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homas <div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">'''<big>Thomas Hentschel</big>'''<br>5674 Marlin Dr. <br>Discovery Bay, CA, 94514Tel.: (925) 634 7760<br>Cell : (925) 577 7761<br>Email : thomas<at>hentschel<dot>net</div>----'''Career Objective: ''' Provide solutions as a Software Architect / Senior Developer to technical challenges in the real-time control, embedded or wireless IoT software industry.2000 {||-| 2019 - present || '''Sr. Solution Architect''' <br>Aicas LLC, Karlsruhe, Germany|-| |Architecture and technical director of customer solutions for embedded/realtime applications, supporting senior executives in crucial phases of business development: promotion/evangelism of company-designed products and methods in executive sales conversations: created and drove implementation of show-floor demonstrations at CES, AWS re:invent, AutoTech Detroit, IAA Munich in concert with external companies such as NXP, DMI, AWS: re-architected and drove re-implementation of AWS Fleetwise for automotive targets, made AWS Greengrass realtime capable: designed and implemented no-code solution for integrating arbitrary embedded systems with the Sparkplug cloud protocol|-|-| 2012 - 2019 || '''Software Architect, Sr. Staff Software Engineer''' <br> Lam Research Corp., Fremont, CA (Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturer, S&P500, NASDAQ:LRCX)|-| | Novellus Systems was acquired by Lam Research, and I was part of the transition evaluation team assisting software management in fact finding/decision making regarding merging of the two software organizations and their utilized technologies. In addition, I designed and implemented various components to create integrations for the three Software Control systems in use, primarily on the realtime control side, including:<br>: Software development of several hardware control systems using EtherCAT running on WindRiver vxWorks. The systems implemented a hard realtime script engine based on an vendor specific protocol; embedded C/C++ and SmallTalk : Development of High-Speed Data Acquisition system connecting different field bus types to the data storage system, implemented in C++ and Java: Bridging SmallTalk based control system to more modern systems using MQTT + Java applications|-|-| 2000 - 2012 || '''Software Architect''' <br> Novellus Systems Inc. San Jose, CA (Semiconductor Manufacturing EquipmentManufacturer, a S&P500; company. NASADQ, NASDAQ:NVLS)|-| | Principal architect of the next generation, distributed equipment control framework for the entire product line of the company.<br>This control distributed framework uses several shades types of Java/JVM's, including Embedded/RTSJ RT-Java.<br>Objectives for the control side was primarily the emphasis on high reliability and scalability, but also had to include the enable easy integration of a large variety of motion controllers and process control devices in an easily extensible manner. <br>The data aquisition acquisition side needed a highly scalable data transmission and storage system for 10001MM+ input I/O updates/second. In addition, objectives were the easy was enabling integration of external software components and libraries into finished end-user applications.<br> I was responsible for the software architecture and the technical leadership in this multi-million dollar$12+ Million, 3550+ man year project, planned to be productized being used in 2006production since 2007.<br>Along with the system architecture, I was in charge of the design and partial implementation of the realtime control components, I/O interface, configuration management, factory interface, SEMI Interface A development, data acquisition, wafer sequencing, etc. <br>96 |-|-| 1997 - 2000 || '''Sr. Software Engineer''' <br> Novellus Systems Inc. San Jose, CA (Semiconductor Manufacturing EquipmentManufacturer, a S&P500; company. NASADQ, NASDAQ:NVLS)|-| | Machine control software development under QNX for a real-time, networked environment developed in C.<br>Software design/architecture for a next generation new wafer sequencer. (, which led to multiple patents(US 6,889,110 B1).<br>|- |-94 | 1994 - 96 1997 || '''Field Service Site Coordinator''' <br> Novellus Systems Inc. Dresden, GermanySan Jose, CA (Semiconductor Manufacturing EquipmentManufacturer, S&P500, NASDAQ:NVLS)|-|| Responsible for building a field support infrastructure group at a new overseas customer site.<br>This included installation and maintenance of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and hiring and training of local Service Engineers.<br>Developed, tested and deployed maintenance procedures yielding doubled doubling in equipment uptime.<br>
Assisted process development and integration, developed software changes for a new PoR (Semi: process of record) at a customer site.
93 |- 94 |-| 1993 - 1994 || '''IT Coordinator, System AdministratorNETP Inc.''' <br> Draexlmaier Group, 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.<br>
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 |-| 1991 - 1993 || '''Software Engineer''' <br> VHF GmbH, Schoenaich, Germany (Software Development Company)Designed |-|| Design/implementation of layout and implemented the layout fill functionality of a for an ECAD application under NeXTStep.89 - 92 InternshipsSchaltbau GmbH, Munich, Germany (electrionic equipment supplier for railroad and military)Roederstein AG (Vishay), Landshut, Germany, (electrical component supplier)|}
'''Education''': Diplom-Ingenieur (FH), University FHTE - University of Applied Sciences, Esslingen, Germany (equivalent comp. to U.S. Masters of Science, Electrical EngineeringMSEE),graduated January 1993. '''Skills and / Knowledge'''* Programming languages: Java, RTJava, C, Objective-C, C++, Tcl/Tk and extensions, Python, JS, Lua* Field Bus: EtherCAT, DeviceNet, RS-485, USB* Operating systems: QNX, WindRiver vxWorks, Linux, RT-Linux (TimeSys Linux), Free/OpenBSD, OS/400, DOS/Windows* Embedded Frameworks: RTSJ (Real-time spec for Java), Embedded Java, J2ME, WindRiver Workbench* Networking: TCP/IP, FirewallingHTTP, Websockets, DNS/BIND, apacheREST, sendmailMultiCast* GUI programming: SWT, SwingGWT, NextStep/OpenStep, GTK* Application Frameworks: OSGi, Eclipse, OpenHAB, Node.JS, Node-RED '''Interests'''Certified pilot for single and multi-engine airplanesBoating * Brewing Beer (in the California DeltaSoftware principles and theories in real time controlmy Garage)* Participating in Open Source Software projects (FreeBSDOpenHAB, ZopeBrewPi, backport175Node-RED, KODI, FreeBSD) ([https://github.com/HentschelT?tab=repositories Github Repository])* 3D printing* Home Automation (my + my friends houses)* Certified pilot for single and multi-engine airplanes (not currently active)* Cold War History '''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 9080% of my work hours. I have been doing this for the last 6 20 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
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