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Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Primary Responsibilities:• Provide operations input in early product development, process development, and quality planning.• Key participant in the dFMEA, pFMEA, and Critical to Quality processes assuring specifications are well defined and documented.• Lead coordination with our CM partners on risk management activities, cost of goods estimation, capacity planning, prototype build scheduling, and process validation activities.• Lead interaction with our contract manufacturing (CM) partners to establish appropriate tooling and process equipment strategies.• Interface between our CM partners and the PeopleNet team to establish manufacturing test strategies, processes, and test equipment.• Support development of finished goods packaging with a third party packaging firm.• Support development team in ensuring that bill of materials, drawings, and process instructions are clearly documented and understood by our CM partners.• Assure production requirements are achieved for all processes, equipment, and material specifications, supplier selection, and qualification.• Lead initiatives to reduce the finished goods cost by working with CM partners and supply base to improve efficiencies in component/sub-assembly procurement and MFG processes.• Ensure resolution of all SCARs and manage implementation of ECOs.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Plan and align SSD factory capability and processes to business roadmap. • Lead cross functional design team to develop & deploy new factory test systems, expanding potential customer base.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Launched contract manufacturing partner in Thailand in 2010. Managed integration of Seagate test processes, capital equipment, and cross-functional teams. • Developed specific test programs by product. • Provided feedback on product design and testing as a manufacturing partner’s representative.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Responsible for PCBA designs including schematic entry, circuit design, and signal integrity of finished product. • Developed new process for Seagate to work with external contract manufacturer, accelerating our time to volume schedule.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Lead PCBA engineer on Seagate's DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience) product. A wireless battery powered HDD solution.• Responsibilities included schematic capture, direction of PCB layout, and coordination of PCBA assembly.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Responsible for schematics for PCBA’s and layout input for ECAD design department.• Collaborated with manufacturing and mechanical engineering teams to pursue the most cost effective design solution.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Member of team which developed the first new BTX form factor mother board shipped. Responsibilities included schematic capture, cost optimization, board layout recommendations and lab debug.• Interacted heavily with mechanical design teams during development of the new chassis portfolio for updated form factor.• Designed I/O panels for new chassis portfolio. Including schematic capture, board layout, lab debug and cost reduction opportunities.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Performed pre-route / post-route simulation to check common signal integrity problem areas such as; overshoot, undershoot, timing margins, routing geometries and board stackup using HSPICE, ASPICE, and SpectraQuest tools. • Developed routing rules and guidelines used in Cadence Allegro tool to ensure proper routing of busses to minimize any possible signal integrity problems. This includes trace length requirement, trace geometries and board stackups. Also assisted with component placement guidelines.• Worked with IBIS data received from vendors to insure correct models were in place for simulation using lab correlation exercises.• Identified cost reductions through design improvements• Liaison to ECAD, Hardware Engineering, and Electrical Analysis Lab • Authored simulation plans for Simulation Team• Co-Authored Electrical Analysis Test plan for product validation• Coordinated and summarized simulation team findings

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Developed new testing methodology for the modeling of bypass capacitors using SPICE tools and Labview.• Wrote software to automate much of the testing process• Compiled data into a web tool for use by design engineering staff

San Jose, Ca, Us

Developed, debugged and modified test equipment for hardware verification. Worked as member of PCBA test team in pilot line for developmental drives.Prototype Flex Cable Tester Development Project:• Wrote test software including data collection applications• Led electronic design, layout and debug for testerProvided pilot line support including tester setup, on call trouble shooting, line qualification, and yield trend analysis.