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Dustin Kuo

Sr. Engineer
Hi, my name is Dustin Kuo. I am 39 years old and have had four jobs during my 15-year career. My first job was as an engineer at Lu.L International Co., Ltd., which was established in September 1998 as a professional design company for motor control IC and mechanical and electrical system integration. Designing motor drivers was an interesting experience for me, and I found the whole process of developing products with writing firmware code in MCU to be exciting. My second job was as an R&D engineer at a subsidiary of the iST group. I joined the team to develop LED LM-80 test equipment and design LED Tj measurement equipment. I was involved not only in the early stages of paper research but also in supporting machine assembly and troubleshooting. My third job was as a FW engineer in the PLDS EE department. In the first two years, I worked with 50 other engineers to develop and maintain optical storage devices, and then participated in the SSD project during the third year. When I turned 30, I wanted to experience something different, so I sold egg cakes (Taiwan traditional snacks) in a night market in Taichung. I learned a lot during that time, such as how to look for a good location to sell (marketing), develop my own recipe of cakes (R&D), promote and attract customers (sales), provide cakes with stable quality (production line), and keep daily accounting (finance). However, after some time, I realized that I am still good at and passionate about R&D. This experience also gave me a different perspective on each role in a company and how to meet customer expectations. Currently, I work for a company founded by the ex-supervisor of my second job. I am mainly responsible for tasks integration, such as software, firmware, and hardware, in order to develop a PC-based programmable multi-channel power source. For one ODM order, I provided a 1024 channel electrical stress in an HTOL system to the customer's QA department. I began with a concept of a block diagram followed by SPEC, drawing the schematic, simulating in each function partition, doing the layout guide and review. I also designed the CPLD and wrote testing software in C# to validate that the PCBA is working as expected. Sometimes, I also need to go on business trips to Malaysia and China for machine settling or issue-solving at customers' sites. After the outbreak of Covid-19, I continued to develop and maintain products in a situation of supply chain shortage and new customized orders from Sony and Lumentum. Last year, as an administrator in the EE department, I introduced the EVT/DVT/PVT SOP to make the team work more efficiently and established the department education program to help members improve their skills. Until now, I still always "stay hungry, stay foolish" for new knowledge, as Steve Jobs said. I hope that the experiences during my career will be valuable to your company.
Arashi Tech Co.,LTD
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National Tsing Hua University
New Taipei City, Taiwan

Skills

Microsoft Office
Visual Studio
LTSpice
Altium Designer
Quartus

Languages

English
Professional
Chinese
Native or Bilingual

Work experiences

Staff Engineer

Arashi Tech Co.,LTD

Aug 2016 ~ Jun 2023
6 yrs 11 mos
1. Developed and maintained an isolated multiple channel SMU in HTOL system for tier-1 compony in LED and Laser diode industry. 1-1. Developed the key feature of Software function in C# language, such as the Vset auto tuned function, automated calibration function, specific ADC module application, PWM mode signal’s parameters calculation algorithm and the prototype of software architecture. 1-2. Developed the hardware from concept in EVT stage to PCBA validation in PVT stage. I not only using the Altium Designer to draft the schematic and pcb layout, but also using the LTspice to run some simulation. 1-3. Developed the SPI communication system from CPLD to ADC/DAC modules. 1-4. Modified some SW/HW modules to meet different customers’s order. 1-5. Modified some SW/HW modules to overcome the key component shortage of supply chain. 2. Developed an electrical measurement system for tier-1 company in III-V semiconductor area. 2-1. Developed the switching system for automated measuring multiple DUTs in one socket, and multiple sockets in one operation. 2-2. Developed the low leakage current hardware system to meet the requirement of less than 0.01 nano amps leakage current. 2-3. Designed the switch matrix controlled by CPLD. 3. Lead an engineer team to complete the EE task. 3-1. Introduced the Plan/Do/Check/Action cycle to members to improve work efficiency. 3-2. Introduced the EVT/DVT/PVT stage to members to improve work efficiency. 3-3. Executed an education program to members to improve their working skills.
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Firmware engineer

Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions Corporation
Full-time

Aug 2011 ~ May 2014
2 yrs 10 mos
Taipei City, Taiwan
1. Developed and maintained optical disk drive. 1-1. Develop a cost-down design through EVT to DVT stage as a firmware engineer. 1-2. Support hardware engineer team to solve issues during EVT stage. 1-3. Maintain firmware for debugging some issues with MP product. 2. Developed solid-state drive. 2-1. Develop a new design at EVT stage as a firmware engineer.

R&D Engineer

宜準科技
Full-time

Apr 2010 ~ Jun 2011
1 yr 3 mos
Hsinchu City, Taiwan 300
1. Developed testing equipment for LED life testing(LM-80). 2. Developed measuring devices for LED junction temperature measurement.

Electrical Engineer

LU. L. International Co., Ltd.
Full-time

Apr 2009 ~ Mar 2010
1 yr 0 mos
Hsinchu City, Taiwan 300
1. Developed and maintained an 3-phase DC brushless motor controller.

Educations

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National Tsing Hua University

Bachelor’s Degree
Electrical engineer

2002 - 2009
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