Experiences at Western Digital

Responsible for VLSI validation and signal integrity testing of the latest technology in SCSI protocol chipsets from LSI Logic for high performance disk drives. Debug & verification of SCSI FC-AL and SCSI SPI interface chipsets. Simulation of pre-silicon VHDL and Verilog code as well as pre-silicon gate array implementations. Follow on testing of first silicon, production level silicon and conformance to ANSI SPI-3 (SCSI Parallel Interface?3, also known as Ultra SCSI 3) specification. Fiber Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) protocol experience as it applies to disk drives (both copper and optical fiber inpelmentations). HDD read/write channel design & development. Responsible for researching and implementing the latest technology in servo track writing for high performance disk drives aimed at the server and workstation markets. Tasks include embedded software development in Visual C++ (MS Visual C++ ver 6.0 and Watcom v11) with a target O/S of DOS with PharLap extender. Hardware development covered read/write channels for clock and servo burst information. System level debug and performance benchmarking of WD SCSI drives in Compaq, Dell & IBM servers using latest FC-AL and/or RAID controllers from various vendors....

-Designed and implemented vision systems, including specifying hardware (vision sensors, lighting, lenses, filters) and developing software for robotic automation.
-Developed project schedules and allocated resources to meet production deadlines.
-Designed and implemented software for manufacturing machines on a fully automated production line. Transferred the new line to the manufacturing facility and achieved a higher yield than the existing manual tooling.
-Developed setup procedures and documentation.
-Trained technicians on calibration procedures.
-Reduced cycle times of production tools to meet factory requirements. Achieved factory yield and cycle time targets.
-Met aggressive program requirements and schedules while juggling multiple projects.
-Supported manufacturing facility by adding software features, reducing errors, fixing software bugs, creating and optimizing setup procedures, and training users.
-Created manufacturing process flows and implemented them in software.
-Authored common code modules and documentation.
-Established common source-control solutions and procedures for software group....