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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead a team which manages qualification activity involving all Enterprise SSD products.• Responsible for direct engagement with various development teams to drive execution and progress with customer qualifications.• Drive and lead efforts to provide strategic, qualification, sustaining and escalation support for Enterprise SSD products.• Drive team execution and evolve the team’s effectiveness through team organization, coordination, process development, and leadership.• Manage critical communications and escalations for key accounts

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed a team which owned HDDs and SSDs for HPE Storage (3PAR). Developed and managed roadmaps for HPE Storage, developed team members and evolved group charter to meet the needs of HPE Storage. Lead the team through the integration of drives into the storage ecosystem, development of features, and qualification process evolution. Lead the effort to define storage product needs for HPE Storage. Developed plans to manage technology transitions while maintaining team effectiveness. Managed evolution of team structure to support escalation and sustaining activities.

San Jose, California, Us

Defined needs for, managed and maintained business needs of various Storage & HDD product lines. Worked closely with partners, and all facets of business operations required for product life cycle management. Developed Product Requirements for a new enclosures using SAS (6Gb). Research & Develop market trends; develop storage enclosure & HDD product strategies for new products. Created and maintained sales support tools. Lead a cross-functional commodity team forum through challenging operational situations. Developed plans and managed transition of products. Developed product pricing plans to effectively position storage products.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Defined needs for and managed business needs of HDD, HBA & RAID-adapter product lines to support Rackable’s business. • Delivered qualified storage products, developed HDD Qualification Process and HDD Firmware solutions. • Managed a team of engineers which supported the execution of HDD product qualifications and storage development.

San Jose, California, Us

Managed drive engineering team responsible for HDD products across all product segments. Owned Qualifications, Process development and Firmware. Managed, developed, and implemented key Storage System solutions which improved storage resiliency. Managed teams of engineers through HDD product qualifications and storage development. HDD Team accomplishments included leading development of HDD Qualification processes architecture and documentation; led development of HDD firmware features for key storage system functionality and investigations of technologies for use in future product platforms. Led a cross-functional forum aimed at isolating and resolving field-wide HDD issues. Developed a highly collaborative work environment with attrition rate of 1 in 6 years. Storage Development Accomplishments included architect ring a storage solution that focused on reducing customer return rates of HDD’s. Managed a small team through the development of FCAL-HBA drivers. Managed and led a large cross-functional team to develop a comprehensive test process.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Managed and developed relationships with storage divisions at COMPAQ. Drove all technical pre-sales activity, leading to $380 million in revenue. Developed IBM’s product advantage at COMPAQ through product demonstrations, information and relationship management at each division at COMPAQ. Managed strategic meetings to drive new business development with each division at COMPAQ. Designed reviews, planned future product. Managed direct reports to implement project plans, assigned CAE’s workload for each new product. Drove testing lab from product qualification through product launch.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Managed disk drive qualifications for both OEM and distribution channel during the pre- and post-sales periods. Developed and maintained customer relationships through meetings, con-calls, off-site discussions, and lab work. Collaborated with Account Team to determine strategies for product planning, and design-in proposals. Analyzed technical problems at all levels (drive, configuration, bus, signal, and system) & developed solutions.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Designed HDD storage subsystem for next generation workstation. Managed relationships with major disk vendors, developed hard disk drive qualification schedule.

Maintained extensive product technical knowledge and provided leadership for the AE community. Supported key account during qualifications and provided solutions and analysis for HP.

Houston, Texas, Us

Provided technical support of all storage products to key accounts in West Coast and developed new accounts. Developed a local team to support accounts in the West Coast.