Will Chan

• Lead and manage a hardware engineering team, driving end-to-end product development from concept through commercialization in full product life cycle, continuous improvement, and customer technical support. • Defined and executed hardware technology roadmaps, aligning technology deployment with business goals, while ensuring compliance with EMC, safety, and automotive IATF16949 standards. • Performed comprehensive market research with SWOT analysis, aligning product development with customer needs and market trends to drive adoption and penetration. • Led RFP/RFQ/RFI evaluations for global customers with proposal submission consistently achieving target cost objectives within ±5% variance. • Implemented cost-optimization strategies by qualifying alternative suppliers and redesigning architectures, resulting in 15–20% BOM cost reductions across key projects. • Established department budget, KPIs and coaching programs, improving engineering team capability, and reducing design iteration cycles by 25%. • Championed Q-gate and milestone reviews, improving project delivery success rate to >95% on-time completion. • Initiated and supervised system architecture trade-off studies, selecting solutions that improved reliability and reduced warranty issues by 30%. • Secured CapEx for advanced lab equipment and design tools, enhancing validation coverage and shortening testing turnaround time by 20%. • Recognized for bridging technical depth with strategic decision-making, enabling sustainable growth of the R&D hardware function from long term staffing training, skill enhancement, continuous team development, growth, and sustainability.

• Partnered with key accounts across Malaysia to provide technical design-in support on MCUs, power solutions, and embedded systems, ensuring successful product launches. • Guided customers in component selection, prototyping, and optimization, leveraging EVM boards, application notes, and test reports to accelerate development cycles. • Delivered field-based technical support to resolve design issues, reducing customer time-to-market. • Collaborated closely with suppliers to introduce new technologies and provide immediate on-site technical support during urgent project phases. • Drove new design opportunities and business wins through application support and technical consultancy, contributing to regional sales growth. • Maintained strong customer relationships, identifying prototype and next-generation product opportunities that expanded account penetration. • Provided competitive analysis reports to principals and internal management, influencing product positioning and business strategy. • Manage projects, focus on proprietary parts design activities, and follow through the development cycle. • Exhibited strong technical aptitude and application expertise resulting in optimized performance, continuous improvement recommendations, and product innovation. • Collaborated with suppliers to offer regularly new technology and product update to clients with immediate technical support when required urgently.

• Led hardware design engineers in developing new product platforms from concept studies to production release, serving as the primary interface for customer RFQs and technical bids. • Designed and proposed hardware architectures based on customer specifications, balancing functionality, performance, and cost targets. • Developed preliminary schematics and cost assessments, supporting rapid feasibility studies and project approval processes. • Executed proof-of-concept prototypes, module-level testing, components performance evaluation and design verification, ensuring robust functionality before scaling to production. • Collaborated with sourcing to involve key suppliers since early stage of development study, securing cost-effective component selection and supply chain stability. • Worked with software teams to achieve optimized integration for system performance and reliability. • Authored test specifications and procedures for production-level testing (DFT/DFM), enabling efficient factory yield improvements with minimum testing cycle time. • Supported EMC/EMI and immunity compliance testing for CE, FCC, Bluetooth SIG, and product safety certification, ensuring regulatory approval for global markets. • Drove root cause analysis and corrective actions for design and production issues, reducing defect rates and accelerating closure timelines. • Provided continuous technical support along the full product lifecycle, from development to field deployment.

• Scratch new internal project conception defined by management. • Study and analysis the market trend on the demand and voice of customers. • Conduct technical & marketing details comparison on the existing products from the market. Involved reversed engineering study. • Construct the high-level competency design concept of the complete application system. • Consort with business development team on the concept selection. • Organize the concept design phase architecture layout towards generic development platform. • Proofs of concept design in hardware + software approach by modelling & quick prototype builds for demonstrations to potential customers. • Research, source & coordinate with suppliers’ product roadmap for electronics components. • Prepare project costing on design, development & manufacturing. • Utilize Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) tools to minimize the defects along the design stage. • Establish the initiate project schedule, product specifications & test procedures. • System application documentations & filling. • Improve on the RF performance 433MHz, 866MHz & GSM band frequency. • Hand over smoothly the successful concept study projects to the hardware designers.