Lucid Innovations, San Jose, CA ................................................................. June 2006 to Present
Chief Systems Architect

Jason started full time systems architecture consulting and contract services to help other companies in the Silicon Valley to build their product strategies with innovative systems architecture. He has worked with many of the leading-edge companies, such as PortalPlayer, SiPort, Wolfson, AMS, Acer, GLG, MoSys, and Silicon Image. He led to define and architect Mobile HDMI, HDMI 1.4, HDTV Port-Processors, Canonical HDTV Architecture, and SATA2-RAID Controller for Silicon Image. Recently, he has been researching on heuristic audio enhancement for augmented hearing devices and spatial acoustic technology for cardiovascular monitoring devices for Xilicom Research, Inc.

PortalPlayer Incorporation, San Jose, CA ........................................ September 1999 to June 2006
Corporate Sr. Fellow and Chief Systems Architect

Working as an architecture consultant, Jason helped the company during its inception to receive its initial funding and later joined as a Principal Systems Architect to define and develop its successful Dual ARM7 Symmetric Multiprocessor for Digital Media controller SOC. It had been designed into various products, such as the Apple iPOD, Sandisk MP3, Yamaha Sound Sketcher, Bang&Olufsen, and Harman Kardon CDRW Stereo Jukebox. He had developed HW assisted Audio, Photo, and Video processing SOC and product architectures. He had also defined wired and wireless connectivity architectures and analog Audio Codec and Power Converter circuitries. In the process, he had been recognized as the most innovative member of the team with many crucial technical solutions and patent filings. In June of 2001, he had been recognized as the key contributor for the success of the company with an honorary title of PortalPlayer Fellow.

National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA .................. August 1998 to September 1999
Corporate Staff Systems Architect of Strategic Technologies Group

Jason worked briefly at National Semiconductor as a Corporate Staff at the Office of CTO. In addition to providing technical consultation to various groups within National Semi, he provided strategic analysis for new and emerging technologies to set corporate level technology initiatives. He had worked on ADSL Modem, multiprocessor based Network Switch, and High Speed LVDS Memory Bus Architecture initiative for the company. He had hosted many conferences and consortium to advance its 2.5Gbps LVDS Memory Bus Interface technology and presented at the JEDEC'98 and Platform'99 conferences.

Acer Advanced Labs, San Jose, CA ..................................................... March 1995 to August 1998
Director of Engineering in Advanced Portable Systems Group

Jason was a Director of Engineering at Acer Advanced Labs developing the leading edge Advanced Portable Products. He had successfully developed and implemented Common Architecture for concurrent product development strategies across Acer's global R&D centers. He had developed next generation technologies and applications for premium portable notebook platforms – such as biometric access controls, integrated CMOS camera with digital panning and zooming, Audio Speaker System, Fan-less Pentium-II Thermal Solutions, Advanced Battery Subsystems, and Heuristic Power Management techniques.

While working as a Principal Architect and a team leader, his team had created one of the most appreciated and honored notebook computer, which incorporated breakthrough technology on battery life (~12hrs) and human-centric user interfaces. The product, Acernote Nuovo and TI TravelMate 7000, had received numerous industry awards and honors, including the prestigious Taiwan National 1997 Golden Product Award. Their product and their development methodology had been made cover story on March 1997 issue of Portable Design magazine.

AST Research, Irvine, CA ...................................................................... April 1990 to March 1995
Lead Senior Design Engineer of Portable Systems Department

As a Lead Senior Design Engineer at AST Research, Jason had developed several notebook computers and proof-of-concept architectures for next generation family of products, including notebook, sub-notebook, desktop, and server products. He had designed and developed various systems and sub-systems controller ASIC for their PC products. He had designed a mixed analog/digital ASIC with Fuzzy-Logic processor for systems management and voice activation computer. He had designed a high performance Systems Controller chip incorporating patented “rule-based” memory management and “virtual-device” resource management. Prior to his departure in 1995, he had defined and developed a North-Bridge Controller ASIC for the Pentium-II based notebook computers.

TRW Micro-Electronics Center, Redondo Beach, CA .................................. Nov. 1984 to April 1990
Departmental Staff (Principal Engineer) of ASIC Development Department

Jason had developed design methodologies and published design manuals for Radiation-Hardened CMOS Standard-Cells and Embedded Gate-Array technologies. He had also designed several proof-of-concept ASIC’s including Synoptic Neural Network chip while providing technical consultation and project proposals for the department. As a Work Package Manager, He had received the "TRW Commendation Award" for successfully leading group of engineers and technicians to develop seven semi-custom VLSI chip sets for the TDRS Communications Satellite. While as a Design Engineer, he had received the "TRW Achievement Award" for designing 100% "First-Time-Pass-Silicon" on four VLSI chips for MILSTAR Communications Satellite network.

MOS Technology, Costa Mesa, CA ............................................................ June 1983 to Nov. 1984
Senior Test Engineer of VLSI Fabrication Department

Immediately after graduating from UCLA, Jason had joined MOS Technology, who developed the worldwide sensational home entertainment computer named Commodore64 and Amiga Computer. he developed factory automation tools to improve production yield in the semiconductor fabrication and provided failure analysis on custom ASICs and DRAM chips. Within the short period of time, he became a resident expert by understanding in-depth details of semiconductor process and the electro-mechanical physics related to CMOS semiconductor technologies.

UCLA Device Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA. ................................................ June 1982 to June 1983
Departmental Scholar and Research Assistant

While attending UCLA undergraduate, Jason was privileged to a Departmental Scholar program to finish combined BSEE and MSEE degree requirements in five years. Instead, he used his privilege to double major - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was also invited to join the UCLA Device Laboratory where he developed automated device characterization system using Z80 microprocessor and A-to-D, D-to-A converters.

Jason received his honorary title of Fellow from PortalPlayer Inc.
He received his MSEE degree in Computer Architecture from USC.
He completed his BSEE/CS degree as Departmental Scholar from UCLA.