Brian Mikeska, P.E., Cissp Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas

• Provide technical product and software support for associates and customers within the Gulf Coast Region.
• Assist with product training, user's groups, and conferences for Rockwell Automation products as well as their Encompass Partners.

Houston, Texas

• Provide technical product and software support for associates and customers within the Gulf Coast Region.
• Support sales team by presenting manufacturer products and providing bid documents.
• Review engineering drawings and specs for discrepancies as well as for available cross-referenced products.

Houston, Texas Area

• Produced design drawings for building electrical distribution systems including switchboards, transformers, panel boards, generators, fire alarms, lighting, receptacles, equipment rooms, and bus risers.
• Collaborated on projects with structural, civil, architectural, mechanical, and plumbing disciplines
• Corrected contractor submittals for consistency and compliance with design intent, local codes, and MasterSpec.
• Created software tools for AutoCAD and Excel to aid in engineering design using Visual Basic and Visual LISP.
• Portfolio contains a variety of buildings such as hospitals, high-rise commercial, corporate headquarters, data centers, and international compounds.

Stafford, Texas

• Acted as the product owner for three digital signal processor (DSP) devices used in automotive navigation and infotainment systems for clients such as Bosch, Continental, Pioneer, Audi, and BMW.
• Designed experiments and interpreted data to determine causes and solutions to key electrical issues that limited yield.
• Generated and executed qualification plan for new package substrate in response to loss of vendor support after 2011 Japanese earthquakes.
• Validated loadboard layouts for owned devices and proposed design changes for update revisions.
• Increased profit margin on devices by reducing test time and increasing multiprobe and final test yield.
• Collaborated with TI Philippines to analyze tool malfunction trends and product defects to improve tool availability and device yield.

Dallas, Texas

• Acted as yield enhancement representative to shallow trench isolation and pad oxide loop teams where responsibilities included prioritizing and delegating actions to diagnose, isolate, and eliminate yield limiting.
• Analyzed customer returns for high volume devices such as the touch screen controller for Apple iPhones and iPads; battery management chips for Nook Colors; TV tuners used in DVRs; and numerous other devices.
• Contributed to ISO9001:2008 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 continuing improvement audits.
• Served as process and equipment owner responsible for all hardware and software on toolsets with a collective worth between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. KLA RS100 resistivity measurement tool; Technos TXRF contamination.
• Advised the Yield Enhancement / Metrology group on negotiations of vendor contracts.
• Submitted patent for method and apparatus to perform real time Fourier transform filtering of repeating structure areas on integrated circuits using proprietary Texas Instruments technology.

College Station, Texas

• Intel Processor Family System Firmware Testing (Jan. 2007 – Dec. 2008)
• Validated functionality of HP Integrity server firmware by executing pre-candidate and candidate testing, enabling release for downstream partners.
• Collaborated with Fort Collins, Colorado and Richardson, Texas sites to diagnose and solve escalated firmware issues. VMware Server Certification (Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2008)
• Gained proficiency with setup and maintenance of ESX server as a host operating system and multiple Windows and Linux based guest operating systems.
• Coordinated with remote HP and VMware engineering teams in Houston, Texas to ensure meeting of product release deadlines.
• Contributed to VMware certification of HP Proliant and Blade servers.

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

• Performed thermal profiling of thermal vacuum chambers for Astronaut training and future experiments. Results were based off blackbody radiation theory to determine the extremes of the chambers.
• Assisted test director with return to flight tests for “Goo Gun” to repair thermal tile samples.

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

• Modeled parts of the space shuttle crew module for Columbia accident investigation utilizing 3D CAD systems.
• Designed and created tension, compression, and stationary structure adapters used in product characterization for the Structures Test Lab.