Opto-Mechanical

Leo Levinson

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Los Angeles, CA 90035

Ph: 408-***-****

E-mail: ****.********@*****.***

SUMMARY:

I have over 10 years’ experience in Opto-mechanical, Precision Machine Tools and Mechanisms Design, and electronic packaging fields, Process Development and automatic Tooling. My strengths include conceptual and detailed design, simplicity, CAD, engineering calculations. Designed assemblies and fabrication tools that reduced operation time by 50%. Proposed and implemented a common platform for a few existing products which allowed reducing the number of fabricating and commercial parts by 40%. A self-starting hardworking team player that is also able to work independently. Excellent organizational skills. Creative and responsible. Broad experience in semiconductor, aerospace, and other high-tech industries. Worldwide experience with vendors (Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, Singapore, and Israel).

DoD Security Clearance.

SKILLS:

-3D printing (Additive manufacturing).

-Computer Aided Design and analysis CREO 7.0 (PRO-E), PRO-Mechanica,

-SolidWorks 2013, Unigraphics (NX8.5), Co-Create 17, Inventor 2014.

-Microsoft Project Management Timeline program.

-Database management: PTC Windchill12, TeamCenter 10.0; Enovia.

-Geometric Tolerance ANSI Y14.5M and Military Standards and experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).

-Ball and Air Bearings Rotary and Linear stages.

-Close-loop controlled Rotary and Linear multi-axes stages at nanometer resolution.

-Precision Opto-mechanical assemblies for up to 13.5 nm EUV light-wave.

-Thermally stable Aluminum and Grey Iron castings.

-Assembly Tooling.

-Cost reduction.

-Fluent in Russian and Hebrew, German – reading level.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Northrop Grumman, Northridge, CA 1/2024 – 1/2025 Retired

Position of Principal Engineer Mechanical:

-Design and drafting of Electronic Cabinet which contain Computer, Power Supplies, Electronic Box, Front and Rear Connectors Panels, Cooling Unit and additional auxiliary shelves.

-Teamcenter Database Management is used for Documentation.

RTX (former Raytheon Technologies), El Segundo, CA (First two years as a Contractor with 22nd Century Technologies), 9/2016 – 6/2023

Position of Senior Mechanical Engineer for:

- Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suit

- Multi-Functional Electro-Optical Infrared projects (El-Op Sensor Design Department),

- New Generation Jammer (Space and Airborne Systems),

- HIRE_G2 and PGWAS projects (Space and Airborne Systems),

- Checked drawings, designed and modified Opto-mechanical assemblies,

- Fixtures of opto-mechanical assemblies and submitted changes to Windchill database.

- COTS (Commercial of The Shelf Parts) department,

- Provided cost evaluation to the purchasing department regarding income quotes.

Honeywell Aerospace, Torrance, CA (Contractor with Software Specialists, Inc)

5/2015 – 12/2015

Position of a Lead Mechanical Design Engineer for New Generation Jammer project.

Designed the new electrical generator/motor and the harnesses for commercial

airplanes by using both CAD systems – CREO 2.0 and Unigraphics NX8.5.

KLA-Tencor Corp., Milpitas, CA 4/1999 – 7/2014

Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer (Electron Beam Inspection, Thin-Film measurement, and Surface scan divisions).

Design, manufacturing, and testing included:

-8-axis Optical Inspection Tool of 150 mm Lenses for internal use. One axis was a Close-loop control frameless motor for optical inspection of lens 150mm diameter (up to 60 rpm) which used angular contact ball bearings ABEC 9, another three axes were piezo-electric XYZ stage (Nanomotors) and the rest were commercial available linear and rotary stages.

-Beam-expanding laser beam attenuator with automatic astigmatism correction mechanism, motorized beam expander and half wave plate attenuator.

-Piezo-driven closed-loop stage for 0.7 mm vertical travel combined with one

degree of freedom flexure in high vacuum chamber.

-Perform Stress and Thermal analysis using finite element technique (PRO-Mechanica).

-Design and supervising fabrication of XYTZ stage with Linear Interferometer feedback for wafer inspection.

-XY lightweight diamond cut Aluminum interferometer mirror for XY stage.

-Electro-static chuck for 200- and 300-mm wafer.

-Opto-mechanical design of variable angle broad band spectral ellipsometer.

-Fixtures for testing reliability and life expectancy of rotating flat cables and various positioning components.

-Perform Stress and Thermal analysis using finite element technique (PRO-Mechanica) and mechanical design of high-intensity Xenon lamp module for deep UV illumination.

TOPAZ TECHNOLOGIES, INC, Sunnyvale, CA 1997-1999

Principal Mechanical Design Engineer.

The company developed and manufactured Piezo-electric large format ink-jet heads and printers.

Developed, designed, and tested the following:

-Semi-automatic machines incorporated automatic loading/unloading robot and Vision system, special tooling for this process, replacing manual assembly and reducing operation time by 50%.

-Backside grinding process for a laminated part (glass, PZT and ceramic) and multi-parts clamping fixtures (flexure type) enabling the production of five parts at a time instead of one. Result: yield increased from 50 to 95%.

-Optical Measuring Inspection Station (0.5µm accuracy) that reduced the number of operators from four to two and eliminated manual inspection.

-Ultra-sonic washing fixtures, thus eliminating manual cleaning and handling.

CETR, Inc., (Center for Tribology), Campbell, CA 1996-1997

Project Manager

The company develops and manufactures Tribometers for measuring wear and friction.

-Design of Tribometer for Disc Drive industry to inspect behavior of different coatings under flying reading head in start/stop mode, Park and Fly Stiction test.

-Proposed, developed, designed, and manufactured a Universal Tribology Tester that allows applying variable loads, speed, lubricants and temperature conditions for measuring wear and friction.

KULICKE & SOFFA (ISRAEL) LTD, Haifa, Israel 1994-1996

Mechanical Engineering Group Leader

Proposed, developed, designed, and tested the new Dicing Machine Tool (Diamond Blade as a cutting tool) for semiconductor industry which included the following:

-High speed Air bearing spindle (80,000 rpm)

-Thermo-cutting Machine Tool for dicing flat panels.

-Fully automatic Dicing Tool for cutting silicon wafers.

-Air bearing ceramic linear stage driven by DC brushless linear motor.

-Precision castings design.

-Piezo-driven (nanomotor) Rotary Table.

-In-process EDM dressing of Diamond blades.

MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES, Inc., Ventura, CA 1990-1994

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

In partnership with LLNL, designed Single Diamond Blade Dicing Machine Tool

running on linear Air-bearings for cutting Silicon wafers and hard-to-cut materials.

SCITEX LTD/CUBITAL LTD, Herzelia, Israel prior to 1990

Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer

Company designed and manufactured scanners/plotters for printing industry and 3-D printer. Developed, designed, and tested the following:

-Rotary Drum large format plotter and scanner (ABEC 9 Angular contact and Tapered bearings)

-Flat large format scanners and plotters.

-Optical modules and precision alignment of optical components.

-Proposed and designed a Stereo-lithography 3-D printer for plastic parts (spin-off of SCITEX – CUBITAL Ltd.).

-Leading manufacturing cost reduction team.

Education:

MSME, Riga Technical University, Latvia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Machine Tool Design.

Articles:

-Magazine “Design News”, issue 04/19/1993, Single Blade Dicing Machine Tool

-Magazine “American Machinist”, issue 08/1993, Single Wheel Side Grinding Machine for Hydraulic spools.

Patents:

- Patent 5,795,990 of Aug 18, 1998. Method and Apparatus for Measuring Friction and

Wear Characteristics of Materials, (with N. Gitis, et al.), filed July 30, 1997.

- Patent for Precision Grinding Machine, (with Richard Polacek and Brian D. Balfrey),

filed Sep 09,1992

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