Jr-Yi Shen is seeking a leadership position involving mechanical design, prototyping, analysis, and product development. He has over 10 years of experience in mechanical engineering roles, including designing components for hard disk drives at IBM/Hitachi GST and RF testing fixtures at Apple. He has 23 patents, a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Washington, and proficiency with engineering tools like ANSYS, CATIA, and MATLAB.

1. Jr-Yi Shen, Ph.D
Sunnyvale, California · (408) 480-6859 · juniorhusky@gmail.com
Objective
To seek a challenging leadership position which facilitates development activities, including mechanical design, prototype
bring-up, FEM analysis, part number and BOM management, solving DFM issues, system integration, failure analysis,
functionality and reliability demonstration, in preparation to advance design for volume production
Professional Skills
• leadership, coordination, and communication skills to direct, advise and drive multiple functional teams
• proficiency to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a high pressure, fast paced, and changing environment
• innovative problem solving with 23 US Patent with strong technical background and excellent inter-personal skills
• interlocking teams at various geographical locations and driving team progress to align with program schedule
• part number, BOM (Bill of Material), and drawing/documentation management with PLM system (Agile)
• structural dynamics, statics and thermal Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using ANSYS and/or I-DEAS
• hardware design and drafting applying ANSI Y14.5 GD&T with 3D CAD including CATIA V5, Unigraphics NX6
• 3D system tolerance analysis considering assembly deformation using UGS Team Visualization Product, VisVSA
• data analysis and data mining using MiniTab, SAS JMP, EXCEL with pivot table, or SPSS Clementine 11.1
• strong failure analysis skills and experiences with customer qualification; class 100 clean room experience
• extensive instrumentation practice, including spectral analyzer, oscilloscope, scanning LDV, Instron, Optiflat
• precision measurement capability using optical CMM; experience and involvement with shock and vibrational test
• experiences in supplier quality management and internal/external manufacturing process audit
• close form formulation, mathematical simulation, and programming using MATLAB, Simulink, and Maple
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excellent written and verbal presentation and communication skills using LTEX 2ε and Microsoft products
Professional Experiences
• RF Fixture Design DRI, Apple Inc., Cupertino 01·2011 - present
– Designed, improved, and innovated RF Fixture for iPhones and iPads, including incoming quality check (IQC)
of RF components, passive antenna test (PAT), and cellular/WiFi over the air (OTA) testing fixture
– Modulized fixture key components and qualified multiple source of RF fixture and probe suppliers
– Developed MATLAB based production tool to analyze RF data from Vector Network Analyzer (VNA)
• Mechanical Lead, IBM / Hitachi GST, San Jose 06·2002 - 01/2011
– Delivered a brand new mechanical platform for 600GB generation of 2.5” server class hard disk drives (HDDs)
– Coordinated multiple teams and solved issues involved with various functional areas, including manufacturing,
servo, integration, supplier quality engineering, procurement failure analysis, and materials lab
– Hosted and drove weekly design/manufacturing interlock meeting and servo/mechanical dynamics meeting
to address design, dynamics, manufacturability, and functionality concerns at all development phases
– Designed flex cable, spindle motor, desiccant, disk clamps, and spacer rings for server class HDDs.
– Took over a broken flex cable design; analyzed flex cable stress by FEA to resolve fatigue issue; designed
accelerated lifetest to demonstrate reliability; enabled the server class HDD program to launch.
– Conducted full drive HDD FEA for system dynamic assessment and solved vibration issues.
– Delivered a system tolerance model considering assembly deformation by FEA and Monte Carlo Simulation.
– Developed MATLAB based tools box for track mis-registration (TMR) and soft servo error analysis.
– Conducted failure analysis, identified failure modes, root causes, and instructed corrective actions.
– Involved with product fragility test; including operational and non-operational shock and vibration tests.
– Supported acoustic testing for optimized cover design reducing transmitted idle/seek acoustic.
– Managed suppliers; closed design for manufacturing (DFM) issues; audited supplier factory.

2. Education
• Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle 06·2002
dissertation: “Vibration of rotating disk/spindle systems with flexible housing/stator assemblies,”
GPA: 4.0
• Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle 06·1997
thesis: “Optimal Control for the Flywheel Energy Storage System with a Hybrid Magnetic Bearing,”
GPA: 3.5
• Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan 06·1993
GPA: 3.5
Publication and Patent
• 9 cited journal publication
• 7 presented conference papers at ISPS
• 23 active US Patents
• 33 US Patent Applications (refer to www.uspto.gov)
Award
• Student Scholarship of 11th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems 2000
• Student Scholarship of 12th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems 2001
• IBM Cooperative Fellowship 2001
Professional Training
• American Management Association
– Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success
– Managerial and Team-Building Skills for Project Managers
• Development Dimensions International
– Essentials of Leadership
• Hitachi GST
– Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
• ANSYS Inc.
– ANSYS 11 Workbench Training
Travel Experience
Singapore · Thailand · Japan · China · Hong Kong · Taiwan
Languages
English · Mandarin Chinese · Japanese
Journal Paper Review and Conference Services
• Publication Chair 20th ASME Annual Conference on Information Storage & Processing Systems (ISPS), 2010
• Track Organizer and Conference Session Chair, Consumer Electronics and Future Tech
• Reviewer for Journal of Sound and Vibration
• Reviewer for Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
• Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Magnetics