Trent Johnson
SSD Hardware Architect
IBM
Trent Johnson is a Hardware Architect at IBM, with a focus on the IBM FlashCore Module (Solid State Drive). He joined IBM as part of the Cleversafe Acquisition where he was the System Hardware Architect of exabyte-scale Object Storage. Prior to Cleversafe, he developed system-level manufacturing and test solutions for AMD CPUs and GPUs where he was awarded the AMD Corporate Technical Achievement Award.
He has 27 years of industry experience, holds 7 US patents and has published at the Future of Memory and Storage, SNIA Developer Conference, Burn-in and Test Socket Workshop as well as the Conference for Consumer Electronics. He earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Manufacturing System Engineering.