PROFILE
Accomplished engineering leader with notable strengths of strategic leadership, risk mitigation, and innovation. Self-starter with experience conquering new challenges and going above the defined project scope to ensure the highest quality deliverable is achieved. Capable of scaling and leading a world-class organization with extensive experience on technical deliverables, interpersonal collaboration, fiscal responsibility, organizational vision, and strategy.

EXPERIENCE
eero - HEAD OF QUALITY, RELIABILITY, SAFETY, AND COMPLIANCE
I started my career at eero in September 2024. My role focusses elevating Quality and Product Integrity related functions, ensuring their respective impact can scale with product portfolio ambitions. As such, I ensure high quality products that delight customer, continually exceeding their expectations. This role required elevating functional best practices while also increasing technical deliverables for each function. At Amazon, this requires a strong balance of Dive Deep and Deliver Results. This tactical balance was paired with strategic initiatives to ensure each employee was able to scale with increasing expectations. At the core, this is developing a world-class talent of technical engineers that move fast to influence two-way and one-way door decisions. Some of the duties include:

  • Accountable for total lifecycle risk management, covering risk of the entire Bathtub Curve

  • Leads a global organization covering Product Quality Engineering, Field Quality Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Failure Analysis, Safety Engineering, and Supplier Quality Engineering

  • Accountable for ensuring proper quality control assessments and processes including IPQC, IQC, OQC, OBA, FGA, FVI, pFMEA, SIP, SOP, Limit Sample review, CTQ, SPC, FAI, Cpk, CtQ, and MSOP

  • Accountable for ensuring proper reliability assessments including accelerated life testing, physics-of-failure, life prediction, test specifications, dFMEA, root-cause analysis, and design for reliability

  • Accountable for monitoring product performance in the field including warranty analysis, escalation support, lesson learned, trend identification, root cause analysis, and issue resolution

  • Conducts supplier and contract manufacturing audits to ensure manufacturing partners comply with eero’s quality standards

  • Represents eero to Internet Service Providers (ISP) during issues related to field quality

  • Identifies, aligns, and implements continuous grow initiatives to drive quality and reliability improvements

  • Mentors principal ICs, managers, and team members to improve their impact, leadership, and career

  • Author of functional mission and vision documents identifying short term goals, long term goals, metrics, and strategies

  • Company Subject Matter Expert for Reliability Engineering

  • Launched eero’s first outdoor product, eero Outdoor 7, and next generation wifi products: eero 7 and eero pro7

META - SR. DIRECTOR, RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AND FAILURE ANALYSIS
I started my career at Meta in May 2016. The beginning of my Meta career focussed on technical impact for Reliability Engineering. The role entailed setting up specifications, labs, SOPs, tests, and analyzing reliability performance of early VR products. The role also required establishing the Failure Analysis discipline with expertise, lab capabilities, and conclusive root-cause analysis. This role quickly presented an opportunity to scale the function with the expansion of Meta’s hardware roadmap. My career grew with the company, as more and more products required additional resources to ensure proper reliability. Through four promotions and evolving scope, I was able to build out a world-class end-to-end Reliability and Failure Analysis organization. Some of the duties included:

  • Accountable for ensuring world class reliability for Meta’s consumer electronic portfolio inclusive of New Product Introduction (NPI), New Technology Introduction (NTI), and Sustaining performance of VR, AR, Smart Glasses, Wearables, and Portal product lines

  • Launched 19x products with countless accessories: 7x Portal, 8x VR, 2x Smart Frame, 1x AR, and 1 Wearable

  • Grew Reliability Engineering and Failure Analysis Engineering from 1 person to a 100+ person organization

  • Led a 100+ global organization, including 3x directors, 5x senior managers, and employees in US, Europe, and Asia

  • Established warranty, “cost of quality”, and risk assessments leveraging large data analytics and statistical models

  • Managed resource allocation and long range financial planning: inclusive of personnel, OPEX, and CAPEX

  • Managed budgets of $10,000,000+ per annum

  • Championed a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), ensuring diverse ideas were heard and best idea chosen

  • Fostered culture of psychological safety to ensure the organization was antifragile against all headwinds Headwinds included navigating organizational evolutions, technical challenges, and layoffs

  • Setup, refined, and implemented durable processes to increase efficiency and functional deliverables

  • Authored mission and vision documents, identifying short term goals, long term goals, metrics, and strategies

  • Authored over 50 reliability test Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Requirements Documents

  • Mentored principal ICs, managers, and leaders to improve their impact, leadership, and career development

APPLE - MANAGER, RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
I started my career at Apple in February 2011. I was very fortunate to have great technical mentors and caring managers at the beginning of my career. This support structure enabled me to grow in competency, skillset, and a professional environment. My growth was complimentary to Apple’s organizational growth as the function was exploring new practices of continuous improvement, opening doors for diverse perspective and big bets. Apple fostered a technical rigor that is second to none. This trait was ingrained with me early on and became a fundamental strength I carried forward in my career. At Apple, I got the opportunity to branch into a management path by bringing all Accessories under myself. After a year of engineering management, I was presented with an opportunity to switch to the laptop product line as a manager. Both platforms provided unique experiences and I left Apple to pursue experience in the future of consumer electronics: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality.

  • [2015-2016] Managed a global team of 10 engineers, covering all MacBook Pros and new technologies; such as the Touch Bar

  • [2014-2015] Managed a team of engineers covering all Apple accessories with notable new technologies of Lightning Connector, MagSafe Connector, USB-C, and Apple Watch Inductive Charger_

  • [2011-2014] Lead Reliability Engineer for Apple’s Lightning connector and the first generation of respective accessories

SKILLS

  • Reliability Engineering

  • Accelerated Life Testing

  • Failure Analysis Engineering

  • Physics of Failure

  • People Management

  • Technical Management

  • Fiscal Management

  • Warranty Analysis

  • Innovation and IP

  • Statistical Analysis

  • Risk Assessments

  • Problem Solving

  • Leadership

  • Mentorship

  • Mission and Strategy

  • Business Operations

  • US9030208

    Techniques for detecting mating and un-mating of a first connector with a second connector include providing a pulsed voltage signal at a contact of the second connector and measuring a rate of rise of voltage at the contact. If the measured voltage at the contact exceeds a threshold voltage during the time the pulsed voltage signal is applied, then it is concluded that the first connector is not present and not mated with the second connector. If the measured voltage is lower than or equal to the threshold voltage during the time of application of the voltage pulse, it is concluded that the first connector is present and mated with the second connector.

  • US9307308

    This application relates to methods and apparatus for waterproofing an electronic device having an audio output. More particularly a method for dynamically forming an acoustic volume of air for a speaker component is disclosed. The dynamically formed acoustic volume creates a sealed volume of air that prevents moisture from entering a portion of the device that includes moisture sensitive components. By dynamically forming the acoustic volume during a blow forming operation, the acoustic volume can utilize unused space within the electronic device in a highly efficient manner by occupying small areas of unused space that would otherwise go unused.

  • US9331423

    Aesthetically pleasing strain-relief members for cables and methods for making the same are disclosed. The strain-relief member include a tapered, inner strain-relief portion and an aesthetically pleasing outer strain-relief portion.

  • US9335355

    Electronic devices may be accidentally exposed to liquid during operation. To detect liquid intrusion events, an electronic device may be provided with one or more electronic liquid contact sensors. The liquid contact sensors may have electrodes. Control circuitry may make measurements across the electrodes such as resistance and capacitance measurements to detect the presence of liquid. Liquid contact sensor data may be maintained in a log within storage in the electronic device. The liquid contact sensor data can be used to display information for a user of the electronic device or can be loaded onto external equipment for analysis. Liquid contact sensor electrodes may be formed from metal traces on substrates such as printed circuits, from contacts in a connector, from contacts on an integrated circuit, or from other conductive electrode structures.

  • US9673784

    Power transfer systems including a direct current source and a plurality of outputs operable in several modes. A ground mode may couple an output to circuit ground and a current mode may couple the output to the direct current source. The power transfer system may also include a controller configured to iteratively select a pair of outputs from the plurality of outputs. Once a pair is selected, the controller may set a first output of the pair of outputs to the current mode and the second to ground mode for a determined duration. After the duration has passed, the controller may set the first output to the ground mode and the second output to the current mode for the same duration. Thereafter the controller may select another pair of outputs.

  • US9752999, CN204855825

    This application relates to a moisture ingress sensor. In particular, this application relates to a moisture ingress sensor that can detect liquid ingress into an electronic device. The moisture ingress sensor can include a resistor, an N-channel MOSFET, an operation amplifier, comparators, and an AND logic gate. The moisture ingress sensor is configured to provide a lower power means for accurately detecting moisture in an electronic device. Multiple areas of the electronic device can include the moisture ingress sensor in order to optimize the detection of moisture for at a variety of regions of the electronic device. Additionally, the electronic device can record signals from the moisture ingress sensor and shut down components of the electronic device that could be affected by the detected moisture. Furthermore, the moisture ingress sensor can be tuned to detect one or more types of liquids.

  • US10547151, US9991657

    Connector adapters that may have a MagSafe connector receptacle and a Universal Serial Bus Type-C connector insert. This may allow MagSafe chargers to be used to charge devices having Universal Serial Bus Type-C connector receptacles. This also may provide the breakaway characteristic of a MagSafe connector system for a device that does not include a MagSafe connector receptacle. Other adapters may have other types of magnetic connector receptacles and connector inserts.

  • US10564770

    A touch controller is disclosed. The touch controller can comprise sense circuitry configured to sense an object at a touch sensor panel, and a touch processor. The touch processor can be capable of, when the object is a first distance from the touch sensor panel, determining a predicted touch location associated with the object on the touch sensor panel based on at least a trajectory of the object towards the touch sensor panel, and when the object is a second distance from the touch sensor panel, less than the first distance, determining an identified touch location associated with the object on the touch sensor panel based on at least the predicted touch location.

  • US10635141, CN205862269, EP3579079B1, JP6492197B2

    Cable assemblies for providing electrical communication between hinged sections of an electronic device are described. The cable assemblies can include a cover that covers one or more cables that run through a hinge region of the electronic device. The cable and cover can be drawn over a mandrel of the hinge region. The cover and the portions of the mandrel can be visible to a user at the hinge region of the electronic device. The cover can be sufficiently rigid to guide a path of the cable and protect the cable from bending beyond a prescribed angle during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region. The cover can also be sufficiently rigid to prevent ceasing or folding of the cover and the cable during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region. The cable assemblies can also include a hinged cover that can be pivoted to close a gap between two hinged sections of the electronic device.

  • US10114781

    Methods, structures, and apparatus that limit the amount of dendritic growth and metal migration between contacts in order to prevent an erroneous detection of a connection and/or functional failure. One example may reduce dendritic growth and metal migration by limiting an amount of time that a connection detection voltage is applied to CC contacts of a USB Type-C connector when an electronic device is detecting a connection. This and other examples may further limit dendritic growth by not applying the connection detection voltage to the CC contacts for a first duration following a detection of a disconnection.

  • US10268273

    According to some embodiments, an electronic stylus including flexible contact members disposed at a distal end of the housing, and at least some of which are capable of independently flexing relative to one another when contacting a protective layer of an electronic device. The components further include a sensor capable of (i) detecting a change in flexure of the flexible contact members in accordance with the contacting, and (ii) responding to the change in flexure by providing a corresponding detection signal. The components can include a processor capable of generating a feedback instruction that is based upon the change in flexure. The component can include a communications unit that responds to the feedback instruction by transmitting a feedback parameter to the electronic device such that a graphical output is presented at a display of the electronic device in accordance with the change in flexure.

  • CN204538787, DE212015000119U1, JP3210885U

    An electronic device comprising one or more inductive charging coils encapsulated within one or more walls of a housing of the electronic device.

  • CN105122687

    The invention provides an optical data transfer utilizing lens isolation. A first electronic device optically communicates with a second electronic device. Each of the devices includes one or more optical transmitters, one or more optical receivers, and one or more lenses where each of the lenses includes at least a first and a second optical path that are optically isolated from each other. When the first electronic device transmits data to the second electronic device, an optical transmitter of the first electronic device transmits to an optical receiver of the second electronic device via the first optical paths of the lenses of the first and second electronic devices. Similarly, when the first electronic device receives data from the second electronic device, an optical receiver of the first electronic device receives from an optical transmitter of the second electronic device via the second optical paths of the lenses of the first and second electronic devices.

PATENTS

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
M.S. Mechanical Engineering - Specialization in MEMS & Nanoscience
B.S. Mechanical Engineering

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