Jagadeesh Kumar Email & Phone Number

Milpitas, California, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Consolidated product and system requirements for a new 3D printer program. Developed detailed test plans and drove the testing, interfacing with systems, hardware (ME/EE) and print development teams. Created standardized report format, ran tests and developed scripts for data analysis. Developed a web GUI diagnostic scripting infrastructure for live data streaming, running and viewing script test results graphically and running long duration reliability tests on any system connected to the cloud.Grew the system engineering team and leading with hands on work, guided the team in planning, creating schedules, defining tests and details, creating system performance test reports, developing checklists, spec. validation, vibration testing, validating the product requirements, reliability testing and handling MFG and field issues.Handled compliance/safety testing/shock and vibration testing of the new product working with external testing/certification labs. Evaluated and ensured product compliance requirements are met to operate in different countries.

Milpitas, California, Us

Managed hardware/system integration, developed large scale system integration schedules, oversaw and guided day to day planning activities for large scale complex projects along with material planning and task rescheduling to minimize the impact of material delays and resource conflicts.Managed and worked with diverse teams of mechanical, electrical, SW, algo, FW, TDI camera, optics, system engineering, Image computers, Applications, Marketing, Manufacturing, Materials, NPI, Field service, Install, Upgrade teams resolving conflicts, prioritizing activities and meeting scheduled dates. Successfully drove a project to improve the MFG cycle time by identifying various bottlenecks in build process, procedures, tooling, engineering design, SW/Diagnostics/Calibrations working with MFG, Engineering, Field teams and management.Acted as central point of contact for all engineering related questions on two product platforms simultaneously.In addition to Managerial responsibilities of the projects, also contributed directly to engineering development activities such as design calculations, developed new analysis methods, improved performance of some of the subsystems performing detailed data and image analysis and developed analysis scripts, handled field escalations, and guided many system engineering team members to solve technical problems.Worked as central point of contact for customer facing tool performance matching project, resolved matching escalations and owned complete tool handoff tasks.Refined system / subsystem requirements, architecture analysis, system design, developed proof of concepts ,created an organized testing plan and schedule and drove the execution working with the system and HW engineering team.

Designed experiments to probe the limitations of the current TDI camera hardware in producing uniform profiles. Researched possible methods of improvement and developed new concepts and algorithms to minimize the uniformity error.Defined subsystem requirements for deep UV illumination subsystem to detect defects < 10 nm in wafer manufacturing process. Identified issues by analyzing existing data from multiple systems and recommended improvements.Studied image vibration, vibration sources and developed new methods of analysis for identifying and fixing the issues to minimize noise in images.Published theory of operations, proof of concepts, requirement specifications and validated system performance metrics against the specs.Improved the performance of a runtime mechanical alignment subsystem by developing advanced data analysis programs, vibration data acquisition and image processing methods, to track and correct the stage motion to minimize image jitter to up to 20 nm.Lead the development of a backside wafer inspection system with 0.5 um dark field sensitivity. Performed characterization of LED modules and imaging sub-systems, image quality. Developed proof of concept, specifications and requirement analysis, risk identification and mitigation, and derived specifications based on marketing requirements and hardware and algorithm limitations.Designed automated calibrations with python and MATLAB codes working in sync with the hardware for data collection. Researched methods and algorithms to produce stable and correct calibration results in the presence of contaminated/noisy data.Setup reliability fixtures and developed software code in C# for running reliability fixtures continuously.Provided support at Wafer fabs for prototype installations and system performance troubleshooting.Designed a top level final image based overall system health test SW suite for catching problems in system to system performance matching.

Working as a Research Fellow as part of the £ 5M project funded by European Regional Development Fund and Advantage West Midlands. Major activities involve • Working with various partner companies from automotive, defense and medical sectors to understand their requirements in product and process development and provide them X-ray CT based innovative non-destructive testing and analysis solutions.• Perform CT scan data analysis for different applications using VGStudioMax and develop new image processing methods in MATLAB to perform specific analysis tasks required for the application. Developed novel methods to analyze bullet geometry, water injection molding and to extract low intensity defects from castings.• Carried out a MATLAB based simulation analysis to understand the effect of CT cone beam geometry and object configuration on the measurement accuracy of the scanner.

Milpitas, California, Us

• Lead System Engineer for the development of a new review module attached to an inspection system, liaising with external vendors, software, applications, manufacturing and system engineering teams spread in India, USA and Singapore. • Performed system calibration and subsystem characterization of optics, motion control systems, wafer delivery robots and illuminators by developing a number of utilities to process the system output. Defined system performance specifications and developed methods and processes to achieve the specifications. Developed many requirements documents for software features, procedures and calibration methods.• Successfully solved many field escalations by logically analyzing the problem at hand and identifying the cause of the problem. Also, supported the manufacturing team located in Singapore by providing them the technical know-how, tools, utilities and training.• Discovered novel ways of overcoming high topography imaging problems, dead zone, Z-focus control problem and stage inaccuracy using multiple simulations and experimentation. • Developed an analysis method in MATLAB to analyze the focus non-uniformity in the image field of view and proposed a method to correct it.• Developed and demonstrated alternative and reliable algorithm for Image Based Focus Finding method.• Developed a C++ utility for live image grabbing and implemented a generic algorithm for computing live LED offsets for an alignment fixture.• Developed an utility in C# using device specific API methods for reading and writing LED specific data to Maxim DS2431 EEPROM device.• Developed Galil board test fixture software in C# to communicate with Galil controller board.

Ph. D, Surface Metrology

Master Of Technology, Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering