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California, United States

Livermore, California

Santa Clara, Ca

• Qualification of SPARC processors, DIMMs, power rails, USB, PCIe, SATA, SAS, NVME, Solaris, TCP/IP and proprietary bus protocols. • Defined test requirements, executed qualification tests, evaluated test results, published test reports and performed FA on failing devices. • Routinely troubleshot, to the component level, faults found in validation testing.• Always documented my work by creating step by step procedures including photos and diagrams to ensure each experiment was repeatable.• Executed system updates with the latest firmware, software and hardware builds.• Automated and integrated software tests, environmental chamber control, remote AC power control and log file screening into one modular script. Using Expect (Tcl), the script was used across many generations of systems from workstations to entry level servers to blade servers. The script saved hundreds of man hours and simplified the scrubbing of all the log files and test reports finding many errors that otherwise would have gone unnoticed. • Designed, prototyped and tested circuits to solve system issues.• Created a microprocessor based system development tool. This tool employed the use of TCP/IP, RS-232, I2C and discrete I/O communication to remotely control systems under development. This project included circuit design, circuit simulation, PCB layout, system and cable assembly, C and assembly language programming and enclosure design and fabrication. It allowed remote access to system jumper settings, power switch, firmware and automated control of voltage levels. • Outfitted new engineering labs, selected placement of workbenches and equipment racks, network cabling ports, test equipment and tools. • Manually captured thousands of timing and voltage measurements.• Developed programs to read values from signal screen shots, decipher CPU and peripheral registers, find specific DIMMs in systems in our lab, automate reports and graphs.

Nasa Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Ca

Responsible for the distribution, processing and display of all flight simulation related video for the Simulation Systems Branch (SimLab) of the Aeronautical & Simulation Division of NASA at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Configured, troubleshot and repaired, to the component level, all video equipment at SimLab, including video switching systems, distribution amplifiers, real-time scan converters (analog, digital), digital effects generators, mixers, pattern generators, VCRs, cameras, projectors and display systems. Created the acceptance test procedures and periodic maintenance procedures for the equipment. Wrote all of the SimLab ISO 9001 procedures pertaining to video. Factory trained in the repair and maintenance of XKD high resolution, motion rated 25 inch display monitors, Evans & Sutherland Image Generators and chart recorders. Designed, assembled, tested, implemented and documented numerous pieces of electronic test equipment in support of various projects including a microprocessor based cable tester, raster jump detector, a dual axis, proportional, joystick calibration unit and a communications protocol translator.

Asia And North America

Troubleshot and repaired, to the unit level, integrated avionics instruments and flight control systems on theF-15 aircraft.

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