herman

9/29/2015
San Francisco, CA

Position Desired

Electrical Engineering
Anywhere in the U.S.
Yes

Resume

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Successful Executive with strong product development background in systems (software & hardware), good business sense and entrepreneur enthusiasm. Over ten years of experience with successfully releasing products in areas ranging from high volume entry-level products to complex high availability systems. Extensive experience building the team in domestically and Asia. Extensive experience with managing OEM, ODM and third party suppliers.


EXPERIENCE:

2003 – Present
SCI

Formed the engineering team and created a design and production process for Bluetooth v1.2 and v2.0 RF, digital Baseband controller and H.263 AV Codec IC and HW products. Focused the team on shipping the product on time and generated first revenue. Hands on involvement in all aspect of running the company from Analog IC design, RF design, ASIC design, HW products development, embedded SW development, IC test, manufacturing and QA.

• Cofounded a Bluetooth and AV Codec IC company. Hands on involvement in ASIC and RF design, Analog IP (DAC, power mos, DC2DC, PLL), embedded SW development, manufacturing, marketing.
• Delivered multiple consumer hardware product working with Taiwanese and Chinese OEM and ODM. Worked with in-house and third party software companies in embedded system development for HW product and 20 reference designs.
• Focused the Software team in the development of embedded system RTOS and SDK software design kit
• Responsible H.263 Codec encoder/decoder IC engineering, sales and production
• Designed the Baseband Controller and RF 2.4GHz Bluetooth IC. Circuit design of RF, logic design of codec and baseband.
• Responsible for testing, packaging and manufacturing of AV Codec and Bluetooth IC products. Established oversight program for QA of HW product and IC manufacturing of OEM and ODM.
• Established teams in three sites in USA, Taiwan, and China utilizing the unique advantage of each site. Had a peak headcount of 46
• Involved in signing 16 design wins utilizing the Bluetooth IC: (Skype’s, headset)
• Setup customer support, FAE and RMA to support customers
• Filed two patents in RF design related to SCI RF products.
• Reported to the Board of Directors and shareholders quarterly


1999 – 2003
Avalent Technologies
Responsible for building the engineering team from a few engineers to over 30 engineers and developed the first release of a 32b ARM compatible RISC Processor in less than 10 months. Involved in RTL, Circuit design and verification of the Processor

• Founded a RISC Processor Company compatible with the most popular RISC used in mobile phones today. Focused the teams on the customer deliverables and relentlessly executed on development plans.
• Responsible for register file, data path and memory circuit design. Involved in the Band Gap Reference design.
• Established customer, production support center in Taiwan, minimizing the time between design, fabrication, packaging, testing and design win. Also offering local support for APAC customers, especially Japan
• Hands on involvement in customer site FAE and system debug with RISC processor
• Collaborated with marketing on defining, and identifying target markets for RISC processor
• Hands on involvement in the testing, packaging and fabrication of the processor.
• Worked with outside attorneys on clean room design of CPU
• Participated in Board meeting as a Board member

1997 – 1999
Silicon Spice - Design Manager

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