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Campbell, Ca, Us

Campbell, Ca, Us

Leading the AC EV charger, AC to DC power conversion, Interconnect Design, and Sustaining Engineering teams that are delivering a variety of products for home consumers, workplaces, multifamily residences, and fleet depots.

Granite Bay, California, Us

• Delivered new state of the art digital license plate product. Developed new architecture for low cost high volume production. Managed design and manufacturing team in Taiwan & California; negotiated BOM costs, developed supplier relationships, worked closely on assembly line production.• Improved legacy product with key design changes to remedy a variety of field issues.

Consulted for retailers and contractors on solutions involving solar energy. My expertise includes microinverters, solar optimizers, string inverter systems, permitting, and unique custom solutions (grounding, off-grid backup).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worked on electro-mechanical product development across a wide range of markets including automotive, cloud, enterprise, and hand-held consumer products. Managed 19 mechanical and manufacturing engineers who delivered multiple products and cross-functional technology projects. These projects were often challenging due to changing product requirements and aggressive schedules from concept prototyping into volume manufacturing. ✔ Delivered 10krpm 4 platter 2.5-inch drive with a new young high performing team; mentored first time lead and key new engineers achieving all key metrics (op vibration, thermal, etc.)✔ Developed a new streamlined DFMEA process, created detailed procedures, templates, and led multiple training sessions to integrate across all mechanical design departments.✔ Delivered helium sealed 3.5” electro-mechanical platform, focusing on a highly manufacturable low-cost solution that meets critical extreme environmental requirements over life.

San Jose, Ca, Us

High volume precision component design including spindle motors, injection molding, stamping, aluminum extrusions, aluminum die casting, engineering adhesives, flex circuits, voice coil motors, elastomers, humidity, thermal design, acoustics, and dynamic assemblies. Expert in design for manufacturing, FMEA, GD&T, design for cost, design for cleanliness, and static and dynamic finite element analysis. Additionally, the key company expert for thermal product design and analysis. Developed various novel test processes and department procedures. ✔ Delivered products into multiple markets (automotive, hand held consumer, Enterprise cloud)✔ Co-invented the first disk air diverter which is now used across the industry as a critical design feature to increase drive capacity via reduced disk and HSA disturbance. (1999 - 6,6224,966)✔ Solved a critical air-flow issue via patent (6,876,514) saving $0.50/hard drive across millions of shipped hard drives.✔ Developed state-of-the-art drive TMR (track mis-registration) failure analysis software. Automatically collects PES (position-error-signal) across the data stroke and outputs graphically separated mechanical contributions, error rejection curves, and domain traces. ✔ Creative problem solving (16 issued patents) covering a range of disciplines.✔ Expert level (SolidWorks 10+ years, Icepak thermal, FMEA, GD&T, Six-Sigma, MiniTab)

As part of a small team from Western Digital, we started a small start-up and developed the first fully functioning portable 3.3mm thin 1-inch hard drive for use in the Type 1 CompactFlash market.

Arlington, Va, Us