Thomas A Purcell Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas Area

Provide custom software solutions for semiconductor material handling systems including Host Automation wafer tracking and yield improving inspection tools for a global customer base.

• Wrote a program in Visual Basic.NET to monitor and display detected threats relative to a moving platform combining data received from an inertial navigation unit and a mine detection system
• Approved, verified and delivered software changes as Software Configuration Manager using Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest
• Responsible for development of tests, specification and creation of interface test sets and on-time delivery of software test plans and reports in the role of Software Test Manager
• Worked with a multi-discipline engineering team to integrate and test real-time embedded software (C++) and hardware components on a mine detection system
• Taught government scientists/engineers to operate and perform data collections with the mine detection system
• Peer reviewed software artifacts in collaboration with customer representatives

• Developed an award-winning data visualization tool in JAVA used by the Algorithm Working Group consisting of members from industry, government and academia which saved the company an estimated $100K in its first year.
• Developed a single user interface in Visual Basic.NET used in over 30 programs to verify requirements in all subsystems of a $96M Mine Detection system saving hundreds of hours of development and providing automated.
• Assumed support and maintenance of an existing tool in Visual Basic used to communicate with a DoD chemical agent detector
• Created emulators in Visual Basic for 3 hardware components used in development and test of the U.S. Coast Guard communications and navigation modernization program
• Created an Electronics Warfare communications monitoring program in Visual Basic

• Designed and developed a suite of programs in Visual Basic to automate the downloading of data from multiple acoustic sensors, radars and weather sources
• Created a multi-process, multi-channel digital audio recorder in Visual Basic using telephony cards to record communication between air-traffic controllers and pilots
• Created a digital audio player in Visual Basic with advanced search capabilities allowing users to locate, playback, archive or email messages in seconds for incident investigation; replacing an outdated tape system.

• Coordinated engineering development of automation solutions for semiconductor manufacturing process tools
• Worked with customers, management and engineers to set and maintain project schedules
• Supported Sales/Marketing on concept development and proposals
• Developed command and control programs in Visual Basic for a variety of semiconductor sorters and process tools
• Specialized in Assembly Language speed optimization of material handler robots
• Traveled to foreign and domestic clean room facilities to integrate robotic automation

Software Systems Engineering

Software Systems Engineering; Object Oriented Methodology GPA: 4.0

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: President of the Epsilon Delta Pi CS/CIS Honor Society, 1992-1993; Student Advisory Committee to the Dean of the.