Project Manager Control
Resume:
CLIFFORD A. COSTA
** ******** *******, ********** *****, NY 12590
EMAIL: ****@*********.***
Cell: 845-***-****
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Summary: Proven engineering experience in the development and control of a wide range
of equipment and industries. Major projects completed using AB, GE and Siemens PLCs
and HMIs. Experienced both in hardware and software. Extensive knowledge of Electro
mechanical packaging, sheet metal design, movements and mechanisms. Adept at problem
solving. Solutions oriented, quality conscious.
5/01/08
10/30/08
SP&S Scientific Products and Systems 110 Quigley Boulevard, New Castle, DE 19720
Fluid Control
Position: Director of Engineering
Responsibilities:
Management of a 3 Person Engineering Team.
Electrical and Software Engineering.
Achievements:
ATS Ohio 18 peristaltic pump system with 100% check weighing. Visual Basic
Control interfacing to a RSlogix 5000 PLC via Profibus.
Confidental Extruder. Designed to extrude, cut and package a dental paste. Visual
Basic HMI, Micrologix PLC and IMS smart motor programming.
Watson Labs filling machine. Fill pump bottles via a positive displacement pump, place
caps, Insert caps, prime pump and check for cap placement. Visual Basic HMI,
Micrologix PLC and IMS smart motor programming.
9/01/06
4/18/08
Fala Technologies 430 Old Neighborhood Road, Kingston, N.Y. 12401
Production Engineering, Machine Design, Products & Contract Manufacturing
Position: Program Manager
Responsibilities:
Design and implementation of control systems utilizing state of art PC control with Visual
Basic and embedded motion controllers.
Achievements:
Intel Flatness Metrology Tool (FMT) was a joint project between Zygo and Fala.
This tool set a new state of the art for reticle flatness measurements. The existing
metrology tools have an uncertainty of 20nm and this tool has improved upon that
considerably - to 12nm. Intel will now use the FMT tool as their measurement
standard for all purchased EUVL reticle blanks. Fala’s part of the tool was the
master controller. All tool control, HMI’s, Recipe Creations, Security, Scripting to
Zygo’s Metropro, and Motion sub system control was done with Visual Basic.
Intel Flatness Control Tool (FCT) was a joint project between Fala and Zygo. This
research tool was designed to measure the distortion caused by an electrostatic
CLIFFORD A. COSTA
31 Thompson Terrace, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
EMAIL: ****@*********.***
Cell: 845-***-****
chuck gripping a EUV reticle in a high (.005mt) vacuum. All tool control, HMI’s,
Recipe Creations, Security, Scripting to Zygo’s Metropro, Motion sub system
control and MKS Instrument Vacuum control was done with Visual Basic.
NXP FSI Tool is a wet process tool designed to load, process and unload 200mm
wafer into a Mercury etching tool. It features 4 load ports and a robot. All control
programming was done is Visual Basic and designed to interface to NXP’s shop
floor control software while meeting all SECS/GEM standards.
11/29/98
4/11/06
6/1/98 -
10/29/98
Applied Control Engineering 22 Shelter Rock Lane. Danbury CT.
Systems Integrator.
Position: Project Manager
Responsibilities:
Design and implementation of control systems utilizing state of art PLCs and HMIs.
Achievements:
Recent projects at Applied Control Engineering include the complete electrical
engineering and controls for Compositron's new MDP-G1 grinder. GE 9030 PLC
ladder logic with motion control and GE Machine Edition HMI were used. The MDP
grinder was the WINNER of the IMTS 2004 BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY.
Control system for a patented fiber management technology platform that picks and places,
shuffles, and encapsulates fiber optic fibers with micron accuracy. This system utilized
Allen-Bradley’s ControlLogix PLC platform with extensive motion control and AB’s
RSView for the HMI.
Three oven ramping controller utilizing a Allen-Bradley SLC 5/04 PLC with InTouch
as an interface to PLC and recipe manager.
Thin Client manufacturing reporting system for a new golf ball manufacturing facility.
MPI INC. 165 Smith Street, Poughkeepsie, NY
Industry leading manufacture of Wax Injection Molding Machines to be used for Investment
Casting.
Position: Senior Project Manager
Responsibilities:
Research and Development of new methods of machines control and MMI leading to
machine cost reduction through the use of embedded controls.
Achievements:
Developed a method of storing and retrieving alpha numeric named machine control recipes
from Wonderware’s Intouch and loading them into the GE PLC in the Wax Injection
Machine. This project required Ladder Logic PLC code to be written for a GE Series 90
CLIFFORD A. COSTA
31 Thompson Terrace, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
EMAIL: ****@*********.***
Cell: 845-***-****
Prior to 98
PLC. In addition several Intouch Scripts with extensive string manipulation had to be
written.
AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS DEVELOPERS INC. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Engineering service organization and contract manufacturer of electronics based equipment in
a wide variety of industries, including Computer, Bio Tech, Medical, Marine, Semiconductor,
Transportation, Telephone, and Point of Sale.
Position: Director of Engineering
Responsibilities:
Management of a Design/Engineering Team.
Electrical and Software Engineering.
Production Scheduling and Manufacturing of Design And Build Projects.
Customer Proposals, Estimates, and Presentation for all Projects
Achievements:
Electrical Design of a PLC controlled Post Seal Machine for United States Surgical
Corporation. Required extensive ladder logic programming with AB SLC500.
Designed a 80C51 embedded controller with on board modem for a Parcel Drop. Wrote all
code in C51. These units were deployed by the Post Office for the Olympics in Atlanta.
Designed a PC based Automatic Motor Tester for Philips Corporation to be used in their
Mexico facility. Design contained a optically isolated analog amplifier interface to two
programmable power supplies. All Software was written in “C”.
Design of five fixtures to measure sub-system paper skew of a new Xerox copier.
Extensive software in “C” running under DOS. A Windows interface was written in “C”
and linked to Excel Visual Basic code to do statistical analysis and graphing of all measured
data
Designed Controls for a semi-automated Lithium Battery Assembly Line. Wrote and
debugged all Allen Bradley PLC ladder logic.
Engineering and Design of a Suture Over Labeling Machine for USSC. This system
employed a Cognix Vision System to do OCR on the product number. Software was done
in Opto22’s Cyrano with Vision Software in “C”.
Electrical Engineering and Design of a immobilized mammalion cell bioreactor system
including embedded control software in “C”.
EDUCATION USNR – EM3 - Honorable Discharge
DCC - A.S. Degree in Electo-Mechanical Technology
UTEP - B.S.E.E.
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