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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Startup and leadership coach, technology business leader, author and speaker.

Seattle, Washington, United States

eShine Cloud Restaurant Management Software (RMS) is an AI powered all-in-one SaaS that integrates a modern mobile-centric POS with intelligent inventory and order management; predictive promotion engine; powerful membership and loyalty program management; and visual analytics and reporting.  It's an easy to use and comprehensive solution designed for the fast casual restaurant industry.  eShine enables customers to order and pay on their mobile devices once seated in additional to support wait staff taking orders or kiosk based self-service.

Eshine Inc

Chairman and CEO

- One on one high performance leadership development and executive coaching.  * Provide lean startup, product development and go to market consultation.* Customized soft skill training such as collaboration and communication.

D&R Associates LLC

Co-Founder and President

Design, incubate and launch an enterprise class AI (NLP) powered customer service chat bot solution.  Customers includes Microsoft, HP, Macy's and others.

Microsoft

Principal Product Manager

Responsible for building, launching and monetizing Microsoft Cognitive Services.  It's a portfolio of 24 API's powered by artificial intelligence to enable developers to build a new generation of smart solutions to showcase the power of deep learning in computer vision, speech, natural language understanding and knowledge graph.  Designed and build the web portal with Orchard CMS, UserVoice and Github.  Developed billing platform as first party services on Azure portal.  Shipped 19 services as paid offers.

- Ironfire is a early stage fund that invests in the tech sector located on the both sides of the Pacific Rim.* Sourcing deals, mentoring and advising startups. * Teach lean startup and customer development.* Support entrepreneurial community.

Ironfire Capital

Venture Partner

- Invested in media and social sector projects* Consulted startups and non-profits on strategy, organizational effectiveness and leadership alignment. Building incubation process and capacity.* Leadership coaching and development with senior managers * Consulted on change management and adaptive leadership* Advised startups on China strategy, business development and product strategy.* Spoke and taught in innovation process and entrepreneurship.  conferences, universities and local communities.* Mentor founders in early stage on lean startup, business model canvas and customer development* Mentor and judge in USC, Caltech and Calstate entrepreneurship programs. organize hackathons and community events.  Judge and pitch coach at Elevate national business plan competition.* coauthored a book and executive produced an album.* My teaching videos:  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZStaJKfCN8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZStaJKfCN8</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_20GVN9C8eQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_20GVN9C8eQ</a>

D&R Associates

Consultant

- Founded Microsoft Cloud Accelerator, a six months residential, mentor-based tech startup accelerator for cloud-based solutions at the Microsoft R&D HQ in Beijing.  Part of go to market strategy for landing public cloud in China.•	Training and evangelizing startups to deploy on IaaS, PaaS of Microsoft Azure.•	Admitted 15 companies per session at 7% acceptance rate.  We finish each session with a spectacular Demo Day packed with investors and media.   >85% received following round of financing. 4 acquired including one by Yahoo.  45 companies in the portfolio included SaaS, enterprise software, gaming, IOT, mobile apps, education, and social ventures.  Created over 150 jobs.  •	Received City of Beijing recognition as the Innovative Incubator in 2013.  Recognized by the industry-leading group as the Best Accelerator Program in 2013.  Twice featured on CCTV news viewed by 150m people.  Numerous press coverage including cover features.  VIPs such as senior government leaders from China and US, Bill Gates, Satya Nadella and MNC leaders all came to visit our success.•	Built entrepreneurial ecosystem and established thought leadership in China including investors, universities, tech communities, government, and media.  Our campus became the hub for entrepreneurial activities.  I was part of the first group that launched the lean startup movement and hosted Steve Blank’s first visit to China. media coverage: <a href="http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-07/08/content_16748210.htm">http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-07/08/content_16748210.htm</a>

Microsoft Ventures

Founder and Director, Greater China

Led IT outsourcing 2.0 strategy and programs to transform partners’ business capacity and at the same time land private cloud in the market.  Reporting to the Cloud & Engineering BU.•	Accelerated partner engineering capacity and grew annual Microsoft outsourcing investment in China by 29% to $250m+.  •	Deployed a SaaS platform to manage projects and personnel resources efficiently.•	Strategic alliance with partners and government to train thousands of ITO engineers with a new training & certification program.•	Created a secure on-campus Outsourcing Development Center with over 1000 engineers from 4 partner organizations.•	Collaborated closely with sales & marketing on enablement programs to generate high value business for partners.  One of which became a global initiative.

Sr. Director, Strategic Partnership & Operations

Reporting to the Corporate VP, head of Asia Pacific R&D Group.   •	Led the leadership business cadence of annual budget and strategy planning, monthly staff meeting and quarterly business review to execute strategy and track KPI.  Built the shared services infrastructure and led the cross function team to streamline operations.  Worked with university relations on campus recruitment, and HR on talent management.  Managed executive visits and town hall meetings.•	Drove innovative culture by teaching creativity, launched ICFC (In China for China) initiative that became a funded program in FY11.  Led the energy strategy research in FY10 with successful review with senior executive. •	Responsible for the two campus projects.  Came into Shanghai project in late stage to contain cost overrun and repair relationship with the general contractor.  Oversaw the design and construction phase of the $300m Beijing project as the business owner.  Liaised between BU and project teams.  Successfully moved over 2300 people from three facilities into the new campus in Q3FY11. Consolidated 7 BU data centers with over 5000 servers into one centralized data center in the new campus saving over $1m in manpower and electricity.  Designed and built the $1m state of the art Visitor Center with innovation showcase, smart home, green building management system, and an executive briefing center.  designed and developed several applications in the showcase.•	Partnered with Finance Director on budget, finance process and org capacity planning. Saved over $10m (~5%) in FY09 in response to worldwide economic crisis. *     Designed and built touch interactive photo visitor demo for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo US Pavillon.

Director of Strategy & Operations

Symbio is a product engineering outsourcing company specializing in offshore development center with blue chip clients such as IBM and Microsoft. Reported to the president and CEO. Focused on managing China business and marketing strategy, improved internal process and supported second-tier city expansion. Managed special projects such as expanding business to BPO and Call Center sectors.

Symbio Group

VP of Strategy & Business Development

This role is a combination of product marketing and program management for the Greater China Region reporting to the president and working closely with sales, marketing, operations, services and engineering.   I was given special projects as well as a broad scope to drive product sales.  Managed and drove new process for the integration of the two companies, intimately involved in go to market and partner strategies.  *      Achieved emerging product sales objective in FY06 >$10m for four LOB’s•	Grew some lines of business over 80%•	Developed product launch process to ensure cross function collaboration and on time performance•	Provided regular product pipeline and financial analysis to sales leaders•	Developed and managed the trade compliance program and product certification process•	Built and managed for a web portal for product strategy and trade compliance, improved company wide communication and efficiency•	Managed alliance relationship and increased number of partners and sell through revenues with Chinese partners•	Developed mobile security market strategy and launched consumer products•	Developed China strategy roadmap with corporate team•	Provided timely sales training and tools for staff and partners•	Media spokesperson for launch events, trade shows and the press

Symantec

Director of Business Development

This position reported to the China Country Manager to provide pre-sales support for our $40m and growing business.   Supported major accounts and channel partners.  Coached managers for excellence through behavior and work process. Build a high performance pre-sales organization from 20 to 40 engineers in six teams and four office in 18 months include solution focused and channel focused teams•	Achieving goals of 35% annual growth two consecutive years and selected for Achiever’s Club in 05•	Developed best practices and disciplines in sales support, performance management and goal achievement•	Tight collaboration with Consulting and Support to achieve rapid response and customer satisfaction •	Developed product strategy and drove sales performance of new products into new markets

VERITAS Software

Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering

Pre-sales support of VERITAS' entire family of storage management software. Reported to the regional pre-sales manager.•	Consistent achiever in major account territory Disney (~$1m), Countrywide Finance (>$2m), Amgen (>$1m), Baxter ($200k), Northrop (Strategic) and 21st Century Insurance ($650k)•	Certified VERITAS Professional in HA Technology.•	Architected mission critical backup solution for Disney (ERP and OA) and Countrywide through proof of concept, working with other vendors (Microsoft, HP, IBM, EMC) to provide an integrated solution•	Deliver technical presentations, training, demonstrating product capabilities and design solution architecture for customers•	Working with corporate functions for customer briefing, product roadmap and feature requirements

Sr. Systems Engineer

MII is a web content delivery service provider startup based in Boston.   I worked for the area sales director to develop business and partners.  Help define product specifications.  Involved in hiring and training of new engineers.  •	Top performer in the start up, southwest area lead•	Developed go to market strategy for streaming media solution•	Evangelized technology with key partners like Exodus Communications•	Build the business from zero to >$1m

Mirror Image Internet

Sr. Sales Engineer

- Grew business 80% two years in a row.  Received two job promotions. Top performer in the region. ‘98 Sunrise Club winner.  District SE of the year.  Multimedia and Network Ambassadorships•	Disney technical account manager: winning Java Set Top Box design and data center backup infrastructure, trusted advisor for Feature Animation’s Digital Studio•	Developed strategic initiatives in digital media and ecommerce solutions •	Successful in designing Storage Area Network, Video-on-Demand, Media Asset Management and ecommerce infrastructures for many media and dot com’s in the Southwest•	Developed SE competence framework for performance management•	Managed mission critical projects in financial, entertainment and service provider market segments•	Developed best practices and best of breed partnerships with ISV/IHV•	Productized of HIPPI high performance networking interface for Sun SBus•	Skilled in competitive positioning, account penetration and solutions selling

Sun Microsystems

Technical Account Manager

pre-sales support for the Network Display Division.  Educate and demo X terminal solution in enterprise network environment.

David W. Lin

David W. Lin