homas Hentschel 5674 Marlin Dr. Discovery Bay, CA, 94514 Tel.: (925) 634 7760 Cell : (925) 577 7761 Email : thomas<at>hentschel<dot>net
Career Objective: Provide solutions as a Software Architect / Senior Developer to technical challenges in the real-time control, embedded or wireless software industry. 2000 - present Software Architect Novellus Systems Inc. San Jose, CA (Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, a S&P500; company. NASADQ:NVLS) Principal architect of the next generation, distributed equipment control framework for the entire product line of the company. This control framework uses several shades of Java, including Embedded/RTSJ Java. Objectives for the control side was primarily the emphasis on high reliability and scalability, but also had to include the integration of a large variety of motion controllers and process control devices in an extensible manner. The data aquisition side needed a highly scalable data transmission and storage system for 1000+ input updates/second. In addition, objectives were the easy integration of external software components and libraries into finished end-user applications. I was responsible for the software architecture and the technical leadership in this multi-million dollar, 35+ man year project, planned to be productized in 2006. 96 - 2000 Sr. Software Engineer Novellus Systems Inc. San Jose, CA (Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, a S&P500; company. NASADQ:NVLS) Machine control software development under QNX for a real-time, networked environment developed in C. Software architecture for a next generation wafer sequencer. (led to multiple patents). 94 - 96 Field Service Site Coordinator Novellus Systems Inc. Dresden, Germany, (Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment) Responsible for building a field support infrastructure at a new overseas customer site. This included installation and maintenance of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and hiring and training of local Service Engineers. Developed, tested and deployed maintenance procedures yielding doubled equipment uptime. Assisted process development and integration, developed software changes for a new PoR (Semi: process of record) at a customer site. 93 - 94 IT Coordinator, System Administrator NETP Inc., Niagara Falls, N.Y. (Automotive Supplier) Analyzed, planned and installed MRP system (MAPICS) at a automotive supplier with manufacturing locations in Mexico and parent company in Germany which resulted in a large improvement in warehousing accuracy. Designed network for AS/400 based accounting system, PC-based engineering network, UNIX based warehouse system and several UNIX based manufacturing tools to eliminate redundant data entry. 92 - 93 Software Engineer VHF GmbH, Schoenaich, Germany (Software Development Company) Designed and implemented the layout functionality of a ECAD application under NeXTStep. 89 - 92 Internships Schaltbau GmbH, Munich, Germany (electrionic equipment supplier for railroad and military) Roederstein AG (Vishay), Landshut, Germany, (electrical component supplier)
Education Diplom-Ingenieur (FH), University FHTE of Esslingen, Germany (equivalent to U.S. Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering), graduated January 1993. Skills and Knowledge Programming languages: Java, RTJava, C, Objective-C, C++, Tcl/Tk and extensions, Python Operating systems: QNX, Linux, RT-Linux (TimeSys Linux), Free/OpenBSD, OS/400, DOS/Windows Embedded Frameworks: RTSJ (Real-time spec for Java), Embedded Java, J2ME Networking: TCP/IP, Firewalling, DNS/BIND, apache, sendmail GUI programming: SWT, Swing, NextStep/OpenStep, GTK Application Frameworks: Eclipse Interests Certified pilot for single and multi-engine airplanes Boating in the California Delta Software principles and theories in real time control Participating in Open Source Software projects (FreeBSD, Zope, backport175) Nationality and Status I'm a German national with a permanent resident (green card) status living in the U.S. I'm fluent in English and German and can read and understand some Russian. My current position permits me to telecommute more than 90% of my work hours. I have been doing this for the last 6 years. I would prefer a position in a company that allows and encourages telecommuting on a regular basis. References References will be supplied on request. Please email me at thomas<at>hentschel<dot>net