SUMMARY
Highly skilled engineer with over 23 years’ of experience in semiconductor fabrication. Roles include process development for R&D and sustaining engineering. Management and supervisory experience in production of MEMS, CMOS, BiCMOS, and other environments. Proven ability to communicate across multiple functions and at all levels of the business. I am a quick learner, adaptable, very organized, and ambitious.
EXPERIENCE
MicroGen Systems, Inc.
A MEMS based vibrational energy harvesting company bringing technology to commercialization. May, 2010-Oct, 2012
MEMS Development Engineer, West Henrietta, NY (Rochester, NY) (Mar, 2012 – Oct, 2012)
Facilities:
• Designed and developed and managed the project of installing a micro Class 10,000 (ISO 7) Clean Room.
• Worked with many companies to evaluate their tools pertaining to our company needs
• Purchased capital test equipment
MEMS Process Development Engineer, Ithaca, NY (at Cornell University) (May, 2010-Mar, 2012)
• Primary responsibility, as an industrialist/private company user, for clean room operations at the Cornell Nano_Scale & Technology Facility (CNF), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY:
• Design process flows, develop processes, and fabricate products for state-of-the-art MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) based
o Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester (PZEH) company.
• Semiconductor processing expertise include:
o Photolithography (frontside and backside alignment)
o MOS and TFT furnace processes
o PECVD thin film deposition
o Metal evaporation
o Electroplating,
o Numerous wet (metal/organic/inorganic) etching applications
o RIE/DRIE dry etching
• Packaging
• Wire bonding
• Full assortment of metrology evaluation tools such as:
o Electrical testing
o Stress testing
o Film/material thickness (i.e.…stack thickness, removal verification, and step height)
• Microscope inspection (frontside, backside, and front-to-back evaluations)
• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
QIMONDA Richmond LLC, Sandston, VA Jul, 2005-Jan, 2009
Diffusion/Metrology Sustaining Process Engineer
• Perform OCAP methods to maintain SPC, Quality and Integrity.
• Assist Diffusion Engineers as needed.
• Metrology Backup Sustainer
• Create Process Recipes on the tools including Load Patterns and MiniSpecs.
• Maintain good communication between shifts and Departments.
• Keep ongoing knowledge, and organization, of what process and actions are occurring on the tools and product.
• Was a member of a Chips, Total Quality Management, team of which increase of through-put & final yield.
• Performed Boat, Pedestal, Foreline changes and teaching alignment as needed.
• Created several Recipes with Load Patterns and MiniSpecs.
• Created on Tool Recipes and Load Patterns, for new/old and T/R’s for qualifications.
• Created many SWR’s (Special Work Requests).
• Evaluated SWR’s, for others, making suggestions and correction as/if needed.
• Written ICN’s (Immediate Change Notifications) and TCN’s (Temporary Change Notification) for Documents changes.
• Made Production Process RTD’s (Real Time Dispatch) both remove Product lines/levels or adding.
CORNING INTELLISENSE, Wilmington, MA Nov, 2000-Jan, 2004
Shift Engineering Supervisor (Optical Eng II) (Mar, 2001-Jan, 2004)
• Supervised the second shift engineering staff and night site supervisor.
• Responsible for staffs work assignments and performance assessments.
• Verified that all projects were seamlessly continued on the night shift.
• Did quality control, and managed the flow of projects, my staff, cross shift evaluation, my own work, hiring and terminating employees as needed.
• Strongest supervisory quality is my ability to create/establish/ and maintain a fully cross trained staff in order to meet the companies needs no matter what the time of day/shift or the staff attendance of that day.
• Continued backend processing of Wafer/Die Testing and Dicing, increasing productivity.
• Held position concurrently with R&D MEMS Development Engineering responsibilities.
• Continuously commended by management for ability to successfully multi-task.
• Worked and had meetings with the contract companies regarding all aspects of the R&D projects.
• Member to a “Yield Improvement Team”.
• Assistant ERT Safety & Health Officer and a member of the Safety Committee.
R&D MEMS Development Engineer II (Nov, 2000-Mar, 2001)
• Created a several standardized processes.
• Worked with many type wafers substrates.
• Developed and adjusted new process flows.
• Created the run sheets and process flow.
• Continually adjusted processes and documentation, as new techniques were substituted.
• Ran all equipment from start to finish for a wide array of projects.
• Qualified new equipment as needed, starting the company down the track of MQC/SPC’s on equipment and process flows.
ALPHA INDUSTRIES, Woburn, MA Feb, 1997-Nov, 2000
Shift Process Engineer
• Operated as Manufacturing Engineering Group’s representative for the ‘C’ 7x24 shift.
• Performed diagnostic test.
• Served as Assistant Engineer on a high volume production line of GaAs Mesfets.
• Coordinated nightly communication of process issues...
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