His consulting work ranges from complete, detailed finite element and MATLAB models of structures, to specific problem solving; to consulting at an overview level, assisting management in assessing program status.

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• Extensive experience in the mechanical design and analysis of precision electromechanical devices
• Areas of expertise include structural dynamics, finite element analysis, interfacing mechanical system models with servo system models, ball bearing analysis
• Able to solve complicated engineering problems through the identification of core issues
• Ability to provide effective mentoring and supervision
• Strong and effective leadership, presentation and training skills

   2/06-Present

Consulting Engineering Practice, Mountain View, CA

   1/04-1/06

SAE Magnetics, HK
Consulting Engineering Practice, Mountain View, CA
• Resumed consulting engineering practice with exclusive disk-drive agreement with SAE Magnetics, HK, a supplier of recording heads and assemblies for the disk drive industry. The work included analysis and design assistance for suspensions and microactuators and teaching modeling and analysis techniques for both.

   March 2000

Published book entitled "Vibration Analysis Using Matlab and ANSYS"

   1/00-12/03

MAXTOR CORPORATION, Milpitas, CA Consultant
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Manager of Mechanical Analysis Group

• Managed a group responsible for finite element analysis, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) analysis, servo/mechanical analysis and microactuator mechanical support.

   1/95 - 11/99

QUANTUM CORPORATION, Milpitas, CA
Quantum Fellow and Manager of Mechanical Analysis
• Hired as Quantum Fellow, the company's most senior individual contributor position, a Director level position
• Founded the Mechanical Analysis group with the charter of developing suspension, spindle motors (using both ball and hydrodynamic bearings) and electro-mechanical technologies required for future products
• Recruited, hired, and supervised ten engineers
• Developed Matlab-based rotor dynamics code for both ball bearing and hydrodynamic bearing motors
• Developed techniques for using the results of large finite element simulation runs of vibrating systems in lower-order servo system models
• Created and taught extensive vibrations and rotor dynamics class for mechanical and servo engineers.
• Developed simplified Matlab-based finite element model of critical disk drive components, enabling fundamental understanding of the dynamics which control head/disk damage during impact shock events
• Established the Suspension Team at Quantum which developed Quantum proprietary suspension designs in 18, 14.5 and 11mm sizes, resulting in breakthroughs in fundamental understanding of the critical parameters which define suspension resonance performance. Developed integrated wiring suspension technology with multiple vendors. Designed, optimized and brought 11mm suspension into production at three suspension suppliers in less than one year
• Managed development of hydrodynamic spindle bearings, including development of sophisticated analysis tools, design of proprietary bearing architectures, identifying and setting up manufacturing partners and working with the partners to protype, test and troubleshoot problems

   11/83 - 12/94

CONSULTING ENGINEER, Mountain View, CA
Consultant - Hard Disk and Optical Disk Drive Industries
• Provided consulting services for over 35 companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia in hard disk drive design and analysis, spindle and actuator bearing design and analysis, optical disk drive dynamics, robot vibrations
• Wrote SBAP, a ball bearing analysis program which allows understanding of stresses, displacements and stiffnesses within an arbitrarily loaded ball bearing, particularly useful for rotor dynamics and spindle motor preload versus temperature analyses. SBAP is widely used in the disk drive industry
• Quantum Corporation consulting: Laid the ground work for the formation of the Mechanical Analysis group at Quantum; developed curriculum and trained engineers to use Ansys for structural dynamics analysis; solved suspension dynamics problems and set new standards for understanding how to control critical suspension resonances in the manufacturing process; provided sole finite element support for all company products from 1986 through 1993; initiated TMR (Track Mis-Registration) and OTC (Off Track Capability) studies; initiated Monte Carlo methods of performing various tolerance analyses

   1/82 - 10/83

INTERNATIONAL MEMORIES INCORPORATED (IMI), San Jose, CA
Senior Design Engineer and Director of Engineering
• Architected, designed and carried into production the complete mechanical design of the IMI 5000 series of disk drives which were utilized in several computer systems including the IBM AT

   7/79 - 12/81

DASTEK CORPORATION, Los Gatos, CA
Vice President of Engineering
• Joined start-up company to develop a disk drive utilizing thin film-head technology

   6/67 - 7/79

IBM CORPORATION, San Jose, CA
Senior Engineer, Mechanical Manager for 3370 Disk Drive
• Mechanically architected and patented the damped actuator and head disk assembly for the 3380 disk drive
• Managed the mechanical group for the 3370 disk drive from early development through ship testing
• Led three task forces in the development of the 3370 suspension
• Introduced Nastran finite element program to IBM
• Designed and patented the damped ramp-load head-arm assembly for the 3330 disk drive

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA
M.S., Applied Mechanics, 1971

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO, El Paso, TX
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1967

• 14 patents issued, 3 filed and pending
• IBM First Invention Achievement Award
• Quantum Second Plateau Patent Award (10 Quantum Patents)

• Registered Professional Engineer in Mechanical Engineering in California since 1977
• Member, ASME

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