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Tyngsborough, Ma, Us

Tyngsborough, Ma, Us

Role: Team building, mentoring & management, Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Hands-on participation, Cross functional project management & participation, Internal customer support.Products/ Projects Worked on:ION beam implanters and their sub systemsExperience:• Responsible for complete project/resource management for electrical, software and control requirements.• Responsible for Complete project development execution from start to end• Ion-beam controls including ion-source control, motion controls, temperature control, magnet and static field controls, vacuum/air controls, high voltage protected hardware designs and controls, safety interlocks.• RF Plasma generation and controls.• Lamp wafer heating controls and advanced controller. • Multi-threading control software architecture, development and motion control.• Distributed control system providing higher reliability and better control • Analyzing system faults and providing system improvements.• Designing and implementing new control strategies for improved system performance.• Designing strategy for high voltage protection circuits and mechanisms.• Designing control electronics schematics and PCBs. • Remote GUI development using OPCServer communication interface to the end devices• Provide developmental and analytical support to physicist team. • Providing technical expertise to resolve day-to-day problems and outstanding hardware and software issues. • Managing and monitoring of workloads of engineers.• Debugging and problem resolutions• Resident Opto22 expert• IT support and solutions• Start to finish complete control system development including hardware/software and user interface• Key role in Technology exchange between Nissin-USA and Nissin-Japan.• Project management, work distribution and developmental support.• Material Requisition & management, Code Management, ECO process and version control

Almere, Flevoland, Nl

Role: Team building, mentoring & management, Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Hands-on participation.Products/ Projects Worked on:ALD and EPI machines Digital twin (copy) introduction and implementation, Cimetrix CCF, Server Architecture.Experience:• Languages C# and C++, cloud support, • Team contribution to Cimetrix CCF proof of concept quick prototype software development. • Quick development of Cimetrix CCF interface drivers for Omron and CIFX DeviceNet cards.• Responsible for creating fully object oriented, modular, isolated, expandable, configurable and simple but robust digital twin architecture providing 2D/3D tool display capabilities for all ASM tools and configurations under one software.• Responsible to build and integrate efficient development team.• Mentoring and guiding the team to implement digital equipment and parts assets. • Digital implementation of tool IOs and connectivity using unique idea.• XML/JSON configuration storage and loading defining the tool configuration.• Genetic and automatic IOs and resource connection classification, collection and linkage.• Object classification and collection mechanism using C# attributes and reflection.• Totally independent and generic GUI interface mechanism.• Simulated device drivers in C++• Protocol handlers for various components (robots, aligners, loadports etc) products.• 100% simulation of Sinfonia and TDK load ports. • Software architecture supporting Industry 4.0 using edge computing.• Multi-level and multi-container data and message logging mechanism supporting automatic source identification, thread identification, process identification and more. • Tool control hardware architecture based on server technology and EtherIP/EtherCAT proposals and technical participation.• Corporate level SAP based PLM • Agile software development methodologies – Jira, Confluence, GitLab

Role: Team building, mentoring & management, Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Hands-on participation, Cross functional project participation, Customer support.Products/Projects Worked on:ION source beam controls, User Interface, Data Logging, data analysis and plotting, Temperature controls, Vacuum controls, Pneumatic controls, Motion controls, Over all tool control Experience:• Multi-threading control software development and motion control.• Distributed control system providing higher reliability and better control • Designing, managing and overseeing new project development.• Analyzing system faults and providing system improvements.• Designing and implementing new control strategies for improved system performance.• Designing strategy for high voltage protection circuits and mechanisms.• Designing control electronics schematics and PCBs. • Overseeing and managing complete product release cycles from concept to production.• Providing engineering hardware and software support for in-house laboratory equipment and tools.• Providing technical expertise to resolve day-to-day problems and outstanding hardware and software issues. • Managing, monitoring and reviewing of workloads of engineers.• Project management, work distribution and developmental support.• Production and field support.• Material Requisition & management, Code Management, ECO process and version controlOther contributions: • Hardware/software design review, fault analysis and design improvements.• Opto22 Control System (Hardware/Software) optimization.• Review of existing systems, identifying problems and limitations and redesigning of control hardware and software performance improvements.• Providing technical expertise to resolve day-to-day problems and outstanding hardware and software issues.

Role: Team leading & mentoring, Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Hands-on participation, Cross functional projects, Customer support.Products/Projects Worked on:Mag7/Mag70/WAVE/WAVE-II/WAVE-III and Series 9 robots, various types of loadports, Flat Panel Robots (using KOLLMORGEN drives), EFEM Systems, aligners, E84 handshake.Experience:• Complete redesigning of the robotics code architecture.• Wrapper APIs for multiple OS code building support.• System design and software architecting of new products.• Communication interfaces. (Ethernet, DeviceNet, CAN, serial etc)• Mentoring of team members.• Bridging of hardware and software development teams.• Device driver development.• Real-time/multithreading software using various RTOS. • Code development using .NET compact framework (C#) and Windows-CE platform builder (C/C++).• Modularized and reusable software designs.• Project management and lead support for local and remote (India) groups.• Code Management, ECO process and version controlMajor Contributions:• Code porting from RTXC to vxWorks.• Generic logging system.• Modularized devices and IOs configuration system.• Multiple concurrent command execution and tracking system.• Identified and resolved many long-term unresolved issues.• Generic IO configuration system independent of types.• Unique IO based sequence engine for implementing various types of load ports.• Scheduler based real-time engine and messaging system for low end hardware.• TCP/IP, CANOpen, DeviceNet and serial communication interfaces.• Device addressing, messaging and communication schemes.• Efficient common resource locking system.• TCL & JAVA integration under VxWorks. • Developed tools for accelerated testing.• KOLLMORGEN drive interface for Flat Panel robot.• Acted as project leader and handled development of various projects.• Functional review and feedback.• Successful completion of various developments of projects.

Role: Team leading & mentoring, Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Hands-on participation, Cross functional project participation, Customer support.Products/Projects Worked on:Firmware for newly developed intrinsically safe ModiCon PLC’s AnalogIn and AnalogOut modules using their shared memory backbone bus, PS/2 to serial mouse interface, Matrix keyboard to PS/2 interface, Single wire closed loop temperature controller, Oil Zig ControllerExperience/ Contributions:• Project management and workload sharing.• Multiple project management.• Providing design and coding guidance and leadership to the development team.• Software development on low end processors obtaining maximum performance.• Providing support to hardware development group• Scheduler based real-time engine to achieve real-time performance on low end processors.• Intrinsically safe IO module design.• FPGA signal generation and verification engine on Xilinx device

Role: Team building, mentoring & management, Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Hands-on participation, Cross functional project participation, Sales support, Customer support.Products/Projects Worked on:Open loop web tension controller, Tire material deposition monitoring and controls, Web guiding controllers and industrial panel design, ISO certificationExperience/ Contributions:• Departmental head, project management and workload sharing.• Multiple project management.• Real-time control software in Assembly and C language.• Sales/Service and Production support.• Designing, managing and overseeing new project development and integration.• Designing and implementing new control strategies for improved automation.• Overseeing and managing complete product release cycles from concept to production.• Control software and hardware development.• CAN bus communication• Open loop and PID based close loop controls and automation system design and software implementation.• Analog and Digital System design and development.• Material Requisition & management, Code Management, ECO process and version control• ISO certification, documentation and implementation ERHARDT+LEIMER GmbH (ISO 9001 Company) February 1994 to February 1995 Role: Team leading & mentoring, Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Cross functional project participation.Products/Projects Worked on:Next generation web tension controller, Edge detection sensor using photo diodes and low-end CPU, Ultrasonic web edge detection sensor for transparent materials.Experience/ Contributions:• CAN Bus communication protocol.• Real-time control software in Assembly and C language.• System design and implementation.• Project leading and guidance.• PID and FUZZY logic control.• Image processing and pixel interpolations.• Automation and Control software development.• Sensor interfacing drivers and Integration

Role: Resource management, Product design/development & execution, Innovations, Cross functional project participation.Products/Projects Worked on:Automatic batch weighing machine, Belt-weigher-weighing and mixing system, Bagging machine, EPSON dot matrix printer bit level driver hardware and software allowing serial printing control.Experience/ Contributions:• Product development -- hardware and software.• Real-time control software in Assembly and C language.• Schematic capture and PCB design.• Precision analog and digital hardware design.• Microcontroller based control hardware development.• Designing and implementing automation solutions based on customer specifications and requirements.• RS-232, RS-422 and RS485 Network Communication and protocols.

Role: Product design/development & execution Products/Projects Worked on:Access control system, AMWATCH remote monitoring, access control and tracking security systemExperience/ Contributions:• System design and implementation.• Real-time kernel development.• Microcontroller based hardware development and signal processing.• Communication protocols.• Central monitoring &/control software in C.• Real-time software development in assembly language. • Database management and Graphical user interface.