Roy Leonard Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

System Architect for the QLC Line of Client Products. Leading Requirements Management Team for Client and Automotive Products.

Milpitas, Ca

Design, Implementation of Requirements Management System for Micron SSD Development answering the question "How do we meet our customer needs?"

Milpitas, Ca

* Collaborating with Business, Architectural, Standards, and Engineering Teams to gain consensus on Requirements for future SoCs (NVMe, SATA) targeting Client and Data Center SSDs and customers.* Driving closure on Gap Analysis to identify, understood and appropriately mitigate gaps.

Milpitas, Ca

Lead* Initiated new Firmware Quality Initiatives leading to full Code Reviews of all Code on Project with an audit trail.* Utilized Metrics to improve scheduling accuracy for Project Management Team.* Participated in Multiple Design Reviews in multiple sites to ensure we met our Requirements.Firmware Engineer* Designed and implemented device firmware for the UFS 2.0 Protocol for new Product.* Supported Build and Tools Infrastructure to ensure prompt deployment of improvements and fixes to iNand teams.

Orange County, California Area

Firmware Lead• Lead for 5 shipping Products for Controller Firmware.• Lead for Controller Firmware for staging new SoC introductions.• Simultaneous team lead for several teams in three sites and time zones.• Project management, progress measurement, and reporting.Firmware Engineer• Architected, implemented and deployed new File Manager and Download Systems affecting fourteen engineering groups. This resolved many existing issues and was deployed in multiple shipping products.• Member of Transfer Teams deployed to Malaysia Factory to bring two Products into manufacture.• Implemented & debugged firmware for several areas including Relocation and Error Recovery Modules.• Domain Expert for Arm & Compiler Tools, including Scatter Load files (Memory map), Gnu Makefiles, Lint & Perl. • Qualified, integrated and deployed new versions of Arm compilers into new shipping products improving theperformance of the shipping systems without impacting productivity.• Qualified, Integrated, and deployed new versions of Arium and Lauterbach Debuggers for new SOCs or FPGAs.Engineering Improvement• Consolidated, improved and debugged emulator (Lauterbach and Arium) usage for ~500 Emulator users.• Engineering Liaison with external vendors to reduce costs and improve usage.• Initiated a program to reduce “build” time for firmware. • Estimated time savings ~80K Engineering hours, $5M in cost savings.• Drove adoption of new architecture by designing and creating an online training initiative for over 300 Engineers for 30 courses providing management with metrics of training accomplishments.• Adopted as the training system for all New Hires in Firmware Engineering.• Researched and migrated Firmware Engineering to Subversion from PVCS and SourceSafe.• Instigated a successful Code review & Continuous Integration and Validation program for Firmware Engineering resulting in a major and measurable improvement in quality.

Irvine, Ca

• Member of a team implementing new flavors of the keyboard Controller (Hitachi H8S) for Notebook PCs. Deploying new flavors of the PC Bios for various Motherboards.

• Member of a team designing, implementing and debugging secure firmware for a new EFT POS (Credit card Terminal).• Design, Implementation of drivers for Flash and providing support for power safe and dynamic modular software downloads. Hitachi H8/3002.

Dublin, Ireland

• Team member authoring the firmware for a thermal printer. Controlling the thermal print head and interpreting the printer commands.