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.
