David Chimitt
Round Rock,TX
Summary
Accomplished Systems Engineering Development Manager and Engineer with nearly two decades of specialized experience in storage systems engineering. Proven expertise in guiding teams through complex systems engineering projects from start to finish. Dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions on schedule, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction. Skilled team leader and mentor, committed to promoting the career growth of team members.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Systems Development Engineering Sr. Manager
Dell Technologies
Round Rock, TX
10.2019 - Current
- Managed teams responsible for the full development lifecycle of Dell’s premier host-based storage solutions, including development, integration, delivery, and engineering field support
- Handled factory and customer escalations, deploying urgent triage teams to drive rapid resolution
- Coordinated with technical partners on strategic initiatives, including efficiency and quality initiatives, features, roadmaps, schedule, and resource alignment
- Executed an engineering strategy in coordination with the technical partner, aligning with Dell’s business goals and achieving a reduction in new product delivery timeframe by 1-2 quarters (~25%) with flat or reduced resources
- Developed and executed a strategy to enable and train international ODM engineering teams in the testing and debugging of server storage solutions, enhancing the speed and scale of server releases
- Provided strategic direction for the team, offering oversight, mentoring, coaching, and performance reviews
- Received a score of above 90% every year in the “My Leader” category of “Tell Dell”, Dell’s annual survey gathering feedback from team members about their Dell employment experience.
Systems Development Lead Engineer
Dell Technologies
Round Rock, TX
01.2009 - 01.2019
- Led engineering efforts to drive the development and delivery of Dell’s host-based storage solutions through the full product lifecycle
- Provided technical direction to the team, identified and mitigated risks, built release plans and schedules, held the team accountable to plans and schedules, and communicated program status to management
- Partnered closely with an external technical partner to provide functional and schedule requirements, oversee feature architecture, design and implementation, perform engineering-level validation, debug technical issues, and ensure schedule fidelity
- Collaborated tightly on technical and program aspects with multiple internal dependent technical teams, ensuring successful integration with the rest of the server infrastructure
- These teams included Systems Management, OS Engineering, BIOS/UEFI, Hard Drive, Factory & Diagnostics, Platform Engineering, External Storage, Packaging & Deployment, and Validation teams, among others.
Systems Development Engineer
Dell Technologies
Round Rock, TX
01.2006 - 01.2009
- Served as a systems engineer on a team responsible for the integration and delivery of low and mid-tier internal server storage RAID solutions for Dell’s PowerEdge servers, leveraging a tech partner’s hardware and software solution
- Conducted unit testing (UT) level solution testing and issue debugging across the solution, requiring collaboration with vendor engineers and internal Dell engineers from the BIOS, OS, systems management, hard drive, and validation teams, among others
- Managed the factory relationship as the solution Subject Matter Expert (SME), which included in-depth reviews of the factory install and diagnostic scripts, assisting factory diagnostic engineers with the development and debugging of scripts, and serving as the engineering Point of Contact (POC) for debugging issues encountered in the factory
- Oversaw the solution’s systems management interface, which included assisting Dell systems management developers as the SME for the solution API, conducting UT level validation, and issue debugging
- Handled the customization of firmware settings to ensure the vendor solution aligned with Dell’s feature requirements and hardware design
Software Engineer
Unisys Corporation
Malvern, PA
06.2000 - 10.2006
- Designed and developed embedded applications, Windows device drivers, and I/O test tools for enterprise storage and networking solutions, primarily utilizing the C programming language
- Led a team of engineers in the design and development of Serial SCSI/SATA Host Bus Adapters (HBA) for Unisys Mainframes
- Participated in the architecture and led the implementation of a Windows 2000 filter driver, implementing an aspect of RAID technology
- Contributed to the porting and development of an off-the-shelf TCP/IP networking stack to a Unisys proprietary network interface card.
Education
M.S. in Computer Science -
Villanova University
12.2000
B.A. in Political Science -
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
06.1997
Timeline
Systems Development Engineering Sr. Manager
Dell Technologies
10.2019 - Current
Systems Development Lead Engineer
Dell Technologies
01.2009 - 01.2019
Systems Development Engineer
Dell Technologies
01.2006 - 01.2009
Software Engineer
Unisys Corporation
06.2000 - 10.2006
M.S. in Computer Science -
Villanova University
B.A. in Political Science -
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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