John M. Balas Email & Phone Number

Malta, New York

East Fishkill, New York

• Develop web-based applications designed to provide a diverse user base with quick, easy-to-use access to all sources of semiconductor production data contained in a multi-terabyte data warehouse. Tools assist in.
• Designed a Common Charting Library which provides a standardized interface to a set of engineering analysis data visualization tools. Offering a function-rich toolset, the library facilitates cross-area data.
• Architected a layered approach to standardized reporting, balancing the functional objectives of dashboard-style and ad hoc analysis systems. Integrated a novel scripting capability for the easy capture and replay of.
• Developed an analysis environment which couples IC device design aspects with inline electrical test data to quantify design/layout impacts on product performance early in the development cycle.

Burlington, Vermont

• Designed DataView, a SAS-based semiconductor engineering analysis application which enables seamless real-time access to fab-wide data sources coupled with a comprehensive set of statistical analysis tools. Drove its.
• Collaborated in the evolution of a DB2-based engineering analysis data strategy, strongly influencing the logical design of the strategy’s core database. Advocated for, and achieved, a synergy between data and.
• Partnered with IBM Yorktown Research on the development of an automated data mining system supporting critical yield learning activities. The system was activated in 2007 for IBM’s 300mm fab and is currently monitoring.
• Contributed to IBM Microelectronics’ first registered commercial software offering (DB2 Data Warehouse and Engineering Analysis Applications) marketed through E&TS channels. Acted as a lead technical consultant and.
• Managed the IBM STG / SAS Institute software relationship for both Windows desktop and AIX platform licenses. Achieved a $1.4M license savings in 2006 through direct contract negotiations with SAS, internal license.

Burlington, Vermont

• Architected an integrated AIX engineering database and analysis tool suite for DRAM production data. Its infrastructure represented the first successful internal migration from an MVS mainframe environment and resulted.

East Fishkill, New York

• Co-Architected the Application Supervisor for Technology Evaluation and Control (ASTEC) tool, a real-time photolithography modeling system which provided feed-forward data for litho sector control based on overlay and.

East Fishkill, New York

• Developed the SAS Aided Results Analysis (SARA) system, a data collection and analysis tool supporting new CMOS and Bipolar technology development. This leading edge system was one of the first capable of near.

Jersey City, New Jersey

• Tested incoming raw materials for purity and monitored the quality of a diverse set of onsite manufactured consumer products.
• Balanced full-time employment with full-time pursuit of a Masters degree in Physics.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Applied Physics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemistry / Chemical Biology

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Stevens International Scholar, Undergraduate Projects in Technology and Medicine (UPTAM), American.