LEAD MANUFACTURING PROCESS ENGINEER
Delivering Continuous Process Improvement ~ Development ~ Lean Manufacturing
PERFORMANCE PROFILE
•Results oriented chemical engineer with 6+ years of manufacturing and development experience
•Experienced in high volume manufacturing, factory startup, and managing technology transfers from R&D
•Experienced in project management from equipment evaluation, installation, qualification, and production release
•Skilled leading teams or supporting individual contributor to resolve project needs
•Skilled using the following methodologies and tools: SPC, DOE, JMP, 8D, 5S, FMEA, and Lean Manufacturing
•Seasoned in equipment troubleshooting and daily process engineering support
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Process Engineer – Growth Area Jan 2014 – Current
GT Advanced Technologies - Mesa, Arizona
Member of factory startup team responsible for equipment installation, validation, and technology transfer of Sapphire Growth Technology
•Responsible for initial technology transfer into high manufacturing for the first time
•Primary Engineer to address all technical issues during initial startup and technology transfer
•Managed change control process for software and recipe rollouts as a part of technology transfer
•Planned and executed subsequent furnace software upgrades mitigating safety hazards
•Implemented large-scale DOEs to improve cycle time and increase usable product
•Trained process engineering team on equipment troubleshooting and process monitoring
•Responsible for generating reports and investigating yield loss from for low yielding boules using 5W methodology
•Led 8D team to address significant furnace failures
•Responsible for monitoring furnace performance using SPC methodology
Wet Etch Process Engineer July 2008 – Nov 2013
Intel - Chandler, Arizona
Responsible for 22 & 14 nm engineering and sustaining activities related to productivity, cycle time, yield, and cost reduction projects in semiconductor manufacturing.
•Experienced with back end cleans and surface preparation using DHF, SPM, TMAH
•Used root cause analysis to determine cause of yield related issues and wafer scraps events.
•Lead team to improve equipment up time by +15% using MBPS, fishbone diagrams, and DOE to address chronic equipment performance problems
•Performed statistical analysis to address quality issues and conclude experiments using JMP
•Optimized and improved production costs in test wafer and scan creating 50K/year savings
•Identified lean opportunity and automated reports requiring >2 hours of manual updates per shift.
•Trained new college graduates and advanced technicians who became shift engineers
•Interim shift group leader providing day to day shift operations support
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