task Force in automatic circuit board wire/trace routing and automatic test vector generation for IC chips, forerunner of modern-day design automation software

(EDA) packages and design workstations; Package were used as standard design automation throughout GE Aerospace Group for a time, until upgraded and replaced by more modern commercially available workstations. 5/1975 – 10/1981 Senior Member of Technical Staff

Focal point of computing technologies in support of Division's major sensor platforms.

Carried out intense efforts in real time mission critical HW/SW architecture evaluation and bench marking

(data structure, control functions, and algorithm mapping), encompassing special purpose, general purpose, multi-mini, multi-micro, parallel computing, and high throughput micro-coded arithmetic units, taking into all considerations of CPU, memory access, and local /global data bus latency in fine grain details and completeness to arrive at realistic system performance and throughput in support of Divisions real time sensor platforms and other program opportunities

Some notable efforts and accomplishments:

Designed a data driven multi-computer control system architecture (including custom designed real time OS) for a major US Navy sensor system (AN/SQR-19, Escort Towed Array Sonar), incorporating 4 US Navy standard data processor, display processor and a special, first of its kind, 10 stage horizontal micro-coded arithmetic units by IBM (AN/UYS-1) Advanced Programmable Signal Processor, also incorporating a special GE H/W unit based on associative processing algorithm, in a FSD (Full Scale Development) program that was valued at over

$200M+, now a standard towed array sonar system on US Navy ships ;

Designed the data system architecture based on a GE proprietary multi-processor architecture, Federation of Functional Processors, for a high performance, high availability, with minimal attendance and maintenance, low life cycle cost, 3D solid state air defense radar, with total computerized control for US Air Force, designated AN/FPS-117, first of its kind; hands on in business development efforts for its export version (GE592), which dominated international air defense radar systems markets;

Conducted processing resource requirement studies for a computationally intense Radar applications in target discrimination and anti-jamming (adaptive antenna for ballistic missile defense), and Sonar Adaptive Beam Forming System applications (GE proprietary algorithms) for under water surveillance applications, for possible programmable vs heretofore hardwired only solutions.

Part of organizational and coordination efforts in First (1976) Sagamore (NY) Parallel Processing Conference, served as one of the technical session chairs, and served as assistant editor for Conference Proceeding.

Logic-in-Memory concept based on Associative Memory in wide range of parallel computing architecture application studies.

Education:

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

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