Ming-Wei Chen Email & Phone Number

Milpitas, California, US

• Led high performing teams, provide advice and mentorship to align with team's mission supporting multiple programs/products.
• Coordinated project management for 15+ engineers' works, to collaborate with other teams and plan for multi-year project outlook to align with needs of next generation product.
• Facilitated workflow to maintain engineering rigor and software development agility.
• Offered consultancy and brainstormed technical solutions with stakeholders.
• Led multi-team collaboration framework to define and execute for success.
• Led and coached team to support R&D and engineering activities, to achieve efficiency improvement by factor of 10.

Milpitas, California, US

• Led and conducted software requirement, architecture, design and development for N+1 and future projects.
• Led and managed cross-functional team's design for excellence (DfX) activities including critical wavefront metrology and system level calibration. Managed detailed design report covering system, hardware and software.
• Drove pilot study of piezo driven motion hardware and collaborate with supplier for optimizing design to meet spec and improved pass rate from ~10% to 100%.
• Coordinated system level team works to develop system calibration procedures during system build, and designed software to support these procedures.
• Implemented key system diagnostics and calibration software tools to enhance system qualification by more than factor of 20.
• Led and mentored team members in headquarter and other global sites.

Milpitas, California, US

• Designed and developed optical diagnostic software for field service and manufacturing users. Programs automated complex optical measurement and analysis procedures.
• Defined optical diagnosis metrics. Established specifications statistically by measurements and theories.
• Drove projects to research, design, develop in-situ wavefront metrology and optics/electron optics calibrations.
• Lead software interface and development with IP protect features and enhanced the cycle time by factor of ~100.
• Mentored junior engineers and planned scope of assigned projects

Albuquerque, NM, US

• Developed, integrated sensitive multipass IR laser absorption and flow cell apparatus (10^11 molecules/cm^3) to study the combustion relevant chemical reactions of petroleum fuels and biofuels oxidations.
• Repaired laser and optical instruments such as OPO and wavelength meter.
• Established model to interpret the chemical kinetics of key components produced in combustion and fuel oxidation.
• Developed computer programs for automatic, accurate, and efficient analysis of complex data.
• Explore key molecule components and pathways in combustion/atmospheric reactions using multiplex photoionization mass spectroscopy experiments with synchrotron radiation source (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley.

Champaign, IL, US

• Developed in situ MWIR / thermal image microscopy apparatus to explain energy localization mechanism on energetic materials. Results were presented in more than 5 conferences and published in 3 peer-reviewed journal.
• Synchronized and operated femtosecond laser to characterize the sensitivity of imaging system.
• Reconstructed a Nd:YLF picosecond laser and built second and thrid harmonic generation units.
• Led a team to study hot spot generation on solid materials under three different conditions: LWIR/THz laser exposure, shockwave and ultrasound irradiation.
• Constructed and developed LabVIEW and MATLAB programs for image acquisition and analysis.
• Designed procedures for preparing solid material samples and characterized physical and chemical properties of material samples with several analytical technologies including IR/Raman spectroscopy, confocal Raman.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Constructed/designed experimental methodologies to solve scientific puzzles by characterizing complex structure and dynamics of reaction intermediates under jet expansion environments. For example: laser-induced.
• Developed LabView and C++ programs to automate laser systems, data acquisition and analysis.
• Fixed and optimized the laser (cw/nanosecond) systems such as excimer/diode/ion/ring/dye/Nd:YAG lasers, mode-locked Ti:Sa amplifier, stimulated Raman scattering cell and difference frequency generation apparatus.
• Constructed new CRDS apparatus with fiber optics to significantly improve the scanning speed by 100 times.
• Designed and utilized procedures of chemical reactions, separations and purifications for sample preparation. Used analytical tools such as NMR, UV/Vis/IR and Mass spectroscopy to identify synthesized chemicals.
• Mentored two Ph. D. students to learn laser technologies and guided their research directions.

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• Managed lab while supervisor was on sabbatical (three months).
• Fixed Nd:YAG laser, dye lasers and data acquisition devices.
• Maintained high-vacuum systems and supervised students’ research projects.

• Maintained communication between management site and production sites.
• Assisted senior engineer managing data reports and technical documents at daily basis.

Ph. D., Chemical Physics, Laser Spectroscopy, Chemistry, Non-Linear Optics

M.S., Physical Cemistry, Laser Spectroscopy, Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy