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Morgan Hill

Develop Functional Test Fixtures for testing PCBA's, Mechanical Sub-Assemblies and System Test.

San Jose, Ca.

Design and development for world wide support of Data Acquisition Systems for vibration and shock characterization.Competitor analysis of servo control loops of positioning systems in HDDs.Tooling design for instrumentation hardware.Design and development of software, electronic and mechanical enablers increasing accuracy and efficiency in measurements.Perform electrical and mechanical failure analysis in various product phases.Cross functional team collaboration to improve vibration and shock performance using mechanical enablers to improve HDD performance.Data analysis using Digital Signal Processing in Matlab environment.FDB spindle motor dynamics characterization under Op-Vibe stimulation. Frequency response analysis in Matlab environment.Responsible for working closely with suppliers and OEMs in motor test criteria generation, test equipment design and data analysis.Proof of concept testing of enablers for vibration and shock disturbance mitigation in customer chassis environments.

San Jose, Ca.

Design electronic hardware and systems, including analog RF and mixed analog and digital systems.Program applications and DLLs in C Language for cross application communication between Labview and Matlab. Program applications in Matlab for diagnostics of data. Code obfuscation for intellectual property security.Program and apply PIC microcontrollers. Design Automatic Test Engineering (ATE) systems, including GPIB, USB, I2C, SPI bus, serial and parallel port architectures.Design RF transmission line transformers and acoustic piezoelectric transducers for Micro-fluidic dispensing of chemistry.Design and analyze acoustic piezoelectric transducer electronic impedance matching networks.Design electronic control systems for robotic polishing and planarization equipment for both Disk Drive and semiconductor industries.Designed and optimized a load gauging system for semiconductor tool robotics.

Campbell, Ca.

Developed and tested 3.5, 2.5 and 1.8 inch HDDs.Designed and fabricated test fixtures.Performed shock and vibration testing.Frequency response (FRF) characterization of positioning systems.Supervised assembly technicians.

San Jose, Ca.

Design, development and testing of very high capacity micro disk drive using two stage positioner with optical track following scheme.Characterized run-out of spindle motors.Characterized stepper motors for step angle accuracy, torque, hysteresis and settling.Frequency response characterization of two stage positioner.