Edwards Lifesciences creates artificial heart valves for human use. The manufacturing of these valves requires highly validated, quality systems to ensure patients receive trusted products that improve and prolong their lives. As a Distinguished Solution Architect, my responsibility was to ensure the manufacturing systems were available for operations, enhance the MES to meet business needs and automate data communications between the ERP and Equipment systems.• Automated delivery of equipment processing data to the manufacturing system of record by creating the first data communication channel between the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) equipment and MES.• Performed daily operations support of worldwide manufacturing locations hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems across multiple zones.• Manage development team by reviewing business requirement documents with team, ensuring test plans were successfully completed, communicating enhancement status through Jira tickets and providing development direction as needed.• Engage the manufacturing Business Unit to clarify enhancement requests for the purpose of creating a business requirement document used by the development team and recording development decisions in Jira tickets.• Coordinated enhancement releases into build packages which deployed to two separate manufacturing environments during monthly maintenance windows.

Siemens supplies Manufacturing Execution System software for Semiconductor, Medical Device and Electronics industries. As a Siemen’s Consultant, advised upper management on product fit based on their requirements and engage technical leaders to implement solutions. Build strong customer relationships that link product characteristics with customer manufacturing objectives. Foster product experts through formal training, group presentations and individual interactions.• Technical member of pre-sales team to assess, scope and develop new business bids.• Conduct Camstar Introduction, Camstar Features and Object Design courses.• Direct customers on best practices for product customizations, enhancement implementation and support.• Develop Solution Designs that communicate project scope and target enhancement areas. • Educate customers on digitalization of manufacturing process to track production costs, equipment utilization and resolving environment errors.• Lead projects using Siemen’s Project Delivery Methodology on highly complex projects/assignments of diverse scope that require industry expertise in manufacturing digitalization.• Create customer requested product enhancements called Component Design that describe what and how the product will change.• Act in accordance to enhancement procedure by obtaining customer sign-off on Component Design, submitting Component Design to development organizations, testing enhancement to verify quality, creating implementation guide, deliver to customer and support implementation.

Deliver next generation semiconductor manufacturing process by creating and implementing application enhancements. Global release manager for latest manufacturing technology software. Maintain 100% uptime of manufacturing execution system in a 24x365 environment.• Manage software release process ensuring quality and remote site implementation per specification.• Support 20+ applications used to manufacture processors ensuring no downtime in 24x365 environment.• Lead the overall architectural design area of a project and solutions to address customers’ business requirements.• Comprehend customers’ goals and objectives in order to identify what change initiatives are needed to be more efficient and productive.• Provide advice to the definition of required strategies for migration or management of legacy systems and data.• Support project management activities to control scope, cost, schedule and quality.• Communicate project processes, progress by interacting with the customer to support customer expectations and support customer adoption.• Support 20+ applications used in the creation of Intel’s latest processors in 24x365 manufacturing environment.• Mentor new/junior engineers on development procedures, operations support, standards and best practices.• Devised complex installation procedure to migrated manufacturing application servers from Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Oracle 8i database to 64-bit Windows 2003 and Oracle 10g RAC database; overcame and resolved critical technical issues to achieve an on-time and successful installation. • Developed and implemented compatibility risk analysis software during tool loads that eliminated product loss and tool contamination due to incompatibility between product and tool.• Reduced remote site installation issues and complaints 90% by mandating code and installation procedures reviewed by multiple developers before production installation and release to remote factories.

• Increased tool utilization in a single site 24x7x365 semiconductor manufacturing environment by creating, enhancing and fixing bugs in WorkStream User Exists written in COBOL, creating new data warehouses within a Sybase database and Business Objects front-end with equipment information and support manufacturing execution systems (WorkStream) running on clustered VAX system. Captured specific tool transactions through manufacturing execution system – WorkStream user exits - that loaded into Sybase database and transformed into SEMI E10 standards for analysis by equipment engineers. Provided 24x7x365 support for manufacturing and reporting systems.