Binder Engineer and Supervisor

• Jun 2023 - Present

Furnace Engineer and Supervisor

• Jun 2021 - May 2023

Directly managed 5 direct melt E-glass furnaces and 1 E200 marble submerged throat furnaceStudied drawings to start proposing alternative furnace designs that should have a longer lifeAssisted pushing electrodes in multiple furnace rebuildsExecuted cost project that saved $4000 per yearCoordinated time efficient meetings for knowledge sharing across the shifts I supervise and perform tasks based on feedback

Glass Furnace and Batch Engineer

• May 2019 - Jun 2021

Developed method to correlate location specific temperatures, to furnace life.Oversight of two oxy gas furnace rebuildsLearned SolidWorks to design and implement tools to unclog silosLed safety initiative to mitigate risk on both a systematic and personnel levelCreated alternative control valve linkage design to minimize risk of temperature control loss due to linkage failurePlanned and executed a task to prevent the growth of a glass leak spotted, thus prolonging the life of the furnace Show less

Thermal Oxidation Engineer

• May 2016 - May 2019

• Managed set of furnaces used for the oxidation process in a 24/7 manufacturing environment • Identifying concerns from detection systems, investigating issues, and determining fixes. • Consistent use of SPC(Statistical Process Control) to proactively detect protentional quality issues. • Spearheaded projects designed to increase process marginality between whether or not material produced met specifications. • Learned SQL and VBA programming languages in order to help speed up data analysis. • Conducted analysis comparing quartz material and silicon carbide used during processing and determined quartz material was negatively impacting manufacturing environment. Recommended switching to silicon carbide, resulting in savings of $30,000 per year. • Developed new process introducing addition of another gas to help eliminate an intermittent contamination issue that had been causing yield loss since 2008. Introduced process to another manufacturing site within TI to solve similar issue. • Led project to eliminate use of unnecessary bare silicon material used for measuring LBCSOI devices, and switched to LBC4, enabling measurability and quality monitoring and resulting in a cost savings of $50,000 per year. Show less

Semiconductor Manfucating Engineering Intern

• May 2015 - Aug 2015

• Optimized current procedures to create defect identification programs • Created new defect identification programs for select, more complex devices • Automated rework process steps to avoid potential mistakes due to manual entry • Optimized current procedures to create defect identification programs • Created new defect identification programs for select, more complex devices • Automated rework process steps to avoid potential mistakes due to manual entry

Intern

• May 2014 - Aug 2014

• Quickly grasped the key operation parameters of an optical profilometer • Designed layout procedure to show correlation between resistance and shape of 3D printed fuel cells • Used knowledge of C++ to create an Adrunio kit that can measure the voltage of multiple fuel cells Published a paper regarding my the layout to resistance correlation can be found here: http://ecst.ecsdl.org/content/64/3/935.abstract • Quickly grasped the key operation parameters of an optical profilometer • Designed layout procedure to show correlation between resistance and shape of 3D printed fuel cells • Used knowledge of C++ to create an Adrunio kit that can measure the voltage of multiple fuel cells Published a paper regarding my the layout to resistance correlation can be found here: http://ecst.ecsdl.org/content/64/3/935.abstract