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System Validation Engineer

Utah Valley University is an education management institution which located in OREM, UT.

Highly self-motivated, analytical, practical and quality-minded validation engineer, with a broad range of validation experience. I am eager and quick to learn new technologies and methods, able to quickly become a valuable contributor in any situation. I have excellent written communication and training skills, continually striving to improve knowledge sharing across teams. I work very well both alone and with other team members, easily establishing rapport with others, and with many years of experience working with and serving as a technical leader for colleagues from various teams around the world.I have a strong background in creating, executing and debugging post-silicon tests – using a wide variety of programming languages, tools and methods – which gives me an excellent foundation for quickly contributing in any validation discipline. I have quickly and successfully learned the architectural details of numerous units, controllers, and interfaces. I have also used emulation and FPGA systems to enable tests and validate the products before silicon. On multiple occasions, I have led my teams through technical changes of tools and methodology. Because new tools and methods can be very disruptive, I carefully look at the advantages and disadvantages of proposed changes. I work hard to make such decisions quickly and efficiently, however. When judged to be worthwhile, I willingly become an early adopter and help lead teammates. In recent years I have participated heavily in cross-team work groups within the organization to improve our efficiency, discipline and methods, and to consolidate tools. This has helped me better understand a variety of validation disciplines and viewpoints, as well as differences between the validation needs for products in different market segments.