Millennium has been consulting on high-tech projects for many different companies around the Bay Area during the past 15 years. Here is a comprehensive list and some highlights of each project.

 

 

LIGHTSPEED TECHNOLOGIES, Campbell, CA

July 2007 - December 2007
Industrial Lasers and Illuminators

Developed control and interface schematics and PCB for custom illuminator control system including a control box and a user-interface pendant. Helped with assembly and developed all related firmware.

SPI Lasers, Southampton, UK

March 2005 - September 2006
Industrial Lasers

Designed and customized pulse generators. Developed Windows software application to control laser parameters and pulse-generator operation.

TELECOM VALLEY LABS, Valley Ford, CA

March 2004 - January 2005
Consumer Electronics

Engineering Contractor for Aerielle, Inc.
Embedded firmware design for LCD display, schematic capture, board layout with VHF RF components.

INTELLIDOT CORPORATION, San Marcos, CA

March 2003 - October 2003
Medical Information Mgmt.
Ported “Dot” custom 2-D Matrix Code recognition system to micro-Linux platform. PCB CAD and layout for CCD image-sensor board. Image acquisition integration and debugging.

VERICES, LLC, Fullerton, CA

July 2002 - March 2003
Portable Merchant Charge Processing
Licensed Palm-organizer PCMCIA interface technology for a custom handheld merchant terminal with wireless capabilities. Made PCB design and layout for the “motherboard” which provided the PCMCIA slot for wireless communication cards and integrated peripherals. Made custom support firmware. Assembled, debugged and tested the prototypes.

JDSU CORP., Santa Rosa, CA

April 2000 - September 2006
Laser Engraving Systems
Maintained Microsoft Windows-based application for laser-engraving control and handler interface acquired from SDL Inc.

SDL INC., Santa Clara, CA

Dec. 1997 - April 2000
Laser Engraving Systems
Made Microsoft Windows-based application for laser-engraving control and handler interface.

CANDELA INSTRUMENTS., Fremont, CA

July 1997 - April 1998
Disk Surface Inspection
Made Microsoft Windows-based disk-surface image acquisition and analysis software for new industrial instrument.

MAXTOR CORP., Milpitas, CA

June 1996 - Sept. 1999
Disk Research Tools
Developed a laboratory test-control tool for disk operation and data acquisition and processing for disk performance R&D.

FORERUNNER CORP., Tokyo, Japan

June. 1995 - December 2004
Internet Server Management
Set up and maintained an Internet WWW/FTP/Mail server for US/Japanese international commerce.

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, Scotts Valley, CA

Sept. 1995 - July 1996
Disk Parameter Research Tools
Developed interactive platform for laboratory test control, data acquisition, and data management for disk performance research.

IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER, San Jose, CA

Sept. 1994 - Aug.1995
Disk Surface Optical Inspection
Revised, enhanced, and performance optimized a defect-dection image processing production tool. Ported a sensor-based disk-surface qualification tool to LabView.

IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER, San Jose, CA

June 1993 - Aug. 1994
User Interface R&D
Member of Ted Selker’s USER ergonomics lab. Designed and implemented animated help system. Implemented embedded system test beds for pointing device prototypes.

LASER MARK'S CO., Santa Clara, CA

April 1993 - Nov. 1998
Laser Engraving Systems
Developed a Windows laser printer driver and related customer-specific solutions.

LANDAUER, INC., Glenwood, IL

June - Jul. 1993
Laser Engraving
Implemented a database-driven laser engraving system.

MILLENNIUM RESEARCH, San Jose, CA

Jan. - June, 1993
Prototypes and Proposals
Developed opportunities for various inspection systems.

KAISER ALUMINUM, Pleasanton, CA

Oct. - Dec. 1992
Coating Gauge Calibration
Implemented an operator interface for data entry, linear regression, and EPROM programmer interface.

KAISER ALUMINUM, Pleasanton, CA

Oct. 1990 - June 1994
Global Defect Analysis
Ported and enhanced topological connectivity analysis software for classification of rolled metal defects. Implemented bus interface ring buffering and operator interface control panel.

KAISER ALUMINUM, Pleasanton, CA

Jan. 1989 - June 1990
Coating Skip Inspection
Created an adaptive threshold image processing application on a PC system for detecting gaps in polymer coating on sheet metal.

SHINKAWA, LTD., Tokyo, Japan

Feb. 1991 - June 1992
Wire Bond Inspection
Designed and tested feature-extraction and edge-detection algorithms for measuring dimensions of aluminum wire bonds on IC's. Developed lighting and optics, system software, and operator interface.

INTEGRATED AUTOMATION, Alameda, CA

Jan 1989 - June 1990
Radish Inspection
Designed inspection algorithms for detecting color and shape defects. Made drivers and support software for Datacube and custom boards, SUN-based simulation, and TCP/IP Ethernet communication.

INTEGRATED AUTOMATION, Alameda, CA

Nov. 1988 - Jan. 1989
Currency Inspection
Implemented a signal processing acquisition and analysis platform, with signal pattern recognition algorithms, for identifying magnetic patterns in ink.

INTEGRATED AUTOMATION, Alameda, CA

June 1988
Walnut Inspection
Produced image processing algorithm demonstrations for texture identification to separate shells from meat.

INTEGRATED AUTOMATION, Alameda, CA

March - June 1988
Bump Tape Inspection
Developed image processing algorithms for thresholding and dimension measurements on etched copper plateaus. Implemented custom camera board drivers, operator interface, and calibration functions.

XYNETICS/ELECTROGLAS, Santa Clara, CA

July 1988 - Sept. 1989
Wafer Prober Image Processing
Developed design documents. Created utility algorithms. Improved optics with increased resolution and uniform illumination.

SOFTWARE RESEARCH, INC., San Francisco, CA

Feb. - March 1988
EKG Signal Processing
Designed and simulated signal sampling and data compression to collect 24 hours' data in a portable monitor with 20 min. capacity.

ADCOTECH CORP., Milpitas, CA

Aug. 1986 - June 1989
PLCC Lead Inspection
Maintained an old, embedded image processing system and implemented a new, PC-based system for dimension measurement of PLCC package leads. Developed communication interfaces for automation. Prototyped a high-resolution, next-generation platform.

INTEL CORP., Chandler, AZ

Aug. 1986
PLCC Lead Inspection
Designed and optimized image processing algorithms for critical dimension measurement of PLCC packages. Designed and implemented strategy and protocols for communication among image processing subsystem, host system controller, and parts handling robot. Designed real-time submultiplexing hardware for video input pipeline.

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