Quoc (Jeff) Pham 399 Ethyl St. Milpitas, CA 95035 (408)515-9682 qp128fe70@westpost.

net OBJECTIVE Professional career in electrical engineering where skills in problemsolving, research, design, and documentation will contribute to organizational g oals. EXPERIENCE Intevac, Inc., July 2005 a" July 2010 Santa Clara, CA Automation/Test Engineer, Photonic Technology Division a Electron Bombarded Active Pixel Sensor Automated Exhaust System: Developed sta te machine and process recipes by using C/C++, Siemens distributed IO, A/D, D/A, PLC, HMI, Parkeras motion controller, Allen Bradley, PID, RS485/422/232, GPIB, Ethernet and OPC technologies for controlling ionic pumps, sublimation pumps, tu rbo pumps, rough pumps, pyrometers, electron gun PS, HVPS, gate valves, stepper motors/retro-reflectors, water &gas flow meters and heaters under ultra-high vac uum environment. a Intensified Photodiode Array/EBAPS sensor: Developed test system incorporating analog, and optical circuitry to measure the high voltage, very low dark and an ode currents, quantum efficiency, SNR and the photo response using LabView, MS A ccess, Matrox frame grabber, SphereOptic light source, Alter Quartus and ActiveX controls. a UHV Bake-out System: Developed heat clean process using TEC, Getter (Cesium), high DC current lamps, nitrogen, and MS Visual Basic on MOSIR sensors under ult ra-high vacuum level. a Capacitance Measurement System: Developed multiplexer circuit for measuring g ate capacitance in the nano, and pico ranges on CCD level with the use of LabWin dows/CVI, and external Agilent equipment. Developed data acquisition program fo r the sensor regression tests. Asyst Technologies, Inc., Oct 2000 a" Dec 2004 Fremont, CA Sr. Electrical Engineer aRobot Drive Trains: developed, implemented, and debugged digital algorithm PID (to generate trajectory profile), and circuits for driving stepper motor, servo loop, commutation loop, DC brush /brushless motor, geared motor, and direct driv es in C. aDeveloped a static/dynamic braking technique for preventing stand-still spindle s from moving when the servo-loop is out of control on a direct-coupled drive sy stem using both firmware control, and an arc suppression circuit. aDesigned, and debugged digital/analog circuit to control solenoids for the admi nistering of Helium gas to CMP robot in order to detect leak, to monitor/detect vacuum level, air flow, and water loss. aDesigned, and debugged high precision digital/analog circuits for closed-loop f orce-feedback end effector, its planarity, power supply systems, laser wafer map per, wafer shuffle/buffering system, and path planning capability of 200mm, and 300mm substrates in a robot&pre-aligner system with the incorporation of I/O in terface, GUI, CCD, Opto22 PLC, Cognex, and proximity sensors. aDeveloped, and wrote GUI interface software, SQL/ODBC compliant data-base, and real-time measurement of acceleration, frequency, pressure and temperature using MS Access, in-house built accelerometer, LabWindows/CVI, and LabView Dataloggin g & Supervisory Control module in conjunction with NI DAQs via factory Ethernet, RS232/485, and 4-wire measurement scheme.

Headway Technologies, Inc.,

July 1995 - Oct 2000

Milpitas, CA Wafer/HGA/Probing Engineer aDesigned, implemented, and debugged microcontroller-based multiplexer circuits for measuring electrical/magnetic properties of spin-valve, and GMR structures u sing analog switch V-DMOSFET, external magnetic biased fields, IEEE-488 and RS23 2/485 interfacing techniques, and embedded firmware. aDeveloped, and implemented a patented process of measuring very small inductanc e on ESD sensitive read/write MR devices at wafer, and slider stages using ECL o scillator, and 4-wire measurement. aDeveloped, and wrote GUI interface software, SQL/ODBC compliant data-base, and control systems for real-time measurement of isolated digital I/O and temperatur e using MS Access, LabWindows/CVI, and LabView Datalogging & Supervisory Control module in conjunction with NI DAQs via Ethernet, IEEE-488 interfacing technique s, and RS232/485. aAnalyzed pilot-built deviceas performance data, graphs/SPC from dynamic/quasist atic testers: Guzikas spinstand, Phase Metrics, Electroglas for machineas charac terization. Performed wafer disposition, and failure analysis. aDeveloped and implemented I/O interfaces to control ESD/RFI/Grounding noise, sa fety circuits in slider/HGA processes/machines, Fly height/Guzik testers, and me asurement circuits. Sony Electronics, Inc., August 1993 - June 1995 San Jose, CA Product/Service Engineer aPerformed upgrades of designs of linear and switching power supply systems. aEvaluated and repaired the VFO offset circuit of the transceivers in cellular t elephones. aPerformed upgrades of offset circuits in the tunable local oscillators by means of relays or solid-state logic. aEvaluated, repaired and debugged short-range radio system using the superhetero dyne receiver, and a crystal controlled transmitter. aPerformed evaluation, repair, troubleshooting and modification on professional broad-casting video/audio products, and computer peripherals to component level. PROJECTS Digital Filter Design -- Designed and implemented a discrete-time filte r, for a discrete linear-time-invariant system by using C, from approximation of a continuous-time Butterworth filter using both the impulse invariance and the bilinear transform. Resample Discrete-time Signal -- Analyzed and created a program(C) to resample a n analog signal by a specified sampling rate, also the impulse response of the K aiser filter(window). SPECIAL SKILLS ProComm, WinRush, SCADA, ORCAD, AutoCAD, Visio, Matlab, PSPICE, S hell Scripts, Perl, Turbo Pascal, FORTRAN, MS Office, MS Project, TCP/IP, Unix, MS Windows/NT, CE/SEMI S2-93A compliant, KPIV/KPOV, Micro-processor, IC-Mask des ign, I2C, Profibus DP, Python. EDUCATION B.S. Electrical Engineering (IC) a" 1993 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA REFERENCES Available upon request.