19 years, two disciplines, one engineer.
I started out designing products people hold in their hands. I ended up architecting the lines that build products people's lives depend on. Both taught me the same thing: good engineering is invisible until it isn't there.
From consumer electronics to medtech lines.
I spent the first stretch of my career designing the things you'd recognise on a shelf: noise-cancelling headphones and earphones for Sony, an electromechanical relay socket for Schneider Electric, a miniature photoelectric sensor for IFM. Every one of those products had to survive contact with real manufacturing lines, real tolerances, and real cost targets — not just look good in a render.
At Rohde & Schwarz I moved into test & measurement hardware and contributed to a filed patent during my tenure there. That's where I started thinking less about individual parts and more about the systems that build them.
That shift took me into automation system architecture — designing and integrating the manufacturing lines, vision systems, and fixtures that produce medical devices for ResMed, Philips, Insulet, Intuitive Surgical, Illumina, and Roche. These are products where a tolerance stack-up isn't a cosmetic problem — it's a patient-safety one.
Today I lead a team of 8 as an Automation System Architecture Manager, and I take on independent product design and automation consulting alongside that — from a founder's first sketch through to a validated manufacturing line. Based in Singapore, working across Southeast Asia.
Where the 19 years went.
Consumer product design
MDR-NC7, MDR-NC40, MDR-NWNC33B and MDR-NC100D noise-cancelling headphones and earphones, plus earphone and MP4 player lines — full mechanical design and design-for-manufacture, in-house.
Electrical hardware
EMR relay socket — electromechanical hardware design built to survive industrial deployment.
Industrial sensing
O8 miniature photoelectric sensor — precision enclosure design for a space-constrained industrial sensor.
Test & measurement
Contributed to a filed patent during my tenure (IP held by Rohde & Schwarz). This is also where my focus started shifting toward systems, not just parts.
Automation system architecture
Architecting manufacturing lines, vision systems, and fixtures for medtech device makers — ResMed, Philips, Insulet, Intuitive Surgical, Illumina, Roche — while leading a team of 8.
Certifications and IP.
CAD certifications
Certified in SolidWorks, NX, and Creo — the three major platforms used across consumer, industrial, and medtech product design.
Patent contribution
Contributed to a patent filed during my tenure at Rohde & Schwarz. IP belongs to Rohde & Schwarz; credited as contributor.
Base
Singapore-based, working with founders and manufacturing teams across Southeast Asia.