Senior Manager Resume Example Western Digital Corporation

SENIOR MANAGER

Executive Summary

High-achieving management professional possessing excellent communication, organizational and analytical capabilities. Devises innovative solutions to resolve business and technology challenges.

Core Qualifications

Project Management
Resource Management
Cross Functional Team Collaboration
Product Strategy & Roadmaps
Team Building
Mentoring & Coaching

Firmware & Software Development
Product Integration and Validation
Process Improvements
Troubleshooting

Professional Experience

Senior Manager Jan 2012 to Current
Western Digital Corporation － Irvine, CA

Firmware project manager for Shingle Magnetic Recording (SMR) programs.

Coordinate activities between various functional groups: firmware, test validation, manufacturing, and reliability team for product integration and deployment of 1TB per platter 2.5 inch HDD using Shingle Magnetic Recording Technology.
Facilitate discussions and brainstorm sessions between various technical groups on issues and challenges.
Manage Issue Tracking Record (ITR) to ensure optimal execution and issues are accurately reported and updated by engineers
Developed projection model of the program completion date for Low Volume Manufacturing (LVM) by working with database team to data mining and analyzing ITR.
Organize training sessions to educate new engineers on SMR.
Successfully Deployed WD's first 4TB Shingle Magnetic Recording HDD into production in 2016.

Managed 10 - 15 technical direct reports to design and develop firmware architecture for WD's first and second generation SSHD products.

Worked with marketing team on Product Requirement Documents (PRD).
Worked with various SSD vendors on device requirement, qualification, and validation process.
Served as a core team member for SSHD product integration, deployment, and project planning.
Responsibility includes providing estimate on firmware completion date and strategy, ensuring that tasks look-ahead are met and delivered on time, conveying project strategy to various cross functional team to ensure teams are engaged and aware of project milestones.
Participated and provided guidance in SSHD architecture to manage data caching for SSHD and various hybrid feature development.
This includes user workload and reliability analysis, Firmware design for NAND write amplification and over provisioning, performance and power management.
Worked with the team on SSD/NAND reliability, eMMC, and PCIe interface.
Responsible for a total of 4 deployed SSHDs into production.
Trained and mentored new firmware engineers and cross functional team on the new SSHD technology.
A member of WD's SSHD and SMR Invention Review Board.

Principal Engineer Jan 2010 to Jan 2012

Technical firmware lead for WD first host managed SSHD.
Responsibility includes working with cross functional team to develop test and manufacturing methodology for solid state and NAND device.
Lead technical team in firmware design and development.
SSHD Self-learning and Host managed algorithms.
SSHD Boot up sequences to achieve fast Time to Data requirement.
Internal file system and SSHD data mapping capability.
Wrote and published firmware requirements for SSHD.
Project planning for firmware feature development and deployment.

Senior Staff Engineer Jan 2004 to Jan 2010
Firmware

Designed, developed, and deployed firmware features in various functional areas: Serial flash module and boot loader.
Concurrent Servo Spin up to hide servo spin up time from HDD power up time to achieve fast time to ready.
Defect management of HDD internal reserve area.
PCBA board swaps methodology for manufacturing process.
ATA download microcode.
Split memory architecture of channel firmware.
Designed and implemented HDD's internal file system and file manager module.
Changed how HDD access its internal data from cylinder base access (CHS) to Logical Block Addressing (LBA).
This requires cross functional coordination as it impacts all domains of manufacturing, failure analysis, tools and firmware domains.
Technical Lead for various HDD product integrations projects.

Staff Engineer Jan 2003 to Jan 2004

Senior Engineer Jan 2001 to Jan 2003

Functional Integrity Test Lead Engineers for products (40GB/platter products, first generation SATA 7200RPM and 10K RPM HDD).
Developed test scripts and methodology for first generation SATA products.
Participated in SATA bridge design and validation.
Responsible for equipment planning and budgeting to build SATA validation lab.
This includes identifying host systems, testing equipment lab tools, and purchasing furniture.

Lead engineer

for 80GB/platter product integration activities.
Responsible for manufacturing process bring up on the 80GB/plater products.
Worked on host interface, SATA to PATA reverse bridge and USB bridge.
Coordinated and worked on various issues with cross functional groups: servo, channel, and test process.

Education

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering 12/00 CSU Electrical Engineering

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering 12/98 CSU － Los Angeles GPA: Magna Cum Laude Electrical Engineering Magna Cum Laude

Skills

budgeting, closing, concept, Staff Training, failure analysis, fast, features, flash, Functional, Hard Drive, manufacturing process, marketing, memory, access, product development, Project Management, Project planning, purchasing, Recording, Requirement, scripts, strategy, swaps, USB, Validation

Accomplishments

Data storage device with selective write to a first storage media or a second storage media (Patent #9036283).
Power management for data storage device (Patent #8917471).
Method and apparatus for servicing host commands by a disk drive (Patent #8909889).
High performance caching architecture for data storage systems (Patent #8898423).
Hybrid drive adjusting spin-up profile based on cache status of non-volatile semiconductor memory (Patent #8630056).
Modifying a disk drive while preserving calibrated parameters stored in a non-volatile semiconductor memory (Patent #8407393).
Data storage device booting from system data loaded by host (Patent #8341337).
Disk drive maintaining multiple copies of code segments (Patent #8190575).
Data Storage Device Startup (Application #20150120995).
Acyclic Global Scheduling: Reforming Hyperblocks at Schedule Time.
National Science Foundation, Computing and Communication Foundations Proceeding (Award Abstract #9457395).

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