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Colorado, United States

Represent Solidigm in the NVM Express industry standards and as technical expert on OCP storage specifications.Contribute to the NVMe standard by authoring and co-sponsoring technical proposals and providing errata fixes in collaboration with industry partners for the benefit of the ecosystem.Lead a multi functional team dedicated to improving existing product planning and requirements gathering practices to increase collaboration and agility.Attend storage related conferences including FMS and OCP to interact with customers and industry peers to learn about industry trends and new and upcoming technologies.

Longmont, Co

Cultivated a firmware development culture based on inclusion, understanding of customer requirements and code quality leading by example. Ensured quality of deliverables by maintaining rigorous design and code reviews as well as working together with relevant internal teams in an Agile environment.Led a team of development engineers from product development to product PRQ, as a technical product lead, providing requirement priority guidance and communicating with product stakeholders to remove and prevent development and validation blockers.Collaborated with a customer to prototype and develop a Firmware infrastructure to support a new product feature designed to test drive panic recovery and error injection.Championed the design and implementation of a major new feature designed to simplify NAND firmware configuration changes in a fully modular component. The design encapsulated several code paths, which improved code maintainability and testability; while ensuring minimal to no performance impact to the critical I/O path.Enhanced several areas of the code involving panic handling, power loss recovery and hardware and firmware interactions that resulted in improved device stability.Trained peers in a variety of areas including HAL, NAND media, Bootloader, PMIC to increase the organization's ability to debug hard to reproduce issues.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Conceptualized and executed a C++ build environment, using SCons that supports multiple hardware architecture compilation and OS platforms while also allowing ease of code deployment and maintainability.Migrated Perl modules and scripts to C++ structures as part of a lab effort to boost performance of existing tools and improve overall quality of product.Trained and collaborated with a geographically diverse team on many topics that include tools usage and software module design.Influenced the organization for adoption of practices to increase quality of deliverables such as code reviews, automated test frameworks, and a lab-wide wiki site for documenting procedures, training-related information, and facilitate knowledge sharing,

Developed custom firmware in an embedded system environment for the HP Superdome 2 server.Designed firmware to setup and configure chipsets including Intel CPU and VLSI uncore and registers.Produced an embedded PowerPC toolchain.Engineered CPU interrupt service routines to handle irrecoverable errors.Led the standardization of coding practices for the team to ensure code readability and maintainability.

Researched hardware interrupts and their effects in system overhead to improve event scheduling techniques in contemporary, real-time, multi-core systems.Coded multi-threaded software in C using pthreads libraries to test hardware platforms and measure system performance in single and multi-processor systems.Contributed in the development of new hardware components to better manage interrupt events so to enhance system responsiveness and predictability while maintaining current, standard programming models.Hardware and software co-design using Xilinx FPGA boards.Trained other lab students in the utilization of lab tools and software, as well as custom built systems.Participated in reading groups and seminars.

Masters, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) Officer Graduating GPA: 3.8

B.S, Computer Engineering

Graduating GPA: 3.49