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Phoenix, Az, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Almere, Flevoland, Nl

• Managed development, QA, and release of multiple software products for mission-critical semi-conductor equipment. • Coordinated with the management, business units, and customer support to define the product roadmap and release plan of the software for a $0.8B business sector where all market-leading semiconductor manufacturing companies are using. • Managed daily development activities including code/design review during the absence of the front-line manager.• Built the pilot of DevOps team and migrated issue tracking, CI/CD, and test case management solutions to the best-in-breed tools.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

• Managing multiple teams to develop software for operating an individual robot; interfacing hardware for control/feedback; and managing missions/schedules of a group of robots• Responsible for planning, executing and delivering software products to meet the company roadmap• Responsible for establishing optimized development process enabling delivery of quality products within schedule• Responsible for growing developers, which involves managing career path, training, and growth plan of developers

Veldhoven, Nl

• Manage multiple functional clusters of development teams that delivers software used in mission-critical lithography machines• Lead the teams to define and execute a streamlined development process based on Safe-Agile practices• Responsible for technical transfer of Tin Management software from HQ (Netherlands) to San Diego office• Lead department-wise efforts of capturing innovative ideas into intellectual properties; and safeguarding the use of 3rd party software

Westwood, Ma, Us

• Worked with market leading clients including the third-largest defense contractor in the U.S., the world-best technology university, Fortune-150 hardware/software company, and high-performance semiconductor chip manufacturer. • Performed patent prosecution in cutting edge technologies including software, security system, telecommunication, semiconductor among others. Handle wide-range inventions such as wafer-level chip design, new GPU architecture, hardware-level security solution, and the most-advanced packet-level communication protocol. • Provideed strategic guidance to large and small companies regarding Intellectual Property protection. Participate as a mentor to Mass Challenge, which is a renowned entrepreneur competition, where I meet the participants regularly to provide help to protect their ideas. • Executed infringement analysis and freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis for patents and trademarks.• Performed trademark and copyright prosecution: registrations and handling Office Actions.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Worked with market leading clients including the world-largest printer company, the world-best technology university, leading-edge battery maker located in South Korea, state-of-the-art research facility specialized in security and energy. • Performed patent prosecution in cutting edge technologies including software, battery, printing, and medical devices among others. Handled wide-range inventions, such as wafer fabrication process, battery design, sound and video processing, and personal information management. • Provided strategic guidance to large and small companies regarding IP protection. Participated mentor program of Mass Challenge, where one of the mentees made the top three (3) in 2017 competition. • Executed infringement analysis and freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis for patents.• Performed proactive marketing resulting in the leading-edge battery maker as a client.

Columbia, South Carolina, Us

• Worked with market leading clients including Korean government-funded research institute leading the world standards in wireless communication and industry-leading mathematical software company. • Performed patent prosecution in cutting edge technologies including telecommunication, radar, mobile, autonomous driving, among others. Handled wide-range inventions including wireless communication standard, wireless battery charging, radar signal processing, and automatic map generation for autonomous driving. • Provided strategic guidance to large and small companies regarding IP protection. • Executed infringement analysis and freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis for software patents.

• Worked as a patent agent before graduating evening law school program.• Performed patent prosecution in cutting edge technologies including software and semiconductor equipment.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Managed multi-regional team developing a software product for factory automation. The product is targeting maximizing efficiency of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by productizing BKMs (“best-known method”) in equipment utilization and analysis. • Led the team to define a streamlined product life cycle covering all phases of product development from idea inception to deployment of the solution. The new process was applied for gathering knowledge of field engineers, classifying collected BKMs, prioritizing the BKMs according to internal importance and effect on the market, and productize the BKMs. • Defined technical direction to utilize state-of-the-art data science technology even before the technology became popular.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Managed multiple teams to build and deploy solar manufacturing software solutions. The solutions were developed to apply technical assets in semiconductor and display industries into a newly-emerging solar industry. The solutions were deployed in market-leading solar manufacturing companies in Germany, USA, and India. • Took multiple responsibilities including managing solution deployment team to address issues arising in the customer sites, managing tool automation team to develop applications for solar equipment, developing a solution for monitoring product quality, and developing a streamlined process to improve the team performance from development to deployment.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Developed the next generation of manufacturing execution system. The product is developed to provide a small footprint solution in order to penetrate small to medium-sized manufacturing companies, which is the same model that referred now to ‘smart factory.’ • I was responsible for the whole product life cycle including developing and marketing the product. I formed a development team, developed a market penetration strategy, and created a product development plan. Before completing the project, I was pulled to help the solar solutions due to issues arising at the customer sites.

Chelmsford, Ma, Us

• Managed R&D center in Korea for building and deploying software product for semiconductor and display manufacturing. I started this role in Brooks Automation, and the software division of Brooks Automation was merged to Applied Materials in 2007. I continued to take the role until returning to the U.S. • I was responsible for the overall operation of the R&D and project service teams. I also worked closely with domestic companies including market-leading semiconductor and display companies to address their technical and support needs. In addition, I supported overseas clients in Japan and Taiwan as needed for various technical aspects. • Furthermore, I worked as a solution architect for a next-generation manufacturing software to be used in semiconductor manufacturing facilities of Fortune-15 company, in which I defined technology roadmap and architecture of the software.

Chelmsford, Ma, Us

• Led a team of solution architects who are responsible for requirement analysis and software design. As the manager and leader of the team, I was responsible for defining technology roadmap of software products for semiconductor, display, and medical industries. • This role also required working closely with not only internal marketing and sales team but also key customers to understand customer’s needs and provide solutions that satisfy the needs.

Chelmsford, Ma, Us

• Led and managed multiple projects of next-generation solutions for the world-first 300mm wafer manufacturing facility located in South Korea. I designed and developed renovations in the fundamental framework of the solutions in order to handle the large volume of transactions occurring from 300mm wafer manufacturing.• Designed and developed core-level features, such as database interface and memory management, of the software framework that was used by multiple application products.

• Participated in multiple solution development projects as a developer/designer/project lead. The solutions were used by the market-leading semiconductor and display manufacturing companies. • Moved to Brooks Automation when Hanyon Tech was merged to Brooks Automation.

• Designed and developed a manufacturing software used by a display manufacturer in the Samsung group.

Bachelor, Industrial Engineering

Master, Operation Research

Jd, Intellectual Property, Patent