Manage the company's hardware road map. Design high quality network storage systems that can be shipped worldwide without problems. Take hardware products from inception through release to manufacturing. Work with outsourced technology providers and manufacturers to design and build our products. Provide product requirements and logic diagrams. Meet with technology suppliers and understand their technologies and roadmaps. Components from technology suppliers include: disks, memory, CPUs, SAS/SATA chipsets, network chipsets, and encryption chipsets.