David Diep Email & Phone Number

5863 Rue Ferrari San Jose CA 95138

• 7+ years as a Competitive Analysis Project Engineer and 4 years as a Development Failure Analysis Engineer for all client and enterprise disk drives including traditional HDD and hybrid drives.
• Managed competitive analysis tasks to a tight goal of two weeks for a new drive, resulting in significant turnaround time and valuable feedback to the team.
• Provided timely feedback on mobile 1D & 2D platforms which improved performance on various Customer Key Parameters up to 10%.
• Improved data mining and presentation to within one to two days of test completion enabling management and development teams with time critical decisions.
• Focused on high valued drive models and competitive tasks, thus reducing time and cost significantly.
• Developed a test plan to use scrapped parts as well as shared parts, reducing the number of drives purchased from 11 to 5, a cost saving of >50%.

5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA

• Provided high quality failure analysis reports with one-to-two day turnaround time to significantly reduce cycle time and product cost for Hitachi 10K and 15K server class hard disk drives.
• Tool usage: LeCroy 5000 & 5005 digital scopes, SAS (Statistical Analysis System), Niagara Test System with TCL common test codes & MathLab.

5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA

• Head/Media parametric test specification and methodology at both HGA and HSA levels using state-of-the-art Guzik Spinstand 1701 and RWA 1600.
• File Parametric Test Specification and Methodology for Manufacturing and Pilot line using LeCroy 93xx and DDA120 scopes.
• Small form factor HDD development. Component Integration, root cause analysis and problem resolution for IBM Server class HDD.
• Component Integration and Failure Analysis tools development: Polar plots, trend/correlation charts, and statistical process control. IBM FCL codes development for the 4GB, 9GB, 18GB, and 36GB drive at 7200 RPM and 10k.
• New test algorithm development. HDD test distribution and correlation to maximize product margin, but minimize yield hit.

Milpitas, CA

• Job responsibilities involve designing and developing new DASD products including a laptop-based control system.
• Serial and parallel ports communications. RAID architecture.
• LCD panel driver microcodes development.

5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA

• 8+ years of experience in product development for IBM 338x and 339x Direct Access Storage Device. Job responsibilities include product development, hardware/firmware/software test, debug, integration, and coordination.
• Key technical staff for IBM high-end DASD sub-systems. Jointly define Electrical Acceptance Specification with Channel Integration Group.
• Extensive knowledge in Unit Test, Extended Unit Test, Final Test, and Customer Simulation Operation processes. Center-of-Confidence for IBM Manufacturing test system worldwide.
• An expert in Read/Write Performance, Mechanical Performance, and Functional Surface Analysis for IBM high performance, high volume, top-of-the-line DASD subsystems.
• In-depth knowledge in product development and integration. State-of-the-art parametric data and defect collections with Auto Failure Analysis and statistical process control.
• Experimental Design and Robust Design Techniques.

Ms Electrical Engineer, 3.22

Advanced Engineering courses in state machine programming and design: CSE 220 Adv Comp Software COMPE 200 Adv Comp Orgn COMPE 240.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.55, Cum Laude.

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Pi, Honor Engineering Society Tae Kwon Do Martial Arts ClubM.S. Engineering. Courses: ECE 408 Intro.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Undergrad Study, 3.62, Graduated With Honors.