SUMMARY
· Master's Degree in Physics, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
· Process Engineer/Technical Support Engineer/Test Engineer with 12 years’ experience running, installing, characterizing, troubleshooting, and maintaining various types of semiconductor processing, metrology, and vacuum equipment and their control software, including PVD/sputtering equipment, plasma etchers, aligners, spinners, e-beam mask exposure systems, SEMs, wet benches, and other clean-room equipment.
· Network Architect-Administrator/System Integrator with five years’ experience building computers and setting up and administering MS Windows/MS Exchange/Active Directory network domains (including experience with Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows XP SP2) having Windows 98, 2000, XP, and MacOS (8.6 and X) workstations. Two years’ experience administering Solaris (UNIX). Experienced in setting up Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g) wireless networks, WEP/WPA wireless network encryption, DNS, WINS, routing, and DHCP networking services and with the installation and configuration of firewalls, RAID arrays, network cabling, internal hardware, operating systems, application software, and system backups. Knowledgeable in designing for fault-tolerance and in disaster prevention and recovery.
· Computer Programmer/Website Designer with experience in HTML, JavaScript, C, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, BASIC, Pascal, IDL, MATLAB, IBM 370 Assembly Language, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Ghost, Oracle Tutor Author, Visio, and MS Office.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY; 2001 –
Present
Thin Film Lab Manager/Process Engineer/Network
Administrator, Cryogenic Electronics Group, Department of Physics and
Astronomy:
At the direction of the group's principal investigator, manage the group's
daily operations; perform research activities including process development,
equipment characterization, and device fabrication in the lab’s class-100 clean
room; demonstrate and instruct students on doing same, maintaining strict
compliance with all safety protocols; install, upgrade, and maintain the lab’s
semiconductor processing and metrology equipment; and administer the lab’s PC network.
· Co-designed and installed one of the lab’s custom PVD thin-film deposition systems. Specified components and worked with vendors to fabricate custom parts.
· Co-designed and installed one of the clean room’s custom air-handlers.
· Designed and implemented the group’s entire computer network infrastructure: Built new high-performance workstations and servers from individual components. Routed Ethernet cabling to multiple rooms and floors. Set up a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain by performing system software installations on workstations and servers. Installed and configured the firewall; set up network routing, DHCP, DNS, and WINS services on multiple Windows Domain Controllers. Also, set up and maintained Microsoft Exchange 2000 e-mail services, implemented Windows Active Directory Group Policy Objects, and installed all applications; set up automated backups via both magnetic tape and Ghost software.
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.; 1997 – 2001
Software/Technical Support Engineer, Conductor Etch Strategic Product Support/Total
Product Support; Applied Materials Etch Products Business Group, 2000 – 2001:
Was sole worldwide point-of-contact for customer support and troubleshooting of
software for the Etch PBG, and managed the worldwide distribution of
beta-released Etch mainframe software. Performed
on-site customer support when necessary.
· Devised and implemented a software test procedure that allowed a major software enhancement to reach the field two weeks ahead of schedule, resulting in very high customer satisfaction.
· Designed, produced, and launched a company-intranet website, which provides a knowledge database for field personnel to use to access product operation and troubleshooting information 24/7, potentially reducing product downtime.
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Provided consultation on setting up and
using a software bug tracking database to a separate group launching a new
product, giving them an efficient system early-on.
System Test Engineer, System Test Division, Applied Materials Mask Products Business Group (formerly Etec Systems, Inc.) 1997 – 1999:
Integrate and system test MEBES e-beam photomask writing systems in a class-100 clean room environment. Also, administrator of the department's Sun server.
· Produced the main system testing procedure for the MEBES 5000, the PBG’s most advanced product at that time.
EDUCATION
M.S., Physics,
B.S., Computer Science,