Robert Ngo
Responsable de Conception Produit, Valeo
- 7 years in the field of semi-conductor as R&D engineer
- 5 years in the telecommunication equipment as HW engineer and coordinator
- 2 years in the consumer electronic as project leader
- Nowaday as project leader with an embedded system manufacturer for Automotive industries.
In all my professional experiences, it releases a constant of capability to apply the adequate organizations in different environmental contexts:
- Managing the team in charge to control the various skills in the respect of the milestones of industrial launch.
- Coordinating the projects having allowed the successful transfer of technology between European and Asian R&D centers.
My professional vision is to direct an international development team of an high innovation R&D center.
Specialties
Team and project management
* Project planning including the participation of people with specific skill (electronic, software...) and varied level of relationship (customer or suppliers...);
* Cost and milestones management
* Administration of the contracts of subcontractors (national and international);
* Management of teams from two to ten people, including coordinators and developers;
* Management of the scope change in life series and the communication towards the customers, deployment and planning of the formation;
* Realization and quality following plans;
* Management and planning of budget allotted by project.
Functional Analysis
* Industrialization process analysis within the framework of starting of production;
* Study of variations and determination of the solutions, functional or technical;
* Preparation of detailed technical specifications and following of developments by respecting the V-cycle;
* Technical and functional benchmark;
* Drafting and/or validation of the test plan.
Native Chinese speaker in 3 dialectes, fluent in English and French.
102 contacts2005 - 2011Technical Project Leader of embedded systems :
- Design Interior electronic embedded systems until their mass production ;
- Interface with customers (Car makers or subcontractor : BEHR, Renault and PSA mainly) related to any technical and economical issues of product ;
- Report technical and quality review with suppliers ;
- Manage the budget and planning and follow the workloads of the teams (French and foreigner);
- Interface between factories and R&D center for production launch.
Products :
- Aircon control panel for vehicles Peugeot 206, 307 and Citroën C4
- Multi Function Display mechanical carrier for Citroën C6
- Monochrome Multi Function displays
2003 - 2005Project Manager in development of battery charger for industrial and consumer applications
- Planned process development until industrialisation stage of finish good under a competitive context of time to market ;
- Designed electronic power solution for the Ni-MH or Li-Ion battery chargers ;
- Studied product construction related to the world wide standard of CE or UL approvals ;
- Coordinated projects with Chinese partners or sub-contractors ;
- Audited production line ;
- Canvassed for industrial partners (sub-contractor or supplier) and evaluated their production capacity ;
Products :
- 15min Ni-MH battery fast charger.
- High power charger for industrial applications.
1998 - 2003Hardware coordinator in development with Alcatel Shanghai Bell
- Interfaced with European and Chinese R&D and technical design centers ;
- Reported any hardware development issue and evaluated any risky deviation from the world wide process ;
- Assessed technological transfer process and coordinated low-cost system development with local suppliers ;
- Managed team from China and their technical training.
Hardware designer in optical fiber transmission:
- Developed the optical module’s et electrical control boards dedicated to DWDM system ;
- Attended pre-serial qualification and manufacturing ;
- Drafted technical design and Test specification ;
- Evaluated technologically the component of new generation
AWG, Interleaver, Raman Amplifier and L-Band passive components.
Products :
- 2.5Gbits Metropolitan Network and low-cost feature: DWDM, CWDM.
- 2.5Gbits and 10Gbits Terrestrial Network systems – Optical protection and multiplexing sub-system: OADM, OMDX.
- Expansion card for C and L band transmission network.
1992 - 1998R&D in the field of optical devices:
- Implemented the advanced low-cost wafer process ;
- Set up the experimental design of different individual thin film process to mass production;
- Studied material properties by Physicochemical, Electromechanical and Electro-optical analysis ;
- Specified the heavy equipment purchasing and followed up the validation tests;
- Ensured industrial transfer by providing technical training to local operators.
Fields of Research:
- Optical Semiconductor Amplifier;
- High power Laser Emitter up to 1W at 1.48µm.
Publications:
- “40Gbit/s all-optical multi-functional signal processing by cross-gain modulation in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier”, awarded by Organizing and Program Committees for the session OECC’96.
- “Record low noise factor (5.2 dB) in 1.55µm bulk SOA for high bit rate low-noise pre-amplification”, ECOC’96, Oslo.
- “High Performance S.O.A. array for self-aligned tilted packaging using Si V-groove flip-flop technique”, IEEE Photon. Techn. Lett., vol. 7. No. 5, may 95.
