Objective
Career Objective : Management position in Engineering, Operations, where I can utilize my extensive background in engineering and operations related to systems, hardware and software coupled with my business training to help a company succeed in its goals and reaching my potential.

Career Summary : 19 years of Semiconductor related experience .8 years in Leadership, Management roles, both in Engineering and Operations. 10 years of Engineering experience in various roles .9 years of Manufacturing Operations and Testing experience. Awards throughout career.

Employment :

Employment

2003 -  Present
Systems Engineer

Managed the NPI of iSpectraCDs through PLC phase 5 while supporting SpectraCD XT through PLC phase 5.

Project Management on Escalations of iSpectraCD and SpectraCD XT tools at Toshiba, IBM, AMD and TSMC to ensure resolution in the most efficient possible method. Occasionally, having to travel to customers sites to ensure proper understanding of tools functionality and specifications and resolving customers issues.

Managed and produced reliability reports for external and internal Alpha and Beta tools for quarterly executive reviews.

Worked closely with internal, external customers on systems related issues and overall systems requirements and marketing requirements.

Wrote systems requirements for optical mechanical subassemblies testing and software requirements.

Created systems specification as required.

Reviewed, modified and Sign off documents as necessary.

Worked with marketing driving beta project and get feedback from customer regarding use case to better close the gap between customers expectation and our ability to deliver.

Worked with marketing to suggest improvements in new generation of our product.

Developed ReliabilityTracker. exe, a software utility used on both iSpectraCD and SpectraCD XT to monitor and track reliability data use as part of PLC phases 4 5 and 6.

Wrote automated throughput software program, procedure and recipe to generate, process and calculate systems throughput.

Designed and written Matching Utility to help expedite resolution of tools matching in the field.

Held training sessions for CSEs, TSEs and IEs on iSpectraCDs and SpectraCD XT for systems troubleshooting and maintenance.

2000 -  2003
Senior SQC Engineer

Managed and lead up SQC departmental effort from start of iSpectra project on first and second generation iSpectraCD tools through PLC phase 2 3A, 3B and 4.

Developed strategic and tactical plans for software testing coverage and software releases due to shortage of resources.

Designed and developed white box testing scripts and automation harness.

Designed and setup infrastructure for testing and automation by designing Test Plans, Cases, library functions for automation of our iSpectra, iSpectraCD software.

Managed and implemented the automation of the entire product application using Rational Robot and Win Runner, to improve turnaround time and reliability of testing for Klarity Bit Power Suite.

Managed, scheduled and assigned test workloads to SQC members based on individual experience level and knowledge.

Developed automated build system using PERL. This automated build script has auto emailing capability for status of build, complete with link to log files, amongst many other features like auto firing up of automated test regression suite.

1998 -  2000
Software Engineer

Automated test harnesses and scripts using DevStudio, C/C++ and PERL. Automated test harness operates across TCP/IP in a server client network relationship, complete with baseline data and differential data to flag changes in regression testing.

Developed C++ test code to provide white box testing for internet faxs APIs.

Written communication simulators for various protocols using PERL.

Designed white box test scripts to test HTML engines APIs for embedded OS for Digital Set top boxes. Designed test cases to cover functional, boundaries and negatives use cases.

1997 -  1998
Team Lead

Wrote program using MFC and C++ to detect Rainbow software configuration keyed options and re-configures our HRPs installation software according to 200mm or 300mm

Managed sustain engineering development and fixed bugs in software for AS-500 Profiler using C and C++ as necessary.

Written, debugged and maintained test script files and Test Plans.

Troubleshot production systems as necessary for potential software bugs. Assisted production floor troubleshot electrical systems and other related systems issues.

1993 -  1997
Technical Lead

Lead 30 ATEs through scheduling, training, manufacturing and delivering of UV1250SEs/UV1050s/FT-750s products to tight committed schedule.

Achieved 400% ramp up of production in 4 months time by traveling to recruit and trained the best ATEs available.

Streamlined and structured manufacturing processes, checklists and procedures to reduce reworks, qualification time and cycle time, while increasing reliability and predictability.

Managed, planned, designed and implement Demand Flow Technology workflow for FaSTs UVxxs product line.

Managed and scheduled resources to ensure high quality, on-time product delivery while meeting production demands and sales forecast.

1991 -  1993
Systems Engineer

Designed, fabricated and documented Stage Servos and Stepper Controllers bench test fixture for the advanced Film Thickness product included schematics and testing procedures.

Updated boards and schematics using ORCAD schematics capture package. Created Net list and responsible for annotating wherever modified and redesigned of circuits are necessary.

Managed B.O.M database structures for different systems configurations and wrote ECOs to structure these new configurations into MRP system.

1987 -  1991
Electrical Lead

Education

Miscellaneous
Manufactured and tested KLA 210's series Reticle and Photomask Inspection Stations with high quality to meet tight committed sale dates.

Troubleshot complex system problems down to board level.

Troubleshot and testing experience at board level, using Logic Analyzer, State Analyzer to troubleshot high speed image computers.

Managed WIP, on-hands inventories and variances free paperwork during production.

Performed Customer Acceptance duties with Motorola and Texas Instruments key accounts.

Tau Alpha Pi Chapter for National Honor Society for Engineering Technology

Master of Business Administration

University of Phoenix, San Jose Campus, Feb 2006 CGPA 3.98

Graduated with Summa Cum Laude honor

Advance user in MS-Project, MS-Office and Visio.

Professional Sequence Award Certificate in Microsoft Windows Applications Programming.

Computer Languages : C, C++, MFC, Pascal, Assembler, UNIX and PERL.

Object Oriented Analysis and Design course work, with UML Rational Rose Modeling.

Knowledge of PPP, TCP/IP, UDP, POP, SMTP, HTTP and OSI model.

VLSI and ASIC

Design course work.

Certificate in Strategic Design and Planning for Demand Flow Technology.

Bi-Lingual in English and Vietnamese for speaking, reading and writing.

Founder, President and CEO of STARS CSI Corporation, a C-Corporation company providing software development and testing consultant services.