Extensive background as a Product Test Engineer in the CPU/semiconductor industry• Debugged systems to find root cause of any failure with the CPU or other components.• Continually developed an understanding of computer hardware interfacing.• Managed a test lab designed solely for the purpose of isolating CPU failures.• Reported analysis findings to the customer to assure further failures would be reduced.• Performed testing of CPUs on Teradyne ATEs.Developed software programming skills to test hardware functionality• Devised methods of automating complicated sequences of test programs and scripts.• Learned multiple programming languages from school, through work, and during personal time.Experienced with customer-interfacing• Made a number of visits to AMD's customers throughout USA, Japan and Mexico.• Always up to the challenge to understand the customers’ needs and to ensure their satisfaction.Always willing to train and educate• Developed internal instructional documentation and procedures while at AMD.• Created external training videos posted on AMD's public website.• Taught computer fundamentals to Ghanaian college students while serving in Peace Corps.• Taught a computer class to all 700 elementary students at Horizon Elementary.Optimized computers to function in rural areas of the world• Secured computers from computer viruses infections.• Improved slow internet connection speed by creating a Linux web proxy and FTP server.Cross-cultural experience• Studied 4 languages - Spanish, French, Japanese and Ewe (spoken in Ghana).• Worked 4 summers in the country of Zambia with the Zambian staff of an NGO.• Collaborated with AMD teams in Singapore, Japan and the UK.• Lived/worked in a rural village in Ghana as a Peace Corps Volunteer for 2 years.Personal interests• Astronomy & planetariums• Aviation & aerospace• Computer assembly and repair• Cinema and home theater technologies and installations• College sports
Listed skills include Semiconductors, Debugging, Perl, Electronics, and 15 others.
