Maxine Smith is a Failure Analysis Engineer at Seagate Technology. Colleagues describe her as "I’ve been Maxine Smith’s manager for the past three years at Seagate. Maxine has been an exceptional engineer over these past three years. Maxine is a very focused individual. Her initial exposure to Failure Analysis training at Seagate was completed ahead of schedule due to her focus, attention to detail, and her ability to take work direction and follow through on suggested paths to complete the analysis of Hard Disc Drives. Maxine continues to excel in her analytical thought processes as she progresses in her work and has been able to perform and complete complex engineering tasks with minimal assistance. Maxine has been very successful in her abilities to communicate technical results to her peers, along with the Development Engineering groups so they can initiate changes and modifications to the design of the product base. Maxine took on extra duties to complete a Certificate in Data Analytics, all while keeping up with her regular duties of providing failure analysis on new product development. Maxine is a great asset in the lab, she provides significant technical value to the team and to Seagate."