Jon Ehlen Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Morristown, North Carolina

High level architectural design of various L11 rack level products offered by Lenovo ISG / CSP group to Tier 1 customers including liquid cooled AI products.

Palo Alto, Ca And Austin, Tx

Design L10 and L11 server/storage hardware; subsequently, work with ODMs in Taiwan to manufacture product in mainland China for assembly, integration, and testing in the U.S. Collaborate with end user technicians and leads within Uber’s data centers, gaining their feedback on new designs from concept to initial build. Created training documentation and detailed service videos. Provide comprehensive contributions to design, tolerance analysis, DFM, DFA, cost reduction, and design-manufacturing problem resolution.Context: Pursued and recruited to join a new start-up team and build a new line of data center servers. Immediately, took on ground-up design work as a 2nd source to the primary design; subsequently, took over all server design work. Generated multimillion-dollar savings by providing conceptual designs for servers and leading them into mass production (Uber leveraged these servers to negotiate better pricing when the need to purchase off-the-shelf OEM devices and Cloud services arose).- Improved ease and speed of service via designs, resulting in significantly lower labor cost for technicians. Paved the way for $10M+ in CAPEX savings (along with OPEX power savings) and additional serviceability cost savings from simplified rack assembly and cable management. Conceptualized multiple power delivery system design options and worked with 2 vendors to develop the best option from scratch. Expedited service times and reduced late-stage design change requests from DCOps. Bridged the gap between DCOps and hardware engineering teams, evangelized designs to DCOps stakeholders, created written/video service guides for products, and built/launched a nationwide training system.

Newark, Ca

Signified as one of the first 2 mechanical engineers hired at Facebook (among 1,800 total worldwide employees at the time). Managed ODM ME teams in Asia and completed mechanical designs for various product lines, including integration, injection molding, sheet metal, and die casting factories. Worked jointly with Oi and DCOps teams on collaborative product development and NPI functions. Trained and mentored junior engineers. Architected and detail designed a 3.5 spinning HDD platform in 2U and 30 horizontal HDDs that was subsequently used as a platform for multiple future variants of spinning and SSD storage. Prototyped platform, contributed to selection of ODM partner, developed template, and wrote design/CAD standards.- Platform deployed in data centers worldwide, with the platform and its variants all published as open-source design standards through the Open Compute Foundation. Enabled Facebook to save 1,000s of tons of carbon emissions through hardware design adjustments on data center equipment. Located and partnered with a vendor to create a new plastic material, Natural Fiber Polypropylene Plastic (NFPPP), with a low carbon footprint throughout its entire lifecycle.- Worked with FB’s Sustainability department to qualify material as truly low carbon. Played a key role in Facebook’s ability to scale teams rapidly and expand the product line (enabling a single technician to service up to 20,000 servers). Created standards and guides, as well as training interns and junior engineers using the guides. - Additionally, wrote a design review guide for other engineers to use when reviewing details of each other’s and ODM’s CAD – with all standards/guides becoming part of new engineer onboarding.- Was involved in OCP (Open Compute Project) from its inception, set standards for project submittals

Palo Alto, Ca

Joined as an Engineer and processed to Director and Department Manager roles, respectively (requested by upper management to build a new department). Led the design, prototyping, testing, evaluation, documentation, and release phases for dozens of products to end-user clients, including telecom/networking devices, wireless security systems, consumer electronics products, and medical products for Cisco, Huawei, and Fortune 100 companies. Managed up to 14 projects concurrently for multiple clients, leading and coaching teams of up to 15. Brought products from concept to consumer dock. Supported Sales on customer-facing business development activities. Built a Mechanical Engineering department that was consistently the most profitable among all departments, with a top-performing and stable team. Identified and brought in candidates with solid work experience, hired contractors for fixed-bid projects, and built motivated, high-impact teams for each project.- Used a Servant Leadership approach that resulted in loyalty and a fast-paced, open work environment.- Led the department to new records of efficiency as well as profitability. Played a critical role in revitalizing Speck’s Shanghai office, helping to bring it back on the road to profitability. Brought Chinese engineers into parts of ongoing and new projects in the U.S. Overcame cultural and language barriers to form highly productive relationships with these engineers.- Offered the position of Operations Director in Shanghai due to revitalization efforts.