•Responsible for the technical management and manufacturing readiness of disk drives including management, qualifications and steady state quality management•Experience managing all supplier activities, develop and execute a comprehensive qualifications that include software and hardware characterization testing •Expert on various storage platform systems and all applications including all test tools•Established systems and procedures to ensure and enhance the overall quality of drives•Responsible for the design, development and implementation of methods to test and troubleshoot newly or redesigned products, systems or equipment•Interacts with management and senior customer personnel on matters requiring coordination across organizations

•Support of all technical analysis of issues in the lab, strategically planning of various disk drive qualifications, task assignment for each team member depending on priorities, and other duties as directed by senior management teams•Taking responsibility to continue developing junior Engineers on becoming expertise on engineering methodologies in the areas of debugging back-end system interface issues •Ensure proper test coverage of product functionality based on risk, importance, and critically of product features recommended by developers•Analyze and report manufacturers’ disk drive issues to internal customers and managers•Analyze SAS and SATA protocol issues, to determine the root of issues. •Provide technical support to suppliers and developers based on initial analyses of issues•Responsible for qualifying and technically managing disk drives for enterprise storage systems. •Responsible to maintain established disk drive specifications for qualification test plans•Manage suppliers during the qualification and regression phases for disk drives•Responsible to identify and resolve all system and disk drive interface issues•Supported all back-end debugging for system and drive related issues during new product introduction•Take ownership and responsibility for technical activities in assigned projects•Support senior management teams with technical decisions on manufacturer processes to support business and product releases•Constantly demonstrate where the knowledge and technical expertise are needed in our Global team

•Created test plans, executing test cases, replicating testing environments and performing root cause analysis •Assisted and supported engineering teams on drive issues •Developed system training documents for all drive suppliers •Provided training and support for team members on various system enterprise applications to test drives•Maintained status log and Power-Point presentations for drive related issues •Analyze disk drive performance testing to determine passing/failing criteria •Analyze Fibre Channel protocol to determine root cause of system interface issues•Provided technical support to suppliers and developers based on initial analyses of issues

•Calibrated instruments and assisted in the required installation procedures •Debugging/troubleshooting of control/process equipment •Designed electrical control panels which used the S7 300 series PLC from Siemens •Configured and integrated of I/O modules, I/O wiring, Profibus-DP