Summary
David Smith is a Firmware Manager with 11+ years of hands-on experience combining electrical engineering and software development to deliver robust embedded products, currently leading firmware teams at Intoxalock Ignition Interlock. He excels at diagnosing field issues, driving sustaining engineering, and translating complex failure analysis into prioritized roadmaps and test systems. Comfortable writing diagnostics, Python test scripts and data analysis tools, he has a strong track record across storage and manufacturing industries from Seagate to Hitachi and HP. A pragmatic project manager and communicator, he routinely coordinates global teams and vendors while valuing face-to-face collaboration to accelerate problem resolution. His background in FPGA bring-up, NAND flash integration and manufacturing automation gives him a rare cross-domain fluency between hardware, firmware and production.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at National Technological University