David Tidwell Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Management of a winning team here at TxDOT that supports the traffic field technicians across this great state. As new technology is introduced that drastically impacts the driving public safety, they need to be tested, installed and maintained. My team provides the very best frontline support of these critical areas. This team will be responsible of enabling fully autonomous vehicles here in the state of Texas. We have started laying the foundation to meet the critical needs for this very important task by enabling connectivity to over 5,000 traffic field devices across the state. These devices will eventually enable live communication with intelligent traffic. I developed a multiple live feed dashboards that gives status updates on traffic field devices so that anyone across the state can view that status within TxDOT. With the help of this team, we have introduced cutting edge technology and innovation into the Traffic Safety division here at TxDOT.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Management of a winning team here at TxDOT that supports the traffic field technicians across this great state. As new technology is introduced that drastically impacts the driving public safety, they need to be tested, installed and maintained. My team provides the very best frontline support of these critical areas. This team will be responsible of enabling fully autonomous vehicles here in the state of Texas. We have started laying the foundation to meet the critical needs for this very important task by enabling connectivity to over 5,000 traffic field devices across the state. These devices will eventually enable live communication with intelligent traffic. I developed a multiple live feed dashboards that gives status updates on traffic field devices so that anyone across the state can view that status within TxDOT. With the help of this team, we have introduced cutting edge technology and innovation into the Traffic Safety division here at TxDOT.

Austin

Austin, Texas Area

AMD Test Capacity Improvements HST tester upgrade – HPDL385 G7 Dual Cell Host• Researched/designed/architected new production tester upgrade• Upgrade improved first pass yields by 12% across all AMD products• Presented proposal to AMD VP management for approval• Managed rollout of solution for all AMD sites globally• Saving AMD $6M in 2010 meeting ROI in 18 weeks• Cumulative savings over 4 years ~$23MAMD Over Seas Test Facilities Infrastructure Standardization• Partnered with AMD IT to identify and standardized AMD test infrastructure• Installation of specialized test data base for Sort test sites• Installation of specialized test data transfer infrastructure• Worked with AMD IT to plan out these projects and install solutions to various Asia sitesAMD Engineering Innovation Architected “AMD Pod” that can support 1.8K VMs in a single physical rack• Presented solution to AMD management as a more cost effective virtualization infrastructure solution• Solution utilized reduced cost black box 1U servers to provide virtualization servers• Solution utilized a specialized high performance visualization storage array• Proposed solution cost $250K

Austin, Texas Area

AMD Test Program Release Improvement Architected “Big Data” transfer ability within AMD• Proposed test program transfer solution to AMD upper management• Team lead for solution design and rollout• 98% improvement over proposed AMD IT solution• World class innovation using virtual tape library servers for transferring large data setso Transferring 300G of data from Austin to Germany in 32 hours using a 7MB/s networko Transferring 40G file to 3 different facilities within AMD in 1 hour• Team lead for developing Engineering “Dropbox”o Automated software build data transfers to overseas AMD siteso Automated transfers of large engineering test programs to overseas AMD siteso Easy to use webpage for end users to transfer their own large data setsAMD Test Capacity Improvements Sapphire tester upgrade version II• Team lead for research/design/architecting new production tester upgrade• Upgrade reduced AMD test times by 20% across all AMD products• Presented proposal to AMD VP management for approval• Managed rollout of solution for all AMD sites globally totaling over 100 installs• Saving AMD $12M in 2012 meeting ROI in 9 weeks• Cumulative savings over 2 years ~$18MAMD Product Engineering Support Test floor data center migration• Team lead for AMD test floor data center migration between two AMD sites• Developed project plan to allow for infrastructure migration/transfer with minimal impact to test floor and engineering usage• Managed infrastructure migration/transfer• Transferred all infrastructure while maintaining 99% uptime on engineering infrastructure

Austin, Texas Area

AMD Test Program Release Improvement Architected “Big Data” transfer ability within AMD• Designed/proposed test program transfer solution to AMD upper management• Team lead for solution design and rollout• 98% improvement over proposed AMD IT solution• World class innovation using virtual tape library servers for transferring large data sets• Transferring 300G of data from Austin to Germany in 32 hours using a 7MB/s network• Transferring 40G file to 3 different facilities within AMD in 1 hour• Team lead for developing Engineering “Dropbox”• Automated software build data transfers to overseas AMD sites• Automated transfers of large engineering test programs to overseas AMD sites• Easy to use webpage for end users to transfer their own large data sets

Austin, Texas Area

AMD Test Capacity Improvements Sapphire tester upgrade version I• Researched/designed/architected new production tester upgrade• Upgrade reduced AMD test times by 40% across all AMD products• Presented proposal to AMD VP management for approval• Managed rollout of solution for all AMD sites globally 3 weeks ahead of schedule• Saving AMD $36M in 2005 meeting ROI in 3 weeks• Cumulative savings over 5 years ~$50MAMD Test Capacity Improvements HST tester upgrade – HPDL385 G7• Researched/designed/architected new production tester upgrade• Upgrade improved first pass yields by 20% across all AMD products• Presented proposal to AMD VP management for approval• Managed rollout of solution for all AMD sites globally• Saving AMD $11M in 2009 meeting ROI in 6 weeks• Cumulative savings over 2 years ~$15MEngineering Infrastructure Enablement Dresden Germany• Researched/architected new engineering infrastructure so support 20+ AMD engineers in Germany• Presented proposal to AMD upper management• Solution provided storage, backup of storage and virtualization of engineering systems• Solution required no additional head count increases to support• Solution saved AMD $300K over IT proposed solution• Traveled to site for installation and training• Project completed on time• 100% uptime / 100% availability for 4+ yearsAMD Test Capacity Improvements High Performance Proprietary AMD Database infrastructure replacement/upgrade• Proposed plan to replace 4TB Production Oracle database to AMD VP management• Team lead for rollout of solution to all AMD production sites globally• Physical hardware infrastructure reduced from 6 full racks down to half a rack (92% reduction)• Hardware infrastructure cost reduced from $2.5M down to $150K (94% reduction) • Each site installed with no downtime for production required• Solution rollout met or exceeded all project plan timelines• Solution ROI less than 1 quarter per site

Austin, Texas Area

Production factory support (24/7/365)• Transitioned over 200 users to new Freescale account• Installed/reconfigured 100+ systems to meet new Freescale standards • Maintaining a 24/7 production factory• Maintain/Support Engineering Test Infrastructure • Supported over 200 Freescale product engineers• Supported/maintained over 40 engineering/production testers• Instituted/documented installation controls allowing for 1 hour tester recovery

Austin, Texas Area

Production factory support (24/7/365)• Senior Unix Systems Administrator• Trouble shooting network / infrastructure issues• Maintaining a 24/7 production factory• Creating customized scripts to improve overall infrastructure performance• Documentation and installation of Y2K patches• Installation and configuration of Auspex NS2K series servers• Installation of various software applications