Armin Esmaeili-Tehrani, Msee, Pmp, Psm, Pmi-Acp Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

• Lead development of new rack and server solutions for AWS Edge customers.
• Manage AWS Edge hardware engineering sustaining activities for programs in production.
• Resolve hardware related production and data center issues.
• Create, lead, and execute component qualification plans.
• Perform requests for proposal from ODMs and approve statements of work.
• Lead the development of new products with ODMS.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Lead the hardware development of new 3D print technologies for dental devices.
• Manage product sustaining team.
• Lead continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Resolve quality and customer related issues due to component and manufacturing issues.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Manage storage and memory devices for portfolio of Surface products
• Create, maintain and control the project schedule
• Manage continuity of storage memory supply to development and NPI programs
• Resolve program storage, memory, and supplier issues
• Provide risk assessment and risk mitigation plans
• Create, lead, and execute component qualification plans

Bellevue, WA, US

• Completed over 1200+ hours of hands-on coding experience, from researching and testing, to final deployment.
• Learned and coded in 3 full stacks; Python, ASP.NET, and MEAN.
• Created and deployed a Hotel Reservation site in Python, and Movie review site in ASP.NET.
• Developed supervised machine learning models and analyzed various data sets using Python libraries

San Jose, CA, US

• Direct development of SAS, and NVMe solid state disk hardware with the latest NAND flash technology from concept to production for M.2, U.2, and EDSFF form factors.
• Develop hardware schedules and coordinate project development activities to meet target milestones.
• Delivered 4 enterprise solid state disk hardware designs ahead of or on schedule.
• Increased hardware development team productivity through efficient management of resources, improved planning, and team communication.
• Identified gaps in the hardware development process and implemented corrective actions to improve development execution times and reduce schedule risks.
• Led multiple design projects in parallel with limited resources and aggressive schedules.

San Jose, CA, US

• Directed cross functional and global project teams to develop hard disk drive products from concept to production in data center, desktop, consumer electronics, NAS, surveillance, and mobile storage markets.
• Led electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineering teams, and collaborated with marketing, operations, procurement, and quality teams to deliver products that meet the customer needs and business requirements.
• Delivered 9 hard disk drive products with up to +5M unit production volume per quarter and billions of dollars in revenue, shipping to OEM and channel customers such AWS, Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Facebook, and DELL.
• Delivered the first joint Western Digital/HGST low cost 2TB data center drive with new electronics, mechanics, and code architecture on schedule.
• Delivered the first Western Digital surveillance 1TB hard disk drive with subsequent 2TB and 3TB capacities which became top seller products in surveillance storage.
• Accomplished very aggressive qualification schedules for new components such as SOC, PLSI, and preamps to prevent major disruptions to volume production and avoid major loss of revenue.

San Jose, CA, US

• Functional Lead for recording subsystem engineering from concept to production. Developed new firmware optimization and test algorithms to improve product cost and reliability. Optimized SOC, preamp, and read channel.
• Led 6 hard disk drive recording subsystem developments, including the first high volume Western Digital 2.5” drive which became the top selling mobile product ahead of the competition.

San Jose, CA, US

Optimized test algorithms to improve product quality, performed data base analysis of test results, and provided product KPI trend reports to management.Designed and built tester to collect HDD parametric data to gauge drive quality, and provided training to technicians to use the new system.

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Web Developement

Data Science Plus