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Kelvin Huang

Kelvin Huang

Reliability & Quality Engineering Leader
Taipei

Summary

Hardware reliability and quality leader with 20+ years spanning both the brand side (Ubiquiti) and the EMS/ODM side (Pegatron, Flextronics, Inventec, MSI) of the Taiwan hardware supply chain. Led QA and reliability teams of up to 10 engineers across the full product lifecycle — concept, design verification, NPI, production ramp, and sustaining — for connected devices, servers, notebooks, and networking hardware. Built reliability labs and test strategies from the ground up, with deep hands-on expertise in HALT and accelerated life testing, DFMEA/NUDD risk analysis, ORT, failure analysis, and closed-loop corrective action. Known for turning field and production data into design improvements, and for managing Taiwan-based contract manufacturers and component suppliers with an insider's understanding of how they operate.

Work History

DQA Team Lead

Ubiquiti (UniFi)
01.2020 - Current
  • Lead design quality assurance (DQA) team for Unifi connected devices—gateways, switches, indoor/outdoor access points, and Protect cameras—surfacing reliability risks at earliest design stage to protect customer experience.
  • Own baseline reliability and quality requirements across all Unified product categories; systematically manage critical potential and known risks from concept through sustaining.
  • close loop between field and design: translate returns support signals and field failures into root-cause analysis design-stage requirements and corrective actions.
  • Set team goals, review cadence, and resource allocation to sustain a high development pace; hire and mentor engineers with a product-ownership mindset.
  • Track emerging technologies and reliability standards to continuously raise team capability.

Senior Technical Manager, QA

Pegatron Corp.
01.2011 - 01.2020
  • Led a 10-member QA team across the full lifecycle — NPI, launch, high-volume ramp, and customer quality-experience management — for Dell (notebook/AIO) and Microsoft (tablet/AIO) programs.
  • Drove design and development verification protocols; reviewed HW/ME/SW/FW designs and led cross-functional phase-exit and DFM reviews assessing performance and reliability risk.
  • Owned compliance and trend analysis across inspection, verification, and validation — L6/L10 BOM, SMT site certification, component-level GS review — and ongoing reliability testing (ORT); enforced sampling and SPC procedures and drove corrective actions through a closed-loop failure tracking process.
  • As QA Engineer / Lab Leader (earlier tenure): led a 4-member team on NPI quality; drove corrective actions with ME/EE R&D using NUDD and FMEA; established the reliability lab from scratch — temperature cycling, thermal shock, vibration, shock, drop, HALT, and SMT solder-joint quality — and built third-party lab partnerships.
  • Programs: server, network switch, notebook, AIO, tablet.

Product Assurance Senior Engineer (Server)

Inventec Corp.
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Defined and verified system-level requirements for enterprise server and AIO programs; coordinated all engineering functions to achieve phase exit on schedule with R&D and Quality. Programs: Dell (server); HP, Lenovo, Toshiba (AIO).

System Engineering Senior Engineer

Flextronics Computing
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Owned reliability testing end to end — environmental, drop, shock, vibration, crash, high/low temperature, IPXX, MIL-STD-810G — creating, reviewing, executing, and releasing test plans and schedules.
  • Coordinated ODM and third-party labs on plans, schedules, and reports; managed HW-compatibility and overall quality test management; supported RFQ activity with NRE-based test plans. Programs: IBM, HP, Dell (server/workstation).

DQA Engineer

Micro-Star International (MSI)
01.2004 - 01.2007
  • Executed reliability and HW-compatibility testing (MIL-STD-810G environmental and mechanical suite); created and controlled test plans and resolved product issues with ODMs and third-party labs. Programs: MSI, NEC, IBM, Dell, HP (server).

Education

Master of Management Sciences -

Tamkang University
Taiwan
01.2012

Bachelor of Electronic Engineering - Computer Engineering

Oriental Institute of Technology
Taiwan
01.2001

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