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Broomfield, CO, US

Centennial, Colorado, US

OptSat (European Space Agency)Second lead on read/write firmware development on a four-person team. Took the project from design to ground testing, resolving issues related to data integrity and performance.Technologies: VxWorks 6, Mil 1553 bus, SpaceWire, ECSS PUS. NASA's cFS, Achievements: Delivered a functional optical data recorder, addressing.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Member of 8-person platform services firmware team within a larger software RAID product.
• Reviewed peer designs using the using the internal ReviewBoard code review tool. Produced clean code, while meeting the existing coding standards for a large codebase.
• Quickly integrated into the Tintri team, taking on difficult coding tasks on schedule while gaining knowledge of core platform design.
• Diagnosed and debugged coded issues using internal /var/log, gdb, ftrace and strace tools.
• Fixed bugs as assigned while learning about the base product.
• Researched and designed Linux Kernel changes to the NVMe driver and supporting code to adapt driver for new Tintri product. Met schedule on all projects assigned.

Austin, Texas, US

• Member of 16-person Block services firmware team within a larger software RAID product.
• Participated in a modified Agile/SCRUM design process.
• Designed multiple improvements in the C/C++ firmware for the Block Services (cache processing and data delivery) layer of the FS1 product, including integration of the OpenSSL encryption layer and independent design of.
• Designed and executed Unit Tests in Perl for all changes to exercise any code changes made. Made improvements to the Unit Test framework for the data encryption feature.
• Reviewed peer designs using the using the internal Webrev code review tool. Produced clean code, while meeting the existing coding standards for a large codebase.
• Quickly integrated into the FS1 team, taking on difficult coding tasks on schedule while gaining knowledge of RAID disk formats and data processing mechanisms.

San Jose, CA, US

Designed, coded, implemented and ran test cases in C and Python for NVMe/PCIe Solid State Disk (SSD) devices. Evaluated test results, documented and reported failures, followed up with firmware engineers, achieved closure on incident reports.

Austin, Texas, US

Led 2-man fast-track team to specify, design, code, and debug iSER/RoCE interface for Oracle Summit Tape Library. Developed device drivers for Oracle Enterprise Linux Kernel.

Austin, Texas, US

Led ‘Tiger team’ to design, code and debug an iSER variant of T10000D tape driveSupported and mentored team on real-time debug (on Altera NIOS processor in threadX environment). Advised internal customers and collaborated with Qlogic/Cavium (the network hardware vendor chosen) on design of iSER/RoCE device driver adapter layer (QMAAL).

Austin, Texas, US

Evaluated and specified new processors for T10000 generations. Ported T10000 code base to determined processors (Altera NIOS for T10000D and ARM Cortex-A8 system on chip / TI AM335x for T10000E). Determined suitable operating system modifications, coded, debugged and tested new hardware. Rewrote low-level drivers and system boot processes. Assisted peers.

Palo Alto, CA, US

T10000A, B Project / T10000C Tape ProjectPerformed as member of T10000 coding team. Developed tools in C on Solaris platform for device maintenance. Developed, coded, debugged, real-time (threadX) operating-system components in C for ARM9 processor. Developed product midlife enhancements (Encryption Key Management system, IPv6 support). Supported team.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, Emphasis In Computer Science, Electrical Engineering / Computer Science