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Round Rock, Texas, US

Responsible for defect resolution and new feature add for the MD14x0 JBODs. Responsibilities include defect resolution, testing, and design and implementation of T10 zoning feature additions to the enclosure while ensuring cross and backward compatibility to existing installs, verifying compliance to industry standards, and writing specifications for the.

• Lead engineer for a LiPo battery powered IoT security product utilizing LTE cellular and BLE connectivity to cloud server and Smartphone App based management. Primary owner of all aspects of product development. Direct.
• Successfully integrated multiple MEMs sensors and designed in future proofing for the device.
• Drove the project to manufacturing readiness including help with setting up the supply chain.
• Successful pre-certification for mobile carrier PTCRB and other agency certification.
• Drove applications for multiple patent disclosures.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Responsible for developing and sustaining the MD12x0, MD14x0 JBODs and the SCx020 enclosures. Involved development of requirements and specifications for RTOS FW solutions. Responsible for design, implementation and.
• Successfully launched a new generation JBODs with a management solution that had no severity 1 defects in the 1st year after RTS.
• Root caused a significant field issue to an HW problem with third party test hardware and helped implement a solution.
• Significantly reduced first pass manufacturing fallout by identifying and fixing a test methodology issue involving the TBBU for a family of storage enclosures.
• Worked as part of a sprint team on sustaining of Legacy EMC enclosures after DELL EMC merger.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Worked on DR4000 de-duplication appliance. Led overall ERD definition, and unit and product test planning. Primary ownership of the Write Acceleration Module based on a Marvel controller solution.
• Identified and corrected potentially significant life cycle issues with the dry electrolytic capacitor design and drove changes through the vendor design to ensure that our standards were met.
• Ensured a robust solution that met all requirements by vigorous hardware testing and managing the vendor relationship.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Developed and sustained SATA, Parallel SCSI and SAS HBAs and RAID controllers based on Marvell, Adaptec, and LSI solutions. Responsible for vendor management—plus review and verification of vendor designs and code.
• Significantly reduced MTBF on the controller code stack by developing automated testing that uncovered multiple edge case issues with the vendor FW. Drove resolution through vendor for the issues found.

Aliso Viejo, CA, US

Design, implementation, testing and defect management for GEM family of SES management controllers for SCSI and Fiber Chanel systems. Worked with HW teams and customers, including Dell, to implement product changes, upgrades, debug and solution of issues. Significant work done in assembly language and debugging code flow using Oscilloscope and Logic.

Harris County, Texas, US

Worked closely with design team on new Workstation products and handoff into production—taking them into pilot, manufacturing, and sustaining through end of life. On point to interface with manufacturing and vendor management.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Pre-Engineering