Mahdi Zaidan

Experience

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  Commetrex Corp.

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1999

  DSP Modem Engineer

  • Developed design documents for V.34 and V.90 modems.• Managed the voice coders project that developed G.711 (PCM), G.726 (ADPCM) algorithms and the G.723.1 and G.729 vocoders.• Responsible for system level integration of the V.22bis full-duplex modem on the TI TMS320C51 DSP over the NMS multi-line AG board.• Developed call-progress analysis and DTMF generation/detection algorithms for the MSP/CX multi-line PCI board (awarded the “Best of the CT 98 Expo” by the Computer Telephony Magazine).• Developed a sophisticated baud-timing recovery scheme to overcome the short training problem of the V.17 receiver implementation on a memory-constraint environment.• Real-time implementation of the V.23 and the V.17 modems on the TI TMS320C50.• Memory-efficient real-time implementation of the Viterbi decoder on the TI TMS320C50.• Designed and developed algorithms for the continuous PSK modem (V.23) transmitter and receiver.• Prepared design documents for a caller-ID product (Commetrex PowerCID product).• Greatly enhanced the receiver performance of the V.27ter and V.29 fax modems used in the MultiFax product (awarded the “Product of the Year” in 1994 by the Computer Telephony Magazine. Show less

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  Conexant

  Oct 1999 - Mar 2001

  Systems Principal Engineer

  Working on performance analysis and enhancement of the receiver structure at both the controller and the DSP levels for several modems’ products:• Designed, developed, and implemented an improved AGC algorithm.• Developed and implemented a robust re-synchronization scheme for the fax modem receiver that involved timing recovery and carrier phase recovery.• Developed and implemented an enhanced algorithm of a phase-jitter canceller.• Working on the development and the implementation of the V.91 modem.Also, involved in ITU SG16/TIA TR30.5 meetings related for fax modems over the Internet. Show less

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  Telematix Corporation

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Engineering Director

  Directed engineering development activities across various function of the engineering organization including: systems, SOC HW architecture and VLSI design, SW development, and system validation and test. Responsible of building and evaluating SW partners and building an echo system to provide full eNB and NB solutions. Common Engineering management responsibilities were:• Product development and management.• Technology and IP development and management.• Resource development and management. Show less

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  Minspeed Technologies, Inc

  Jul 2003 - Jul 2011

  Exec. Director Engineering

  Directed engineering development activities across various function of the engineering organization including: systems, SOC HW architecture and VLSI design, SW development, and system validation and test. Responsible of building and evaluating SW partners and building an echo system to provide full eNB and NB solutions. Common Engineering management responsibilities were:• Product development and management.• Technology and IP development and management.• Resource development and management. Show less

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  STEC, Inc. (Aquired by HGST Sept 2013)

  Aug 2011 - Aug 2013

  VP Engineering, SSD Software & Systems

  Have responsibility of directing and managing system (product) level overall engineering activities with focus on embedded firmware development. The firmware piece of it includes micro code development running over application-specific HW accelerator.

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  HGST, a Western Digital brand

  Sept 2013 - Sept 2016

  Sr. Director Engineering, Enterprise SSD Product Firmware

  Responsible of delivering enterprise grade SSD product firmware, contributing to product specs definition, contributing to product development process, contributing to product validation specs and plan, and contributing to product manufacturing test specifications.

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  Micron Technology

  Oct 2016 - Sept 2018

  Senior Director SSD Firmware

  Global Responsibility of SSD product firmware: architecture, design, development, and qualification.

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  Microsoft

  Oct 2018 - now

  Responsible for cloud hardware storage solutions and future technology, including drive (SSD & HDD) specifications, qualifications, and deployment. Responsible of SSD firmware development for Azure Cloud hardware infrastructure.

  • Sr. Director, Azure Memory & Storage Center of Excellence, Cloud Hardware Infrastructre Engineering

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Senior Director, SSD Firmware, Azure Hardware Infrastructure

    Oct 2018 - Jul 2020