Alex Lin

Experience

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  廣達電腦

  Nov 2014 - Jul 2019

  Engineer Program Manager

  - Wearable testing PM for Apple project, lead and manage full testing process, team up with engineering teams (ex/internal) to meet yield/manufacturing targets during all engineering builds.- Drive day-to-day engineering build activities to meet overall program objectives.- Identify issues early in the NPI phase and monitor/drive these to resolution prior to ramp.- Monitor project development progress, evaluating risks, and plan for mitigation plans.- Build and maintain reports and summaries on a regular (weekly/daily) basis to report project status to management team.- Well experience in production support with system level failure analysis, root cause finding, correct action and drive for yield improvement.- Coordinating IQC inspection under build plan or material status restrictions.- Hosting DOE meeting with ex/internal engineering teams to discuss details of designated DOE.- Address conditional waiver list for production line following to collect effective data.- Manage activities, resource capability, and cross-function communication to facilitate timely product completion.Programs completed:- Apple Watch Series NPI 1/2/3/4/5- New iPod touch NPI 收回

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  Luxshare-ICT - Enterprise, Cloud, Telecom & Industrial Solutions

  Jul 2019 - Sept 2021

  Section Manager

  - EPM lead for Apple NPI wearable program by integrating Taipei and China engineers, operations, and business teams.- Responsible for full system integration and overall FATP process ownership.- Built BOM structure and materials stuffing to implement assembly process to meet Apple build plan requirement.- Direct day-to-day activities of FATP testing process on optimizing factory resources, resulting in successful test plan without delay in NPI development build target.- Mentored new EPM members(20ppl), bring up team members by designating work distribution, weekly sync up meeting, and set up lesson learnt meeting during NPI build.- Be the main contact window between factory and external customers, establish regular communication across teams for manufacturing issues, product delivery, and schedule planning.- Implemented of manufacturing production system (Shop Flow/Yield Report/Process Flow) on new CM site.- Successfully driving daily input with possible ways to mitigate delays of build progress, while maintain good management of massive configurations.- Overall DOE(100+) owner for engineers, DOE priority negotiation, status tracking, and finish data collection as planned. - Coordinated and oversee the execution of product developments, manufacturability issues support, such as: MIL report, DOE planning, waive policy, CTB, and readiness for executive team.- Monitored material CTB status during daily meeting and prioritized build plan to ensure that production can continue smoothly and meet build schedule milestone.Programs completed:- Apple Watch Series NPI 6,7 收回

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  Dell Technologies

  Oct 2021 - now

  Engineer Project Manager

  - Responsible for NPI/sustaining workstation platforms and cross-function integration with internal Dell core team and external ODM partners.- Established routine communication to keep everyone informed about progress, changes, and any issues that arise.- Worked with Dell global supply chain team on 2nd source material qualification for sustaining product life cycle.(COS/E&O)- Manage engineering sample allocation, qualification, and document update while new hardware/driver/certification cut in. - Evaluated feasibility and defined New Unique Difficult Different (NUDD) for plan change requests with Dell/ODM team members on risk assessment and following solution. - Agile ECO/HCO/MCO change owner for HW/SW BOM update to fulfill new parts/driver/BIOS base on SOW.- Led contingency meeting with quality/marketing/factory team for customer escalation and close issues properly.- Set up restriction according to system limitation, marketing strategy, supply condition after core-team aligned.- Worked with multiple Dell commodity teams on transition plan base on supply roadmap. (GFX/SSD/nic card/memory/KB.)- Hosted discussion with marketing, service, procurement team to determine offering strategy and transition plan.- Reviewed NRE resource, cost and get core team alignment to have schedule base on product change request(PCR). - ECR review and management when ME part, 2nd sources, and BIOS version roll in ODM production for maintaining product quality.- Led MB/chassis/CPU transition plan with core team members to make sure transition schedule were well managed.- Managed CPU refresh drop in projects for sustaining platforms base on Intel/AMD CPU roadmap.Program accomplished:Dell Precision 3240/3930/7920 rack and 3650/5820/7820/7920/7865 tower workstations. 收回