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Senior HSA Engineer @ Seagate Technology From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Sr. Principal Engineer/ DCS @ Dell Acted as Dell Data Center engineering lead for architecting and developing Data Centers Compute and Storage nodes for key customers like MSFT. Responsible for consultation, development, and architecture of end-to-end enterprise class Datacenter solutions.Design, test, and validate industry standard storage and servers. Projects included blade servers and Enclosure Management subsystems with high emphasis on low cost driven by competition and high volume production. Lead Engineer of Systems Management Hardware and Platform Design (Node and Chassis Level) supporting various lines of business (Servers, Storage). From March 2012 to February 2014 (2 years) Storage Principal Engineer @ Dell Architected Storage and Client system solution for new technology implementationEngaged in advanced engineering evaluation, early concept review and prototyping activities (Disk Encryption, Solid State Disk, Protection Information)Focal Technical resource for AES-128 hardware encryption based FDE device. Developed test procedures with security based software applications provided by ISV's. Provided user interface and functional operation feedback to ISV's to improve user experiences. Design of Experiment (DOE) to predict customer focused system performance based on system variables (CPU, Graphics card, HDD, SSD and System Memory). Acted as the focal technical resource for an AES-128 hardware encryption-based FDE device. From September 2006 to February 2008 (1 year 6 months) Senior Staff Engineer FA Manager @ Maxtor Ensure reliable hard drive products by leading cross-functional teams responsible for evaluating head-media reliability, identifying failure modes, and investigating mitigation and environmental issues as well as long-term reliability.Managed the integration and field return for major customer accounts (IBM, Dell), performed failure analysis, risk analysis, DPPM and return rate improvement. Provided root cause analysis, corrective action.Periodic storage quality /field return update to OEM customers. From January 2004 to September 2006 (2 years 9 months) Sr Staff Design Engineer @ Maxtor Worked on channel optimization, timing analysis, ECC corrections, variable head density algorithm, PLL, BIT error rate vs. zone and write current optimization, PTP detection, write current calibrationIdentifying root causes of failures related to mico-contamination by analyzing contaminants using SEM/EDS, FTIR techniques.Performed SQL analysis of factory data and provide FA support material for Customer/Account TeamExperienced with LeCroy DDA Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzer, Environmental Chambers, Waveform Generators, Signal Synthesizers. From 2000 to 2004 (4 years) G2 Architect @ Forcepoint Austin, Texas Metropolitan AreaSr. Principal Engineer @ Dell Lead product/system engineer for ScaleIO based VxFlex Appliance and VxFlex Rack. Worked on the system design and defined the platform and cluster architecture. Defined customers unique project scope, designed the solution architecture with a POC demonstration and estimated the level of effort and cost.Focal person for Spectre and Meltdown impact on software-defined storage.Worked on the engineering solution of data protection integration (Avamar and Data Domain) with software defined hyper-converged cluster infrastructure (HCI) in ESXi and Hyper-V environment. Competed workload-based performance study and analysis on various software define storage solution using commercially available performance tools (Jetsress, Login VSI, SQLIO, IOMeter). Published various whitepapers for external and internal use. From February 2014 to June 2020 (6 years 5 months) Austin, Texas, United StatesPlatform Lead, Principal Engineer – NAS appliance @ Dell Led the system level hardware design and development of Dell’s first Scale-out unified storage appliance with FluidFS V2 running on a purpose-built NAS server (EqualLogic, PowerVault and Compellent platform).Key technologies involved are IO cache staging and de-staging, and IO cache mirroring, system CPLD design, dual redundant NAS controller architecture with redundant BMC designExperienced with testing, trouble shooting, failure analysis, and root cause analysis of server & storage solutions, primarily FluidFS NAS, Compellent Storage Center, including hardware, software, network and environmental components.Led the development in all aspects of server appliance platform - System HW design, BBU design, FW/BIOS development, storage, thermals, shock and vibe, system test and validation. From February 2008 to March 2012 (4 years 2 months) Austin, Texas Area