SUMMARY:

Look for job opportunities in Austin, TX areas. Primary skills set include C++, C, Perl, Ruby, shell scripting, OO, AMD CPU/APU architecture, Post - Silicon validation, NGEDA, storage subsystems, RAID, Storage I/O, Confidential servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer Languages & tools: C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Korn shell scripting, OOP, makefiles, vi editor

AMD post-silicon validation: processors 4-core, 16-core bulldozer processors (aka Orochi)

Storage Subsystems: DS8000 series, Power7 servers I/O, SAS controllers, RAID, VIOS, LPARs

LSI storage devices: MegaRAID, StorLib, MSM

C++ Compilers/Tools: gcc, g++, cc, makefiles, Microsoft Visual C++, Ellipse IDE, Excellent mathematics background

Computer Languages: HDL languages (Verilog, VHDL), Java, Assembly, HTML, Kernel debugger, device driver programming, low-level programming & debugging.

Confidential Storage Subsystems: SAN, TPM/TPC, Confidential VisualAge C++ IDE

Unix Application Tools: gcc, g++, Sun Workshop (DBX), Emacs editor

VLSI tools: Cadence simulation tools include Verilog-XL simulation, Spectre simulation, Xilinx ISE simulator, Sypnosys Primetime timing analysis tool, Sypnosys VCS/Virsimverilog simulator/design analyzer, ModelSim III 6a, HSpice, Spice

Exposed to: Motorola 68000 family and Intel 8051 family and PowerPC Microcontrollers

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin

Diagnostic/validation engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepare/Setup variety of adapters (Networking, IO, RAID, Virtual Adapters…) on Confidential ’s PowerPC servers
• Install early releases’ Linux Distros, Virtual IO Server/Client OS, Power Virtualization, HMC, FSP on Confidential ’s Power PC (Power 7/8 machines) & apply patches if available
• Run various tests/scripts to verify various focus areas such as Base, TCP, IO, and NFS to test the Distros are working correctly as expected
• Open and track defects
• Write necessary scripts in TCL/EXPECT to help out testing/verifying process

Technologies used include: Variety of Power7/Power8 servers, PowerVM, Virtual Adapters, VFC, VSCSI, SR-IOV, Linux’s flavors (Redhat/Ubuntu/SLES), TCL/Expect script, shell script, Perl script, FCoE, TCP, Base, IO, NFS, SAN drives, RAID drives, multipath drives, single path drives, powerPC

Confidential, Austin

Servers IO Hardware Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup and configure Power 7/8 various platforms with dual/single SAS controller, IO drawers, disk enclosures, HDDs, SSDs, Ethernet adapters
• Run various test exercisers (HTX) /scripts to verify hardware architecture and functionality.
• Installing AIX/Linux, Virtual IO Server/Client OS, Virtualization, HMC, FSP
• Open and track defects through ClearQuest, BestQuest

Technologies used include: Variety of Power7/Power8 servers, SAS RAID I/O Controllers (IOCs), I/O Drawers (5802/5877), HomeRun External Disks Enclosures, Lpars, PCI Network Adapters, IO concepts, AIX, Linux, RAID arrays, perl, SAS, SES, PCIe, IB, korn shell scripting, DASD (HDD, SSD), RIO adapters

Confidential, Austin

Power 7 servers IO Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Post silicon bringup/debug/data analysis, which includes silicon bring-up/debug on test benches, data collection, data parsing using perl scripts, characterization, data analysis (using Excel, NGEDA, PPT) and finally write SLT Circuit Sensitivity Report for AMD’s various discrete processors and APU processors (4-core/16-core bulldozers, Trinity, … ) post-silicon.
• Pre-silicon responsibilities include understanding product features, test planning, maintaining/developing new test features for the next silicon.
• Exposed to SLT/ATE, DFT/DFX concepts

Technologies used include: perl, python, C++, ruby, AMD CPU/APU architectures, Jtag, registers, Hybrid System Test (HST), BIOS, NextGeneration Engineering Data Analysis(NGEDA)tool, linux, windows, svn, jira, excel, power point, words

Confidential, Austin

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Using MS Visual C++ .NET 2003/2005 to write new modules, unit test, and/or support defects for VDS/VSS hardware provider for LSI storage external/internal arrays (FC, SAS, iSCSI) based on functional design documents. Defects fixed include multi-threaded, tcp/ip connections, GUI-based, WMI, …
• Support defects for SMBAs provider using SMI-S and storage management software for LSIs internal and external disk storage systems based on either The OpenGroups Open Pegasus (C++ CIM/WBEM Manageability Service Broker), WMI and OpenWBEM

Technologies use include: C++,makefile, gcc, MS VS .NET 2003/2005, MS Windows Programming,WMI,storage management technologies (WBEM, SMI Spec, CIM, WMI, Open Pegasus, OpenWBEM), Linux Redhat 4, Windows Server 2003/2008 R2, LSI SANtricity storage manager, MegaRAID SAS Management (MSM), Eclipse IDE, Dell’s PowerEdge servers,ClearCase/ClearQuest, TelelogicSynergy, LSI’s MegaRAID HBA, iSCSI, FC, SATA/SAS disk drives.

Confidential, Austin

Firmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for bringing up (by physical eServers and Simics simulations tool), troubleshooting and diagnosing hardware and firmware for a variety of Confidential PowerPC eServers such as HV8, HV4, L4 which involves in bring up and debug major servers's components such as Confidential Power6 processors, PowerPC Flexible Service Processor (FSP), variety of cards and buses, dimms. Worked with hardware engineers and firmware developers to identify and fix the root cause of the hardware/firmware failures. Also using Hardware Management Console (HMC) to install/upgrade firmware and to maintain the eServers. Moreover, involving in bug tracking, AIX v5.3 NIM installing after brought up the eServers. Help the test teams for the technical needs after hand over the servers to them after bringup successfully.
• Attending daily status meeting, maintaining wiki pages for the project, sending status report daily to upper management in the organization
• Responsible for maintaining the wellness of low-end and mid-range Confidential ’s eServers for different teams

Technologies use include: Confidential mid-range and low-end servers ( stand-alone servers, blades, racks and partitions), Power6 processors, Service Processor (PowerPC), Power Hypervisor (PHYP), HMC, TCP/IP, minicom, Hardware/Firmware debug, Simics simulations, Embedded Systems, PowerPC architecture, Linux Redhat, AIX 5L version 5.3, SMIT, pSeries, SMP, variety of servers’ hardware components

Confidential, San Jose

System Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for using LVM command lines (mkfbvol, mkvolgrp, chvolgrp, mkhostconnect, …) and the LVM GUI to create volumes, volume groups, host ports and assign them to host ports on variety of host systems (AIX, Windows, Linux) for DS8000, DS6000, DS4300 storage systems and finally use the those host systems to install and setup the Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) and Confidential TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) test environment. supporting defects for the disk virtualization portion (50%) and responsible bringing up (installing AIX if necessary), troubleshooting Confidential DS8000 storage server's firmware/hardware and supporting the wellness of the DS8000 storage servers (50%) which requires using Storage Hardware Management Console efficiently to install/upgrade firmware, configure the storages, view and extract error logs, understanding the Power5 logical partition (LPAR), storage virtualization concepts, installing and configuring AIX systems, Power Hypervisor (PHYP), Networking, TCP/IP
• Was part of the team that writes the abstract layers of the disk virtualization (arraysites, arrays, ranks, extent pools, logical subsystems, logical addresses, logical volumes, logical storage subsystems, address groups, volume groups, host attachments) to manage the disks and volumes for Confidential ’s Enterprise Storage Server (DS8000 series). In addition, responsible for writing and maintaining the “Logical Configurations” document (show in details how to create arrays, ranks, extent pools, logical volumes, volume groups, host ports,… for DS8000 series) to help manufacture to create the logical configs on their own. Also, help writing korn/perl scripts to speed up the unit test process and integration test.

Technologies use include: C, C++, Confidential Storage Server DS8000/DS6000/DS4000 series, eServer Power5 p5 570, storage system LPARs, disk virtualization, Power5 virtualization, LVM, TPM/TPC, SAN volume controller (SVC), Confidential System Storage DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager, Ethernet switch, TCP/IP, SNMP, NIM, SAN Switch, makefile, cscope, Korn shell scripts, Awk, Perl scripts, AIX, SMIT, Embedded Linux, I/O controllers, Vi, storage devices, RAID, SCSI, FC, DDMs, Disks’ Enclosures, CMVC