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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Responsible for annual budget and 12 month rolling forecast of operating costs of department.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.