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Terry Lai

Engineer
Terry Lai

Summary

Over 10 years of experience in storage devices, including MP tool, middle layer API tool, FTL read/write error handling, NAND flash characterization, firmware feature white box testing.



Overview

10
years of professional experience
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

MARVELL
Taipei

Staff Engineer
10.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Development of white box test script, responsible for topic:

1. RAID recovery

2. Media error handling

3. Read recovery

4. SPOR/POR

5. NAND feature validation

  • Develop test automation solutions to improve testability and execution efficiency
  • Conduct failure analysis of failures generated from validation run and collaborate with various SSD Development groups to resolve issues detected.
  • Conduct failure analysis of failures generated from integration runs and collaborate with firmware developers to resolve issues detected.


Silicon Motion Technology Crop.
Zhubei

Staff Engineer
05.2019 - 10.2020

Job overview

Responsible for mass production firmware, doing firmware pretest, NAND testing, and adjusting parameters during mass production.

Responsible for error handling of program/erase/read failures, analyzing voltage distribution, adjusting parameters to reduce error bit.

Design middle layer architecture, design tool can operate directly on drive (VSC, admin command, download fw).

Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Hsinchu

System Engineer
10.2017 - 05.2019

Job overview

  • Design and development of NAND analysis tool.
    1. Erase/Program busy time.
    2. Vt distribution
    3. Vt bitmap
    4. Endurance
    5. Read judgment level analysis
  • Familiar with NAND:
    1.Micron:L06B, B17A, B27A, N18A
    2.Toshiba:Bics3
    3.YMTC:3DMLC

Alcor Micro Corp.
Taipei

Firmware Engineer
08.2014 - 10.2017

Job overview

  • Responsible for FW Debug tool, which includes mapping table analysis, bad block analysis, reading and displaying various FW tables.
  • Responsible for udisk's MP tool.(software pretest)
  • Responsible for MP-related firmware.
  • Assist in maintaining the udisk SDK.

Royaltek
Taoyuan

Software Engineer
02.2013 - 08.2014

Job overview

  • Android APP Development

Education

National Chung Cheng University

Master of Science from Computer Science
09.2015 - 07.2017

Chung Yuan Christian University

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
09.2007 - 06.2011

Timeline

Staff Engineer

MARVELL
10.2022 - Current

Staff Engineer

Silicon Motion Technology Crop.
05.2019 - 10.2020

System Engineer

Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
10.2017 - 05.2019

National Chung Cheng University

Master of Science from Computer Science
09.2015 - 07.2017

Firmware Engineer

Alcor Micro Corp.
08.2014 - 10.2017

Software Engineer

Royaltek
02.2013 - 08.2014

Chung Yuan Christian University

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
09.2007 - 06.2011
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