Product Development Engineer

Chris Long

Mobile Phone: 303-***-****

E-mail: ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE: To obtain employment as a junior or entry level Test Engineer at an innovative and challenging company where I can put my skills to use and be an important part building a successful business.

PREVIOUS SKILLS:

Excellent digital and analog failure analysis skills on sensitive electro-mechanical devices.

Logic Analysis - Analyzer setup, filtering, triggering, and interpreting captured data.

Oscilloscopes - Setup and complex triggering.

NVMe Protocol Analysis - Le Croy T3 Summit, JDSU XGig, and SerialTek BusXpert.

Serial ATA Bus Analysis - filtering, triggering, and interpreting captured data.

Forth Scripting.

Excellent analog read channel and small signal failure analysis

Excellent ability to troubleshoot to component level.

Thrive in challenging environments.

Skilled in working with outside vendors to adapt and enhance their tools to our needs

Excellent interpersonal skills – Very comfortable interacting with all cultures.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Seagate Technology Longmont, CO

Staff Engineer

April 1997 – September 2015

Worked closely with firmware engineers very early in product development.

Wrote tests to wring out early deficiencies on immature products.

Played integral role in bringing the majority of Seagate’s products to market.

Developed test plans that ensured complete compatibility across all customer platforms.

Member of Product Development team for the introduction of the Serial ATA interface.

Hardware validation scripts to uncover deficiencies as products matured.

Conner Peripherals

Test Engineer

July 1986 – March 1994

Worked closely with product engineers early in product development.

Streamlined cleanroom processes to improve assembly time and product yields.

I was on several yield improvement teams for both the mechanical as well as electrical aspects of disc drive assembly and test.

Negotiated contracts with external vendors to build custom cleanroom equipment such as servo and dual plane balancer machines.

Did same for Certification racks in the burn-in rooms

EDUCATION

- Currently enrolled in Web Design courses at 360 Training: C#, HTML, Java script and CSS3.

- Independent Study: Python, C. C++

1980 - 1982 - Associate Degree, AAS, Heald Institute of Technology, Santa Clara CA.

-Coursework in Mathematics, Electronics, and Programming (BASIC, Assembly)

U.S Army – MOS: 17B, 11B. Good Conduct Medal

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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