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Siu Wai (Edwin) Hon
Irlam
Summary
Professional manager with significant expertise in overseeing complex projects and ensuring timely delivery. Skilled in strategic planning, negotiation, cost saving, budget management, and risk assessment. Strong focus on team collaboration, fostering results-driven environment, and adapting to changing needs. Known for reliability, leadership, and effective communication.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager/Procurement Manager
Synaptics HK Ltd
06.2006 - 08.2024
- I established the local engineering team to sustain released products and suppliers' qualification. Besides, I also support design centers to speed up and optimize design with manufacturability consideration on multiple key projects, including BOM and specification update.
- In 2017, I changed my responsibility to Procurement Manager.
- I am responsible for managing all CMs and tester suppliers for PC division, including sourcing, cost reduction and qualification of new suppliers/CMs including background check, supplier contract and audit.
- Besides, I need to work with existing CMs ensure capacity and infrastructure is ready to support production, review capacity and prepare yearly CAPAX budget
- I manage various commodities like cover glass, metal/plastic bracket, IC, FPC, connector, switch, adhesive/glue and passive components.
- I arranged the quarterly business review with key suppliers/CMs with internal teams like Manufacturing, Testing, Quality and Planning to feedback on KPI and other communication tools (Oracle/Agile) like quality incidents and on-time delivery to reflect the situation with all CMs, and come up with the action plan for improvement
- Besides, I also handled crisis about patent inferring from a lawsuit and get it resolved in target time
- I involved several acquisitions to support the integration into Synaptics
- I prepared the saving budget and review with suppliers/CM quarterly to review and progress
Project Manager
Varitronix Ltd
05.2003 - 11.2005
- To lead the LCM design team to design customized LCM and sustain existing products and improve design to meet schedule
- To setup the new design team to achieve the first pass yield from 90 to 97% and reduce average development time from 8 to 5 days
Project Manager
Philips Mobile Display Systems
09.2002 - 04.2003
- Transfer to Philips Shanghai to set up a development center in China
- Apart from managing new projects, I am also responsible for yield improvement and design optimization for those products launched in mass production stage
- To improve the average production yield from 98.5 to 99%
Project Manager
Philips Mobile Display Systems
12.2001 - 08.2002
- Transfer to Philips Kobe factory and developed a standard LTPS platform as one of the company standard platform
- Besides, I also supported the business team to coordinate the design and production of TFT panel between other design center and Kobe
- To developed the first LTPS platform with partner and design win the major customer projects for production
Project Manager
Philips Mobile Display Systems
02.2000 - 11.2001
- To initiate and manage a successful and timely development program
- Introduction and support for the respective products in a way that customer satisfaction and company profit are optimized
- As a team leader to manages a team of specialists to work on a project from concept to mass production
- To successfully got the design win from Nokia Finland to HongKong design center, deliver the prototype on time and prepare sufficient production capacity at target cost
Sr Product Engineer
Solomon Systech Ltd
07.1999 - 01.2000
- Product development for display module and major in mechanical design & process development of LCD module
- To define specification with customer & negotiation with suppliers
- Prepare production equipment, carry out cost reduction & yield improvement plan
- Besides, I also involved in semiconductor packaging and Manufacturability for design
- To design the display module and work with factory to prepare equipment to meet customer demand on time
Sr Product Engineer
Motorola Semiconductor (HK) Ltd
06.1997 - 06.1999
- Mechanical design & technical support of LCD module manufacturing
- Production equipment preparation, cost reduction & yield reduction plan
- To win the first LCM project in house to enrich product portfolio and improve revenue and margin
Mechanical Engineer
Fargo Services
12.1996 - 05.1997
- Product design verification, Injection / Press tooling procurement
- Negotiate with supplier / customer & technical support
- To work with customers and suppliers to optimize the design to reduce cost and reduce production time
Production Engineer
Varitronix Ltd
01.1995 - 11.1996
- Product verification, production tooling & production equipment preparation / procuring
- Maintain production line
- Trouble shooting of production problem & yield improvement program
- To review factory layout and streamline the shop-floor to improve the yield and reduce the machine failure rate
Project Engineer
Varitronix Ltd
09.1992 - 12.1995
- Project follow up from design stage to production stage
- Including design verification & modification, cost estimation, tooling & equipment preparation, menu preparation & keep in contact with customer
- To make sure the key projects deliver on time and meet target yield
Education
MBA - Knowledge Management
University of Strathcyde
Glasgow, United Kingdom 04.2001 -
BEng (Hon) in Manufacturing Engineering -
Hong Kong Polytechnic
Hongkong 04.2001 -
Skills
Project management
Accomplishments
- Completed the Annual Cost saving Project on time and US$500K as plan in 2024.
- Collaborated with operation team in the development of automation production at CM to achieve 120ppm
- Qualify second CM at Vietnam to migrate supply risk in China
Software
Solidworks
Autocad
Work Availability
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Timeline
Project Manager/Procurement Manager
Synaptics HK Ltd
06.2006 - 08.2024
Project Manager
Varitronix Ltd
05.2003 - 11.2005
Project Manager
Philips Mobile Display Systems
09.2002 - 04.2003
Project Manager
Philips Mobile Display Systems
12.2001 - 08.2002
MBA - Knowledge Management
University of Strathcyde
04.2001 -
BEng (Hon) in Manufacturing Engineering -
Hong Kong Polytechnic
04.2001 -
Project Manager
Philips Mobile Display Systems
02.2000 - 11.2001
Sr Product Engineer
Solomon Systech Ltd
07.1999 - 01.2000
Sr Product Engineer
Motorola Semiconductor (HK) Ltd
06.1997 - 06.1999
Mechanical Engineer
Fargo Services
12.1996 - 05.1997
Production Engineer
Varitronix Ltd
01.1995 - 11.1996
Project Engineer
Varitronix Ltd
09.1992 - 12.1995
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