Michael Forbush

591 Bordeaux Place
Hollister, CA 95023
Home: (831)630-3042
Work: (408)273-2635

Michael Forbush

Objective
Research Project Manager in a research and development facility. The ideal situation would be working in a small company in need of electrical, software, and process skills and experience.

Experience

2000 EDC Biosystems

EDC Biosystems is a subsidiary of Exclusive Design Company. This group develops equipment for the Bio Technology industry.

Software Project Manager

* Developed advanced liquid handling tool. Was involved from the theoretical development to the construction and programming of the tool.

* Developed Shop Floor Control software for networking tools together. Allows for remote monitoring and control of tools.

1995-1999 Exclusive Design Company San Jose, CA

Exclusive Design Company builds process equipment for the hard disk drive and semiconductor industry.

 Engineering Manager

* Debugged hardware, software and firmware on process equipment used in the hard disk drive industry

* Wrote new control software for new process equipment and research tools

* Designed CE marked power distribution for European process equipment.

* Managed the electrical documentation for new CMP tool

* Modeled CMP process in order to improve tool performance

* Managed electrical technicians and software consultants on tool design projects

*Wrote software for research tools

*Wrote manufacturing procedures

*Presented paper on using DeviceNet in Semiconductor Equipment at FieldComms 97

1990-1995	University of California, Davis	Davis, CA
		and Hamburg, Germany 																

Postdoctoral Fellow

* Managed the Davis High Energy Physics effort in Hamburg (1991-1993)
* Managed the Calorimeter Group (1992)
* Installed and brought up the Tail Catcher calorimeter
* Directed data analysis effort on the measurement of the rho meson cross section
* Taught introductory physics (1994-1995)

1985-1990	Texas Accelerator Center	The Woodlands, TX

Graduate Research Assistant

* Designed, built and tested optical light guide and photo tube assemblies
* Wrote analysis code in Fortran77 for the SX-2 super computer
* Directed high school student in Mentor program

Education

1983-1985	Texas A&M University    College Station, TX

* Taught electronics laboratory
* Taught astronomy
* Ph.D., High Energy Physics 

1979-1983	John Carroll University     University Heights, OH

* BS, Engineering Physics
* Developed fiber optic interferometer for passive sonar

Skills

Software Languages: Fortran, Basic, Java, C/C++, Labview, Ladder Logic, HTML and more.

Operating Systems: DOS, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, Unix, Ultrix, OS-9, VxWorks

Hardware Platforms: DEC Vaxes and Alphas, IBM mainframes, Sun Workstations, SGI Workstations, Apple Macintosh, IBM PC and PC clones, VME 68K, Allen Bradley PLC-5, IDEC Micro3 and more.

Electrical Engineering: Orcad Schematic Capture, Orcad Layout, Autocad

Problem Solving: Electronics, Electricity and Magnetism, Wave Mechanics, Fundamental Physics, Scientific Method, Project Management and more.

Interests:
Keeping up with technological developments in many areas of science