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United States

As of October 2021, I’ve started my transition to full-time mentoring and tutoring of STEM school students at the middle school grade level.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Jose, CA

• Led a team of twelve Engineers, Technicians and Japanese Liaisons to win a Major OEM Server account with a $50 Million Annual Revenue impact.
• Inherited a team of three and developed a team of 12 to execute a Joint Qualification Test of a 10K rpm FCAL and SCSI Hard Disk Drive product family in multiple Solaris-based Server Platforms.
• Team Leader/Manager role evolved into Customer Champion role covering all Worldwide aspects of Major OEM new product introductions and Server Platforms.
• Mentored Field Application Engineers and developed Technicians into Jr. Test Engineers while executing all aspects of a Program Manager role and successfully completing three simultaneous Server HDD Qualification.
• As a Lean Practitioner, inspired process improvement for worldwide factory audits resulting in an average savings of $50K factory audit.
• Provided direct Product Quality Engineering and Failure Analysis support for a 500GB SATA and 147GB 15krpm FCAL hard drives.

• Created Quality and Reliability departmental infrastructure for 3.5” Hard Disk Drive Server Business and led a small staff of 3 Sr. Quality Engineers and 1 Sr. Failure Analysis Engineer concurrently with my direct.
• Hired full staff from zero to four high-level Engineers in 6-months while directly supporting 3 Major OEMs in the Server industry.
• Continuously drove Field Reliability %ARR levels from 2% to less than 0.8% in a 2-generation product life span.
• Developed Quality and Reliability processes to enable 1.2 Million hour MTBF at an 80% confidence level (Chi-Square method), and reduce customer integration failure rates from 1500 dppm to less than 1000 dppm.

• Responsible for Reliability Engineering Projects, functioning as liaison between Engineering and Operations. Responsible for reliability engineering qualifications of advanced hard drives, networking products and.
• As the sole Reliability Engineer, I qualified 7 new peripherals and network file server products into Production in a 7-month period.
• Streamlined existing qualification test processes to provide greater test coverage at reduced test durations while conforming to existing ISO9001 practices.
• Developed new test methods for advanced disk drives and created new procedures for theoretical calculations of Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) specifications of existing and new products.

• Managed Operations Projects, functioning as liaison between Engineering and Manufacturing. Responsible for quality assurance and reliability engineering for new digital television decoder equipment.
• Faced with inefficient product development causing late market introductions, I created a product life cycle procedure. Its implementation generated consensus for transitioning new products from conception to production.
• In the midst of unknown or misreported product reliability, I analyzed customer returns and created a database and automated reporting system for faster and more accurate reporting of product quality and field.
• With no prior theoretical reliability calculations for existing product families, I performed Bellcore reliability predictions of all encoder and decoder products.

• Responsible for all reliability engineering functions and regulatory approval submittals for optical disk drives. Managed Final Visual and Incoming Inspection Test, Failure Analysis and Receiving Inspections departments.
• Designed and implemented Design Verification Test (DVT), Design Maturity Test (DMT), Ongoing Reliability Test (ORT), and Product Quality Test Plans for all optical disk drive products. These plans enhanced and.
• To address a need for Software Quality Assurance, I designed and executed qualification testing of small systems computer interface (SCSI) software and low-level disk drive firmware.
• To establish legal revenue shipments, I obtained all Regulatory Approvals and performed FCC and VDE compliance engineering tasks.

Bsee, Computer Science And Electronics Engineering

Business Law, Contracts, Patents

Video And Data Compression, Applied Mathematics,