John Al-Samarrie Email & Phone Number

United States

Metal 3D Printing

San Jose, California, United States

• Updated wafer delivery system by redesigning existing hardware for the Aero Track II. Updated the following PCBAs to newer electronic parts with a 10-year availability and support:o Turn table: This subsystem contained 5 PCBAs. Controller and controller daughter board, DC to DC board, STAR and Ring boardso Redesigned Power Distribution Unit (PDU) for the stocker which delivers wafer caddies between the production process tools and a stocker storage room. Redesigned both the AC and DC PDUs.o Aero Loader IV redesign of the PDUs. The Aero Loader is a sub system that delivers wafers from the stocker (storage room) to the various process tools in a chip fabo Redesign of the Horizontal Transfer Station. This is an electromechanical interface between the production line delivery system and the wafer storage rooms.o Senior EE. Mentor to next generation of engineers.o One of the lead failure analyses (FA) engineer for this start up.

Irvine, California, United States

• PLCT-Core team member for commercial and industrial grade SATA SSD products. • Primary responsibility to Develop Master Test Plan (MTP) for SSD products and insure product quality and reliability are met from inception to end of life. • Report weekly status to PLCT executive team and Quality management.• Insure all product requirements are met through various testing such:o Development Test (DT), White Box (WB), Platform Validation Test (PVT), o Engineering Validation Test (EVT), o Drive Validation Test (DVT), o Reliability Demonstration Test (RDT)s and Reliability Growth Test (RGT)o System Integration Test (SIT). o Gather all test data and insure adherence to the Product Requirements Document, PRD.• Work with all functional teams such as hardware, FW, NAND, system integration, manufacturing, quality, reliability and customer support to insure timely product delivery meeting all metrics to include performance, power and reliability.• Document lessons learned for future programs to improve design efficiency.

San Jose, California, United States

• PLCT-Core team member for commercial and industrial grade SATA SSD products. • Primary responsibility to Develop Master Test Plan (MTP) for SSD products and insure product quality and reliability are met from inception to end of life. • Report weekly status to PLCT executive team and Quality management.• Insure all product requirements are met through various testing such:o Development Test (DT), White Box (WB), Platform Validation Test (PVT), o Engineering Validation Test (EVT), o Drive Validation Test (DVT), o Reliability Demonstration Test (RDT)s and Reliability Growth Test (RGT)o System Integration Test (SIT). o Gather all test data and insure adherence to the Product Requirements Document, PRD.• Work with all functional teams such as hardware, FW, NAND, system integration, manufacturing, quality, reliability and customer support to insure timely product delivery meeting all metrics to include performance, power and reliability.• Document lessons learned for future programs to improve design efficiency.

Irvine, California, United States

• Senior EPM on the following Enterprise Drive Programs: Complete product support from design to EOLo 3.5 inch, 7200 RPM, 1and 2 TB HDD drive. Was acting PM in addition to EPM responsibilitieso 2.5 inch, 10,000 RPM, 300/600/900 GB Tier 1 HDD drive• Senior EPM on the following Mobile and/or Branded Programs: Complete product support from design to EOLo 2.5 inch, 7200 RPM, 250/320 GB mobile disc drive. Note was acting PM in addition to EPM.o 2.5 inch, 5400 RPM, 160/250/320 GB mobile and branded disc drive.o 2.5 inch, 5400 RPM, 250/320/500/640 GB mobile disc drive.• Transferred above products to Asia for High Volume Manufacturing (HVM). Malaysia and Thailand.• Insured all design, performance, quality, reliability and manufacturing metrics were met.• Support from cradle to grave while implementing test time reduction, increase factory utilization and product improvement.• Lead FA tiger teams to resolve customer failures. Meet with customers weekly to go over critical issues. • Key member of customer PLCT qualification team focused on FA analysis and reporting via 8D methods. • Qualified drives with Tier 1 and 2 customers.• Resolved technical issues in a timely manner to insure successful qualification of products.

San Jose, California, United States

o Member of advanced suspension design team. Worked with electro-mechanical team to design, characterize and verify the electrical performance of front end recording subsystem in the 1 to 40 GHz range utilizing S-parameter techniques and Agilent’s ADS simulation software. o Disk drive front end includes preamp, heads and interconnect to PCBA on an electro-mechanical head stack suspension. Typically head fly less than an atoms width above media.o Transferred new front-end technologies to various design teams for product development and new tests to factories

Fremont, California, United States

• Built, tested and debugged new electro-mechanical testers for advanced media research in conjunction with Minnesota development teams. Advanced testers were utilized for areal density push for the recording subsystem. • Advanced spin stand results were utilized for new product development and advance science announcements.• Completed two six-sigma projects and one gauge study during Six-Sigma training. Achieved Brown Belt status.• Member of the Bit Pattern Media development team responsible for the front end electronic architecting and design.• Worked on various vendor preamps and channels and integrated into advanced electro-mechanical spin stands for advanced recording subsystem research. • Performed media experiments to help implement latest media designs to be incorporated into product design. Worked with media physicist and chemical engineers on spin stand results to improve media recipe.

Federal Way, Washington, United States

• Taught various electrical and computer-engineering classes for the undergraduate program. o AC/DC analysis, o Digital circuit design o Transistor amplifier design.o Project management courses.• Assisted the University achieve State and Federal accreditation for the new campus.• Assembled a team of students and made an official Request for Proposal (RFP) with the US government. Lost bid to a foreign agency that donated the system.

Engineer'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, Did Not Complete.

Activities and Societies: Studied post graduate communication encoding schemes but did not finish Engineers degree.

Master'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, 3.33

Activities and Societies: Analog and microwave circuits. Circuit design for disc drive industry. Note studies were performed while I.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, ???

Activities and Societies: Tau Bets Pi electrical engineering honors society Etta Kappa Nu Engineering honor society. In senior year worked.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies, ???

Activities and Societies: Drama, theater, music. Math, physics and chemistry.