Weimin Chen

Experience

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  Acterna

  Jan 1992 - Oct 2001

  OTHER INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURIAL AND STARTUP EXPERIENCE

  NETWORKING INDUSTRY EXPERIENCELeadership roles in the development of network and internet monitoring, analysis and management software in network management world leader Acterna (JDSU / VIAVI), Wavetek Wandel Goltermann. ENTREPRENEURIAL AND STARTUP EXPERIENCELeadership roles in three start-ups: SILCOM (SW engineer #1, Head of SW), Tinwald Networking (Co-founder, Head of SW), Classwave Wireless (Sr. Consultant, Professional Services).

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  ATI Technologies Inc.

  Oct 2001 - Jun 2006

  Successfully lead transition of newly acquired XGI Shanghai team into ATI in this 3-month expat special assignment Managed a product team consist of kernel mode driver (KMD), user mode driver (UMD), 3D/ GFX/ Shader/ SIMD developers to successfully deliver Radeon GPU products to production. In addition, managed special programs to support OEMs such as HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, and AIB partners such as Asus, Gigabyte, Sapphire.

  • M&A Integration Manager

    Mar 2006 - Jun 2006

  • Product Team Manager

    Oct 2001 - Feb 2006
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  AMD

  Oct 2006 - now

  Lead large scale, globally distributed software development organizations with over 150 people including AMD Fellows, senior managers, program managers and many senior architects and engineers.• Collaborated with client, gaming and data center business units leadership and product management to establish high ROI, multi-years roadmaps.• Directed co-engineering and joint innovation with ecosystem partners worldwide including ODM, OEM, ISV, IHV, etc., such as Microsoft, Google, HP, Lenovo, Dell.• Delivered multiple product lines on time, working closely with internal software, hardware, system and platform technology / IP owners, as well as customer engineering, quality (QA, CQE) and release management organizations in on-time and continuous delivery with CI / CD and DevOps processes, tools and systems.• Grown the organization from 70 engineers to 160, and expanded ownership of HW IPs (VCN, ACP /NNE and two schedulers), delivering key features including video CODEC decode and encode, video processing, power optimization, AI / ML based features on Multimedia and Gaming in Windows, Linux, Android and Virtualization environments.• Drove innovation to enable best customer experiences with AI / ML technologies. Built and managed a strong technical team with Fellows, Principal and Senior MTS, Ph. D and Postdocs, as well as technical and project managers.• Managed full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in semiconductor, HW and Platform with Pre-Si development, simulation and emulation, and Post-Si bring-up, validation and product launch. Show less

  • Director Software Development

    Jul 2018 - now

  • Senior Manager Software Development

    Jul 2016 - Jul 2018

  • Head of Operations and Program Management

    Jul 2013 - Jul 2016

  • Head of APU Program Management

    Jul 2010 - Jul 2013

  • Manager Software Development

    Oct 2006 - Jul 2010