# Allen S.

> Principal Product Engineer, Product Manager | Power Management | DC-DC converter | Linear Regulator | RF | Microcontroller

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allens1

Accomplished Product Manager, PE on variety of product lines: Automotive, RF (transceiver and standalone TX/RX) products, power management - LDO, Switching Regulators, MOSFET drivers, also on mixed signal Frequency Synthesizer, Microcontroller; implementing, managing schedule during whole product cycle, from concept to final release, applying both Agile and Waterfall methodologies; incl. product definition (MRD/PRD), architecture and software/firmware/hardware design, wafer release, probing, packaging, bench and ATE characterization, testing, analyzing/correlating data, REL (incl. AEC Q100 and Q101 QUAL), FA, final release, sustaining and customer RMA debugging. Hardware development: Electrical Requirement generation from product features, Electrical Architecture implementation (block diagram with I/O peripheral, power delivery, clock tree distribution), schematic design and PCB layout, hardware bring-up and validation/verification, debugging, QUAL/REL, Compliance and Certification. Team player, eager and quick learner of new technology/tools with a strong sense of ownership and drive; analytical and methodical thinker with extensive business travel in Europe, Asia and US on projects to troubleshoot and solve customer issues on released products.

i have a reputation of moving actions to results. No excuses, just get it done.

Status: US Citizen.

## Work Experience
### Product Manager, PE @ MaxLinear
Jan 2021 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
Working on power sequencer and buck converters: including product definition, test system eval and selection, OSAT tester config, handler interface/docking system; REL board design/layout/fab; test plan implementation, providing TE with pseudo code and TDI, trim code debugging; analyzing characterization data; holding data review and product release meetings.
Released 1st Serial Interface product family that meets IEC 61000-4-2 standard and becomes main revenue generator.
Managing a team with daily engineering activities; monitoring performance, setting up workload, schedule and priority; providing technical guidance and support, etc.
Generated $150M in revenue with Power and Serial Interface products.

### Co-Founder @ DEVXBEAN
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | United States
Hardware/Firmware development and release automation implemented with AI/ML and big data technologies, interface seamlessly with major cloud service providers

### Product Manager, PE @ Microchip Technology Inc.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2020 | United States
Led a team for automotive product releases, and first time in MCHP, released several new automotive products in less than a year; generated quarterly revenue of over $40M; working on PMIC and RF transceiver/receiver products.
From MRD/PRD, driving RF product design, tape-out, wafer release, correlation, bench eval and debug, characterization (over temp/voltage), QUAL, to release of MICRF113 (transmitter), MICRF219 (receiver) and MICRF318 (transceiver) to production.
Completed PBP, DOS definition, wafer release, assembly, designing/building test and qual hardware (burn-in and HAST board), AEC Q100 and Q101 tri-temp char and qual, including lab data collection for bench-ATE correlation, analyzing char and qual data, setting char/qual/production limits with guard bands, sample testing, releasing test hardware and program to production sites offshore after completing tester and site correlations.
Incorporated industry best practices while collaborating with multi-functional, highly distributed global teams of marketing, planning, design, application, test, reliability/qual, FA through whole product life cycle, to deliver solutions which meet technical and business requirements.
Worked on spec analysis, prioritizing and planning projects, scheduling, developing and testing, executing and implementing both Waterfall and Agile models, using Jira and eVega management tools.
Managed and led several teams of engineers on new project execution, sustaining of existing product lines, yield improvement, process transfer, customer return, FA etc.
Involved intensively in debugging, RMA and app/customer board troubleshooting,


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allensu001

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Last updated: 2026-04-05