Chuck Still Email & Phone Number

Time to enjoy some time off.

Fort Collins, CO, US

Working on designs for the large engine control components. Implementing microprocessor controls and analog circuits.

Austin, Texas, US

This position came through the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Designed the electronics for a robotic tape library, SL150. The design has a control processor and several motion control boards for controlling motors, sensors and cameras. Used USB as a communications path to micro controllers managing motors and sensors. Designed the video display.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Designed the control processor board for an Enterprise high performance data storage system. This design used the PCIe bus for implementing high speed data paths for the data storage system. Multiple daughter cards were part of this design. System functions included data compression and ECC protections for all data throughout. Product was a high.

I managed a design group that was chartered with designing of high reliability and fault tolerant systems for data storage. Disk arrays and virtual tape products. The department designed two processor control boards that were used in the Fibre Channel interface to servers and main frame computers.

Designed and drew up schematics for the disk interface curcuit boards in the StorageTek vertual disk array nicknamed Iceberg. The disk array transitioned from ESDI disk drives to SCSI drives. Then under IBM contract I designed for the IBM SSA drives. Following that the drive trend moved on to SAS and Fibre Channel drives. I designed the interface cards for.

Designed and built the Surface Analyer test equipment for the 14 inch disk drive products. This involved knowledge of magnetic recording technology analog circuit design and high speed digital designs. Worked closely with software engineers to have the hardware detect and report the exact locations of media defects so that the software could record the.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Responabilities were to test and repair circuit boards for Sonar and Radar equipment for the Navy. I was certified in soldering (removal and repair of components), wire-wrap, cable and connector crimping. Performed Hi-Pot testing on major assembly components.

Norfolk, VA, US

Duties included maintenance and repair of criptographic equipment, radio receivers and transmitters. I also repaired teletype printers. Held a top secret clearance while working at the Atlantic Fleet Communications Center there in Norfolk. Was released from active duty in June 1975 and returned to California where I continued with the active reserves until.