Primary failure analysis, function and performance testing engineer in a Product Engineering group.• Analyzed failures of 200+ SSDs, including SATA, SAS, PCIe.and NVMe products.• Contributed function, performance and reliability enhancements to 30+ products in development.• Analyzed power loss protection (PLP) circuits and algorithms, including aqueous and organic supercapacitor, tantalum and poly-aluminum bulk capacitor designs.• Experience with Issue Tracking Systems -- JIRA, XFRACAS, HelpSTAR, FATS, Bugzilla.

Contributed storage system expertise to a MIL-SPEC Original Design Manufacturer.• Designed HDD and SSD arrays; configured RAID controllers and systems.• Evaluated array topologies, SSD and controller products for functionality and performance.

Research included:• Minimal support required for secure communications (i.e. hard encryption without computers).• Serial arithmetic models of neural nets in FPGAs.• Requirements for ultra-high MTTF (~200 years).

System engineer on a ten-member team for a 1” disk drive for digital cameras & PDAs.• Generated schematics and component libraries for multiple microvia PCBs.• Wrote Orcad and Visio scripts to automate schematic and layout drawings.• Designed a low-resistance discrete voltage regulator and an innovative signal rectifier for mechanical shock detection.