Experience

Intermolecular

• United States
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Equipment Engineering Manager

  • Mar 2017 - Present

  Manage a team of engineers and technicians to support the changing needs of our company, and the customers we serve. Oversee activities to ensure optimal equipment availability, stability, readiness to process customer samples in an R&D service environment. Responsible for all processing equipment, dominated by PVD and ALD. Responsible for staffing, training, and implementation of policy.

• Equipment Engineer III

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  Install, reconfigure, optimize advanced semiconductor processing equipment in R&D focused organization. Ensure timely completion of projects on critical schedules to enable delivery on company commitments. Ownership of equipment to include full life-cycle: specification and construction, maintenance and corrective activities, diagnostics, decontaminations, etc. Other current activities: work with suppliers and vendors, support as-needed for equipment in all areas where critical processing of customer work have needs, rotational process kit cleaning, packaging, and delivery to internal customers. Contribute to documentation and training. Active ERT member. Show less



Equipment Engineering Professional

• Equipment Engineer

  • Nov 2013 - Sep 2014

  Contract engineering services, including CAD design of parts and assemblies, project management, maintenance and repair of commercial, industrial, and in-house electromechanical equipment. Specializing in vacuum, high voltage AC/DC, thinfilm depositions, dry etch, pecvd, cmp. Contract engineering services, including CAD design of parts and assemblies, project management, maintenance and repair of commercial, industrial, and in-house electromechanical equipment. Specializing in vacuum, high voltage AC/DC, thinfilm depositions, dry etch, pecvd, cmp.



Philips Lighting

• Netherlands
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Equipment Engineer, Senior

  • Jun 2005 - Nov 2013

  - Produced permanent corrections to difficult ergonomic and material supply issues. · Specified and oversaw new equipment installations and equipment relocations. · Responsible for SPTS and KDF PVD, CHA metal evaporators, DISCO grind, and Plasma-Therm equipment. · Design (SolidWorks) and manufacture custom parts and and tooling to enable new LED packaging technologies. - Modelled thinning process relating mechanics of free-abrasive process to yield and operational efficiency. Substantial yield and capacity increase realized. · Modelled precious metal tracking and recovery for evaporative and pvd processes, saving >$1M per year. · Support and advise manufacturing operations at overseas facility. Travel and training provided increased process yield and production line capacity. · Modelled follow-through after workplace injuries to determine cause and identify mitigations Show less



MRL Industries

• Quality Engineer

  • Apr 2003 - Jun 2005

  · Oversaw product and procedural quality assurance including: incoming material quality and vendor liason, customer representative in daily manufacturing meetings. · Audit authority of all manufacturing processes and procedures in ISO9001/2000 listed company. · Established methodology for all instrument calibration maintenance and a robust control system. · Engineering of failure analysis; FA report presentations to senior managers (CEO, CFO, directors), and report to customers · Identified root cause of long-term complaint from customer of slight misalignment in element assembly · Built strong relationship between engineering and manufacturing by fostering change requests into the engineering improvement funnel, assessing legitimacy at the lowest level, and providing solutions Show less



Texas Instruments

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Equipment Engineer

  • Aug 1994 - May 2001

  Equipment Engineer · Equipment utilization; OEE, ergonomics. Failure proofing of subsystems. Document maintenance. · Developed quick pm methods that reduced the need for repairs, extended service life between pm’s, and optimized pm time. · Solved major yield loss crisis end of the line. Zero loss after recommendation implemented. · Matching processes across 5 etch systems environment. Section Manager, Etch Equipment · Oversaw equipment uptime and process control for production in the etch area · Managed a staff of four engineers and twenty-two technicians. · Built a high-functioning equipment support team focused on delivering best in class OEE and predictability. Process matching, process robustness, employee development, project management. Show less



Portable Energy Products

• Quality Engineer

  • May 1993 - Jul 1994

  Responsible for all aspects of company quality metrics, reported to CEO. Oversaw workstation yield data collection and reporting, signator on all documentation, managed sampling and reporting of outgoing product quality. Accomplishments: Travelled to six cities visiting customer sites (including IBM) to resolve reliability issues (primarily under-charging). Assessed yields as a function of accrued cost; identified key areas needing improvement. Responsible for all aspects of company quality metrics, reported to CEO. Oversaw workstation yield data collection and reporting, signator on all documentation, managed sampling and reporting of outgoing product quality. Accomplishments: Travelled to six cities visiting customer sites (including IBM) to resolve reliability issues (primarily under-charging). Assessed yields as a function of accrued cost; identified key areas needing improvement.



GCA Corp

• Manufacturing Quality Engineer

  • Aug 1980 - Dec 1993

  Responsible for all aspects of quality at Sunnyvale office for 4-years. Prior assignments included Research and Development Technician, Assembly and Test acting manager, supervisor, engineer. Responsible for all aspects of quality at Sunnyvale office for 4-years. Prior assignments included Research and Development Technician, Assembly and Test acting manager, supervisor, engineer.