RICHARD E. SHULTZ
Mechanical Engineer
  4404 Malaga Drive, Austin TX 78759
home phone : 512-502-9999
rempshultz@sbcglobal.net

COLLEGE DEGREES

BSME from the University of Florida in June 76 with a 3.56/4.00 GPA.
MSME in August 78 from UF with a 3.42 GPA.
Thesis title was:  Computer Augmented Manual Control of Remote Manipulators.

SKILLS

Computer Aided Design : Pro/E, Autocad, have Pro/E student edition at home
Office Applications : MS Word, Excel, Access (database)
Programming Languages : Visual Basic, C++, Java, FORTRAN, Pascal

PATENTS

Patents Granted, Sole Inventor

• 6,077,026 Programmable Substrate Support
  • Page 1 , Figure 1 , Figure 2 , Figure 3 , Figure 5 , Figure 6 , Figure 9 , Figure 10
• 5,417,300 Compact Stackable Car
• 4,308,543 Rotating Ink Jet Printing Apparatus

• 5,853,214 Aligner for a Substrate Carrier
  • Page 1 , Figure 1 , Figure 2 , Figure 4 , Figure 6 , Figure 7
• 5,834,915 Substrate Housing and Docking System
  • Page 1 , Figure 35 , Figure 36 , Figure 38 , Figure 46 , Figure 49 , Figure 55
• 5,664,926 Stage Assembly for a Substrate Processing System
  • Page 1 , Figure 2A , Figure 3A , Figure 5A , Figure 5C
• 5,785,186 Substrate Housing and Docking System (Pod)
  • Page 1 , Figure 1 , Figure 2 , Figure 21C , Figure 23
• 4,500,085 Oscillating Wheel Paper Stacking Apparatus
• 4,418,907 Automatic Reloader-Elevator for Cut Sheet Printer
• 4,274,361 Electrostatic and Magnetic Toner Transfer

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING and DESIGN PROJECTS

• Material handling equipment for semiconductor fabs :
  
  • lid lift mechanism with air cylinder and gas spring
  • design study for a 4 axis wafer moving robot
  • loadport for Front Opening Unified Pods (FOUPs) holding 300mm wafer
  • rotary edge grip end effector for 300 mm wafers
  • intelligent reticule inventory system (IRIS)
  • SMIFed flat finder
  • rotating tilt stage for wafer sorter
• Material handling equipment for flat panels :
  • sealed, closed carrier with substrate supporting combs
  • automatic docking and door opening unit for closed carriers
  • aligner and flipper for transfer of panels to metal vapor deposition tool
  • compliant end effector with vacuum grip
  • high temperature end effector with vacuum grip
  • manual docking unit for open cassettes holding flat aluminum panels
  • generation two cassette transporter/loader with mechanical arm
• Non-impact printing mechanisms :
  • paper stacking mechanism
  • paper detach from print drum
  • magnetic toning print transfer mechanism
  • rotary ink jet test setup

WORK HISTORY

TEXAS COMMISSION on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (TCEQ). From January 2001 to present my position title has been Systems Analyst IV. I started with application stress testing and performance monitoring.  Then wrote C++ code to calculate transaction response times and automatically update web pages, every two hours, with latest statistics on application performance. Also administrated the Webtrends application which reports utilization stats for agency web pages.  I have written macros and visual basic code that convert database extracts to Word Perfect documents. Currently fixing Crystal reports with imbedded SQL. Also maintaining the agency’s mass mailout code. Code written in Xerox VIPP FreeFlow software merges database extracts with forms to produce mass mailouts. Between 2001 and 2007 received 4 salary raises and 3 merit bonuses.

TRILOGY / InsuranceOrder.com, Austin TX, July to November, 2000. Worked as a contractor while writing insurance rating models for the InsuranceOrder web site. Models, written in XML tags, calculate premiums for auto insurance. Also helped the Rating Manager development team by writing test scripts in SILK.

ASYST (Formerly PROGRESSIVE SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES), Austin TX, March to May 00. Worked as a contract mechanical engineer for Asyst in Austin. Developed a training and alignment procedure for a wafer sorter with two prealigners. The deliverable included design drawings for six alignment fixtures.

SPEEDFAM-IPEC, Chandler AZ, April 99 to July 99. Worked as a contract (temporary) mechanical engineer. Designed a lid lift actuator for a semiconductor process tool. Actuator will be compatible with a class 1 clean room. Analyzed a gas spring counterbalance using a linkage math model on an Excel spreadsheet. Used Pro/E for creation of part models, assemblies and drawings.

PROGRESSIVE SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Austin TX, May 93 to Nov 98. Worked as a mechanical engineer. Designed automated material handling equipment for the semiconductor and flat panel display industries. This handling equipment includes : loadport for 300 mm FOUPs, rotary edge grip end effector for 300 mm wafers, other robot end effectors, a SMIFed flat finder, an Intelligent Reticule Inventory System (IRIS), automatic docking unit and closed carrier, and a flat panel aligner and flipper. Used Pro/E for three years and AutoCad for two. Wrote computer models on spreadsheets to predict static and dynamic behavior of structures and mechanisms.

TRANSPORTATION CONSULTANT, Austin TX , Sept 91 to Feb 92, Contracted with Chicago's Regional Transit Authority (RTA) and Packer Engineering to perform a feasibility study. The study considered a stackable rental car which is intended to improve parking density by six fold at commuter train station parking lots. The car would have fold up end sections and a nestable frame. This would permit it to park , as a grocery cart stacks, in a 5 foot space. The car would have the crashworthiness of a 15 foot long car with the ends folded down. SERC design sketches done in Pro/E

COMPUTER ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT (CAD) Austin TX : Worked as a programmer. Started and managed this company from July 86 to Sept 91. I wrote the proposals to secure three Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) contracts. During phase one and two contracts with the USAF's Ballistic Missile Office we developed target recognition software. The last contract, a phase one with NASA, was for development of marker recognition software. The peak number of employees was five. I developed computer vision software in Pascal and directed my staff in their research efforts.

TRACOR APPLIED SCIENCES - Analysis and Applied Research Division Austin TX : February 85 to August 86. Worked as a programmer. Wrote several programs to simulate the ocean noise environment and sonar performance for towed array sonar in the passive broad band. Simulation programs are used to analyze sonar performance and recommend design changes. Programmed in Fortran on a Vax.

GENERAL ELECTRIC - Robotics & Vision Systems Dept. Orlando FL : June 83 to Feb. 84. Worked as a mechanical engineer. Assisted in engineering and installation of an automated titanium extrusion cell. Completed cell includes seven robots and an object recognition supported bin picker.

BURROUGHS CORPORATION, Orlando FL : August 78 to May 83. Worked as a mechanical engineer on non-impact printer design in the areas of print transfer, continuous ink jet, ink-on-demand, paper detach and paper stacking. I am sole inventor on one patent and co-inventor on four.