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Helping companies in the semiconductor, biotechnology, and other high-technology domains to design, develop, and improve their software products.

• Supported the development of inkjet pixel printers for Samsung's QLED display mass production via software design and development of multiple software applications.• Advised division managers and directors on strategic technology decisions, software design, and process improvements. Mentored software engineers across the division.

• As one of the key members of the engineering organization, helped the company grow from a small R&D startup to a major supplier of production equipment to top display manufacturers.• Led several teams (3-10 engineers) focused on various functional areas in the software stack, as well as multiple mission-critical software development projects for R&D and production OLED inkjet printer tools.• Oversaw development and support of print data path components including recipes, print algorithms, data interfaces, embedded software, print head calibration, and characterization. • Improved, formalized, and documented the software release process, leading to enhanced release quality and predictability.• Implemented, supported, and optimized a novel print algorithm capable of delivering a precise target ink volume into a display RGB matrix.• Developed a set of best practices, infrastructure building blocks, and common reusable elements for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) GUI applications.• Supported key customer installations in South Korea and China, led and performed complex system and software troubleshooting, and trained local engineering and support teams.

• Designed and developed a control software platform for several different types of electro-optical test equipment measuring key characteristics of photovoltaic modules.• Supervised a group of up to 8 software engineers, contractors, and interns.

• As a leader of the CCD-i™ Integrated Metrology software development program, supervised a group of up to 8 software and SQA engineers. Managed project planning and tracking, personnel hiring and coaching, performance appraisals, and status reports to upper management.• Managed collaborative software product requirements definition effort with the participation of marketing, QA, field support, system, mechanical, and electrical engineering groups in the U.S. and Japan.• Drastically improved software reliability and quality by:- establishing defect tracking procedures, defect database, quality metrics, and release criteria;- identifying, analyzing, and re-factoring the most critical groups of classes.• Initiated and led the key improvements in the software design and development process:- adoption of Object-Oriented software design processes;- reliability analysis of the software architecture;- migration to C# and .NET development environment.• Managed software outsourcing projects:- evaluated vendors in India and Russia, identified software projects for outsourcing;- provided technical specifications and oversight for the offshore development team.

• For various optical metrology systems:- performed overall software architecture design;- implemented stage and measurement choreography, recipe management, automation, graphical user interface (GUI), diagnostics, calibrations, and other features;- performed system-level FMEA, developed and documented alarm and error recovery procedures;- performed extensive system and software troubleshooting at all stages of product development;- supported builds, installation, and deployment, and managed software releases.• Implemented Graded Medium dispersion model for thin film regression algorithms.