David Tu

• Manage electro-mechanical components, including various connectors (signal and power) and passive electronic components to support new and existing projects (600+). Present technical training to design and product management teams. • Support new generation X11 server system development (HPC, Blade, IoT, GPU etc) by coordinating 1-tier suppliers to offer new technology solutions and custom-made interconnect design. Offer technical suggestions to R&D teams in selection of right connectors for Server Motherboard, Backplane, Adapter Cards, Storage, Ethernet Switch, etc, considering SI, signal speed/impedance and current rating, etc to meet electrical and mechanical requirements. • Source a wide variety of board connectors, including high speed (DDR, PCIe, SAS, SATA, NVMe, USB, Oculink, SFP+, zQSFP+, etc). Review datasheets and specifications, etc in terms of housing materials, contact alloys and plating to meet design needs and achieve excellent DFM. • Negotiate with suppliers on new RFQ and conduct annual price review for competitive prices; Negotiate better payment terms with suppliers. Monitor supplier performance with quarterly scorecard and QBR, continuous improvement initiatives. • Manage PO schedule per MRP forecast, and monitor inventory to avoid shortage or excess by run rate analysis. Escalate serious shortage to supplier executive management for help in critical situation. • Collaborate with PM and RD teams to generate NPI project build plan and drive overseas CMs for material preparation at early stage to ensure materials readiness for EVT, DVT to PVT product cycle and avoid shortage to achieve new product time-to-market goal.

• Led global teams in North America, Europe and Asia to support key accounts, including the largest account in the company, to generate several ten million dollar sales revenue annually and coordinated cross functional groups to grow business. • Managed NPI cloud computing server projects with development of SAS, miniSAS, SATA high speed cable assemblies, Ethernet cables, USB cables, DP dongles, miniDP, HDMI etc, and high current power cords for server rack system. • Proposed annual sales budget & took responsibility of P/L, Crafted strategic plans through quantitative analysis of product line & market share, cost reduction on materials and manufacturing process, resulting in increase of sustaining business by 20%. • Led daily operating activities for Engineering, Inside Sales, Purchasing, IT, Production and Logistics/Warehouse, optimized resource utilization to achieve company’s business objectives. Drove department managers to set up improvement plans and monitored progress. Defined procedures and processes with systematic approaches to improve efficiency. • Reviewed product cost and re-negotiated selling prices with customers/clients due to copper price hike. Studied low cost solution geographically and negotiated better prices with suppliers/vendors. • Led factory engineering department to evaluate manufacturing process to improve efficiency and quality by designing tooling fixtures for production line. • Optimized planning and controlled operational/shipping cost to avoid air shipment. Adapted EDI method for transaction efficiency. • Handled escalated issues such as quality, demand upside and NPI ramp-up urgency in collaboration with Sales team until issues solved to customer satisfaction. • Had good knowledge of Incoterms, and negotiated better prices, payment terms, shipping terms with suppliers/vendors and reduced L/T by implementing safety stock or blanket order with releases. Conducted contract review to protect company’s interest.

• Managed inside Sales Dept to minimize errors in order fulfillment. Monitored sales orders and purchasing orders based on factory production capacity and logistic L/T. Improved on-time delivery from 75% to 95%, and response time and service level for customers. • Performed cost analysis of materials and labor on all major accounts, and re-quoted right prices to maintain appropriate P&L. Worked with sales to conduct pricing negotiation with customers. Gross profit improved by 30%. • Implemented proper VMI (SMI) hub inventory level to ensure continuity of supply (COS) while preventing from overstocking. Monitored slow moving inventory. Worked on liability claim by waterfall analysis with customers for order cancellations, recouping over one million dollars.

• Developed brand new accounts Asyst, Dot Hill servers, and C-MAC/ Solectron. Supported 200+ cable assemblies for Spartan wafer sorter system from NPI stage to production, brought in $5-6 million annual revenue • Managed whole projects from drawing review, quoting, prototype and First Article qualification, to material planning, production and quality control. Built customized NPI products onsite in person and made design suggestions (prints and BOMs) with quick turnaround time. • Supported automotive projects and reviewed PPAP reports and samples, and conducted FMEA for new products to identify possible failures to reduce risks. Built test-on-board fixtures. • Defined electrical testing standard and testing methodology. Conducted failure analysis (8D report), mechanical and electrical, to identify root causes and proposed feasible solutions to solve quality issues. Traveled to China factory to set up production line, to build up foolproof tooling and test fixtures to improve product quality. Managed power cord product line and led power cord catalog compilation per UL, CSA, VDE, CCC, PSE, NEMA, IEC, etc.

• Managed Asia CMs (cable assemblies) in support of customers HP, Cisco, Nortel, Bay Networks, Lucent (Ascend), IBM, NCR etc. Managed material procurement, production planning, logistics schedule, on-time delivery, inventory control, quality improvement and pinpointed critical areas to improve. • Developed supply base of connectors, wires & cables in Taiwan and China to build up low cost component sourcing channels. Traveled to Asia to conduct audit and quality system evaluation at suppliers’ manufacturing facilities in compliance of ISO9001.

• Supported interconnect products of wire harness, cable assemblies (round, ribbon, coax) and power cords. Built engineering samples for customers’ approval. Created AutoCAD manufacturing drawings and assembly instructions for local production. • Reviewed OEM customer prints, drawings, product spec and BOMs to ensure design meets electrical functions, part compatibility and manufacturability. Conducted First Article sample review and qualification. Suggested manufacturing process improvement for CMs. • Designed cell (lean) manufacturing process to reach JIT objective and optimized efficiency with fewer bottlenecks. • Reviewed CARs. Conducted F/A to troubleshoot quality issues and identify root cause. Offered solutions for CM partners.