Managing ME team that delivered Meta Neural Band

Product Design Engineer

• Future Apple Pencil and iOS keyboards design lead

• iPad Pro Smart Keyboard technical design lead overseeing all aspects of 2018-2020 smart keyboards

• Responsible for the continual yield and design improvement of already shipping smart keyboards circa 2015

• Work on defining best practices on candidate screening with Recruiting, Human Resources and Legal teams

• Design and execute diversity recruitment plan for Mac PD organization

• Technical lead on Apple Watch classic buckle leather band responsible for band/buckle design and factory

assembly and cosmetic processing

• Development of iPad Pro Smart Keyboard conductive and external fabrics in addition to assembly and lamination

processes required to achieve desired electrical performance and keyboard feel aspects

• Design lead at sub-component and final assembly factories responsible for providing daily direction to teams of

~20 engineers on how to run production and solve design and production problems

• Mentoring and developing junior US, China and Taiwan engineers into active contributing team members

• Assist in resource planning (human, equipment, labs) and growing of China region design and factory teams

• Work with Asian JDM partners to design factory layouts, assembly lines, assembly flows, fixtures, manufacturing

processes, etc as effective & efficient to meet design, manufacturing and operations goals

• Work with Operations teams to help improve yield by solving difficult (<1% yield) production issues

• Owner of ~20% design aspects on all of the first four iPad generations through complete cycle (concept, design,

functional and reliability testing, manufacturing, all up to product launch)

• Design and development of prototypes and high volume consumer electronic parts, modules and systems using a

wide array of materials and processes making choices based on engineering strengths and weaknesses,

manufacturability, processing parameters, cost, yield, sourcing constrains, etc

• Detailed design and process analysis incorporating tolerance loops, manufacturing variation, material

compatibility, process limitations, vendor capabilities, etc to support high volume manufacturing

• Cross-functional team collaboration to ensure structural, thermal, electrical, acoustic, cosmetic, cost and

manufacturing/ operations and other requirements were met