ERIC S. JACOBS

** **** **. 603-***-****

Brentwood, NH 03833 abjewc@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: To be a highly productive systems design and test engineer as part of a hardworking team to accomplish great things that exceed expectations.

Security Clearance: Secret

SKILLS

• LabVIEW computer programming for test and control. Certified Associate LabVIEW Developer (CLAD) with 20+ years experience.

• Continuous wave and Pulsed laser operation and maintenance.

• Cryogenic Testing using both liquid nitrogen and liquid helium.

• Vacuum equipment.

• Write test plans and procedures.

• Highly motivated self starter.

• Material Characterization of GaAs and GaAs/AlGaAs multi-quantum-well.

• IR/FIR/Millimeter-wave, and RF detectors.

• Designing requirements for specific tests and the control software needed.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated history of working in a team to achieve results.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BROOKS AUTOMATION, Chelmsford, MA

Systems Engineer III

2010-Present

Systems and Test Engineer on semiconductor wafer processing systems

• Designed and wrote the LabVIEW control software for many of Brooks Automation’s semiconductor wafer processing systems utilizing DeviceNet communications

• Created “Stand-Alone” versions of the software along with detailed test procedures to be used by technicians on the production floor

Lead Test Engineer on Automatic Wafer Centering (AWC) Sensor Project

• Designed and built the experimental system for performance evaluation of opto-electronic wafer sensing devices at temperatures from 22 C to 220 C

• Designed and wrote the LabVIEW software for test automation, temperature control, collection of sensor electronic data, robot motion control and data analysis

• Wrote detailed test report for the customer

Lead Test Engineer on Hot Wafer Project

• Completely refurbished a heavily used MX-800 engineering system

• Designed and wrote the LabVIEW software to run the system in its normal operating mode

• Extended the system’s and software’s capability to measure the wafer slippage on the robot arm up to temperatures of 400 C

BAE SYSTEMS, Lexington, MA

Senior Principal Systems Engineer

2007 – 2010

Systems and test engineer for 17 µm Thermal Weapons Sight (TWS)

• Senior member of an engineering team to qualify the 17 µm TWS design.

• Developed an image collection and analysis procedure to aid in finding the root cause of image quality problems.

Systems and test engineer for Bridge TWS

• Systems and test engineering lead for the environmental testing of the Bridge TWS qualification testing.

• Designed and wrote the LabVIEW test software for all of the environmental tests.

• Wrote test plans and procedures derived from system requirements.

• Arranged for and coordinated testing at several off-site locations.

• Wrote detailed test report.

DRAPER LABS, Cambridge, MA 2007–2007

Software designer and programmer 3.5 month contract position

• Designed, wrote, and documented the master control software in LabVIEW for a complex multi-part system.

• This software enabled the operator to control multiple computers and test programs from a single computer in a remote location.

• This classified project was completed successfully in 3.5 months.

SSG PRECISION OPTRONICS, INC. Wilmington, MA 1998 – 2006

Design and test engineer for a state of the art high precision fast steering mirror (FSM)

• Designed test station to verify static and dynamic performance of this electro-optic assembly.

• Developed detailed test procedures according to ISO standards.

• Oversaw fabrication of facility, UUT test fixtures and special test equipment.

• Designed and wrote the LabVIEW software that fully automated the test station

• Successfully performed testing to detailed specification and handed off to test engineers.

Design and test engineer on SBIRS-HI IR Internal Calibration Unit (ICU)

• Primary responsibility for design, fabrication, operation, maintenance, and upgrades of a fully automated test station for space telescope hardware. This hardware program is the highly visible Space-Based Infrared Surveillance “SBIRS” system that is a recognized national asset.

• Designed and built an integral 3-axis stage system for SBIRS ICU testing.

• Prominent member of science team that developed the detailed design of the IR ICU source including source configuration, dimensions and spectral characteristics.

• Designed and constructed the test system to characterize the IR radiation sources used in the ICU.

• Designed and built the thermal system in a test dewar to test the ICU over a temperature range of 100 K to 340 K including development and implementation of the PID algorithm.

• Designed and wrote the LabVIEW software for data analysis, temperature control instrumentation and full automation of the entire test system.

Test Engineer And Software Designer –SBIR HITEST Test Bed

• Designed and wrote all the LabVIEW deliverable control software and the test software for the customer’s scanning test system, HITEST, the test bed for the SBIRS High telescope.

• The control software included routines that automatically commutated the motors/encoders for all 3 axes, homed the scanner, diagnostic routines that identified and reported all error modes, input the PID parameters, routines that controlled several types of scanning motion.

• Wrote test software to perform and automate, position error, position following error, run out, and encoder drift.

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY 1992 – 1997

Research Fellow

Designed and built a test system for characterizing Bulk GaAs and GaAs/AlGaAs multiquantum-well far infrared and millimeter-wave radiation detectors over the temperature range 1.5 K to 90 K using optically pumped pulsed and continuous wave far infrared lasers, solid-state millimeter wave sources, RF sources, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometers, and high field magnets for magnetospectroscopy.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Dissertation: Hot Electron Photoconductivity in GaAs/AlGaAs Multiquantum-Wells and Bulk GaAs

M.S. Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Thesis: Delayed Neutron Equilibrium Spectra of U-235, U-238, and Pu-239

B.S. Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Graduated cum laude

PUBLICATIONS ADDENDUM

“Composite Delayed Neutron Energy Spectra of Fissionable Isotopes”; 50 Years With Nuclear Fission, Vol 1

“Fission Fragment Transfer Efficiency for Helium Jet System”, Proc. Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Mito Japan 1988

“Beta Spectra from 235U Thermal Fission Short Delay Times”, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 1991

“Multiquantum-well detection of nanosecond far-infrared superradiant pulses at temperatures above 77 K”; Proc. Of the 17th Int. Conf. on Infrared and Millimeter Waves 1992

“Cyclotron Resonance Detectors For THz Frequencies”, Proceeds of the Fifth International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technologies Ann Arbor, Michigan 1994

“77K Far-Infrared Hot-Electron Multi-Quantum Well Detectors", Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures -- May 1998 -- Volume 16, Issue 3, pp. 1430-1434

“Infrared Internal Calibration Sources Developed at SSGPO, Inc.”; Proc. SPIE Vol. 5152 2003

“Advanced Internal Calibration Sources for Remote Sensing Telescopes”; Proc. SPIE Vol. 5543 2005

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