BABU VARATHAPPANAIDU
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CAREER SUMMARY
Senior Software Developer with 15+ years in the software development industry with a proven record of
motivating and leading diverse and distributed development teams producing results that consistently
exceed expectations. Have been successful contributors every facet of software development from
programmer/analyst, database development, software engineer, MES solution and software architecture,
project lead, MES product deployment and technical support. Have in depth knowledge in Manufacturing
Execution System (MES), product support and GMP.
TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, Scrum, SOA, OOP
Applications: MS Office Suite, MS Project, Visual Studio (2000, 2005, 2008), Enterprise
Library 4.1, ADO .NET Entity Framework, Unity Application Block, Visio,
Enterprise Architect, Rational ClearCase, MS SQL Server 2005, SQL Server
Management Studio, Oracle’s Enterprise Manager, Developer 2000, PSPad,
Infrgistics.
.NET Framework 1.0 – 3.5, ADO.NET, C#, DOM, UML, Web Forms, Web
Languages:
Services, Win Forms, XML, XPath, C, COBOL
Messaging Tools: MSMQ, WCF
IIS (5.0 – 7.0)
Web Servers:
Databases: Oracle (through 11g), Informix
Operating Systems: Windows Server (2000, 2003, 2008), Windows XP, Vista, UNIX, OpenVMS
MES Products: Applied FAB300, SunFab, HERMES, WorkStream Open, Werum PAS-X
MES Modules: WMC, EDC, ADC, RMC, FWK, EMC
Tool Software: Applied E3
CAREER EXPERIENCE
Applied Materials Inc., MES Solution Architect/Senior Software Developer/Product Support
March 2001 – August 2009
Performed advanced software architectural design, development, engineering, deployment and product
support for MES products. Major projects and responsibilities include:
HERMES – MES Product - MES Architect/Senior Software Developer
Applied Materials Inc., Austin TX USA
November 2008 – July 2009
Successfully completed design document preparation and development for TrackIn, TrackOut,
MoveIn, MoveOut, SplitLot, MergeLot, Lot SpecialActions, ReworkLot, HoldLot and
ReleaseLot functions within project schedule and budget.
Reviewed the design documents and contributed good suggestions to make the functions works
effectively.
Successfully led the Workflow development team members by providing technical support.
SVTC MES Product – MES Analyst/Senior Software Developer
Applied Materials Inc., Austin TX USA
Dec, 2007 - October, 2008
Strategized with customer to understand their business and collected the requirements.
Successfully designed, developed and implemented engineering data collection function for wafer
processing within project schedule.
Successfully designed, developed and implemented lot traveler report on time.
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Designed and developed automated solution to send collected wafer process data to SPACE
application.
Successfully designed, developed and deployed the Process flow function within project
scheduled.
Successfully provided on-site support for to deploy this MES product
Provided the product training to the end users and MES support team members at customer site
on how to operate and use the mission critical MES solution
Applied SunFab – MES Product for Solar PV Thin Film - MES Analyst/Senior Software Developer
Applied Materials Inc., Austin TX USA
April 2007 – November 2007
Successfully designed and developed automated solution to control PV thin film Solar panel
process from glass to final product module.
Designed and developed solution for automated dispatching and completed this task with project
schedule.
Designed and developed automation solution integration with MES product and tools software.
Successfully completed regression test of this product using simulator.
Involved to collect the requirements for design document preparation and completed the design
document within project schedule.
Successfully provided 24/7 product supported for the deployment team members.
On-Site Deployment for Applied FAB300 Product – Senior Technical Support Engineer
Applied Materials Inc., Richmond VA
April 2005 – October 2006
Successfully deployed Applied FAB300 product at Infineon/Qimonda North America facility
Richmond VA.
Successfully provided 24/7 on-site support for Applied FAB300 product at Infineon, Richmond
VA facility and resolved many production issues that resulted for smooth run of their FAB.
Performed root cause analysis on high severity issues and provide solutions for this issue on time.
Analyzed and provided suggestion for their MES solution performance optimization and thus
improved their MES solution performance.
Successfully delivered the training for the system engineering team members to install and
troubleshoot the MES product.
Product Support – Technical Support Engineer/Technical Account Manager
Applied Materials Inc., Portland ME USA
May 2004 – March 2005
Successfully provided Applied FAB300 product support for the world wide Applied FAB300
customers by analyzing their issues and provided solution within SLA time.
Provided 24/7 on-call MES support and thus resulted customer to run their FAB without brea k
down.
Analyzed and resolved customer reported issues by remotely log into their environment.
Developed KB articles for customer reported issues and provided solutions. This saved resource
for product support team.
I led and drove the technical meetings with the vendor management team at Infineon on a weekly
basis and provided update to all their reported issues and their enhancement request.
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Successfully completed many installations at customer sites and remotely
Successfully maintained the product support environment by periodically applied product
patches.
WorkStream Gateway Component– Senior Developer
Applied Materials Inc., Portland ME USA
Jan 2001 – March 2004
Successfully designed and developed remote transactions functions for integration of the Applied
FAB300 and WorkStream products.
Designed and developed enhancements for Applied WorkStream MES product v7.1 and v7.2
Software Engineer/Consultant
HCL Infosystems Inc., Portland ME USA
May 1998 – Feb 2001
Fixed the MES product bugs on time with no rework and good product quality.
Successfully provided Y2K rollover support.
Designed and developed Recipe Management System within project schedule.
Software Engineer
Kothari Sugars Ltd., Trichy India
November 1995 – April 1998
Designed, developed, deployed and gave end user training for the Sugar Cane Management
system and Sugar Cane Monitoring system, which monitor the sugar cane planting to harvesting.
Designed, developed and deployed Sugar cane payment system which used in sugar cane industry
to pay the payment for the farmers those who supplied sugar cane to cane sugar factory.
Designed and developed Sugar Cane Harvesting Incentive application system.
Designed and developed Sugar cane industry employee’s payroll application.
EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science - Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, Trichy, India.