Christopher Nguyen has over 30 years of experience in mechanical, test, and production engineering. He currently works as a staff reliability engineer at Sandisk Corporation, where he is responsible for mechanical reliability testing and bringing new test equipment online. Prior to this, he held engineering roles at Soraa, Inc, Quantum Corp, Maxtor corp, Panasonic, and Toshiba, where he gained experience testing hard disk drives and setting up production lines. He is proficient in CAD software, test equipment, and leadership in clean room environments.

1. Christopher Nguyen
2455 Becket Drive  Union City, CA 94587  (510)386-2510
 Chrisand88@sbcglobal.net
Objective:
To obtain a position in mechanical, test or production engineering.
Experiences:
 Staff Reliability Engineer – Sandisk Corp, Milpitas CA – 2012-present
 LED Lamp/Test Engineer – Soraa, Inc. Fremont 2011- 2012
 Senior Mechanical Engineer – Panasonic/Toshiba SDC San Jose CA- 2002-2011.
 Application Engineer - SMC Corp. of America, San Jose CA- 2001-2002.
 Senior Mechanical Technician - Maxtor (Quantum) Corp. Milpitas CA- 1991-2001.
 Manufacturing Leader for all Production lines - Quantum Corp. Milpitas CA 1984-1991.
Qualifications and Accomplishments:
Sandisk Corporation.
 Worldwide technical support in Mechanical reliability testing of SSD products
 Responsible for bringing up Reliability Mechanical lab. Design layout, purchased shock
& vibration systems, package drop machine, HALT chamber and get them up and
running.
 Responsible in designing mechanical tools and test fixtures using Autodesk Inventor (3D
CAD) drawing software
 Responsible for Mechanical set up and testing EVT/DVT on all Sandisk’s ESS and
Server products such as:
o Op/Non-op vibration
o Op/Non-op shock
o HALT (Highly accelerated life test)
o Thermal mapping
o Cover deflection
o Package design transportation tests. Such as Compression, Vibration, Drop.
 Cross Training new coming engineers and technicians on mechanical testing and
equipment operating.
 Responsible to maintain all the lab equipment in operating and calibrating
Soraa, Inc.
 Experience in NPI, setting up manufacture production lines, collecting and analyzing data
to designing the work flows, balancing individual assembly stations, writing process
instructions, training the production engineers/technicians and operators.
 Manage all Soraa’s LED lamps productions such as organizing, tracking and issuing
production builds planning and shipping to satisfy marketing demands.
 Manage all Soraa’s LED lamps test data at component and completed product levels for
100% traceability.
 Experience in setting up and maintaining Optical lab.
 Experience in setting up, running and analyzing results for the following types of optical
tests:

2. o Capture LED/Lamp light arrays output and angle using Radiant imaging Camera,
Labsphere, Rotational stage. Goniometer.
o Thermal maping LED/lamps .
o Power testing the LED/Lamps driver base.
 Experience in LED/Lamps FA to determine root causes and feedback.
Quantum Corp, Maxtor corp, Panasonic and Toshiba SDC
 Experience as Senior Mechanical Engineer in the Rigid Disk Drive Industry supporting
the design and development of new products.
 Experience as Senior Mechanical Engineering Technician in the Rigid Disk Drive
Industry supporting the design and development of new products.
 Experience in testing and working with Precision Mechanical Mechanisms.
 Experience in building 3D models from 2D drawings.
 Responsible for designing and testing disk stack clamping in HDD 7200RPM products.
 Responsible for designing, developing and testing disk stack balancing in Toshiba first
2.5”/7200RMP product.
 Responsible in designing mechanical tools and test fixtures using Autodesk Inventor (3D
CAD) and Solid designer (3D CAD) drawing softwares.
 Ability to disassemble, assemble and perform failure analysis for mechanical problems.
 Experience in modify precision parts using microscope, milling machine and mechanical
tools.
 Experience in maintaining and setting up clean room, Anechoic acoustic chamber,
Vibration, lab equipments, supplies, and calibrations.
 Experience in setting up, running and analyzing results for the following types of
mechanical tests:
o Spindle Runout, non-repeatable runout measurements using ADE or Pioneer
equipment.
o Spindle motor axial and rocking modes using Polytec Laser Doppler Vibrometer.
o Mechanical Bode Plots using Laser Doppler Vibrometer and/or servo positioning
information.
o Modal analysis using MEscope.
o Dynamic deflection measurements using Laser Doppler Vibrometer.
o Components’ movement using High speed video camera.
o Force Constant measurement.
o Inertia measurement.
o Airlock testing to determine opening and closing speed.
o Drive idle, seek and Motor Acoustics in sound pressure, sound power and discrete
tone using B & K analyzers.
o Operational and non-operational Shock and Vibration (Sine and Random) using
B&K, U&D, LDS, and Genrad shaker tables and Lansmont Shock tower.
o Data degradation measurements in various vibration levels.
o Drive TMR measurements.
o Drive Damage Boundary and Fragility tests.
o Kt and Flux leakage measurement.
o Temperature Mapping using Thermocouples.
o Identify and provide technical support to resolve system or components resonance
problems.
 Experience in Leadership and Production in Clean Room Environment.
 Experience in compiling test data and in writing laboratory reports.
 Experience in Failure analysis for the 200mm and 300mm Vacuum Valves for
Semiconductor businesses.

3.  Experience in hiring personnel, training and setting up production lines to meet required
cycle time and production volumes.
 Experience in using personal computers for data compilation and for communication of
results.
Work Habits:
 Able to juggle multiple priorities.
 Results and Schedule Driven.
 Able to work flexible schedule to adjust for peak work cycles.
 Detail oriented - meticulous care in assembly and debug.
 Eager to learn new skills and improve.
 Occasionally traveled overseas for Engineering and pre-production builds.
Personal Strengths:
 Hands on experience with Multi-meters, Analog/Digital Oscilloscope, Analyzers,
Function Generator, Power supply, and other test equipments.
 Proficient oral and written communications.
 Good Solid team player and able to work with a diverse range of personalities.
 Self motivated and fast learner.
References:
 Brian Schott (408) 997-8345 Schott4@Pacbell.com
 Raghu Gururangan Raghu.gururangan@tais.toshiba.com
 Frank Kwong (650) 888-9518 Kwong_frank@yahoo.com
 Rich Ramsdell (408) 867-7548 Rramsdell@Juno.com
 Joe Castagna (408) 227-8835 (408)807-3673
 Mukesh Patel (408) 978-3869 Mukmorar@Att.net