(714) 423-2444 Kenneth H. Isaak ken.isaak@isaakscherr.

com

Seeking employment as a Software Engineer

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
MSC Software
CFX-Build 4 years experience.
Project manager and Software Engineer for CFX-Build, a CAE product for modeling the flow of
fluids and gases. This product was produced and sold by a third party client from a modification of
MSC Patran and created $800,000 per year in corporate revenue.
Job tasks consisted of: Collecting client requirements from customers in England; Creating
appropriate project documents; Implementing the project requirements; QA the product, create
release media and ship results to client.
Documentation 2 years experience
Created documentation for the internal customization API of MSC Patran.
Job tasks consisted of: Identifying which functions to document; Reading source code to identify
the purpose of the function; Write the function description; Write and QA a function example;
Publish function description through the documentation department.
MSC Acumen 4 years experience
Project manager and Software Engineer for MSC Acumen.
This product used XML and PCL, a proprietary scripting language, to allow custom user interfaces
and work flow specific job tasks to be created in MSC Patran in the field. This reduced the work
effort for repetitive tasks, greatly improving user efficiency.
Job tasks consisted of: Identifying the cause of and fixing reported bugs, collecting requirements
for and implementing new product features; Writing and improving product documentation; QA for
the product; Creating release media.
MSC Patran; Senior Engineer 13 years experience
MSC Patran is an engineering analysis tool for the mechanical engineering CAE industry. This
industry leading tool is available on Windows and UNIX platforms. A million lines of code
application, customers such as Boeing or Pratt and Whitney rely on this product as part of their
daily business operations. This single product provides about $30 million in yearly revenue to MSC
Software.
As a member of a team of 5 senior engineers, I was directly responsible for the development,
maintenance, and release of MSC Patran.
Job tasks consisted of: Implementing new features; Maintaining components of MSC Patran
application such as the forward translator and the tools used used to import foreign geometry;
Fixing bugs; Writing documentation; Writing and maintaining QA scripts.
MSC Patran; Project Manager 4 years experience
Project Manager for several specific products: CFX-Build and MSC Acumen.
Project Manager for several specific project areas:
 Maintenance of the integration of the Spatial Interop third party tool used to import foreign CAD
geometry files into MSC Patran.
 Implementation of various release specific feature enhancements.
 Implementation of tools to improve the ability to QA parts of the MSC Patran code base.
MSC Patran; Manager 4 years experience
Managed engineering staff in India used to perform MSC Patran maintenance tasks.
Managed a direct report used to support maintenance of the MSC Patran forward translator.
Tamarack Scientific Co. Inc.
Mechanical Engineering
 Created drawings for mechanical components of a prototype silicon wafer processor.
 Assembled components.
 Maintained, operated, wrote and implemented performance test plans designed to evaluate the
performance of the machine.
Electrical Engineering
 Created drawings for and implemented the electrical wiring for a prototype silicon wafer processor.
 Created drawings for production ultraviolet contact photo-lithography equipment.
Software Engineering
 Implemented both the physical wiring and the software for a corporate network using both UNIX
workstations and personal computers to improve communications at the work site.
 Six years of experience writing machine control software components using the C programming language.
These software components integrated lasers, robotics, and pneumatic controls through control functions
coordinated through serial communications ports, direct hard wired connections, and TCP/IP network
communications to produce equipment used in the manufacture of Hewlett Packard ink jet printer
cartridges and IBM main frame components.
Co-authored a patent detailing a process control system using an optical measurement device to control the
thickness of thin films on silicon wafers. The process control system allowed thin films to be grown on silicon
wafers with very high repeatability and accuracy. over the film thickness and quality.

I am a United States citizen.

I have never held a security clearance.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer; MSC.Software Corporation 1996 –October 16, 2009
 Developed and maintained MSC Patran.
 Designed and wrote software to customize products for client specific applications.
 Managed partner relationships.
 Managed projects with outsourced staff in India.
 Wrote and maintained technical documentation describing an open architecture applications programming
interface.
 Wrote and maintained regression tests to QA various components.
 Used the following tools:

UNIX: IBM, SUNS, HP, SGI; Windows NT; Windows XP; Linux; FORTRAN; make; apache; IIS; C; C++;
Bourne shell; C shell; Korn shell; PCL; Word for Windows; Adobe Framemaker; Clearcase; Microsoft
Project; Install Shield; TCP/IP networks; Perl; Python; Vmware; Visual SlickEdit; Dtsearch; Spatial Interop
Software Engineer; Physicist; Tamarack Scientific Co. 1988 - 1996
 Designed, wrote, and implemented machine control software for custom laser ablation and photo
exposure manufacturing tools.
 Designed, developed, and implemented the mechanical, electrical and control software for an
experimental rapid thermal processor used for processing silicon wafers for integrated circuit
manufacturing.
 Designed and implemented the mechanical, electrical, and control software for the integration of various
third party components including: lasers, robots, pneumatic actuators.
 Co-authored a patent for film thickness control using an ellipsometer in a rapid thermal processor.
 Used the following tools:

Access; Bourne shell; C; C shell; C++; Excel; HP VEE, now Aligent VEE, a LabVIEW like tool; HP-UX;
Korn shell; OS/2; PVCS; Phar Lap protected mode DOS; TCP/IP networks; Visual Basic; Windows 3.11;
Word for Windows; make; ladder logic; PLC
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Physics; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Associate of Arts in Electronics; Orange Coast College