STG Associate: Jim Hollister

Senior Manufacturing Systems Consultant

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Jim is a senior manufacturing systems consultant at Alan Weber & Associates, and is a specialist in fab-level system requirements analysis, design, implementation and test. Before joining, Jim spent his most recent two years at KLA-Tencor as the Catalyst Program Manager. His principal responsibility was to insure that the Control Solutions' product/technology strategy and consulting activities complemented one other and were aligned with the division's goals. This included identifying software product opportunities within the semiconductor industry, identifying emerging software technologies that may be applicable in the factory automation field, providing technical support to the sales organization, and working with new customers to insure that projects got off to a good start. In addition, he was instrumental in the development and teaching of APC product training courses.

Jim has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing systems, the last 17 in the semiconductor industry. He joined Control Solutions in March 1996 as one of the original architects and developers on the AMD APC Framework Initiative project, which was the precursor to the Catalyst APC product. Before joining Control Solutions, Jim worked at SEMATECH as one of the systems architects on the CIM Framework program; before this he spent 7 years at Thesis Group pioneering the design and application of cell control technology in the semiconductor industry, and 5 years at Texas Instruments in automation systems.

Jim earned his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.