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 risk analysis and solutions.• 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 National Laboratory).

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 articles.• 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 microscope and scanning electron microscope.

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 fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy, stimulated emission pumping (SEP) spectroscopy, cavity ringdown spectroscopy (CRDS), etc.•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