Atul Shah Email & Phone Number

Wilsonvile, Or

Work as a primary liaison with critical clients in communicating delivery and qualification schedules, assessing impact of client change requests, escalation of issues threatening project milestones, and alignment of DWFritz resources in meeting client commitments. Work closely with both the client and internal teams on delivering brilliant solutions, effectively and accurately communicate with the client, keep things on track while working with clients who require agility and speed in deliverables. Work closely with the entire DWFritz organization, including our DWFritz China organization to ensure success from inception to installation. • Interface with client during all project phases. Expertly manage client communications and demonstrate a high level of business acumen.• Develop project plans, individually and in a team environment that meets or exceeds client's requirements and expectations. Project plans will include material production and installation schedules, as well resources requirements.• Initiate corrective actions as required to keep projects on task and provides project direction during problem resolution as required and appropriate.• Manage client expectations with respect to delivery, installation, qualification, and implementation of requested changes.• Influences business decisions related to pricing, cost modeling, proposals and negotiations for the business segment. • Takes an active role in managing product design and development. Works across the organization to convert strategic thinking into execution of bold new ideas.• Assists in defining and executing a 1-3 year strategic platform roadmap with mutual benefit to DWFritz and our clients.• Assigns responsibilities and manages performance of 3-5 Project Managers.• Interacts with the DWFritz China team on a weekly basis to ensure tight communication and timely execution to project schedules.

Hillsboro, Or

Head of Facilities for the largest crystalline solar manufacturer in the western hemisphere vertically integrated from raw silicon material through solar panel production.• Participated in the growth of the company from $120M to $400M+ and over saw a team of 36 facilities personal.• Directly responsible for site facilities with an annual budget of $12M.• Oversee operations and preventative maintenance of Reverse Osmosis and Deionization (RODI) system, Nox, Acid and Ammonia scrubbers, Fluoride Waste Treatment, Acid Waste Neutralization System, Process Cooling Water System, Spec Gas and Bulk Gas storage and delivery systems (Silane, Ammonia, Argon, Nitrogen and Oxygen), Bulk Hydrogen Fluoride (HF), Hydrogen chloride (HCL) and Potassium hydroxide (KOH) liquid storage and delivery systems, Process Cooling Water System, Boilers, Chillers, HVAC and Back-up diesel generation.• Use Cimplicity Facility Management System to monitor and control over 30K points and use General Electric and Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).• Responsible for Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) organization. Successfully certification of ISO 14001 and OSAS 18001. Manage the site ERT program and responsible for providing all the training and overall resource management.• Managed a project to install a new module production line for 170 Megawatts in 9 months resulting in increased revenue of $100M+.• Extremely efficient in analyzing data, found an error in electric bill that resulted in a refund of $9M check from the power company for over charging over 5 years.• Managed annual planning of shutdown activities; create project plans and scheduled resources hour by hour. For seven consecutive years for 300+ tools and the facilities.

Hillsboro, Or

• Participated in the growth of the company and grew the maintenance and equipment departments while implementing cross training matrix and increasing line up-time to >99%.• Directly responsible for site facilities with an annual budget of $20M for Cell Engineering and Equipment Maintenance• Responsible for equipment and maintenance worth more than $275M in the Cell department (24x7); with line uptime of greater than 99%.• Managed a project with cross functional team to implement Passivated Emitter Rear side Contact (PERC) solar cell technology; which increase solar cell efficiency; resulting in $110M increase in revenue and increase in margin by $10M.• Managed a project to install Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) and laser tools with a budget of >$36M. Completed project on time and under budget.

Hillsboro, Or

• Participated in the growth of the company and grew the maintenance departments from 10 to 45 while implementing cross training matrix and increasing line up-time to >99%.• Responsible for equipment and maintenance worth more than $275M in the Cell department (24x7); with line uptime of greater than 99%.

IDT develops a broad range of low-power, high-performance mixed-signal semiconductor chips that optimize customers' applications in key markets.• Directed 29 employees in equipment engineering department, to maintain and modify new and existing equipment, improve tool performance and develop tool preventative maintenance procedures. • Responsible for 100+ tools including: 24 Bruce Technologies Inc. (BTI) diffusion furnaces, 8 Screen (DNS) wet benches, 5 Eaton ion implanters, 14 Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) and scrubbers, 35 Thin Films tools (AMAT & Novellus), and 9 KLA-Tencor metrology tools.• Project management: Installed and started up several CVD and poly deposition systems; controlled budget for installation and startup; coordinated with manufacturing, equipment vendors, contractors, process engineering, facilities group and factory automation ahead of schedule and under budget.• Utilized Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) daily to characterize machine performance and develop and implement tool improvements. Perform troubleshooting and corrective maintenance for unscheduled tool downtime, and analysis of root cause investigation using 5 Why method.• Responsible for annual budget and 12 month rolling forecast of operating costs of department.• Cross trained all equipment maintenance staff on PM procedures and proper fault recovery procedures for multiple tools resulting in increased tool availability while reducing ~22% in maintenance costs.

Worked as the principal Diffusion furnace Equipment Engineer for 18 months responsible for a total of 24 BTI furnaces (including 5- LPCVD, 3- Poly, 1- Alloy and 15- Oxide furnaces). Major achievement was increasing the LPCVD furnace availability from 73% to 85% by performing several tool modifications and changing PM practices. Other responsibility include: installing and startup of several CVD and poly deposition systems; controlling budget for installation and startup; coordinating with manufacturing, equipment vendors, contractors, process engineering, facilities group and factory automation to maintain overall project schedule.

Responsible for corrective and preventative maintenance, tool improvement, and preventative maintenance documentation for Novellus Concept 2 – Sequel (CVD), Applied Materials Tungsten (WCVD) deposition and etchbach tools, Schumacher liquid chemical delivery systems and related support equipment. Utilize MTBF and MTTR daily to characterize machine performance and develop and implement tool improvements. Perform troubleshooting and corrective maintenance for non-routine tool downs, and failure mode analysis for root cause investigation. Train equipment maintenance staff on PM procedures and proper fault recovery procedures. Collaborate with several departments continuously to ensure we produce the highest quality product possible while meeting tight production schedules and increasing tool availability. Directly responsible for increasing tool availability for Novellus tools from 77% to above 90% and at the same time decrease preventative maintenance time by 20% on the Novellus tools.

Managed a site design team in charge of preparing tool install drawings for the D2 Ramp Project. Responsible for design schedule, cost control and estimate reviews. Other responsibilities include preparing bid packages for tool installation contractors, evaluating contractor bids, and negotiating bid pricing with contractors. Manage the QA/QC subcontractors and participate in JIQT/ sub-JIQT. Manage a gas stick reuse program, which resulted in $360K savings. Involved in basebuild process cooling water design reviews where my inputs resulted in $1 million savings.

Construction coordinator for the Planar functional area on the D2 Ramp Project. Manage tool installation from design reviews through construction complete. Responsible for coordinating construction activities with manufacturing engineers, scheduling and managing the contractors.

Mechanical design engineer in charge of design and specification of mechanical systems and equipment (HVAC, water, sewer, process piping, etc). Managed a team responsible for preparing specifications, computer aided drawings, cost estimates, and other related documents for the construction and modification of facilities, systems, and equipment.

Prime systems engineer on one of the four airborne systems for Atlas/Centaur expendable rockets. Directly responsible for pneumatic and structural systems on vehicle and facility pneumatic and hydraulic systems. Required defining test requirements, developing test procedures, design and maintenance of test equipment, managing technicians during vehicle processing, evaluating data, and operation of system panels during launch operations.

Project manager for design, installation, and testing the ground pneumatic systems for Atlas/Centaur launch pad modification. Additional duties included managing technicians, material resources, and several contractors.