Jon A. Spadino

2050 Pheasant Run St.
Shakopee, MN 55379
952-826-9512 (Cell) 952-233-5655 (Home)
jaspadino@gmail.com

Objective
To work on and/or lead a team of professionals that develop and test storage and information subsystems and utilize my flexible personal and engineering skill set and ability to work with various functions across an organization. I have the ability to lead and manage a team with a mix of personality types and skills.


Employers
Seagate Technology (2000 - Present)

• Responsible for firmware testing on new disk drive firmware. Highly familiar with Fiber Channel, SAS, and SA TA interface and storage technologies and how they work in end-user environments.
• Customer test lead responsible for key qualification enablers for all customers for new disk drive technologies and new firmware features including Seagate's move to 6G SAS, encrypted drive technologies, and other new interface features . This was a cradle to grave leadership role that bridged across multiple functional areas including Product Line Management, Application Engineering, Customer Firmware Test, and Design Verification and Test.
• Was the lead Network Appliance engineer responsible for qualifying Network Appliance firmware. Responsibilities included test development, executing tests, automating tests in a large system environment and executing qualification testing on new disk drive firmware before a new product was accepted by our customer. I was responsible for a large scale system environment that contained over 1000 FC drives, 1000 SA TA drives and 500 SAS drives that was directed toward qualifying Network Appliance firmware.
• Developed a number of test automation scripts for Network Appliance systems especially geared for qualifying new firmware on disk drives. Received special recognition award from internal sources as well as Network Appliance for this development.
• Developed tests in C/C++ to test SCSI, SAS, and FC disk drives.
  

Western Digital (1997-2000)

• Test and Test Development lead for SCSI and FC disk drives. Responsible for executing and developing tests for new products and new firmware features. Worked closely with Firmware Engineering and Application Engineering to ensure firmware was adequately tested before shipment to the customer. Developed tests in C/C++ for testing firmware
  

IBM (1992-1997)

• Worked in the AS/400 and iSeries division and was responsible for testing and simulating the host bus adapter and ASICs that connected to the storage arrays. Developed a microprocessor model in VHDL for the chip simulation environment and developed tests for the chip simulation environment.
• Responsible for writing and maintaining manufacturing tests that ran on IBM host bus adapters and internally developed ASICs.

Rockwell International (1987-1992)

• Worked in the Advanced Displays Department and was responsible for all aspects of development for the graphics engine hardware for LCD displays for Boeing Air Transport aircraft.
  
• Project lead on MilStar Satellite Communication products
  

Education (1982 - 1986)
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T)
BSEE


Skills

• Have the ability to relate to both business development, sales, and "heads down" engineers
• Intimately familiar with the SCSI command set, FC-AL, SAS, and SATA interfaces as well as disk drive read/write subsystems
• Familiar with test design and test development processes for highly complex embedded firmware systems
• Familiar with raid storage sub systems and how end-users implement storage and disk drive technologies.
• Familiar with the day to day operation of Network Appliance, HP, EMC, and Dell Storage Sub-Systems and implementing them in high performance end-user environments.
• Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Microsoft Project, C/C++, TcL, Expect
• Familiar with test development and test automation processes