Jonathan M. Kliman

81 Spaulding Street

Amherst, Massachusetts 01002

(413)259-­1690

Email: kliman@oit.umass.edu

 

 


Education                   Master's Degree Candidate, Mechanical Engineering

                                    University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 1989­1992

 

                                    Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

                                    University of Massachusetts at Amherst in June of 1989.

                                    Graduated Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna, NY, June of 1985.

 

Computer Languages            ADA, 80x86/Assembly Language, BASIC, C, C++, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and XBase

 

Computer Skills         Well versed in MS/DOS and VAX/VMS and familiar with UNIX. Have used and am familiar with Lotus­123 and compatibles, Ventura Publisher, Corel­Draw, Matlab, dBase, Paradox, WordPerfect, Word, Microsoft Windows, I­DEAS, CATIA, ANSYS and many other computer software packages. Comfortable with using small personal computers, VAX minicomputers and workstations, Novell servers, and the management of individual computers and heterogeneous computer networks. Have assembled personal computers and performed maintenance on VAX computers. Capable of programming for DOS, Windows, VMS and UNIX including experience with distributed programs on heterogeneous networks and real time programming. Took courses in systems programming and data structures.

 

Course Work              Thermodynamics, Fluids, Finite Element and Finite Difference Methods, Metallurgy, Advanced Infrared Analysis, and Electronics.

Experience

 

Jan. ’95 to present     System Engineer for Office of Information Technologies at University of Massachusetts.

 

Jan. ‘94 to May ‘95   Senior Engineer for Sunderland Engineering, Inc. Assisted in writing proposals for work with Electrical Power Research Institute. Wrote and designed company brochure.

 

Sep. ‘93 to May ’95   Computer and Engineering Consultant. Performed thermal analysis of wear on rotating surfaces. Set up Windows for Workgroups networks to work with Pathworks and TCP/IP including maintenance of Internet Web browsers and other Internet ease of use tools.

 

Sep. `92 to Sep. `93    Application Engineer for Temp­Pro Inc.

Involved with development of a complete Pump­Off control system for artificial lift wells from a prototype. System included 6 well sensors, a sophisticated RTU, and a customized version of the graphical RealFlex system for well status display. Project included an extensive and ongoing publication search, site visits with various vendors and end­users in Texas, and meeting with the system engineers in Venezuela.

 

Managed company's dBase based computer system. Maintained the data base; wrote new software as needed and assisted users. User assistance involved working directly with drafting to help them with program generated bills of materials and assisting accounting with month and year end inventory and work in process totals.

 

Designed part number generation program. Using Borland Turbo Vision a program was developed to arrive at a company part number for any of the offered products using a set of simple dialogue boxes presented to users on machines ranging from 8088 black and white computers to 80486 color machines with mice.

 

In charge of implementation of software to manage entire company. Initiated preliminary meetings and organized all successive meetings with representatives from Profit­Key International. After software approved for purchase, analyzed structure and order flow of company and how the company could adapt to the new package; responsible for related initial employee training. In charge of extensive upgrading including client and server hardware and software and of network hardware.

 

Worked on development of post­processors and parts families programs for numerical control lathes. Used CAM program Shop­Cam from Shop Systems.

 

June `91 to Aug. `92   Computer Programmer for project PILGRIM. Developed a commercial implementation of VMS/Kerberos software development kit. Gained experience in Berkeley socket interface programming, Microsoft Windows programming, and in the use of remote procedure calls and threads using the OSF/DCE.

 

Feb. `91 to Aug. `92   System Manager for Mechanical Engineering Design Lab. In charge of installing computers in lab, installing and upgrading the VMS and DOS software for the system, installing application software, maintaining users and disk space, and writing small programs to ease complexity of using the networking software.

 

June `89 to Feb. `91   Research assistant.

Worked on the experimental discovery of thermal contact resistance on electronic components. Project involved analysis of temperature profiles across heat sink/diode base plate interface using different materials in the interface. Also gained experience in surface profile testing.

 

Explored thermal imaging techniques and thermal fault detection for computer circuit boards, and development of extensive software for thermal imaging and fault detection. Had extensive contact with infra­red camera developer AGEMA and with sponsors and co­developers at Digital Equipment Corporations. Developed experimental apparatus and techniques. Investigated several techniques for fault detection using transient infra­red energy for rapid production based fault detection.

 

In charge of system maintenance of a network consisting of PC's and a VAX using DEC Pathworks.

 

Publications from thermal imaging project:

Maudgal, V., Kliman, J., Miles, J., and Sunderland, J. E., ``Determination of  Thermal Contact in a Diode­Heat Sink Assembly'', The Journal of Electronic Packaging, 112, 350­356, December 1990.

 

Maudgal, V., Kliman, J., Miles, J., and Sunderland, J. E., ``A Thermal  Measurement Method to Test Circuit Boards in Production'', The International  Journal of Hybrid Microelectronics, 13­3, 53­60, September, 1990.

 

Maudgal, V., Kliman, J., Miles, J., and Sunderland, J. E., ``Transient Analysis of  Thermal Contact in a Diode­Heat Sink Assembly'', Applied Energy, 39, 31­43, 1991.

 

Miles, J., Kliman, J., Maudgal, V., and Sunderland, J. E., ``Component Temperature Measurement Using Infrared Scanning Technology'', The International Journal for Hybrid Microelectronics, 14­3, 103­112, September, 1991.