Songyang Li
Director, Engineering & TCS Business
Singapore
Summary
A hands-on engineer, manager, business leader, and problem solver with rich experience and track record across research, product development, NPI, manufacturing, and operation in photonics industry
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
TCS Business Director
Venture Corporation Limited
2014.01 - Current
- Manage P&L of a business portfolio up to US$60M
- Manage daily operation for productivity, accountability, quality, resilience, and continuous improvement
- Responsible for business growth and new business engagement;
- Provide engineering and technical leadership within the business unit.
- Manage a factory building from remodeling, renovation, repair, to security, compliance, maintenance etc,
- Study and review the latest products in the industry, provide the quotation after full understand of the process, labor involved, quality risk, equipment, and other cost aspects.
Managing Director
NeoPhotonics
2011.10 - 2014.01
Overall responsible for the tunable laser product family; ensure on-time delivery, high quality, and low cost for local operation
- cover ITLA, NLW-ITLA, TLMZ, Legacy tunable laser;
- lead the all engineering daily activities, troubleshooting and improvement efforts
- drive material & production planning; improving OTD
- oversee quality performance; ensure customer QCAR proper addressed and closed
- oversee and control for expense and budgeting; in charge of CM cost structure and cost negotiation
- managing merge and system integration after acquire
Managing Director
Santur Corporation (acquired by NeoPhotonics)
2011.01 - 2011.10
- lead all local engineering activities, troubleshooting and improvement efforts
- setup yield and SPC monitoring structure, identify issues and risks realtime
- In charge of NPI activities for local production line; successful transfer and ramp for ITLA, NLW-ITLA, TLBN, TCFP from R&D
- oversee and ensure quality performance
- build and grow the local engineering team
Manager, Optical Sub-Assembly
Finisar
2008.06 - 2011.01
- Lead a local engineer team
- Design and develop optical sub-assembly (OSA) for optical communication
- Support OSA production line for yield, quality, capacity issues;
- Drive cost reduction effort from BOM cost, yield improvement and cycle time reduction;
- Managing the overall co-axis OSA family for strategy/roadmap planning, consolidation, and optimization etc.
Senior Engineer
Finisar
2007.06 - 2008.06
- Design and develop optical sub-assembly (OSA) for high speed optical communication market
Engineer
Finisar
2005.02 - 2007.06
- Design and develop optical sub-assembly (OSA) for high speed optical communication market
Engineer
SIF-Universal
2004.08 - 2005.02
- Design and develop the optical fiber sensors and sensor systems including interrogators and sensing network
Education
Ph.D. - Photonics
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 2001.04 -
Bachelor of Science - Optoelectronics
Huazhong University of Science And Technology
Wuhan, China 2001.04 -
Skills
Fiber Optics
Operations Management
Optoelectronics
Organizational Development
Timeline
TCS Business Director
Venture Corporation Limited
2014.01 - Current
Managing Director
NeoPhotonics
2011.10 - 2014.01
Managing Director
Santur Corporation (acquired by NeoPhotonics)
2011.01 - 2011.10
Manager, Optical Sub-Assembly
Finisar
2008.06 - 2011.01
Senior Engineer
Finisar
2007.06 - 2008.06
Engineer
Finisar
2005.02 - 2007.06
Engineer
SIF-Universal
2004.08 - 2005.02
Ph.D. - Photonics
Nanyang Technological University
2001.04 -
Bachelor of Science - Optoelectronics
Huazhong University of Science And Technology
2001.04 -
Publications
- Tunable and switchable optical bandpass filters using a single linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating. Optics communications, Volume 239, Issues 4–6, 15 September 2004v
- Thermally tunable narrow bandpass filter based on linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating. Optics Letters, vol. 29 (1), pp. 29−31, 2004
- Tunable Fiber Laser With Ultra-Narrow Linewidth Using A Tunable Phase-Shifted Chirped Fiber Grating. Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. Volume:20, Issue:17, 2008
- Electrically tunable dispersion compensator with fixed center wavelength using fiber Bragg grating. IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 21 (6), pp. 1568−1575, 2003
- A phase-shifted linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating with tunable bandwidth. Optics Communications, Volume 260, Issue 2, 15 April 2006
Patents
- Managing backreflection (US 7,597,486)
- Surface warp resistant optical devices (US 7,572,069)
- Constraining Ball Lens in an Optical Subassembly (US 20110200287)