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Songyang Li

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)
Songyang LiDirector, Engineering & TCS Business