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Permanent Address:
7668 Baypoint Drive #104
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
609-903-9005
QUINN A. MALE
qual.male@gmail.com
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EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, CA
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering – Communications Focus (Part Time) May 2017
Overall GPA: 3.42/4.00
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2013
Overall GPA: 3.43/4.00 CIT Dean’s List
JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN Bremen, Germany
Exchange Semester at the International Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Program
RELEVANT COURSES:
Engineering: Information Theory and Compression USC
Mobile Communication Systems USC
Optical Fiber Communication Systems USC
Power Systems Design USC
Sensor Systems Design CMU
Digital Signal Processing CMU
Electronic Semiconductor Devices JUB
Applied Electrodynamics CMU
Signals and Systems CMU
Fundamentals of Electromagnetics CMU
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology CMU
Electronic Devices and Analog Circuits CMU
Structure and Design of Digital Systems CMU
Computer Science: Computer Networks Summer 2016 USC
Principles of Software Construction CMU
Advanced Computer Systems CMU
Data Structures and Algorithms CMU
Effective Programming in C & Unix CMU
Applied Sciences: Applied Linear Algebra for EE Graduate Students USC
Probability and Statistics for EE Graduate Students USC
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Western Digital Corporation Summer 2013 - Present
Title: Senior Electronic Design Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Supporting component integration from multiple suppliers for product development on
various HDD and SSD hardware systems. This consists of testing and validation of new
hardware into the existing system in order to maintain high performance while reducing
cost. This also includes both electronic design and Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility
analysis.
 Conducting failure analysis on read/write channel SOCs on multiple environments. This
includes collecting and analyzing digital signal data from the channel testmux via the PCB
using an oscilloscope, stepping through and debugging the embedded C++ firmware code

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via an in-circuit emulator, and writing test scripts to isolate errors and parse channel output
data in Matlab. This role has an emphasis on analyzing any data available to reach the
root cause of the failure.
 Designing and maintaining algorithms for a new test suite to be used for evaluating various
performance quality metrics of different products. This test suite is a key part of the
validation process for new channels and other HDD specific components, and includes
improving methods for gathering key data quality metrics such as signal-to-noise ratio, error
margin, bit error rates, and decoder iterations.
Carnegie Mellon University Data Storage Systems Center Summer 2012
Title: Research Engineer
Responsibilities:
 System development and hardware debug of the lab’s only spin stand for magnetic
recording research.
 Designing and implementing test software for signal analysis of the magnetic recording
heads on the spin stand.
 Data collection and analysis for shingled magnetic recording technology.
SKILLS:
Hardware: Oscilloscope, FPGA, In-Circuit Emulator, Utopia Controller, K49 Temperature Controller
Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Python, Assembly, SystemVerilog
Software: Matlab, Tableau, Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, Mac OS
PROJECTS:
Compression & Decompression Algorithm
 Designed and Implemented the Lempel Ziv ’77 algorithm for text based data compression
in Matlab. Additionally, this included upgraded features such as bitwise expanding
character dictionaries.
Hall Sensor
● Fabricated the sensor from scratch using a Silicon wafer and a Photolithography process.
Designed and built the amplifier circuit to enable the system to achieve the desired output
signal resolution. Used an innovative method for connecting the sensor to the circuit when
soldering was deemed impractical.
Twitter Framework
● Used Twitter’s API to create plug-ins for data analysis, including developing GUIs to portray
certain Twitter analytics in a unique fashion. This involved in-depth framework
development in Java.
ACTIVITIES/
HOBBIES:
Skid Row Homeless Shelter Volunteer, Care Mission USA, 2014 - Present
Western Digital Fire and Emergency Safety Floor Captain, 2014 - Present
Western Digital Softball Team, 2013 – Present
Newport Beach Table Tennis Club, 2014 – Present
Guitar, concerts, beach volleyball, bicycling to the Huntington Dog Beach
HONORS:
Carnegie Institute of Technology Research Honors
Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean’s List Distinguished Scholar
Western Digital Drive for Excellence Award for Quality Failure Analysis
Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar