Cody Chiu

Decisive, action-oriented and results-focused professional offering over 25 years of experience in consumer electronics industry with last 19 years focus on program & project management. Good at in OEM/ODM business model, product & project development and well-trained in handling tier one customer project. Plus, qualified ISO 9000 internal audit training helps myself in review internal / external process related activities.

My characters: Team player, self motivated, willing to take challenges with pressure.

PM Function Head at Tatung (2022-10 – Present)

Resource management, project management, OEM factory management, EVT/DVT/PVT issue review, and RMA review

• Lead a 4 PMs function team to achieve projects development on schedule and on time
• Lead a dedicated team, including ID, ME, EE, FW, packaging functions to meet customer project demand
• OEM factory management
• Ensure sample engineering functionality can meet customer product reference specifications
• Identify the owner of problems occurring on DVT, either from designer, supplier or factory assembly and track countermeasure works until issue is resolved
• Ensure yield rate can meet factory production criteria
• Accumulate RMA information and report to customer quarterly with improvement actions based on top 3 major failures

Senior PM at TES (Touch Embedded Solution) (2017-09 – 2022-03)

Lead Taiwan PM team to meet customer demand for POS and Digital Signage products

• Manage 4POS, Iiyama, Elo touch monitor projects
• Handle new signage product development for food company in Taiwan
• Validate testing fixture (made in Taipei) and transfer to manufacturing site before PVT
• Initiate DFM and cowork with assigned ME engineer until tooling start
• Host weekly meetings with factory, NPI review before MP; quality review after MP
• Product testing procedure optimization

Program Manager (GPM) at Perlos (2012-04 – 2017-09)

Manage housing part and antenna for mobile device programs from kick-off to EOL

• Handle program from kick-off to EOL and attend sample build at manufacturing site on each stage
• Track each open issues until solution works and update cost whenever material and process changes
• Deal liability with customer before program EOL
• Regular review production capacity, including internal yield rate, outsourcing parts delivery and facilities capability
• Seek and qualify 2nd source/supplier when 1st source is ready for production
• Supplier management: Cowork with SQE for those new suppliers or existing suppliers with quality issues

Program Manager at Minebea (NMB) (2006-05 – 2012-04)

Manage notebook keyboard business with Taiwan laptop ODM suppliers

• Assist Taiwan laptop ODM design-in NMB laptop keyboard and meet all Dell / Lenovo requirement
• Bridge multi-function teams around 4 different areas for same product developing: Shanghai_manufacturing site / Austin_Dell RD / Taiwan_ODM / Fujisawa_Internal RD
• Shrink keyboard qualification duration from 3 weeks to 2 weeks

PM at Minebea (NMB) (2003-08 – 2006-05)

Project management for LCD and CRT monitor products

Program Manager / Product Engineer at LiteOn Technology (1996-02 – 2003-08)

Manage ODM business for desktop monitor, keyboard, PDA and rubber pad products

• Using limited resource (team with 9 engineers) to develop 6 models at the same time for Acer and Maxdata
• Lead PUR team to build a cost down model for ViewSonic CRT business
• Co-work with third-party to create entry-level PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) for China market, target customer is student
• Explore new customer for promoting self developed PDA, which is Wintel based device. Successful captured RoverPC company as the first customer
• Transfer desktop keyboard product from RD to manufacturing site, total 12 models
• Lead packaging / ME team to maximize the container capacity by decreasing giftbox size and new stack up method
• 3 inventions patented, CN98102563.3 / CN00100584.7 /CN98102223.5 (Rubber processes related)
• Organized and lead team to rework keyboard at San Jose (4 months) and Korea (2 weeks)
• Rubber field: Review product (rubber key pad) specification / Release PO for tooling build / tooling validation by forming rubber/ spray and print color on rubber pad / laser cut on rubber pad / Build Process management plan for manufacturing site / Study new techniques on rubber materials

B.S. in Materials Engineering – Feng Chia University (1989-10 – 1993-06)