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Responsible for all software development and production software engineering activities for Veeco PSP systems for semiconductor industry and support of Veeco Unified Software Engineering projects. Direct supervision of team of four software development engineers and two production engineers and a variable sized team of temporary engineering staff. Managed Horsham software group as part of the Veeco Unified Software team. Responsible for meeting software production schedule for all revenue systems and upgrades as well as delivering R&D projects on time and on budget. Responsible for quote and specification reviews for software group. Led interaction with Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing and Technical Support for Horsham software group. Direct involvement with production system, upgrades, field support and R&D projects as required.

Responsible for all software development and production software engineering activities for Veeco PSP systems for semiconductor industry. Direct supervision of team of three software development engineers and five production engineers and a variable sized team of temporary engineering staff. Managed Horsham software group as part of the Veeco Unified Software team. Responsible for meeting software production schedule for all revenue systems and upgrades as well as delivering R&D projects on time and on budget. Responsible for quote and specification reviews for software group. Led interaction with Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing and Technical Support for Horsham software group. Direct involvement with production system, upgrades, field support and R&D projects as required.

Responsible for specification, design, development, review, documentation and testing of C#.NET/C/VB6 control software for Veeco PSP systems for semiconductor industry. Staff Software Engineer and Certified Scrum Master for Veeco PSP Software group.

Responsible for specification, design, development, review, documentation and testing of C#.NET/VB.NET control software for MOCVD systems for semiconductor industry. Software Architect, Certified Scrum Master and Release Manager for Veeco MOCVD Software group. . Scrum master duties for onsite and offshore Agile teams. Lead customer and stakeholder interactions in assigned functional areas and engaged in field support activities.

Responsible for design, development, test and production of power electronics based systems for electric utility industry. Oversaw electrical, mechanical and control systems design, including power topology, component selection, thermal management, system packaging and embedded controls development for Freescale chipsets. Manage team of three electrical, two mechanical and two controls engineers. Project Manager with technical, budget and personnel responsibility for all systems projects. Lead customer interactions with major funders, including utility companies, EPRI, DOE and DHS.

Responsible for development and production of all software and controls for automated pouring systems, power supplies, water systems and furnaces. Managed worldwide product development and field support of real time automated pouring systems. Led automated pouring systems customer support team. Directed R&D for computer and PLC controls systems. Grew Automated Pouring product line to over 60 units worldwide from 2002-2008.

Designed furnace power supplies and performed engineering calculations for metal heating and melting applications. Responsible for power supply production engineering group, software and controls production and development for power supplies and automated pouring systems and field support of automated pouring systems. Designed and selected active and passive components and embedded and PC-based control systems. Managed electrical engineering group of three engineers and three draftsmen.

Projects included design, production and commissioning of a Vision-based real time control and user interface screens for an automated pouring system for molten metal under Linux using a Profibus distributed I/O system and Yaskawa servo motors and field support of automated pouring systems.

Projects included Y2K compliance audit of all Tessella systems, CLOVIS OPENGL visualization, nuclear fusion analysis support at JET, Oxford, management of all primary JET analysis software, JET data display interface.