Experience

WaferTech

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Supervising Production Engineer

  • Jan 2010 - Present

  Manage a team of production engineers who plan and design methods to improve or enhance existing programs. Develop and recommend revisions or enhancements to schedules, human and monetary resource allocations, and production requirements to improve productivity and increase output. Manage several cross-functional projects resulting in cost reduction, headcount reduction, productivity enhancements, quality improvements and ergonomic improvements Develop and implement technical training classes, dispatching enhancements and overall system improvements ensuring sustainable growth and savings for the organization  Streamline manufacturing jobs allowing for a 3% reduction in headcount (18 people) Collaborate with engineering and production teams to establish and maintain strong cross-functional communication leading to consistent successful program roll-outs, prompt support response and overall effective flow of information across all technical disciplines Enhance and lead current new hire training, procedural improvements and manufacturing wide on-boarding classes improving overall productivity and reducing on-boarding from 120 to 90 days Supervise 12 or more concurrent projects ranging in size and scope up to $1.5M+ Direct and manage teams of 30+ production specialists through scheduling, goal setting, motivation, team building and on-going technical training resulting in repeatedly exceeding expectations, individual and organizational goals Reduce monitor wafer cost by 250K per year by altering downgrade flow, improved procedures and qualifying second sources  Collaborate with IT to create and implement a fab firewall, securing privacy of internal operations Show less

• Thin Films Process Engineer

  • Jul 2008 - Jan 2010

  Minimize process variations and excursions in product manufacturing process to maximize yield. Facilitate continuous improvement to enhance yield or reduce production costs.  Address and resolve all quality yield related issues utilizing real time monitoring skills. Setup statistical charts to monitor pressure, temperature and gas flow ensuring consistent stability of all tools Respond to and resolve time sensitive issues by designing experiments to replicate and discover cause of shifts in quality Perform extensive qualifications and data analysis to alter the sequencing of chambers and reduce the cool time recipe resulting in capacity increase on MS Endura tools by 5%  Analyze data and design experiments enhancing process of over 20 tools resulting in a stable process Manage process for Tel Scrubbers, Metal Sputtering equipment (MS Endura, CVD TIN etc.)  Experience with metrology tools RS75, KLA Tencor, Quantox and XRF Implement new real time monitoring for wafer to wafer differences leading to the discovery of issue that would have resulted scrap of entire product Show less