Server Hardware Development Engineer
CurrentPortfolio board engineer designing circuits, systems, and logic architecture for enterprise servers at scale including motherboards, peripheral cards, power delivery boards, and IO cards. Developed custom reference designs in OrCAD, layout in Allegro PCB editor, and wrote design documentation for ODM partners to implement unique designs that still leverage the basic building blocks we developed. Selected components for cost, supply-chain constraints, and reliability by working closely with component vendors and internal component engineering experts.Validation lead for the introduction of DC-MHS to revolutionize and modularize the server hardware landscape. Managed test plan development for the portfolio reference design with an initial focus on functionality, and a secondary focus on collecting baseline electrical measurements to confirm margin across a variety of sub-systems. Worked with many SMEs for sub-systems to review, and then execute the test plan that prioritized tests that would impact schematic or layout. Coordinated bring-up activities with all SMEs and limited hardware while tracking issues until design change or FW fix was available. Primary responsibilities and experience in the role for the following sub-systems: x86 CPU (AMD), RearIO (USB, VGA, 1GbE Ethernet, NC-SI RBT, LEDs, and buttons), OCP NIC 3.0, internal power cables, and FrontIO (USB, DisplayPort, LEDs, and buttons). Other than the subsystems above, I am comfortable working with PCIe, I2C, SPI, eSPI, RMII, and a variety of other communication protocols.My strengths are in system design and architecture, system-level debug, and utilizing these to design the best product I can as early as possible. I'll never be done learning, so I will continue to build on my experience to learn new things rather than repeat my previous mistakes.