Testing next gen DELL Power Edage RAID Controllers.

Served as main contract for all SAS Technology questions for HPE Enterprise Storage. Interfaced between internal HPE engineers, suppliers, and customers for issues related to Industry Standard T10 (SAS) Protocol Specification issues.• Edited and maintained HPE's Open Drive Program (ODP) specification documents for recommended and mandatory requirements for all HPE SAS Protocol device compliance.• Researched and interpreted questions related to all T10 Industry Standard Specifications and HPE Hard Disk Drive Specification documents. • Provided leadership in performing specification gap analysis for new HPE SAS drive development firmware feature requirements.• Communicated with both internal teams and vendors in the development process to understand and implement new features in updated SAS specifications.• Transited HPE Specifications and SAS Protocol Technologist work to the new Enterprise Storage Team located in Taiwan. • Spearheaded the transitioning of HPE Internal Psuite Software Development Tool work to the new Software Team located in India.• Served as HPE Team Member during work on developing a new Industry Standard NVMe Open Cloud Protocol (OCP) Specification for NVMe SSD Storage Devices.• Performed System Administrator management for internal storage engineering servers.

Acted as Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid-State Drive (SSD) Research and Development Storage Engineer. Worked with multiple drive suppliers in North America and Asia to develop SATA/SAS/NVMe Protocol Storage devices for HPE Server Platforms. Experience in teamwork, problem solving, qualifications, debugging, protocol bus analyzers, and storage related items.• Participated in all drive supplier concept and design review meetings during new HPE drive program development phases.• Assisted HPE Quality Team in investigating reported storage related customer and factory issues.• Developed and validated firmware for 3 new Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) HPE drive programs from different SSD drive suppliers, along with managing maintenance release firmware qualifications for 7 previous shipping NVMe programs.• Oversaw product development and firmware validation for 4 new Serial AT Attachment (SATA) Solid State Drive (SSD) HPE drive programs from different SSD drive suppliers, and managed maintenance release firmware qualifications for previous shipping SATA programs.• Worked factory and customer field issues from data collection investigation, root-cause, firmware fix, to 100% issue closure. • Traveled as needed to supplier and customer sites for data analyst of reported storage device failures.• Attended all weekly supplier engineering meetings and calls.

Worked with multiple drive storage suppliers in North America and Asia to develop SATA/SAS Hard Disk (HDD) and Solid State (SSD) devices to meet HP Enterprise Server Platform specifications. • Qualified and released 10 new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HP Enterprise drive programs from different suppliers.• Qualified and released 8 new Serial AT Attachment (SATA) HP Enterprise drive programs from different suppliers.• Traveled to supplier locations for new drive development engineering meetings.• Used HP Psuite Development Software to test and validate new HP Array Controllers.• Validated and debugged new HP storage device firmware and software tool features.• Found and root-caused multiple storage firmware issues before shipping storage devices saving the company estimated millions of dollars in customer returns.

Managed operations of the HP Desktop Storage validation lab. Partnered with 8 different drive suppliers to develop HDD, SSD, and caching devices to meet HP desktop specifications. • Setup and used Serial AT Attachment (SATA) bus analyzers to debug system and drive related storage issues. • Participated in weekly drive supplier calls to discuss drive qualifications.• Attended monthly supplier roadmap and planning meetings for all HP drive suppliers. • Collaborated with colleges to review and update HP drive specifications documents.• Partnered with HP developers to update test software and validate new tool feature support.• Controlled all internal software tools provided to HP drive suppliers.• Collected data on customer field failures and worked with suppliers to root cause and develop drive firmware fixes.