Josh Melnick
Owner-Partner at Heartland Property Group
Salem, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Melnick is an owner-partner and seasoned process and materials engineer with nine years of experience specializing in semiconductor and MEMS fabrication, thin films, and UWB wide-bandgap materials research. He has led MBE and sputtering process development for GaN, Ga2O3 and AlN, applied DOE and Six Sigma methods in production, and integrated machine learning (Bayesian optimization, Gaussian processes) to accelerate materials optimization for AFRL projects. Comfortable from hands-on tool ownership (e-beam, sputter, RTA, lithography) to characterization (SIMS, Hall, AFM, XRD), he also brings practical product transfer skills from RIT graduate research into manufacturing environments. Fluent in Chinese and experienced managing international projects, he has automated engineering workflows with VBA and bridged technical and operational teams. Currently studying Python for data science and ML (Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow/Keras) and SQL/Git, he is combining domain expertise in semiconductor processes with emerging data-driven optimization skills. Based in Salem, Ohio, he runs a real estate rental business alongside his technical career, showing entrepreneurial versatility beyond the lab.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Microelectronics Engineering, 3.5, M.S., Microelectronics Engineering, 3.5 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyQing Dao UniversityB.S., Chinese, Electrical Engineering; Microelectronics and Electric Power, B.S., Chinese, Electrical Engineering; Microelectronics and Electric Power at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
intermediate4
game-development2
game-dev2
Github contributions (5)
nichow/gamedevgamejamfall2016team001001
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
2502-feb25-java-org/josh_project0
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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