KEN FREED

Embedded tool control up through MES and plant wide reporting levels. SECS/GEM & RS232 Machine Interfacing Expertise... After earning undergraduate degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering (on top of pre-college machine shop and lab tech experience), I became an expert at writing tool interfacing applications to address production and engineering needs. After 14 years with IBM manufacturing (during which time I completed a Master's Degree in Computer Science) and 3 years with Applied Materials (as the sole Ion Implant embedded software support engineer in the US), I spent 2001 through 2008 as an automation engineer with Cypress Semiconductor in Round Rock, Texas.