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Wilsonville, OR, US

Irvine, CA, US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Deliver next generation semiconductor manufacturing process by creating and implementing application enhancements. Global release manager for latest manufacturing technology software. Maintain 100% uptime of.
• 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.

• 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.