Wei Nie

Experience

1. Business Analyst Staff Corporate Lean Initiatives

   Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

   Oct 2010 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Highlights: • R&D Organization Transformation - Pioneered and tailored Lean product development methodology in semiconductor industry; cut new product development cycle time to 1/3, reduced average chip development cost in an order of magnitude(same product complexity). • Sales Operation Effectiveness - Synthesized corporate-wide top solution selling behavior/best practice and institutionalized findings into prospect management/opportunity advancements/new hire onboard. Lead and deployed trainings in 6 countries with average NPS scored 96%.• Partnership Development - Identified, built and advanced partnerships between Cypress Lean team and Stanford University, Silicon Catalyst and renowned VC firms. Day-to-day operation: • Business Process Improvement - Drove vigorous process restructure/improvements initiatives in product definition, product(silicon and software) development. Freeing up $11.5M/year engineering cost from rework, schedule mis-matches and resource bottle necks.• Business Analysis - Structured, analyzed and surfaced business system inefficiencies and designed solutions in both strategic and tactical level for R&D, Marketing, Sales, HR, Finance and operation; designed initiatives and track metrics and communicated progress in boardroom quarterly.

Education

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  M.S. Telecommunication and Information System

  2007 — 2010

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  M.S, Major in Electrical Computer Engineering with a minor in Industry Engineering(ISyE)

  2009 — 2010

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  B.S, Electronic Information Engineering

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Problem Solving
• Leadership
• Lean Thinking
• Operation Optimization
• Effective Communication/Presentation
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Analysis
• Early-Stage Startups
• Team Building
• New Venture Formation
• Microsoft Excel
• Data Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Start-Ups
• Interpersonal Communication
• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Design Thinking
• Management Consulting
• Data Visualization
• Lean Transformation