Experience

JSR Micro, Inc.

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Production Engineer

  • Nov 2011 - Present

  - Transferred semiconductor cleaning product from SVM to LVM Toll manufacturer in Texas. • Project manager for site evaluation, requirements, deliverables, major milestone completion, construction, equipment qualification, process development and documentation, and customer qualification. • Managed day to day operations, issues, customer requirements/PCN, CAPEX projects for improvements, monitoring and setting process control parameters.- Lead production engineer for engineers and operators for day to day operations, coordination, and continuous improvement projects such as: • Reduction of batch adjustments yearly by 15-20%, which reduced operator/engineering work and extra raw material usage. • Improvement of CpK yearly by 10-15% for critical parameters, which decreased cycle time.- Production Engineer: • Developed, created, and issued/adjusted batch photoresist recipes for large scale production batches. - Monitored and controlled COA and in-process process control data and reported/investigated excursions. - Process improvement and troubleshooting: • Carried out process changes for process improvements, new equipment, and customer driven requests. • Introduced, exported, trained, and implemented new maintenance program as continuous improvement for QC, Production and Maintenance departments.- Auditing: • Front-lined internal/ISO/customer audits and risk assessment/FMEA projects.- Served as a technical liaison between Logistics, Production, QC, Engineering and Technical departments. Assisted with troubleshooting, providing information for customer complaints, and material scale-ups through design review.- Led operator and production engineering meetings to discuss issues, improvements, changes, and any knowledge sharing.- Managed process changes, issues though MRB process and six sigma troubleshooting tools such as 8D, 5 whys, and fishbone diagrams. Show less

• QC Photolithography Engineer 1-2

  • Mar 2007 - Nov 2011

  - Photoresist/ Equipment Testing: • Processed ArF/KrF resist, BARC, and other various samples and ensured parameters are within control limits and specifications before material is sent to the customer • Utilized photolithography equipment for 193nm and 248nm tracks/scanners/steppers, film thickness tools, metrology, top-down SEM, and cross-section SEM. • Equipment owner of several production tools by setting/documenting maintenance and repairs, working with vendors for improvements, negotiating service contracts.. • Owner of bookkeeping of in-house R&D resists and raw material inventories. - Statistics/Analysis: • Monitored and modified Six Sigma SPC limits using JMP software. • Lead process changes and tool qualification using accuracy, repeatability, reproducibility and various process matching tests, process optimization using DOE, and provided information for customer approval.- Troubleshooting and process improvement: • Dealt with customer complaints by providing support data for root causes, solutions/contingency plans. • Lead improvement projects using Microsoft project, Office, TSPS (Technical Systematic Problem Solving), and FMEA’s (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) using project management skills.- Teamwork: • Worked in cross-functional teams to improve productivity, quality and efficiency. Show less



Unity Semiconductor

• Sunnyvale, CA

• Sputter Deposition Technician

  • Dec 2005 - Jan 2007

  - Set up sputter deposition processes (PVD) for depositing conductive and non-conductive materials in a Kurt Lesker double chamber sputter deposition machine. - Post deposition tasks included: annealing, resistivity measurements, film thickness determination using an alpha step, optical microscope observations. - Maintenance tasks included: target and tooling changing, target burn-in, and gas and chiller inspections. - Set up sputter deposition processes (PVD) for depositing conductive and non-conductive materials in a Kurt Lesker double chamber sputter deposition machine. - Post deposition tasks included: annealing, resistivity measurements, film thickness determination using an alpha step, optical microscope observations. - Maintenance tasks included: target and tooling changing, target burn-in, and gas and chiller inspections.