Field Application Engineer

Bruce Trevino

Conroe, Texas *****

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SENIOR FIELD APPLICATION ENGINEER PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

An accomplished storage technologist with 10+ years experience.

Successfully managed all new technology (SSD/HDD/Cache) development and new storage product releases across HP WorkStation, Desktop, and Mobile Divisions.

Member of the T13 Committee, SATA-IO Digital Workgroup. Limited member at TCG and PCI Sig. Committee. Developed HP features and SMART documentation.

Proficient with Oscilloscopes and Bus Analyzers, HGST/WDC Serial Debugger. Also worked with PCIe analyzer – Agilent. With some limited experience with Agilent PCIe analyzers.

Plan and execute strategic objectives to successfully deliver new products that meet and exceed customer expectations in domestic and international markets.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Field Application Engineering Customer Management Team Development Program Management

Global Technical Liaison Storage Architect Qualification Management Gap Analysis Strategic Planning

Teamwork Communicator Self Motivated

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HGST/WDC, Houston, Texas March 2014 – November 2023

Field Applications Engineer

Provided Storage support for both HPE and HPI.

Supported Performance Enterprise solutions to HPE and Capacity Enterprise, cSSD and eMMC solutions to HPI.

Helped HGST/WDC team with HPE/HPI storage technology documents, gap analysis, and strategies for HP.

Instrumental in implementing WDC NVMe devices into HPI Workstations while developing and supporting inclusions of Industry Standard technologies into devices for HP/WDC devices.

Supported platform analysis for customer support, both JBOD/JBOF.

Provided 1st-level analysis via E6 log for Cloud customers throughout the US.

Supported INAND products to both Comast/Dish.

Hewlett Packard – HP, Houston, Texas October 2012 – February 2014

Storage Technologist

Provided storage (SSD, HDD, CACHE) strategic direction for CMIT (Commercial Managed IT) and Volume Desktops, Workstation, and Mobile Divisions.

Presented to the Office of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) future storage technologies and strategies that will affect upcoming platforms.

Instrumental in getting PCIe M.2 SDD’s implemented into 2014 client platforms.

Managed implementation of SFF-8639 and NVMe SSDs for 2015 client platforms.

Served as Representative for HP in the Industry Standards Committees to ensure company’s best interest was taken and aligned with committee.

Discussed proposals brought before the committee and as a voting member, participated in the votes for the Board of Directors' final approval.

Aligned with HP’s ISS T13 team members for features that will adversely affect Client’s needs.

Worked with ISS PCIe and NVMe architects for future developments.

Provided updates to the HP Key Features and SMART Attribute documents that represent the latest Industry Standards.

Reviewed with all Client Module owners to ensure they understand HP’s direction moving forward. Also, review these documents with suppliers to ensure compliance with HP features.

Managed 3LS and Procurement Engineering issues and failure analysis.

Worked to implement NVMe features into HP’s Key feature document.

Created, authored, and submitted patentable ideas for IP, including issued patents for HP platforms.

US Patent Holder (US 10.146.623 B@ Dec 4, 2018.

Wrote and authored numerous whitepapers for HP’s website to help customers understand technologies (SSD, NAND, Advanced Format-4K).

Authored proposals to the Industry Standards Committee to help implement IP that was submitted.

Reviewed and interpreted Industry Standard (SATA3.2, ACS-4, PCI-SIG, NVMe)

Wrote and authored multiple abstracts around IP for HP’s TechCon.

Worked on getting qualifying NVMe driver implementation for Win 7 on non-Intel-based platforms.

ADDITONAL EXPERIENCE

Hewlett Packard – HP

Electrical Engineer / Engineering Program Manager

Compaq Computer Corporation / Hewlett Packard

Engineering Technician

Electronic Technician (Compaq Service Organization)

EDUCATION

Electrical Engineering

University of Houston, Houston TX

Electronics Engineering

North Harris County College, Houston TX

Associates of Applied Science (A.A.S.), Electronics Engineering

ITT Technical Institute, Houston TX

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