Engineer Manufacturing

Michael Gurshtein

**** ********** ***** *********, ********, CO 80241

720-***-**** . abhcj0@r.postjobfree.com

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Objective

Obtaining a position in a manufacturing environment that allows

expanding upon previously acquired process control, coating design,

and mechanical skills in the high quality vacuum deposition industry

Education

B.S. Engineering Physics

May 2006

University of Colorado at Boulder

Boulder, CO

Applied Mathematics minor, French minor

Selected courses: high-energy particle physics, plasma physics

Honors

Dean's list (Fall 2002 and 2005 - 2006)

Meritorious paper in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2006

Work Experience

Manufacturing Engineer August 2009 -

March 2011

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.

Thornton, CO

Maintained and operated magnetron sputtering chambers for metal oxide

and TCO deposition, performed troubleshooting and failure evaluation

of unsuccessful coatings

. Designed and performed process improvement experiments for magnetron

coatings to optimize

integrated photovoltaic module performance

. Evaluated new capital equipment for improving high volume

manufacturing throughput

Thin Films Engineer July 2006 -

February 2009

Research Electro-Optics, Inc.

Boulder, CO

. Maintained and operated ion beam sputtering chambers, coordinated

production with project managers, performed troubleshooting and

failure evaluation of unsuccessful coatings

. Created various types of advanced thin film coating designs, developed

thin film coating

processes for numerous optics

. Refined ion beam sputtering processes to improve coating

predictability and stability

Researcher May

2004 - December 2005

JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology /CU

Boulder, CO

. Modeled electric-field response of ultra-cold alkali atoms in an

optical lattice

. Extrapolated behavior of larger systems from small-scale model

Technical Skills

. Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows (95/98/XP), Linux, Mac OS

. Software: Essential Macleod thin film design, JMP, Microsoft Office,

Adobe series

. Machine shop experience (10 hour safety course at the University of

Colorado)

Languages

English (native), Russian (native), French (fluent)

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