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 defects. • 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 spectrometer; AMAT ComPass / ComPlus darkfield inspection tool; Veeco Vx330 / X3D atomic force microscopes. • 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. • Influenced owned tools towards zero unscheduled maintenance and improved value of on-product defect review. • Collaborated with other TI fabrication facilities and outside vendors to improve capability and sensitivity of tools. • Worked with the Technology Manufacturing Group New Employee Initiative as a co-chair in 2009 and treasurer from 2010 to 2011.

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.