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• Directed and aligned the development of a platform technology used to design and produce over 10 new products spanning a $1billion+ business.
• Escalated technology issues to executive team ensuring the redirection of resources to right the platform program.
• Drove the qualification of the 1st 90nm-node high performance microcontroller ($60M+) and qualified the 1st low cost microcontroller in the Austin site to meet product ramps.
• Controlled and lowered the cost on the initial product development by $200k+ through elimination of unnecessary design changes.
• Improved quality on initial products lowering failure risk by 1200ppm by implementing judiciously chosen and proven fixes.
• Interfaced with customer and successfully resolved product issues using interim solutions that met requirements and timeline until final solution in place.

• Analyzed new technologies based on development time and manufacturing feasibility and created a strategic device & technology roadmap for the company.
• Engineered the first generation of copper computer chips used in the industry and developed the initial integration for packaging of the first copper microprocessors.
• Initiated a technology transfer and led gate module team to produce world-class transistors in a multi- company multi- cultural alliance in Europe.
• Established cross contamination vectors to be able to run new materials in a production line allowing development to share the same facility thus lowering costs.

• Led exploratory studies on new semiconductor device technologies resulting in 17 patents.
• Designed and built from inception cryogenic systems, precision instruments and control electronics needed to conduct research on superconducting materials operating 213°C below 0.
• Optimized crystal growth of ceramic superconductors increasing crystal size by 400%.
• Developed the coupled oscillator technique to measure the small forces involved with magnetic fields dissipating energy in HighTc superconductors and created a model explaining pinning affects of the field lines on the.
• Determined the stoichiometry of an oscillating chemical reaction used as a model for the Kreb's cycle.

• Qualified and ran the pilot production of first copper product generating over $5 million of revenue.
• Optimized pilot production: re-targeted processes to increase processor speeds 5%-10% and stopped production yield excursions in chemical mechanical polish and photolithography module.
• Reduced back end of line copper defectivity with CMP slurry filtration and scrubber improvements, removal of carbon residue with touchup, and introduction of bevel etch. ~10% yield gain.

Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics

Specializing in: - Energy Dissipation - Vortex Dynamics - Resonant Systems - Phase Transitions - Cryogenics - Magnetic Fields - High-Tc.

B.S., Physics