Pierre Alexandre Fischer

• Responsible for the control, diagnostic and calibration software of the eDR-5200 product line at KLA-Tencor.
• Responsible for planning, scheduling, executing and delivering new software releases for the existing product lines as well as the next generation.
• In charge of technical leadership and architectural designs for new software features
• Manage 3 teams of software developers responsible for core development of new products, maintenance of existing software and debugging of customer issues

Sector: High Tech

• Managed a group of 11 software engineers consisting of a local team of developers and an outsourced team in India.
• Responsible for the development of the machine control, diagnostics and calibration software for the next generation SEM Review and Classification product line of KLA-Tencor.
• Accomplished the evolution of the hardware control software architecture from Java to C#.
• Designed and executed the implementation of modular, multi-layered control software architecture for new hardware platform to be used for the next 10 years by all SEM products of the company.
• Designed and drove implementation of a Material Transport Software Package based on database transaction concepts. Software package has now been adopted by 3 other divisions in the company.
• Responsible for requirements analysis and design for control software

Sector: High Tech

AIT (Advanced Inspection Tool) product line at KLA-Tencor.

Responsible for features related to hardware controls, diagnostics and calibrations. Involved in all phases of Software development from requirements to final customer acceptance.

Conducted several software re-engineering and reliability improvement projects which resulted in decreased lost time per failure and reduced calibration time

Used Object Oriented approach as well as state machines in the design new calibration software modules.

Designed a self diagnostic utility for a third party Image Processing Computer used on all AIT tools. This application has been reused by two other projects

All development was based on the C++/MFC/COM technologies

Sector: High Tech

CERN is an international organization devoted to fundamental research in High Energy Physics. (http://www.cern.ch)
The laboratory in Geneva Switzerland hosts the largest physics experiments ever built, bringing together several hundreds physicist from over 50 countries.
The cooperant program is a civil service program of the French State Department, allowing Graduate Students to serve their country by working for companies or research organizations instead of serving for a year in the military.
As a cooperant, I was employed in an engineering positions where I was responsible for operations of a particle identification detector based on Cerenkov light detection for the DELPHI experiment. Assignments included the maintenance of the electronics, gas facilities and control software. Main achievements were the design and implementation of a new light calibration box for the detector, the development and deployment of new software control modules.

Sector: Teaching - Research