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Bethesda, MD, US

Bethesda, MD, US

Lead the Software Engineering team supporting Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) development. Coordinate and lead ongoing support and future development of core software products and development frameworks.

Bethesda, MD, US

Responsible for the software architecture for electronic test equipment systems used to test satellites. Managing a Windows based test automation framework that provides a hardware abstraction layer plus a service oriented architecture for configuring and controlling measurement and test equipment. Leading the development and maintenance in Microsoft.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Manage a group of software engineers working on various test automation system development and maintenance activities. Duties include continuing as the ATLO Test Systems software lead, requiring knowledge of.
• Manage a software team in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting embedded software for automated testing of all major satellite programs on the Sunnyvale campus with continuous focus on adding current.
• Lead requirements analysis, architecture and design decisions, code reviews, and some LabVIEW and C#/C++ coding
• Standardized the software architecture and common tools for all new electronic ground support equipment (EGSE) test consoles

Bethesda, MD, US

• Lead Ground Support Equipment software development, deployment and maintenance efforts for the Sunnyvale ATLO test systems design group. Lead various simultaneous test automation system development and maintenance.
• Developed and released a Software Development Plan and Software Configuration Management Plan currently used by all ATLO Test Systems development activities at all ATLO locations
• Lead the development and deployment of the software for the electronic ground support equipment for a new weather satellite program

Bethesda, MD, US

• Lead the team of Software Engineers developing and maintaining the Virtual Rack (VR) integration and automation framework at Lockheed Martin and evangalize the product to the rest of LM to gain additional VR usage and.
• Transitioned the Virtual Rack (VR) code base and engineering expertise from Agilent to Lockheed Martin while growing the number of LM programs using VR and improving schedules dependent on VR
• Established VR as a standard integration and test automation framework used for all new satellite test systems
• Reduced the special test equipment development and integration schedules from years to months
• Lead the software development for the electronic ground support equipment on 4 new Space Systems Company satellite test equipment programs developed in Sunnyvale

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Responsible for the development and customization of Agilent's integration and automation platform, the Virtual Rack. This includes managing the R&D product development team and the application engineering team..
• Transitioned the Virtual Rack (VR) code base and engineering expertise from ITI to Agilent without impacting any customer programs and schedules dependent on VR
• Established the VR consulting and applications team within the Aerospace / Defense group
• Released new VR versions improving the out-of-the-box integration and automation experience for Agilent’s customers

• Responsible for the engineering development and marketing of ITI’s Virtual Rack product and program management of client consulting projects. Managed software engineers developing in Microsoft Visual C++ with COM, and.
• Maintained ITI’s consulting customer base while helping the CEO to position the company and IP for purchase
• Established ITI’s software processes and development/SQA infrastructure
• Managed the development team to transition the consulting tool box into a shrink wrap integration and automation software product called Virtual Rack

US

• Responsible for the software development and release of Therma-Wave’s NT software for the Opti-Probe metrology tool. Included coordination of the software rollout throughout the entire organization. Involved with sales.
• Built up Therma-Wave’s software team to be able to take over the software development from a consulting company
• Coordinated Therma-Wave’s consulting team with the in-house development team to deliver software versions to meet the group’s commitments
• Established a software process improvement team to develop the software and QA processes

Fremont, California, US

• Responsible for five software development departments developing software for semiconductor capital equipment. Worked closely with the software QA organization, business units, field employees, and customers to deliver.
• Directed the software development groups for Novellus’ metal film semiconductor capital equipment which included 5 software groups each with a manager and team of software engineers
• Successfully prioritized resources and tasks for the various software teams and customers while maintaining a common software code base and supporting internal and external customers
• Co-lead the development software processes leading to ISO certification
• Represented the software organization at industry meetings and customer user groups

Fremont, California, US

Managed a group of Software Engineers developing software for Novellus’ Tungsten semiconductor manufacturing capital equipment systems. Lead the team to provide customer requested enhancements, new hardware support, and bug fixes for an installed base of more than 1,000 systems worldwide. Traveled to customer sites to attend user group meetings to present.

Fremont, California, US

• Worked on the machine control and user interface software for the "Concept One" chemical vapor deposition wafer processing system. The machine control software was written in PL/M and Assembly, and ran on an 8086.
• Specified, designed, and developed the software for a new Tungsten CVD system while continuing to support existing software
• Rewrote the wafer handling software to eliminate wafer handling errors and improve system throughput