Alan has over 40 years of experience in the hard drive industry, with extended assignments in Research and Development Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Reliability Engineering, as well as System Integration Testing and Trouble-Shooting.Alan has also been trained and has well developed skills in Team Building, Engineering Management, Project Management, Technical Customer Communications, and Customer Support.During a 17 year tenure at Seagate Technology, Alan ran a unique set of labs that were tasked with learning from customers what they needed from hard drives, while assisting them with their hard drive knowledge. This highly capable operation worked in acoustics, structural vibration management, EMI/EMC, operational and non-operational shock, op and non-op vibration, rotational vibration measurement with performance loss metrics collection, system level thermal characterization, and more.