Experience

Altera

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 700 & Above Employee

• Device Manager

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  - Leading a team of engineers towards realizing and achieving short and long term goals.- Responsible for continuous fabrication process improvement at Altera's key foundries on mainstream processes to meet the yield, defect density and process control Cp/Cpk target.- Work with Altera's key foundries on all processes up to 28nm logic and non-volatile technologies.- Implement periodic technical audits at Altera's key foundries.- Provide constant synergistic training to upgrade technical skills of team members through internal and external training. - Drive for flawless responsibility transfer from headquarter. - Support customer issue and manage yield excursion with timely communication of expectation, status and wafer disposition decision. Show less

• Member of Technical Staff

  • May 2005 - Feb 2010

  - Interface with wafer fabrication foundry to address wafer related issue, improve the defect density and ensure that wafer yield meets the target. - Performs analysis on the wafer electrical test parameters and in line data to identify potential issues due to silicon processing.- Perform test structure measurement and characterization- Monitor sort yield trend, wafer map and parameter correlation analysis to provide timely feedback to foundry on yield excursion issue.- Work with foundry on device electrical characteristics tuning to meet the product performance/yield window.- Review design for manufacturability rules, mask data and logic operation to ensure successful new product tapeout in foundry. Show less

• Senior Failure Analysis Engineer

  • Aug 2000 - Apr 2005

  - Perform failure analysis on semiconductor devices from fault isolation to identification of physical defect.- Provide expertise and input to various engineering department in identification of failure mechanism and potential cause of failure.- Ensure the Failure Analysis equipment is properly maintained and maximize its utilization.- As a technical group leader by providing consistent improvement in various Failure Analysis techniques.- Provide coaching and guidance to junior engineers to help them excel in their duties. Show less