QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Smalltalk in ENVY environment.
• Nearly 2 years of hands-on experience with C.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.  Willingness and desire to learn.

• Languages: Smalltalk, Pascal, Visual Basic, C/C++, CICS/COBOL, and UNIX shell.
• OS: Windows 95/98/NT, UNIX (HP/Sun Solaris), RTOS VxWorks, Mainframe and VAX.
• Tools: Visual Works/ENVY, ControlWORKS, MS Visual C++, Tornado (Wind River), MS Visual Source Safe, Team Track.
• Databases: MS Access and Versant ODBMS.

Software Engineer                                                                                                  07/98 – present
STEAG RTP Systems, Inc. - San Jose, California

• Performed software upgrade and support at customer sites in Japan.  Made emergency fixes on sites.
• Design and implement GUI screens for alarm history and gas control panel features for 200mm and 300mm wafer processing tools.  Enhance overview, recipe editors, chamber status, and other user-friendly interfaces.   Design and implement INI text files to partially replace proprietary configuration files.
• Sustain C real-time components – rotation controller, HCIL, temperature control and lamp control sub-systems, running in VxWorks environment.
• Learn real-time C programming, VxWorks RTOS on VME platform and software-hardware control.  Setting priorities to accommodate multiple tasks.

• Supported a wide range of applications - distributed client/server, mainframe, and midrange.
• Made critical decisions to migrate emergency fixes to sustain production process; coordinated migration of production fixes.
• Proactively identified and resolved production problems, especially performance issues that help reduce order-processing time in half.  Analyzed deficiency in DCA and server process.  Worked closely with DBMS support to resolve critical error in Versant software.
• Increased technical skills in Smalltalk, UNIX, C++, CICS/COBOL, and Versant ODBMS programming.
• Enhanced leadership, communication and self-management skills.  Achieved early promotion.

• Designed and programmed end-user documents using DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) and OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) links between database (MS Access) and applications (MS Excel, MS Word).  Implemented GUIs with Visual Basic to access MS Access database using SQL.
• Developed organizational and interpersonal skills.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California
Master of Science, with a focus on Systems Programming and Real-World Computing
Expected Date of Degree Conferment: June 2001

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics
May 1997, magna cum laude (GPA: 3.732)

• Lead-authored a technical report entitled "Graphical Representation and Storage Issues in Object-Oriented Rule Modeling."  Published and presented at the 35Th Annual ACM Southeast Conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
• Supported faculty on the development of LODA (Library of Object-Oriented Data Abstraction) library and its application in a DB-CASE tool.  Improved the CASE tool to include the ability of generating Smalltalk codes from Entity-Relationship diagrams using relational database model.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Loyola Richard Frank Grant, 96-97
• Louisiana Honors Scholarship, 93-97
• Loyola Academic Scholarship, 93-97
• Xerox Corporation Scholarship, 94-95
• The ACM Computer Science Award, 1996-97
• Dean's List: fall 93 through fall 95 and fall 96 through spring 97
• Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS