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Data Analytic | Software Development | Product Lifecycle Management | System Administration | Product Data Management | Customer Service
Location: San Jose, California, United States 4 work roles 1 school
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Data Analytic | Software Development | Product Lifecycle Management | System Administration | Product Data Management | Customer Service
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San Jose, California, United States

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Kien Phan previously worked as Business Analyst at Western Digital and Software Engineer at Hitachi Global Storage Technology. Kien Phan holds Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering from San Jose State University.

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I started out my career in the technical space, working as a technician at a retail store where I built and customized computers for customers, including software installation and troubleshooting for 11 years. Every day at work was challenging to be able to get hand-on experience with new technologies and rewarding to see the number of satisfied and happy customers with their computer needs serviced.After graduated from SJSU, I landed a position at Intel as a test engineer. I got a chance to work with CPU testers along with different sets of software and got introduced to Perl scripting and Intel test plan language. I was able to optimize the test plan reloading time for different test cases by analyzing the test plan syntax and understanding which files were the configurations. Initial test plan loading included all test cases. Using Perl script to modify the configurations to restructure the test plan with the desired test cases eliminated the need to reload the test plan. After my contract at Intel ended, I got a position at IBM as an IT specialist supporting Hitachi GST where I continued to expanded my technical knowledge. I got assigned to manage a NFS/NIS cluster for HDD fluid simulation. I needed to configure IP addresses, using /etc/hosts for hostname resolution. I installed the software on only the NFS node which through NIS authentication allowed other nodes to access. One hot summer day, the cooling unit shut off, causing hardware failures throughout the cluster. I needed to unrack all 32 nodes and performed diagnostic on them to determine which parts could be salvaged and which parts needed to be replaced. I contacted the vendor to file a claim to get part replacements and got the cluster back online in less than a few days.When my contract at IBM ended, I got converted to a software engineer at Hitachi GST providing technical support for Oracle Agile PLM along with the prior CAD/CAE applications to thousands of users worldwide. I learned to host license managers, to program in Java, to track license usages in SQL, and to report in Excel using ODBC, pivot tables and charts.When Western Digital acquired Hitachi GST, I became a business analyst where I continued to excel my technical skills, adding JavaScript, CSS, HTML, REST, Bootstrap, ChartJS, XML, VB.Net, C#, LDAP query and authentication. I later picked up other technologies like Polarion Requirements Management, iObeya Visual Management, and SolidWorks Product Data Management. With Polarion and iObeya, I learned to integrate SSL and SSO with MS Azure.

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Business Analyst

San Jose, California, United States

Developed a sustainable self service to efficiently provide on-demand assistance to daily application support requests and an UI to provide visibility to application usages, eliminating all processing time overhead, delivering tool access with minimal wait time, and allowing engineers to stay focus and be productive. • Delivered a self-service portal with a team of 2 for handling Siemens Polarion ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) user provisioning, using ServiceNow Rest API to create, update, and close respective tasks, Selenium to authenticate and obtain session token, Bootstrap and JQuery to style the request form and access tables, Java to send mail and obtain approval from respective owners, SQL query to store and update requests and owners, Anywhere to add respective AD account to respective security group.• Led a team of 5 to upgrade SolidWorks Product Data Management (PDM) to 2022 with a managed SQL instance to negate a $30k license fee due to the exclusion of SQL license bundled with the application.• Developed a usage tracker add-in for SAS JMP, client-side application, in JMP Scripting Language (JSL) to capture relevant details to identify the hosts, users, and their usages in assisting with license management and license renewal.• Built several real-time web dashboards to showcase various supported application license usages, using SQL queries and middleware to interface among several data sources from Snow Software, ServiceNow, MS System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and MS repadmin.• Implemented software to check for license compliance checker to only allow entitled users to check out the licenses and to enforce anonymous users to register before gaining access. • Engaged in requirement management system Siemens Polarion transformation from a single server to an enterprise setup with a load balancer and two application nodes to ensure uptime and stability with added security (SSL) and single sign-on using MS Azure.

Mar 2012 - Nov 2023

Software Engineer

Hitachi Global Storage Technology

San Jose, California, United States

Provided better support model to thousands of engineers globally with advance in technologies, replacing legacy file systems with modern data management, replacing manual application deployment using file shared system with on-demand software distribution, and replacing static license utilization report with real-time pivot dashboards using Excel and ODBC. • Derived a mechanic of tagging HDD components in Oracle Agile to their respective owners to provide data separation while maintaining data integrity between HGST and Toshiba.• Built a software distribution with LDAP authentication to deploy countless engineering tools with high service-level agreement (SLA).• Collaborated with team of 3 to package and deploy silent installers to MS SCCM for self-service, using security groups for respective access controls.• Participated in data transformation from legacy distributed file system Andrew File System (AFS) to a more modern PDM with versioning and revisioning controls, preventing terabytes of data loss due to confusing and missing incremental tape backups. • Built a license usage tracking, written in Java, to parse license usage status and store them into their respective MySQL databases for dashboard creation using Excel pivot tables and charts with ODBC connections to assist with annual license optimization.

Sep 2008 - Mar 2012

It Specialist

Ibm

San Jose, California, United States

Used prior experience in remote assistance using VNC and file shared to better support engineers by servicing multiple application installation at once, reducing time taken by over 50% and meeting a 2-week target for 100 client deployments. • Built and managed an NFS/NIS (Network File System) cluster of 32-bit and 64-bit blades.• Took part in Oracle Agile custom application upgrade and enhancement using two different approaches, SAP (Systems Application and Products) and AIS (Agile Integration Services).• Worked with a team of 3 on RMI (Remote Interfaces) application upgrade and enhancement for AFS (Andrew File System) grid computing environment where users can submit jobs in a form of shell scripts and the application will automatically schedule and run each job.• Assisted with the installation of Catia, Ansys, I-deas, and AutoCAD.

Feb 2007 - Sep 2008

Test Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States

Assisted a post-silicon validation engineer with test plan implementation using C++ and Perl to effectively render test plan changes for debugging without spending countless hours to manually manipulate test plans for various test cases and landing him a skip-level promotion. • Developed numerous complex test programs to collect customer’s specific data based on Intel programming standard and languages.• Implemented two automation tools to create a test program that captures various data at the second level of microprocessor validation, using Perl and Visual Studio .Net, saving both manpower and time.• Developed a universal script to extract data from raw data files and export them to an Excel spreadsheet, including graphing capability.

Sep 2005 - Sep 2006
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Kien Phan is listed as Data Analytic | Software Development | Product Lifecycle Management | System Administration | Product Data Management | Customer Service.

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Kien Phan is based in San Jose, California, United States.

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Kien Phan has worked for Western Digital, Hitachi Global Storage Technology, Ibm, and Intel Corporation.

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Kien Phan holds Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering from San Jose State University.

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