01 PLANT BUILD 2002 — 2003 · Shanghai
Shanghai, From Bare Ground
Sent in his mid-twenties to build a new plant's plating station — layout, machines, documents, people.
2003PLANT IN PRODUCTION
1.25→1.6PLATING CPK
3SHIFT CREWS TRAINED
Manufacturing & Engineering Leader
From prototype to production.
28 years leading engineering teams from new product introduction to mass production — PCB, IC substrates, camera modules and optics. Today I lead an 88-person department spanning R&D, process engineering and automation.
28 Years in electronics manufacturing
88 People led across departments
8 Patents on IC-substrate structures
5 Countries in the manufacturing footprint
About
I turn prototypes into products that ship.
I started as an assistant engineer on a PCB line in Taiwan. Since then I have built a plating station on bare ground in Shanghai, rebuilt production lines nobody would touch, led an R&D team to certification with one of the world’s largest smartphone makers, and automated camera-module lines in Kunshan.
Today I run a cross-functional department — R&D, COB engineering, optics, equipment and fixtures — taking optical modules from first build to mass production, and planning capacity in Vietnam, Taiwan and the United States.
“Yield never lies.”
Selected Work
Six cases, one job: make it ship.
Each case opens into a full dossier — background, challenge, approach, results.
02 PROCESS 2005 — 2012 · Shanghai
The Lines Nobody Would Touch
An abandoned plating line rebuilt to spec; sputtering cycle cut from 20 minutes to 5.
100%VCP BACK IN PRODUCTION
+37.8%PEEL STRENGTH
×4SPUTTER THROUGHPUT
03 R&D 2012 — 2014 · Shanghai
Coreless: Building the Key
A next-generation substrate process built from zero — into the supply chain of one of the world's largest smartphone makers.
18SAMPLE BUILDS
2CERTIFICATIONS PASSED
8PATENTS FILED
04 AUTOMATION 2016 — 2018 · Kunshan
Intelligent Automation & Robotics
Three robotic platforms co-developed; 120 three-in-one machines — focus, test, dispense — built in-house.
+16.5%EFFICIENCY
36HEADCOUNT SAVED
¥16.5MCOST DOWN
05 OPTICS 2020 — ongoing · Kunshan / Taipei
Taking Optics Upmarket
From notebook cameras to high-precision modules: AA process built from zero, full chain from die bond to optical inspection.
90%+MP YIELD
100%NPI ON SCHEDULE
COB+CMFULL CHAIN
06 GLOBAL 2019 — ongoing · VN / TW / US / IN
Drawing the New Map
Vietnam, Taiwan, Texas, Arizona, India — planning where the lines go next, under five different rulebooks.
5COUNTRIES
4LINES MIGRATING (US)
2023–VN EVALUATION
Career Path
Twenty-eight years. One direction.
- 2016 — now
Foxlink
Department Manager · Suzhou
Leads R&D, COB engineering, optics, equipment and fixtures. NPI, cross-site process transfer, automation; periods of plant-operations responsibility.
- 2015 — 2016
TTM
Department Manager · Shanghai
Managed dry-process, wet-process engineering and R&D; built efficiency and training programmes.
- 2001 — 2014
ASE
Process Supervisor → Engineering Manager · Shanghai
Thirteen years: plant layout, technology transfer and team building, then new-technology development. Eight substrate patents.
- 1998 — 2001
Yufu Electronics · Junxin Computer
Engineer · Taiwan
Where it began: PCB routing and drilling programs, quality improvement and cost-down on the line.
Capabilities
01
New Product Introduction
- EVT → DVT → MP ramp-up
- OK2SMT & build readiness
- Customer audits
02
Process Engineering
- AA (active alignment) process
- DOE · FMEA · APQP · SPC
- Plating, sputtering, substrates
03
Automation
- Robotic platforms
- In-house machine design
- Line layout & capacity
04
Plants & Supply Chain
- Greenfield plant build
- Cross-border line transfer
- Supplier quality systems
05
Leadership
- 88-person department
- Cross-site teams
- Training first-generation leads
06
AI Systems
- Claude Code & agents
- Automation pipelines
- Knowledge systems
AI Systems
A second production line.
The same engineering discipline, applied to AI — agents, pipelines and knowledge systems I built and run every day.
Agent01
Hi MiKa
A personal AI assistant shaped by an agent file system — Mac mini and cloud working together as the hub of daily work.
Second brain02
Knowledge system
1,271 notes, 73% original writing, organised in five zones with AI pipelines for classification and curation.
Pipeline03
Media-to-notes
Drop a link in chat — the pipeline transcribes, summarises, reviews and files the note.
Dashboard04
Investment board
A self-built dashboard for holdings and decision discipline — the rational me managing the impulsive me.
Beyond Work
What the engineering drawings can’t hold.
Essays, street photography, songs — the other half of the same person.
Contact
Let’s talk.
Open to conversations about engineering leadership, NPI and manufacturing roles — and about AI, essays or photography.