Cheryl joined Omniprobe, Inc., an industry leader providing scientific equipment and solutions for extending focused ion beam and electron microscope capabilities, in 2007. Cheryl’s position as Senior Applications Specialist capitalizes on her broad background in semiconductor and biological research.
Previously she was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Texas Instruments, working from 1995-2007 in the materials characterization branch of the Central Research Labs and later a packaging development group. During her 12 years at TI, she led multiple cross-functional worldwide teams, while directing a characterization lab and pioneering new developments of scanning acoustic microscopy for IC package inspection. From 1996-1999 she played a pivotal role in developing in situ lift-out as well as other FIB sample preparation methods and was one of 3 original members of Omniprobe.
Prior to TI, she worked 6 years as a Research Associate at Howard Hughes Medical Insitute and UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she became expert in immunocytochemistry, fluorescence and electron microscopy, protein analysis, molecular biology, and tissue culture, while assisting research of cell immortalization and cancer, schizophrenia, and structural biology. She held an adjunct faculty position teaching microbiology at Eastfield College (Mesquite, TX) from 1990-1998.
Cheryl holds several patents and has authored numerous papers, 2 book chapters, won 3 Best Presentation awards, and served as General Chair for the 2006 International Symposium on Test and Failure Analysis (ISTFA) and the 2008 Advanced Materials and Failure Analysis (AMFA) workshop. She won an NSF SBIR Phase I award in 2009 and was elected to the EDFAS Board of Directors in 2010. She received B.S. (cum laude) and M.S. degrees in microbiology from Texas A&M (1986) and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1989).
Cheryl enjoys travel, science fiction, martial arts (Muay Thai), and her cats.
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