David Hepner

Past

Senior Engineer at IBM Amaden Research
Senior Engineer at IBM Research
Senior Member of Technical Staf at Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp. fromerly TRW ESL

Senior Staff Member at TRW/ASG - TRW/SOI - TRW/ESL - ESL Inc.
Senior Staff Member at TRW, ESL Systems Integration Group (currently Northrup Grumman)

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Education

University of Wyoming

Connections

42 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

My Website

David Hepner’s Experience

Senior Engineer

IBM Amaden Research

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — March 2009 (8 years 8 months)

Developing electronic solutions for several areas of research ranging from recording tape to high vacuum deposition systems.
Responsible for identifying technology for 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel and iSCSI for Host Adapters in an Enterprise Storage System.
Responsible for the schematic entry and PCB architecture of 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel interface subsystem.
Developed signal integrity constraints for board designs and implemented the constraints in the board file using Cadence tools.
Worked on the design team for a storage controller, developing the requirements for board layout including signal integrity. Supported storage controller testing.
Coordinated the transfer of the design of the storage system from development to contract manufacturing in Singapore.
Generated RFQ for the technology and managed the evaluation of the responses.
Performed data integrity analysis on a disk pack subsystem containing 16 disks and management logic.
Senior Engineer

IBM Research

(Computer Hardware industry)

2000 — March 2009 (9 years )
Senior Member of Technical Staf

Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp. fromerly TRW ESL

(Computer Hardware industry)

February 1981 — August 2000 (19 years 7 months)

Project Management:
Lead team of EE, ME and software engineers to design an antenna controller that contained two VME cards and assorted COTS boards that included three PowerPC CPU boards.
Coordinated the work of the ME's, technicians and manufacturing to have five units redesigned, built and tested. Units were delivered on time and within budget.

System Design:
Performed system design for system Built In Test (BIT). Output was a System BIT specification that influenced the design of the hardware and software to enable the complete pre-mission test of the system.

Digital Design:
Designed and integrated a Fibre Channel to PCI (PMC) interface board for a Motorola VME PowerPC board. Design incorporated into a system with 40 nodes.
Member of team that designed Chip set implementing Fibre Channel Standard (FC-1, FC-2).
Designed two FPGAs using VHDL for a Fibre Channel Repeater.
Worked with Mentor Graphics, Synplify, and Model Technology ModelSim.
Senior Staff Member

TRW/ASG - TRW/SOI - TRW/ESL - ESL Inc.

(Computer Hardware industry)

1981 — 2000 (19 years )
Senior Staff Member

TRW, ESL Systems Integration Group (currently Northrup Grumman)

(Computer Hardware industry)

1981 — 2000 (19 years )

David Hepner’s Education

University of Wyoming

BS , Physics , 1968 — 1972

Activities and Societies:

Optical Society of America, Amateur Radio license - WA7UHT Extra,

Additional Information

David Hepner’s Websites:

My Website

David Hepner’s Groups:

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
University of Wyoming Alumni Group
Fibre Channel Industry Association
TRW Space & Defense Alumni
BMW MOTORRAD motorcycles owners and enthusiasts.
Right ZIP Team Silicon Valley - 2008-2009
IBM Research Division
Embedded Systems Conference
Layoffs Cafe