Wei Cheen Law
Singapore
Summary
Experienced Lead Engineer / Staff Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in biotechnology or life science industry. Primary role managing new production start-up, product transfer projects (NPI), and driving continues equipment / instrument life cycle improvement projects. More than 10 years experience in equipment/Instrument troubleshooting in biotechnology or life science industry.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Instrument manufacturing lead
Applied Materials
04.2022 - 01.2023
- Managed new instrument manufacturing startup, Veranome Biosystems
- US, Europe and local cross functions collaboration on NPI transfer
- Interfaced with R&D and other engineering functions on NPI transfer into manufacturing environment and meet quality compliance requirement
- Cost planning and reduction, project timeline to meet the timeline expectation
- Developed new manufacturing compliance work instructions and test procedure with R&D
- Tooling and equipment sourcing
- Collaboration with QA lead on new work instruction, validation, and inspection procedures
- Collaboration with R&D team, contractors on instrument setup, maintenance, troubleshooting for preparation of production launching in Singapore
Staff Equipment Engineer
Illumina
07.2013 - 04.2022
- Managed critical equipment and manufacturing startup and transfer projects
- Team lead and Managed cross functions critical equipment & asset life cycle management system development in manufacturing Singapore
- People manager managing a team of direct and in-direct reports, overseeing their performance, career path planning and development plan
- Area SME, oversea overall continues improvement, maintenance of DNA sequencing instrument in QC
- Experienced in fabrication equipment, consist of laser equipment (laser cutting and bonding), metrology equipment
- Experienced in filling and metrology equipment maintenance and continues improvements
Equipment Engineer 2
GlobalFoundries
05.2010 - 06.2013
- Equipment owner for Hitachi CD-SEM, Review-SEM, and Scope, high vacuum system
- Hitachi RS4000 & S9300N, AMAT ReviewSem: Advanced Capability support on Robot handling/High Vacuum system/SEM column maintenance
- HSEB MIT300: Advanced Capability support on robot handling support/Microscope & Macroscopic maintenance
- Initiated cost reduction programs on spares, consumables and other operating costs
- Enforce SOP and provide training for respective AE
- Collaborated with Germany counterparts on leading equipment and assign process improvements required to achieve throughput, production yield, and product performance objectives
- Overall Metrology tool relocation coordinator to overlook on all the schedule planning, man-power planning, site survey and loading forecast with vendors, IE, facility and manufacturing
Electro-mechanical Engineer
Schneider Electric
02.2009 - 04.2010
- Industrial product design from offer creation until mass production
- Mechanical parts design for PLCs, sensors, relays
- Pro-E Wildfire 3.0/4.0 and Pro-M 3.0 were used for drawing and FEA
- Contributed in conceptual design, proposals, and technical specifications
- Performed overall mechanical designs, components evaluation, mechanical drawing, product assembly, and design verification test
- Managed projects technical documents, bills of material, assemblies and parts drawing
- Conducted design review / FMEA of new cost designs and process FMEA to minimize performance and time risk
Education
Bachelor's Degree of Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering with Design
University of Sunderland
United Kingdom01.2008
Higher/Graduate Diploma of Engineering - Mechatronic/Electromechanical
Penang Skills Development Centre
Malaysia01.2004
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Project Planning
- Project management
- Stockholder Management
- Budgeting
- Biotechnology instrument
- Continuous Improvement Program (CIP)
- Equipment life cycle
- Problem Solving Methodology
- Data Analysis / Analytics
- New manufacturing start-up
- Instrument testing method development
- Contract manufacturer management
- Process / Design FMEA
Languages
English
Chinese
Malay
Timeline
Instrument manufacturing lead
Applied Materials
04.2022 - 01.2023
Staff Equipment Engineer
Illumina
07.2013 - 04.2022
Equipment Engineer 2
GlobalFoundries
05.2010 - 06.2013
Electro-mechanical Engineer
Schneider Electric
02.2009 - 04.2010
Bachelor's Degree of Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering with Design
University of Sunderland
Higher/Graduate Diploma of Engineering - Mechatronic/Electromechanical
Penang Skills Development Centre
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