Senior Software Engineer developing system software for electron, helium ion and x-ray microscopes targeting semiconductor process control, failure analysis and circuit debug applications.Developed system software for Helium Ion Microscope (HIM) based circuit edit tool.Integrated chip CAD software with HIM platform.Developed gas injection system (GIS) software for injecting chemistry into the ion beam.Developed automation plan for 91 beam Multi-SEM defect inspection system.Developed automation and auto-loader software for SEM systems.Developed cloud based IoT Predictive Service remote monitoring software for x-ray microscopes.Performed engineering analysis for hardware and software system proposals.Wrote software specification for high speed e-beam probing system proposal.Researched SEM and HIM based Nanoprobing systems.Developed BKMs for Nanoprobing systems and performed transistor and SRAM characterization.

Responsible for development of Defect Isolator and Curve Trace products.Developed failure analysis and circuit debug software for chip testing system.Developed software for scan chain debug.

Managed the software engineering team for the WaferScan product.Wrote performance reviews, managed schedules and determined resource allocation requirements.Developed software for a circuit debug and failure analysis tool. This system is comprised of multiple motion control systems with a total of 14 axis and 8 heterogeneous signal acquisition systems.Reviewed all documentation produced by my team.Lead effort to formalize the software development process. Wrote the software process document.Wrote detailed proposal and architectural design document for a next generation software platform.Wrote detailed software requirements documents and software design documents.Personally responsible for maintenance of all wafer handling and probe alignment code.Automated the wafer alignment procedure.Converted the application to 64-bit code.Performed ground up redesign of waveform acquisition UI.Owner of development system (hardware platform), responsible for maintaining and administrating system.

- Wrote the company's formal business plan document.- Designed and coded a modular system architecture for a Failure Analysis system.

- Took a sabbatical to spend time with my wife and our newborn daughter.- Learned SQL and JPython and experimented with meta-programming.

Lead optics software engineer for high throughput e-beam imaging and lithography research project.Managed four offshore engineers at HCL India.Designed layered optics system software controlling over 100 power supplies.Designed configurable optics power supply drivers. This software was adopted by other projects.Designed and coded the electron column automated diagnostics.Designed a user configurable Optics GUI, which controlled several dozen magnetic lenses and other optical elements.Performed project scope analysis for estimating required effort and development resources.Wrote system requirements documents for the hardware group.Delivered 100% of objectives on or ahead of schedule.

Chief Software Engineer for CD-SEM product line.Designed and coded system software for fully automated electron microscopes.Developed and released 12 major software versions.Redesigned and recoded the system automation software from the ground up: drivers to GUI.Our product was renowned for having both the highest throughput and the most advanced automation capability in its class.

Software Engineer for CD-SEM product.Integrated factory automation software supporting SECS/GEM protocol.

Software Engineer in Apple's International Software group.Developed test tools for TrueType and Script Manager testing.Ported test tool modules to native PowerPC code.Functionally tested international system software modules for Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and other languages.

Designed and coded test tools for Apple's LaserWriter 8.0 printer driver.Performed source code and assembly level debugging of driver.

Developed the EasyCode application for programming automated laboratory equipment.Developed a simple graphical programming language and GUI.

Tested the Finder for the first PowerBook laptop computers. Wrote and maintained the Finder test plan.