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Instructors known and respected throughout the industry
Our instructors are industry experts with lengthy experience as instructors, and in the practical
application of their technical expertise.
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Hugh Curley: SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), SATA (Serial ATA)
Hugh Curley, who has worked on mainframe computers since 1967 and on personal computers since 1981, began teaching computers technologies to engineers in 1975. He has extensive experience in developing and presenting highly technical courses to engineering specialists from the development, test, and field service disciplines. In addition, his background includes hands-on technical and managerial experience in field service, system level test in manufacturing, and system level test in engineering.
Hugh's ability to teach all of KnowledgeTek's interface subjects, and his teaching of some product specific courses, provides his course attendees the opportunity to compare and contrast all of the storage interfaces. |
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Chuck Sobey: FLASH Technology, NPRML(Noise-Predictive PRML Channels for Data Storage), DDT (Disk Drive Technology)
Chuck Sobey is chief scientist and founder of ChannelScience, an adaptive digital signal processing firm that specializes in MATLAB®-based software development, interactive detection algorithms, chip architectures, testing and channel optimization for data storage devices. Chuck is an internationally known technical consultant, lecturer, business advisor and intellectual property expert. He has the detailed understanding of recording channels and transducer physics that only comes with over 15 years of direct design, manufacturing and test experience, publications and patents. He has helped pioneer innovations in recording head design, channel architectures and adaptive algorithms while working with small start-ups and establishing industry giants. Mr. Sobey is an engaging and enthusiastic presenter whose style rapidly delivers information and insight while creating a comfortable atmosphere that welcomes class interaction. |
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Terry Shrader: HDDT (Hybrid-Disk Drive Technology), Perpendicular Technology, DDT
Terry Shrader has over three decades of experience with data storage. His resumé includes tenure with some of the pioneering giants of the disk drive industry: Applied Magnetics Corp (AMC) and ISS in the 1970s, Shugart and Associates and Quantum during the 80s, and more recently with Syquest and Read-Rite in the 90s. Mr. Shrader has designed heads and media for use in disk drives, managed teams doing head and media design, established and managed reliability testing labs, and most recently served as Director of Quality Assurance for Read-Rite Corp. During his 8 years at Read-Rite he was heavily involved in all aspects of head development and manufacturing and spent a great deal of time in the off-shore factories that assemble and test both HGAs and HSAs. Mr. Shrader holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from UC Santa Barbara and has presented a variety of classes on subjects dealing with the data storage industry. |
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Dennis Moore: SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), SATA (Serial ATA)
Dennis Moore has been a KnowledgeTek instructor specializing in interface training for more than fifteen years. KnowledgeTek, through Dennis Moore and Hugh Curley, was the first interface training company to offer SATA and SAS instruction. KnowledgeTek led the industry by more than one year in each case. Due to Dennis Moore's continuous participation in the ANSI T10 and T11 standards committees, KnowledgeTek was able to develop what are considered the most advanced training classes in these areas. In addition to exclusively training with KnowledgeTek, Dennis Moore is also the founder and principal of IOI Consulting, and performs independent consulting services specializing in the design of SAS and SATA interface products. With more than 30 years of experience ranging from desktop to mainframe applications, he brings extensive expertise to bear at all levels of I/O interfaces. Dennis Moore has held both technical and managerial positions in engineering and customer service during his career, and as such has participated in the development, improvement and modification of devices utilizing these ever-changing interfaces. Through continuous participation in the ANSI T10 and T11 standards committees, Dennis' involvement guarantees the KnowledgeTek classes are the most up-to-date and timely in the industry. Dennis' students comment frequently on the depth and breadth of his knowledge, his patience in answering questions, and his insight into client problem-solving in areas suggested during classroom presentations. |
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Chuck Leis: DVD and CD Technology
Chuck Leis (BSEE and MSEE from the University of Florida) has over 20 years of experience in engineering, management, and education. After leaving Hewlett Packard's computer development labs, he joined the company that developed the first host adaptors for a new peripheral interface which was to become standardized as the SCSI bus. More recently he was with Iomega where he developed the IDE internal ZIP drive product and is currently working with High Density Optical Storage Technology. Concurrent with his engineering and management experience, Chuck spent 10 years as a part time instructor of hardware design and computer architecture at Santa Clara University, where he also earned his MBA.
Chuck's experience as a hands-on engineer, manager and instructor allow him to focus his students on what they need to know for the real world. |
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Gerard Vurens: Precision Cleaning Technology, Advanced Tribology
Gerard Vurens, Ph.D. is the president of HDI Instrumentation, a manufacturer of optical inspection equipment. Before founding HDI Instrumentation in 1997, he did research on lubrication and tribology at StorMedia (1994-1997) and IBM’s Almaden Research Center (1989-1994). His Ph.D. (1989) in Chemistry is from University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Dr. Vurens is intimately familiar with the design and manufacture of optical inspection equipment, and has extensive knowledge in the areas of lubrication and tribology. His engaging speaking style imparts a wealth of information with clarity and enthusiasm. |
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David Glick: Software Applications, Operating Systems
David Glick is an educational and training specialist with more than 20 years experience teaching in business, professional and academic settings. A highly skilled communicator, David has developed and presented courses on software applications and a variety of operating systems for industry leading organizations including Storage Technology Corporation and Sun Microsystems.
David's varied background and experience has aided his ability to work with technical and non-technical audiences. His teaching style allows students to retain information, setting a standard of excellence in technical training. |
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Jeff Rey: Servo
Jeff Reh has been involved in the disk drive industry for 20 years since his graduation from Carnegie-Mellon (B.S.E.E.), with experience in design, management and consulting, both on- and off-shore, at leading companies such as Quantum, Maxtor and Texas Instruments. He is recognized throughout the industry for his expertise in servo design, and spent several years designing, writing and overseeing hard drive systems interfaces and firmwares (including ATA).
So thorough is Mr. Reh's knowledge and expertise in these fields, that he has 8 patents awarded or pending for servo, firmware and hard disk architecture technologies. In addition to his B.S.E.E., Mr. Reh has an M.S.E.E. from Worchester Polytechnic Institute. |
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Tel: 303.465.1800
Fax: 303.465.2600
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