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Aptos, CA, US

Newark, California, US

• Recruited to analyze and fix a critical area of development (both software and business processes) which was limiting company growth and tarnishing company reputation.
• Moved into primary architecture and framework role, helping shape technology decisions for 40+ person development team, reporting directly to VP Software.
• Initiated project to move automated testing to cloud, to scale testing capabilities, improve software reliability, and reduce developer downtime.

Fremont, California, US

• Various Projects have included:
• C# WPF application to interface between customer control system and custom Staubli robot.
• Over a dozen robot applications for manufacturing a product for a household name brand technology company, using Denso 4-axis and 6-axis robots.
• Solar panel binning application implemented in C# and WPF. Bar code readers, scheduling high-speed Adept robot, SQL database, OPC, PLC interface for hardware control.
• Implemented hard disk platter processing tool control application with Epson robot with multiple grippers for transferring different types of substrates, complex robot motion routing due to restrictive physical envelope.
• Many C# calibration and setup applications for various tools in solar, hard disk, and semiconductor industries.

Milpitas, California, US

• Modernized older C# code base, adding Entity Framework for SQL Server, REST API, web services, WPF, unit tests
• Initiated, designed and implemented SQL database schema upgrade functionality to resolve unmaintainable existing practices
• Designed and developed solution for merging complex relational databases with 60+ tables

California, 94086, US

CUDA image processing, Linux, NVIDIA Tegra, Jetson, stereoscopic camera

Newark, California, US

• C#,.NET with Reactive Extensions, WPF, WCF, Visual Studio, TFS
• Varied design and development projects including scheduling, TwinCAT I/O system, image processing, camera interface, vacuum loadlock system, and automatic processing sequencing for large ink jet printing system used in.

CUDA image processing for fluoroscopic imaging, speeding a particularly complex operation from 25 seconds to 25 milliseconds

• Various microcontroller projects in C on 8051-based microcontrollers for microwave components, like frequency synthesizers, filters, mixers, etc.
• C# applications to control and monitor components.

• Implemented new graphical user interface and features for a high performance flow cytometer (sy3200) for i-Cyt/Sony Biotechnology Inc. (C#,.NET 4)
• Made substantial modifications to an embedded application in an Altera ARM soft core (in C) to solve throughput and data loss problems.

• 3D-IR business group
• Integrated C# machine control application with VB.NET/unmanaged C++ microscope control application.
• Implemented all hardware support for new tool, including load ports, robot, wafer aligner, and stage.
• Main problem solver and debugger of difficult system level issues.
• Designed algorithms for autofocus and pattern finding for different types of wafers to allow successful automatic acquisition of images.
• Worked on Windows driver for proprietary PCI cards.

• Clinical Digital business group
• Implemented support for imaging with high resolution camera. Image enhancement including shading correction, white balance, multiple sharpening algorithms, and Bayer conversion all done in CUDA on GPU.
• Parallelized hardware (stage, microscope, and camera) and software (image processing) operations for fastest possible scan time.
• Implemented new macro camera using DirectShow.
• Numerous features and improvements in digital slide scanning product in C#.

• Semiconductor inspection and defect review
• One of a team of two who designed new software platform for all Olympus semiconductor products. Personally guided selection of C# as development platform, and was responsible for many architectural decisions.
• Acted as project lead for defect review and inspection tool.
• Designed generic hardware interface layer, which all hardware resources were built on. Implemented many of the hardware resources, from low-level interfaces to GUI.
• Designed GEM/SECS factory automation interface for 200mm and 300mm.

• Worked on C++ based WiMax base station product using multiple ARM cores running ThreadX OS. Implemented various features, like FPGA support, custom EEPROM file system, and long-term time base error correction using GPS.

• Designed and implemented a wide variety of features, from device drivers to application level, for several embedded targets (PowerPC, MIPS R4K, MC68360) running VxWorks, using C/C++.
• Managed six-person engineering team to design and implement support for a number of data and telephony protocols, including Frame Relay, Ethernet and IP over ATM, and ISDN PRI.
• Designed and implemented software for 80186, 8051 and 68HC11 microcontrollers to monitor and control remote digital radios, along with host software to communicate with them.
• Helped grow company from 25-person startup to IPO.