Summary
Tim Hutchison is a Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years building equipment control, fault detection, and production-planning systems for semiconductor and manufacturing customers. He brings deep OO design and hands-on coding in Java, C#, Smalltalk and SQL across Windows, Linux and Solaris, and has repeatedly moved projects from embedded device drivers to customer-facing control frameworks. At Cimetrix he designs and implements control systems using CIMControlFramework and has a track record of onsite collaboration and support that tightens the loop between product and production. His background includes developing real-time control frameworks, machine tracking and quotation systems at companies like Adventa, Rudolph and Texas Instruments, and he holds a Professional Scrum Master I certification. Unusually, he pairs legacy-language expertise (Smalltalk) with modern enterprise stacks, enabling pragmatic solutions for long-lived industrial systems.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelors, Bachelors at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale