Floyd Stanley Thompson/HPE Storage Qualification Engineer/Manager

Cypress TX 77433 • https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanleythompson-900882149/ 832-***-****

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ELECTRONICS AND HARDWARE ENGINEER

Highly skilled Electronic Engineer/Manager with over 31 years in the electronic industry. Expert in troubleshooting electrical and mechanical defects and driving complex functional test, and customer issues to effective and efficient closures. Passionate customer advocate with highest regard for quality and reliability. Demonstrated ability to manage a team of qualification test engineers with successful delivery of products to market. Positive minded, energetic, self-driven individual focused on product quality, innovations, and customer satisfaction.

EXPERIENCE

Workrise/DKD Electric

Wells Fargo, San Antonio Solar Installation Project 4/21/2021 – Present

Solar Module Installer

Mass configuration and installation of solar panels in the Wells Fargo commercial project

Assembly of Solar module rack arrays and modules on 6 commercial buildings

Wire management, and screw torque/audits of array configurations

Subassembly of wire harness sets.

Wire pulls through buildings and through field ground mount installations

Materials management, forklift flagman/spotter

Switch Gear Installation

Hewlett Packard/Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2/2013 – 10/2019

2nd level Manager Drive Qualification Engineering

Team leader of drive qualification engineers. Executed new product introductions, concept, design and technology reviews, 8 Disciplines and FMEA reviews. Weibull plot reviews. New storage factory assessments, roundtable, Innovations and patents lead. Test equipment development, interviews, Onboarding, Outboarding, and exit reviews. WFR enactment. Flood recovery, Counterfeit products investigations. Customer tours.

Functional stress testing of enterprise storage hard disk, SSDs, and M.2 devices.

Raid configuration testing (examples Raid 0, 1+0, 6, 50, ADG)

Data Integrity testing with cache enabled/disabled.

Sudden power loss protection tests, verifies data integrity, devices recognized, Raid health.

HPE unique specification compliance and firmware testing

Root cause failure analysis assessments for firmware, electrical and mechanical failures

System test configuration development

Provided license for HPE specialize FW (Hazard, NDAs/MLAs), 8D and FMEA reviews.

Conducted supplier post-mortem and grading reviews.

Supported customer facing incident resolutions team.

Drove Tier 1 and other customer escalation issues to root cause resolutions.

Directed multiple new product releases of 6G and 12G SAS and SATA storage devices.

Compaq/Hewlett Packard 1/2000 – 2/2013

Electronic/Hardware Engineer I, II, III, - Expert level

Qualified Compaq/HP SAS & SATA storage products. Performed new product concept and design reviews. risk assessments, firmware gap analysis, factory assessments, field customer escalations, HP specification development. HPE unique firmware value adds.

Compaq/HP specification compliance and unique firmware functional tests.

Root cause failure analysis assessments for firmware, electrical and mechanical failures

Trained factory personnel on handling procedures, significantly reduced manufacturing fallout.

Provided detailed factory fallout analysis, assessing supplier vs factory defect root causes.

New product quality and reliability assessment reviews.

Compaq Computer Corporation 7/1988 – 1/2000

Electronic Engineering Technician I

Provided functional test qualification of enterprise hard disk drives. Component level failure analysis of failed hard disk drives from manufacturing builds. Tracking and reporting of manufacturing HDD yields. Supported Desktop product engineering in the manufacturing configuration of product releases. Conducted supplier new factory risk assessments. Unique firmware specifications and test development.

Root cause failure analysis of 100% of Desktop manufacturing

Defect problem resolution reviews with drive suppliers.

Drive supplier factory reviews and risk assessments.

Quality handling procedure training for manufacturing and warehouse personnel.

Trained new hires.

Test process development.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Technical Diploma/Computer Electronics - DeVry Institute of Technology

SCSI/ SAS/SATA/NVMe protocols, PCIe

Skills

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Ohmmeter

DVMs

Wave Generators

Time Interval Analyzers

SAS/SATA Logic Analyzers

Thermatron environmental chambers

Microscope analysis

Soldering

Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Adobe Acrobat

Linux

Logic Analyzer troubleshooting and trace analysis

8 Disciplines problem solving

Electronic Troubleshooting

FMEA

Data mining and analysis

Risk assessments

Negotiations

Listening

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