kong chen

* Managed a $2.4 million budget and led a team of 12 engineers to completed tasks on time * Managed, developed, and coordinated requirement development, functional flow, trade studies, and analyses * Coordinated successful formal reviews with engineering leads and management * Successfully expanded team by and on-boarded new employees within 3-months due to rapid project scope increase – interviewed candidates and assigned work * Support business strategy initiative through brainstorming activities and identify potential areas of business * Developed requirement specification document – established standard practice for all other specifications * Improved the technical review process to help team members streamline document development * Coordinated weekly status communication meetings with the customer * Successfully presented at several formal customer milestone review meetings * Awarded four consecutive customer satisfaction awards

Collaborated with Toyota Motor Corporation and three Stanford graduate students to develop a new human machine interface. Implemented structured methodologies (value chain analysis, affinity diagrams, QFD, morphological analysis, etc) to define a comprehensive product. Optimized the conceptual design and planned for its manufacture. Japanese liaisons pleased with the product and showed our presentation to their managers in Japan.

* Developed requirement specifications and functional flows for the main subsystem. * Coordinated successful formal reviews with engineering leads and management. * Tracked key performance measurements to ensure project goals are met. * Supported several working groups and presented technical information to key stakeholders. * Coordinated technical interchange meeting with the sub-contractor, Integrated Product Teams and our customer to discuss environmental conditions and mobility analysis; received Mission Assurance Award, June 2005. * Led team to develop a design notebook template for division wide use; template provides logical method to capture information of baseline design. * Participated in systems engineer volunteer working group to develop standard practices and processes. * Support business strategy initiative through brainstorming activities, identifying potential areas of business and developing preliminary specifications.

* System Engineer Integration & Test Lead for a rapid proof-of-concept system – concept to full-scale prototype demonstration test in 10 months, reducing time to deployment by years * Successfully executed of Phase 1 ($15M+) and awarded Phase 2 ($50M+) with increased scope to begin work on a fielded system * Drove systems engineering proposal ($7M), within a 3-week deadline, to secure work for 20+ employees * Overcame rapidly shifting project scope by managing personnel to meet baseline goals while establishing a new plan to smoothly transition to new budget and schedule * Resolved resource availability conflict by setting task prioritization and reassigning work * Supported risk management including identifying risks, establishing mitigation steps, and tracking to closure * Safeguard sensitive information as a derivative classifier - approve outgoing documents and information access