MICHAEL MAGEE
LOS GATOS, CA
(408) 395-6869
CMMAGEE@NETZERO.NET

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

In Software Engineering responsible for leading a team of highly talented engineers in a fast paced, technically demanding environment. While guiding the development of architecture and design, and spearheading ongoing efforts to make released products customer friendly, easy to use, and easy to manage.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Nine years at Philips Semiconductor/VLSI as a hands-on manager responsible for leading complex but user-friendly software for managing the Mask making software and its enhancement so that Mask Tooling Engineers could easily manage the overall flow despite myriad configuration changes and product derivatives. Previous leadership experience includes hands-on software development and creating pioneering software applications and then helping customers derive maximum benefit and satisfaction from it.

UNIQUE SKILLS

Customer Focus: Keeps customer/end-user needs in mind when developing processes, protocols, and methods making it easy for anyone to use the released products and making them hassle-free.
Streamlining Processes: Continually audits existing processes throughout the enterprise and identifies how they can be improved. Collaborate cross-functionally for ongoing improvements.
Relentless Standardization: Establishes standards across the entire development process and identifies how these can simplify product development and to reduce cost. Establishes policies.
Innovative Mindset: Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for improving products, processes/methodologies. Automates processes to eliminate costs/errors.
Inspire Teams: Uses extensive development experience and customer knowledge to mobilize teams and help them achieve unprecedented goals. Mentors team members to deliver excellence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MyADTV 2005-2006
Consulting Engineer
Provided the engineering needed to finish the first commercial version of the Digital Signage content management software. This software follows the ASP model using PC’s running LINUX with Apache. The software is written using MySql for the database and PHP for Server side language and HTML, XML, DHTML, JavaScript for the client side languages.
Philips Semiconductors/VLSI 1994-2003

Manager Software Engineering
Staff Software Engineer
Responsible for leading a team of specialists engaged in mask tooling, software designs, establishing tooling development methodologies, creating operator-friendly interfaces despite multi-vendor software.

Managed critical EDA software. Was the system admin and network designer for the Unix workstations and servers used in the Mask Tooling Department. When another CAD group was sold, ongoing use of this application presented unforeseen problems, which would jeopardize current operations. Building new software would be mandatory. As staff engineer, identified how current functionality could be integrated with new modules, devised a bold plan to develop only selective modules using new programs with a centralized database and graphical tool kits. Mask production continued despite the loss of the CAD group. New software was GUI driven user friendly and less prone to user errors through the use of automation.

Existing systems were taking several hours to transmit massive mask-design files to fab vendors, limited by the transfer rates. IT department refused to upgrade system, as they had no incentive. Devised a plan that incented IT to cooperate after a source of funds to purchase capital items was identified. IT then willingly integrated the new high-speed modems, greatly reducing mask to fab time. Because the new lines were unreliable a server daemon was written to detect a failed line using FTP and sent Email to revenant parties depending on the length of down time, allowing data to be sent when needed.

As the Y-2K deadline was nearing, discovered that legacy CAD system was unable to read some critical information from new chips. This problem suggested having to redesign the chip using new CAD package, an expensive proposition for the customer. Identified a patch and developed a simple fix to the old CAD software, allowing reading of the data for all chips, new and old. This approach saved countless millions of dollars to customers without chip redesign.

The Mask Tooling group was unable to get email on the workstations because Philips used MAPI mail protocol instead of IMAP protocol. Modifications were made to Open Source mail programs to allow conversion of MAPI to IMAP protocol and then redistribute the email to the users’ workstation saving the cost of a PC for each user.

When shutdown was announced I collaborated with peers and IT to devise a plan to save all Mask Tooling data for 15 years. This required moving data from tape and paper to workstation and then to DVD on a PC, this required Samba to be installed and configured. All data made it to the archives.

Xerox Corporation/Versatec Prior-1994
Staff Software Engineer
Manager National Software Support
Manager Software Quality Assurance
Principal Software Engineer

Assigned to many business-critical projects as a crack software and systems troubleshooter.

As the primary architect of the pioneering color printing products, helped the Pentagon and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in their ongoing efforts to print extremely high-fidelity color images for critical applications, including battlefield use in the Gulf Conflict. Algorithm breakthroughs resulted in moiré-free colored images of high resolution and unprecedented color matches with unparalleled rendition. This breakthrough helped Xerox vault to the premier position in color printing and remain there for many years. Received U.S. Patent for the algorithm breakthrough.

As software support manager discovered that a major client was threatening to switch to competitor’s printer because of incompatibility with its VAX mainframe. Provided on-site service and troubleshot the handshake problem, which was with the customer interface. This working team of experts resolved the root cause, helping the customer print high-quality images as promised.

Isolated and then corrected design flaws in systems as a sole representative to Peoples’ Republic of China responsible for helping bring color equipment on line so that additional opportunities could be opened for continuing business. Collaborated with customer to help improve systems.

As the National Software Support Manager collaborated with upper management and started the software quality group as a means to increase customer satisfaction. After several years the department with its manager was moved and reported to the director of quality assurance, now hardware and software could operate as a unified front to QA the hardware and software together.

EDUCATION

B.S., Mathematics with emphasis on computer science, California State University, Hayward, CA
M.S. in Ops Research, completed coursework requirements

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

• Completed courses in Project Management, color science, management techniques, management law, negotiations, and finance for business.
•One software patent on color application technology
•Three patents in mask tooling technology
•One patent pending in Digital Signage

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PHP, XML, HTML, MySql, JavaScript, CSS, DOM, C++, C, Perl, JAVA, MainSail, FORTH, PLI, PASCAL, ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, IBM/JCL

UNIX, SUN Solaris, LINUX , HP-UX, IBM AIX, DOS, MVS, OS, VM/CMS, MS-DOS, MS Windows
Multithreaded programming, Graphical Tool Kits, Telnet, GDSII, CIF, Apache, Samba, FTP, RPC, SSH, VI, IBM Utilities; ISO 9000; Networking equipment protocols. MS Office Suite.