Campbell, CA | (415) 518-**** |

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering | San Jose State University | San Jose, CA (1994)

PROFILE SUMMARY:
• Three decades of industrial & equipment automation control development in the equipment manufacturing, and engineering
service provider businesses.

• Involved in all phases of the development process, such as requirements & specifications generation, I/O layouts, software
programming (PLCs, HMIs, Stepper & Servo Motions), systems integration, FAT & SAT, and post-delivery support and
troubleshooting.

• Experienced in both government regulated and non-regulated industries:

o Regulated industries include: Biotech/Pharmaceutical, Power Generation, Water Treatment, and Oil & Gas.
o Non-regulated industries include: HDD, Semiconductor, Display Panels, and Solar manufacturing

• Worked with the following development tools, environments, standards:

o PLC (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Fanuc, Beckhoff TwinCAT, PLC Direct, Omron, and Mitsubishi)
o SCADA (Emerson Delta-V and ABB Symphony)
o HMI (C#, Wonderware System Platform, Siemens WinCC, and PanelMate)
o Stepper & Servo Motion Control (Applied-Motion, Technosoft, Parcker, Kollmorgen, and Galil)
o Network Hardware (Ethernet, Profibus, Profinet, Serial, CANBus, ModBus, and DeviceNet)
o Network Protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, and OPC)
o Standards (SEMI, cGMP, ISA, S88 Batch)

• Extensive experience working with high-voltage/frequency/RF power supplies, electro-mechanical & pneumatic actuated
devices, electro/optical sensors, and analog/digital instrumentations in high vacuum and corrosive environments.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:
Intevac, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
Systems / Software Engineer 06/1998 – 07/2002
Contract Software Engineer 04/2003 – 08/2004
Senior Software Engineer 10/2010 – 11/2024

• Served as team member, and as lead in equipment control software development utilizing Siemens & Beckhoff PLCs,
Microsoft Visual Basics & Visual Studio C# for the HMI, and Applied-Motion stepper & servo controller for the transport
system.

• Other duties included I/O layouts, system integrations, installation, and startup of equipment shipped to customers of various
international locations.

• Provided post-startup customer support.

• Projects highlights:
o Sputtering process tools used in the manufacturing of HDD.
o PVD process tools used in the manufacturing solar cells and fanout packaging.
o Ion implanting tools used in the manufacturing of solar cell and display glass coating.
o RTP (rapid thermal process) tools used in the manufacturing of display panel.
o EBAP/Joining tool used in the manufacturing of digital night vision sensors.

Emerson Process Management (formerly Bay-Tec Engineering, Inc.)

Brea/Irvine, CA
Automation Engineering Lead 02/2005 – 10/2010

Napa/Fairfield, CA
Contract Software Engineer 10/2003 – 02/2005
 • Served in a supporting and leading capacity in various system integration and automation control software development
projects for the Pharmaceutical/Biotech, Water & Waste Water Treatment, Power Generation, and Oil & Gas industries.

• Developed design documentations (e.g. Functional Specifications and Software Design Specifications) and acceptance test
protocols.

• Project Highlights:
o Water For Injection (WFI) production systems for major biotech/pharmaceutical companies. (i.e., Genentech,
Amgen, Bayer, B. Braun Medicals, Chiron, and others)
o Building automation control & monitoring system (i.e. HVAC, Facility Water Control & Distribution, Fire Alarm,
etc.) for a new biotech production plant construction in Singapore.
o Toxic gas detection system for various laboratory buildings at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.
o Waste water treatment plant for the city of Tacoma, WA.
o Emergency shutoff and igniter systems for Valero, Chevron, and American Petroleum refineries.
o Electrical substation monitoring & emergency shutdown system for Southern Edison, Chino Hills, CA

Ultra Fab Technology, Inc.

San Jose, CA
Integration Engineer 4/1995 – 6/1998

• Developed real-time PLC-based (GE-Fanuc and Allen-Bradley) machine automation control software for various types of
wet-process equipment serving the semiconductors, HDD, and flat panels manufacturing industries.
• Developed HMI software for PC-based (Wonderware) and standalone (PanelMate) operator interface panels.
• Developed motion control algorithm (servo and stepper), utilizing the Galil motion package, for the control of pick-and-place
robots and transport conveyors.
• Project experiences included: Manual, semi and fully automated wet process systems, spin dryers, ultrasonic and megasonic
cleaning systems, and factory load/unload automation interfaces.
• Conducted hardware and software integration, and I/O configurations.

Singapore, Singapore
Customer Support Engineer 8/1996 – 12/1997
• Set up and managed a 24/7 product and customer support operation serving the Asian Pacific region.
• Main duties included:
o Management of field service schedules.
o Supervision of two field service technicians and their workloads.
o Served as company ambassador with the goal of maintaining excellent customer satisfactions.

• Successfully transformed product support operation into a positive cash flow operation.
• Provided software support and technical consulting services to customers on equipment process and throughput
improvements.
• Planned, organized and conducted equipment control software operation and preventive maintenance trainings.

TRAININGS:
Siemens S7 and TIA Portal PLC Programming - E & M Electric, Inc.
Beckhoff TwinCAT 2.x – Beckhoff USA Headquarter, Minneapolis, MN
Wonderware System Platform 3.0 – Wonderware West, Lake Forest, CA
Emerson DeltaV 9.0 – Austin, TX
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programming - U.C. Santa Cruz Extension
Microsoft Visual Studio C# Programming - U.C. Santa Cruz Extension
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