Poh Guat Bay

Experienced Staff Engineer
Certified Scrum Master
Highly versatile and trained to commit, plan and execute each project the right way with cross-functional collaboration. 

Expertise: 
- As a Scrum Master, I am trained to plan sufficiently and deliver all planned tasks with exceptional qualities. With harmonious personality provides agile coaches for the member to accustom to the agile sprint plan thus staying focused and becoming an individual contributor. A good team motivator, thus moving the team velocity to more predictable or improve.

- With plenty of hands-on analysis, and debugging, was trained to be attentive to detail, especially recreating, finding the root causes and finding a sustainable solution. Have demonstrated a strong history of skillset in Failure Analysis, Firmware algorithm development and Debugging thru various product integration issues.

- Can be worked with existing firmware framework and test codes and explored to evolve them into new methodologies to verify developed pre-commit code. 

- Keen to pick up on the job, such as various programming skills set which pick up over the years from C programming to C/ C++, python and JavaScript, Vue.js.

Experience

1. 2022 February – 2022 November: Staff Engineer, Seagate

Staff Engineer, System Storage Controller Web Based Interface engineer

Scrum Master, Agile:

• Ensuring the agreed Agile process is followed completing a Plan Iteration with Sprints planning and delivering the plan work and features with success. The team grows to be highly competent individuals thus accomplishing and delivering all planned jobs.
• Provide coaches and mentoring for team members, assist them to stay focused and eventually become independent contributors too. With good team contributions and motivation, the agile sprint average velocity becomes more reliable, predictable, and at times increases.
• Host daily stand-up meetings to identify impediments faced by the members, foster good team dynamics, and create a relentless improvement environment thru cross learning thus motivating all to become highly skilled and harmonious individually. 
• As a servant leader, assist complex recreation failures that involve different systems, and cross-functional teams, by helping the member to coordinate, and facilitate assistance from various channels thus mitigating each blocker,

Web Base Interface development and Automated Test scripts

• Part of a design and development team to bring up a CI/CD dashboard that improves work efficiency. Successfully develop a graphical chart by accessing the backend server using the pgAdmin getting and displaying the chart with the vue.js chart component 
• Integrate and refactor the automated test script using typescript to test the system web browser, thus uncovering existing bugs before each customer release. Manage to uncover over 50% of the existing bugs underlying from history.
• Resolve various WBI bug backlogs and technical debts using Vue.js browser debug.

Skills

Agile SM | FMEA | failure analysis | Global collaboration | Python scripting | Vue.js | frontend | backend | TypeScript | SVN | Git | Project Management | automatic web testing using web.io | JavaScript | PostgreSQL | pgAdmin | node js

2. 2021 March – 2022 February: Staff Engineer, Seagate

Staff Engineer, System Storage Controller Backend firmware engineer • Seagate Technology • Singapore

Agile team member

• Working with global team members, in India and the USA, ability to demonstrate good communication, interpersonal and technical documentation skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams in various multi-cultural teams.
• Hands-on experience on SATA, SAS map, SCSI error status reports, and handling the failures from enclosure management including interfaces with expanders through SATA or SCSI commands. 
• Experience in solving complex system problems with systematic troubleshooting skills that comes from various channels such as sustaining customers or new system integration. Resolve various system-related bug backlogs and technical debts thus improving the team closure velocity.

Skills

C/C++ Programming | Object Oriented Programming, OOP | SVN | Python scripting | Agile Methodology | SATA commands | SCSI commands handling status check conditions | Multi-threaded RTOS concept

3. 2001 January – 2021 March: Staff Engineer, Seagate

Staff Engineer, System firmware engineer • Seagate Technology • Singapore

• A versatile team player and cross-functional member, accomplish various product integration feature development and failure analysis. Constantly engaging with the system integration Engineering, SIE team with new product feature failures, hands-on to recreate the issue on the bench and study the failure mode, thus creating the right sustainable solution with new algorithms.
• Plenty of hands-on analysis, data parsing, and logs collection to study for a corrective workaround solution for the customers. In one competitor performance analysis, the graphical lagging was not acceptable, thru experiment and features improvement by working with various cross-functional experts, successfully invented a solution for the customers, Microsoft XBOX 2.5”
• Attention to detail and ability to work with exceptional technical analysis skills. Improve the factory yield and production speed by implementing the SATA command Trim feature by doing quick erase.
• In addition resolve Integration failures, by adding the right log parameter thus enabling telemetry data analysis which also improves the yield of the drive.Skills

C programming | Python | Agile | FMEA | presentation | analytic analysis | Perforce

EDUCATION / Certifications

2019 May – ScrumMaster Certified by SCRUM ALLIANCE, NUS

2001 – Degree of Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering), Nanyang Technology University, Singapore