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%.• Discovered and drove to completion many issues in the Performance Benchmarking Lab (test scripts as well as database), substantially improved its data integrity and utility company-wide.

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 RPM (both MR and GMR heads).• 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.• Statistics using SAS/STAT.• Object -Oriented Programming with C++.• Computer communications: LAN, MAN, WAN; TCP/IP, SNA; SCSI interface. Operating systems: VM, MVS, DOS, OS/2, and WINDOWS.

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.