Experienced in managing interdisciplinary and global teams.

Built a world class electron microscopy team for semiconductor inspection from the ground up.

Championed outsourcing to the Czech Republic and have formed global technology alliances there. Cut cost and delivery time by 500%.

I love technology and innovation, and the business opportunities they present.

Experienced in integrating and debugging systems when technology, electronics and software are interconnected.

I am a quick learner and able to bridge multiple technological disciplines: Information technology/databases, software, semiconductor testing and diagnostic equipment, electron optics, nano-fabrication and material surface science, and synchrotron soft x ray radiation.

I have been making breakthroughs in innovation since college. My first invention while in college was granted both US and Japanese patents and was awarded the highest honor in a specific category in the 1984 Young Research and Invention Contest hosted by the Ministry of Education, Taiwanese government. I invented a multi-beam electron column adopted by Applied Materials for the then next generation platform in 2001.

Experienced with electron- and x-ray microscopies and spectroscopies, equipment development, electron optics, detectors, and nano fabrication

Managed system integration for complex equipments, including software and hardware control.

Experienced in working with digital and analog electrical engineers for system architecture design, debug and system integration.

Reverse engineered several in-house digital control boards due to knowledge loss.

II have proven successful in outsourcing approximately 100 projects via an online auction site, thereby cutting costs 1000% and gaining resource flexibility (rapid depoly software human resource without the need of retainer fee)

SQL database, C++, C#, javascript, ASP.NET, .NET Framework, Html, Client-Server.

Championed outsourcing to the Czech Republic to reduce both costs and delivery time by 500%. Solved initial quality control issues.

Managed a team comprising engineers from the US, the Czech Republic and Japan for mechanical component/sub systems design, specification, manufacture and testing.

Worked with mechanical engineers to design complex 3-D components and modules.

Invented a 100% mechanical lock that utilizes binary logic and is programmable via passwords, which received an award from the Taiwanese government and was granted patents in both the US and Japan.

I have solid experience outsourcing mechanical and software engineering overseas to cut costs by 500-1000%. This enables clients to shift scarce resources on key competencies: core technology and discovery, architecture design and system integration, testing and user feedbacks, marketing and sales.

I have solid experience solving quality control issues and global team communication issues.

Experienced with startup/company formation, fund raising, team building, prototype building, proof of concept, and cost-cutting outsourcing.

Developed an effective online marketing approach to conduct experiments online and receive fast feedback in order to revise market segments and messages.

I gained valuable insight as to why it is hard for large corporations to enter emerging markets. I participated and learned the million dollar lessons from mistakes made during new product development in Applied Materials and Schlumberger Technologies.

I complement the weaknesses of your patent lawyers. A junior patent lawyer in a big firm in Silicon Valley typically charges ~$10,000-20,000 per patent, and an hourly rate of >$500. This lawyer will need to bring at least $500,000-$1M into the law firm and need to take ~50-100 cases each year, spend only 20 hours on each case. Does your patent lawyer have the time or technical capacity to write a defendable patents and claims? You need someone with more technical know-how to astutely drive your lawyer.

I have been awarded more than 15 US patents.

Schlumberger Technologies-Semiconductor Solutions patent hall of fame.

First US patent was awarded for a sole invention filed during the senior year in college.

INFOMATO's software business concept is based on the need for artificial memory enhancement to help deal with the daily data influx at work, where 80% turns out to be unstructured. The Internet has triggered an information and knowledge explosion in recent years. Each of us receives a great deal of unstructured data that is difficult to organize; As a result, it often lingers in the back of our minds, causing severe memory stress. After years of research on this issue, I came up with an innovative technology to address this issue.

My efforts have produced a very cost effective means of tapping the global talent pool for software engineering, graphic arts, voice-over, technical writing and other expertise.

I managed an in-house software architect and numerous overseas software engineers (mostly from eastern Europe, hired on per project basis) via the Internet to complete a complex database software product.

I took advantage of Internet tracking and monitoring to conduct experiments on market exploration and messages tuning.

I worked with graphic artists, voice over artists and web designers to deliver marketing messages on the web site.

I recruited beta users, collected their input, identified the true 'signal from the noise', and implemented their suggestions.

I developed an innovative database system to help people remember the unstructured information they received on a daily basis (on average, 80% of total information received is unstructured).

Modularize software; integrated software modules delivered from oversea.

Client-server based software communication via HTTP protocol.

Server side: Microsoft SQL database, ASP.NET C#, C++, Dot NET Framework 2.0 and above, Windows Server, IIS server.

Client side: C#, C++, Windows user interface. Dot NET Framework 2.0 and above, JavaScript.

Online tutorial Flash demo. See an example

Installshield 2008 installer.

Modularized software; integrated software modules delivered from overseas.

Cut software development costs by 10 x. A factor of ~3 when hiring talented engineers from Eastern Europe and another factor of 3 because the engineer who bid on the project often had done a similar project before.

Raised $340,000 in seed funding from a group of business angels from Taiwan. I have completed the products, filed US and international patents, and scripted unique marketing messages for niche markets.

I have conducted numerous experiments on Internet marketing. Using online web tracking, I can rapidly learn user reactions to a particular marketing message, and then revise the marketing messages. I have conducted very successful blog marketing to acquire online music and video users.

During the past 4 years, I have attended more than 50-100 entrepreneur events/conferences in Silicon Valley, and have read more than 30 books about entrepreneurship. My strategies are largely centered on the concepts outlined in the following books:

• "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey A. Moore: The marketing strategy for a truly innovative product should take into account human adoption cycles. A startup needs to recruit the early adopters to survive, but also needs to be cautious of the chasm that traps many technology companies after their early success.

• "Innovator Dilemma" and "Innovator Solutions" (2 books) by Clayton Christensen: How innovative products become disruptive by providing a set of values that are insignificant in the main stream market, but critical in an emerging market. When the market "environment" shifts toward the emerging market, the big corporation in the old market turns into a dinosaur; all of its built-in strengths (values, process, resources) end up working against their survival in the new environment. Startups typically do not kill giant corporations; the business environment does.

• "Selling to the Old Brain" by Patrick Renvoise & Christophe Morin: How to touch the potential customers' emotion to get them to respond. Selling by logical reasoning often works against the customers' decision making.

• "The Business of Software by Michael Cusumono": The conventional approach of planning hard and integrating in the end for software projects (e.g., IBM main frame development) does not work in today's rapidly-changing environment. Microsoft's divide-and-conquer, set milestones and align, "eating your own dog food" approach is more effective.

• "The Art of Start" by Guy Kawasaki: The book whacks technologists hard over the head in hopes that some of them will understand and survive the tough life of the entrepreneur. I secured my angel funds in part due to the strategy outlined in this book.

• "Getting it Right the First Time" by John Katsaros & Peter Christy: Customer survey and focus group studies often only reflect today's market directions and values. On the other hand, to predict future market trends and discover disruptive markets, identifying and interviewing experts in the field is the right approach.

• "The Seven habits of Highly Effective people" by Stephen R. Covey: To be a successful entrepreneur, you need lots of help from others; therefore, you need to have a nice personality. This book makes me a better person and a better manager. These “habits” include sincerity, empathetic listening, thinking win-win, minimizing urgent tasks by proactive planning, etc.

• "High Tech Start Up" by John Nesheim: This book preps the first time entrepreneur’s mind and soul, and educates entrepreneurs about the ecosystem. The back of the book  summarizes successful startups and the founders' rewards when their companies went IPO. Due to low startup costs, software founders received far greater rewards than those who built hardware.

Several US and international patents pending. One US patent has been awarded.

In 2001 Applied Materials entered the field of electron beam (microscopy for) wafer inspection to resolve nano-scale features. Within this product group I managed a team of scientists, engineers and technicians (during the peak, 4 PhDs, 1 manager from Japan, and 1.5 technicians) for the advanced electron beam (microscopy) wafer inspection product.

I managed activities ranging from idea/concept, design, prototyping, debugging/testing, system integration and technology transfer to the manufacturing group.

Led a team of scientists, engineers and technicians (6 people) to develop an advanced electron microscopy inspection system for semiconductor wafer inspection.

Managed numerous collaborations between our technology partners Delong Instruments in the Czech Republic, and Topcon in Japan.

Cut delivery time and cost by 500% for prototypes and product modules.

Managed activities ranging from idea/concept, design, prototyping, debugging/testing, system integration and technology transfer to the manufacturing group

I invented a novel multi-column scheme for improving inspection throughput by >10x.The most compelling advantage of this invention over other competitive approaches is not relying on any high risk, as yet unavailable technologies. The proposal initially faced strong resistance but was ultimately adopted for the next generation platform.

Electron optics; developed electron beam columns, with wide angle objective lenses and detectors, high speed electron detectors, flood gun bending optics, etc.

A member of the committee to decide the next generation 10x system.

Led a team to construct a testbed for the electron microscope column quality control, diagnostic and testing at the Japan's partner site.

Participated in noise elimination for micro discharge noise (dielectric breakdown due to micro scale voids in cable) due to detection electronic floating at high voltage (6-8 KV).

One of the key members assigned to reduce acoustic noise, mechanical vibration, detector/pre-amplifier electronic noise analysis and reduction.

Managed a team comprising engineers from the US, the Czech Republic and Japan for mechanical component/sub system design, specification, manufacture and testing.

Led the design, development and production of high-precision ceramic components used in the objective lens.

Led the design, development and manufacture of flood gun optics.

Resolved mechanical and acoustic vibrations.

Collaborated with our technology partners in the Czech Republic and Japan for objective lens, detector and gun lens/source design, manufacture and quality control.

Implement a quality control scheme to increase Czech manufacturing quality.

Outsourcedoutsourced the column manufacture to our Japanese partner, and implemented test-bed and acceptance procedures for quality control of electron columns shipped from Japan.

US patent #7,262,418, US patent #7,253,645, US patent #7,067,809 , US patent #6,914,441,
US patent #6,750,455, US patent #6,566,897, US patent #6,504,393, US patent #6,539,106,
US patent #6,509,750

In 1997, Schlumberger started incubating the electron beam wafer inspection project.*1. I was the first engineer to work with the strategic marketing VP to articulate the proof of concept system and the alpha system that included new column design, 2 new control boards, an array of image processors, and algorithm and driving software for the proof of concept system. Learning from Alcedo’s experience, I articulated a much easier but still effective control card for electron imaging.
By 2001, I had successfully established and grown the engineering physics team from within this group that included  PhDs, 1 MSEE, and 1 technician. The group became a world-class team in the electron optics/microscopy industry.
*1The wafer inspection tool functioned like a high speed 'electron microscopy camera' for taking 30-100 pictures per second continuously to find electrical and nano-scale defects in semiconductor wafers. The product comprises 20-40 Power PC processors working in parallel to process incoming image streams.
I advised the GM and the strategic marketing VP on system architecture, roadmapping and competitive technology analysis (multi-beam, projection microscopy, micro-column, etc.).
In 1995 Schlumberger Semiconductor Solution had more than 90% of the electron prober*2 market. Initially, I was hired as a design engineer to work on the electron optics and the product application.

*2The electron beam wafer prober functioned like an oscilloscope with a sub-micron scale 'electron' probe to read the signals of sub-micron scale circuits.

Established and managed an engineering physics team from the ground up that included 4 PhDs, 1 MSEE, and 1 technician. This group became a world-class team in the electron optics community.

Advised the GM and the strategic marketing VP on system architecture, roadmapping and competitive technology analysis (multi-beam, projection microscopy, micro-column, etc.).

Led a team of scientists, engineers and technicians (~6 people) to develop an advanced electron microscopy inspection system for semiconductor wafer inspection. The scope included electron optics and engineering, electron detection, electron material interactions/charging, electron beam control and image acquisition and processing.

Formed a strong partnership with Delong Instruments in the Czech Republic to cut manufacturing costs by 5x, and to shorten delivery time by 5x. I learned from early mistakes and installed a procedure to fix initial quality issues.

Built an engineering physics team from the ground up.  This group became a world-class team in the electron microscopy wafer inspection community.

Worked with manufacturing engineers to bring prototypes to products.

Worked with marketing managers to lay out a product-development roadmap.

Managed technology transfer to the manufacturing group to build alpha and beta systems and improvements.

Managed programs for 2 summer students from UC-Berkeley.

Managed the development of positive ion cleaning technology with FMT Technology and the University of Maryland.

Developed a wide angle object lens approach to differentiate from the market leader, KLA-Tenor.

Developed a PIN diode detector for meeting wide angle, high speed and high quantum efficiency electron detection requirements.

Formed a partnership with Delong Instruments to develop a next generation, single beam electron column comprising a magnetic election gun with no beam cross-over to reduce coulomb interactions.

Discovered the principles of device charging on electron beam image formation.

Successfully developed solutions for the electron beam prober to probe sub-micron devices covered by insulators.

Through my experience at Alcedo, Inc., I learned the major shortcomings/challenges of using micro-processors for controlling pattern generation and therefore, championed the "next generation" digital scan generator using only counter and state machines without involving complex microprocessor control; my proposal was initially opposed by several senior members who favored the micro-processor scheme, but subsequently adopted and implemented into the product.

Led a team consisting of a software engineer, an electrical engineer, and a Berkeley summer intern to debug the digital scan generator for logical bugs, hung state in the state machines. I successfully debugged the prototype board.

Served as one of the key members in the noise reduction team hunting for mechanical vibration, ground loop electronic noise, electronic noise source and reduction.

Served as one of the key members in the analog electronic board architecture design and prototype debugging team for controlling the electron optics (containing electrostatic and magnetic coils drivers).

Served as one of the key members in the development of a high speed PIN diode detector (floating at high voltage) system.

One of the key members in removing 'micro-discharge' noise injected into the sensitive detector pre-amplifier due to high voltages.

Led a team that successfully debugged and implemented the complete prototype electronic cards in the lab, fixed bugs, then transferred the know-how to production.

Reverse engineered the legacy digital scan pattern generator and image formation board by tracing electronic schematic diagrams and PAL codes.

Designed experiments which ultimately discovered the root cause that killed detector electronics that floated at several kilo volts.

Managed a team comprising engineers from the US, the Czech Republic and Japan for mechanical component/sub systems design, specification, manufacture and testing.

Led the design, development and manufacture of a new objective lens and detectors.

Led the design, development and manufacture of a new magnetic electron gun (source and lenses).

Led the design and development of a vacuum stage with vendor Anorad.

Invented a vacuum wafer stage that reduced the foot print by 1.5-2x, and reduced noise. This design was adopted by the vendor for other customers.

Led the R&D and production of a precision ceramic lens component.

Developed an electron energy analyzer capable of working under a strong magnetic field.

One of the key architects in the birth of Schlumberger’s electron wafer inspection system.

The first engineer to join the project, which eventually grew to the size of more than 100 people.

Learned team building and valuable lessons from the growing pains associated with this project.

I was, at the time, the youngest member in the patent hall of fame for Schlumberger Semiconductor Solutions.

US patent # 6,344,750, US patent # 6,232,787, US patent # 6,252,705, US patent # 6,252,412,
US patent # 6,091,249, US patent # 5,920,073

I did my postdoctoral research with Prof. Harold Craighead’s group at Cornell University to develop an innovative electron beam lithographic technology. The project was based on the micro-fabricated electron column technology from Dr. Philip Chen's group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, a joint venture between Prof. Craighead (then director of Cornell Nanofabrication Facility) and Dr. Chen, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).

My main focus was on wafer patterning using a very low energy electron beam (1-2kV), pattern transferring to semiconductor substrates, and Monte Carlo simulation to investigate how low energy electrons deposit energy into resists and substrates.

I pioneered an experimental method for the investigation of how very low energy electrons penetrate nano-meter scale metal films.

Wrote a Monte Carlo simulation program (in C++ on Mac OS) consisting of graphic user interface, graphical display of electron trajectories and energy distribution; fundamental physics that simulate electron energy deposition due to elastic and inelastic scattering between electrons and atoms.

Learned C++ object oriented coding, the physics, and the Mac OS API and then demoed the simulation program to Prof. Craighead in less than 3 weeks. He was so impressed that he pressured the Cornell hiring agency to expedite my H-1 visa approval.

I was hired by Dr. Auguste El-Kareh (author of Electron Beams, Lenses, and Optics, 2 volumes), the president and founder of Alcedo, to develop an electron beam tester for finding defects in multichip modules (MCM), PCBs, or flat panel display substrates. This project was in partnership with Dr. Hans Pfeiffer's group at IBM Hopewell Junction.

I learned that the pain of timing is one of the most vital factors in the ability of a startup to survive its infancy. Dr. El-Kareh and the IBM team had great vision but unfortunately, were 10 years ahead of market needs. After 2 software managers were let go in a few months, I became the system manager to cover the software portion as well. I became a legend in the company after I managed to dump the 3 inch thick legacy C codes (user interface and electronic control from the consult computer) and replace them with a dozen basic building blocks in order for the user interface to communicate with the embedded Intel 80188 microprocessor and several electronic boards; the software project then moved forward

Electron microscopy column, induced current electron detectors, high/ultra high vacuum.

I was the only person at that time who could integrate a complex system which included 2 in-house control cards (with Intel 80188 micro-processors) for image formation/vector scan, control electronics for the electron microscopy column, and vacuum. I debugged Intel 80188 assembly with a logic analyzer.

By reading Intel 80188 assembly codes, PAL (programmable array logic) codes and numerous electronic diagrams, I managed to reverse engineer 2 in-house cards for image formation and electron beam vector scan.

Ph.D. dissertation research on how halogen gases etch silicon substrate in atomic scale. Experiments were conducted at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (then the #1 brightest x-ray light source in the world).

Surface physics, ultra high/high vacuum, synchrotron soft x-ray spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, LEED spectroscopy, photo stimulated desorption spectroscopy.

Develop models for explaining the observation of experimental data, that was taken to investigate how temperature, geometric and electronic properties of the silicon substrate could affect etching processes.

Served as a team member for upgrading the electronics and control system at the IBM U-8 beamlines, the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory.

I was a teach assistance for the 'Micro-processor(Intel 8085)', 'Circuit Analysis' (Laplace and Fourier transform) and 'Electronics' courses.

Programming in Fortran 77 for improving an in-house numerical fitting program for analyzing photoemission spectra. 

I was a teaching assistance for 'Numerical Analysis'.

I served as one of the key members in the design and construction of ultra-high vacuum (UHV) chambers, sample transfer mechanism and detectors at UCR.

B.S. in Applied Physics. The curriculum is a mixture of basic physics, electronics and computer programming.
In my junior-senior year, I invented a 100% mechanical lock that utilizes binary logic and is programmable via passwords, which was awarded the highest honor in a specific category in the 1984 Young Research and Invention Contest hosted by the Ministry of Education, Taiwanese government.

I developed a 'bipolar radiation source' to simplify the derivation of the complex bipolar antenna radiation formulas.

In my junior-senior year, I invented a 100% mechanical lock that utilizes binary logic and is programmable via passwords, which was granted both US and Japanese patents.