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Longmont, CO, US

Colorado

• Responsible for successful customer qualifications of five new hard disk drive programs for Datacenter and Enterprise class HDD’s used in systems from NAS to large scale JBOD’s, allowing increased sales for the.
• Provided sustaining support for worldwide customer systems, tested and proved quality issue improvements before field deployment, which were firmware based.
• Organized engineering design meetings over multiple continents and time zones, providing customers with access to design expertise for new system development.
• Lead customer engineer on failure analysis for system level qualification failures, as well as sustaining field system failures. Using system and HDD supplied event/status logs, provided guidance on failure cause to.
• Coordinated presentations for customer specific new technology/product design review meetings, educating customers of new technologies to improve products performance and reliability. Provided feedback to the.
• Worked with the customer to understand their software applications which allow in-house joint qualification efforts which shortened the customer qualification time and allowed for faster issue resolution.

Colorado

• Managed new product development, which included implementing new technology and production process that dealt with optimization of the read channel/preamp/ head and media combinations for optimal productions yields and.
• Successfully launched seven separate hard disk drive small form factor products into high volume production of greater than 100K per quarter.
• Solved yield issues and implemented corrective action to meet yield targets of greater than 90% first pass yield.
• Implemented factory test time reduction to meet factory throughput requirements.
• Provided weekly program updates to the executive management team to show program milestones were on schedule and identify issues causing schedule slips.
• Analyzed engineering builds yield and process distribution data using SQL database, Tableau reporting and Excel pivot tables.

Colorado

Solely responsible for the complete characterization of a mixed signal preamp to ensure all functions met published specifications for a 1.8 inch disk drive. Responsible for Thermal improvements to flex-lead design.Developed algorithms to implement special preamp features for drive diagnostics. Chaired weekly supplier meeting to discuss issues and.

Colorado

• Served as a primary preamplifier engineer for desktop products responsible for specification coordination, circuit level characterization, implementation and product support of a mixed signal device into new products.
• Worked directly with Texas Instruments, LSI, Marvel and VTC to implement new technology and corrective actions for new and existing preamplifiers.
• Analyzed and provided corrective actions for EMI emissions and susceptibility on PCBA and flexlead assemblies.
• Conducted thermal analysis testing of component level and disk drive systems level to ensure proper operation over a 0 – 80 degree C environment using, thermal chambers, test software, thermal couples, and data.
• Served as the read channel lead on five separate product transitions to the Singapore manufacturing factory teams, to transfer new products and improve yields, as well as train the factory team to take new products.
• As PCBA design engineer transitioned PCBA production to the Hong Kong manufacturing facility.

Colorado

Engineering technician that supported development engineers on a 2 1/2 inch disk drive. Built and implemented test equipment for drive and component characterization. Provided root cause failure analysis on engineering and production builds.

Colorado

Supervisor for 20 assembly and test personnel on new product production as well as a recon line.Lead test technician for the test process.

Colorado

Test technician responsible for System and PCBA test and failure analysis on a table top 14 inch hard drive. Taking the failure analysis to the component level.