Employment Experience

09/2015 – Present, San Francisco, CA

Consultant – JZJ Consulting, Inc. (www.jzjconsulting.com)

Consultation for industry, government agencies, academia, and professional associations in the areas of LEDs, lasers, and lighting. Examples of recent projects:

  • U.S. EPA Energy Star Lighting Program compliance.

  • U.S. DOE Solid-State Lighting R&D project reviews.

  • Laser headlamp and ADB technology development for a government sponsored project.

  • Technology scouting, design review, and standard development for automotive OEMs, automotive lighting (tier-one) suppliers, and major LED manufacturers.

  • Testing and evaluation standards compliance for photometry instruments manufacturers.

  • Product compliance review for lighting manufacturers on behalf of the independent test labs.

  • M&A strategies for automotive lighting (tier-one) suppliers.

  • NIST Assessor for NVLAP accredited laboratories.

  • Expert witness for IP disputes and litigations.

06/2007 – 09/2015, Sunnyvale, CA

Director – Regulations and Emerging Technologies, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Inc. (www.osram-os.com, OSRAM Opto is one of the world-wide largest LED companies, a subsidiary of OSRAM GmbH).

Responsibilities and Major Accomplishments:

  • Functioned as company’s NAFTA liaison for technology scouting and monitoring in industry, academics, and startups.

  • Interfaced with academic and industrial consortium programs to present the company’s positions and to collaborate product and technology development strategies with LED, laser, sensor, and lighting industry.

  • Managed LED and lighting regulations and standards activities.

  • As the company’s representative, interfaced with U.S. governmental agencies such as U.S. DOE, DOT, EPA, and DOC, as well as state level authorities such as CEC, etc.

  • Interfaced and participated in the U.S. professional, standard and trade organizations such as ANSI, SAE, IESNA, NEMA, UL, IEEE, JEDEC, SEMI, ASABE, CIE-USA, etc. to establish and revise industry standards relating to LEDs and lasers.

  • Established strategies for the emerging technologies for LED and laser applications.

  • Established company-wide system to integrate standard and regulation requirements into product development and quality management; transferred the engineering mentality and awareness from a high-tech semiconductors basis to lighting commodities; strategically placed the company’s position in the standardization bodies.

  • Managed the LED technology strategies and implementations in the fields of automotive, general illumination, horticulture, display, medical, defense, and others in the NAFTA market.

08/1993 – 06/2007, Farmington Hills, MI

General Manager (Previously Manager up to 10/1998) – Engineering Technology, North American Lighting, Inc. (www.nal.com, a primary and the largest automotive lighting supplier in North American and an affiliation of Koito www.koito.co.jp, the world-wide largest automotive lighting company).

Responsibilities and Major Accomplishments:

  • Provided strategic planning for new technology implementation and new business development

  • Established from ground zero and managed world-class engineering team consisting of four departments: Optical Design, Electronic Technologies, Engineering Analysis, and Regulation and Standards

  • Assisted the company to grow and expand the US customer base and revenue from $100 million to a half billion, and made the company the largest US automotive lighting supplier.

  • Investigated, identified and negotiated technology transfer and technology exchange with the foreign shareholder companies.

  • Managed intellectual property protection including patent applications

09/1989 – 08/1993, Troy, MI & Anderson, IN

Sr. Development Engineer & Project Manager – Advanced Development in Lighting, General Motors Corporation, IFG Division.

  • Participated in and managed R&D projects in technology development to implement state-of-the-art technologies in automotive lighting applications.

  • Led technology development projects including holograms, optical waveguides and light guides, fiber optics, non-imaging optics, computer-aided optical design, thermal analysis, LED, HID, neon and other new light source applications in the automotive lighting systems.