Christopher Bode Email & Phone Number

Bad Ragaz, SG, CH

Bad Ragaz, SG, CH

Bad Ragaz, SG, CH

Malta, NY, US

• Originated responsibility for Test Global Domain program alignment, systems development and business process integration across GLOBALFOUNDRIES sites.
• Drove to completion an effort to indoctrinate effective and efficient Wafer Electrical Test (WET) disposition methods with Test Engineering, Product Engineering, and Quality teams.
• Championed business process definition for New Product Introduction (NPI) at the Malta site to improve control definition and customer data transfers First Time Right success by 90%.
• Reinvigorated Statistical Process Control (SPC) support with investment in control plan integration and proper chart definition.

Malta, NY, US

• Lead and align Process and Equipment Control (PEC) Global Domain Teams to facilitate global alignment, communication and systems convergence for all GLOBALFOUNDIRES 300mm fabs.
• Oversee global Statistical Process Control (SPC) program alignment, systems development and integration for both the inline and eTest domains.
• Plan and execute Firm Fixed Price (FFP) systems development projects with external suppliers to provide systems enhancements in accordance with key business requirements.
• Drive a global effort to align Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) domain knowledge, business processes and Best Known Methods (BKM) to indoctrinate the program across the company.
• Managed a Process and Equipment Control (PEC) group within Manufacturing Technology responsible for global alignment and development of factory automation and control solutions in APC, FDC, SPC, Lithography Control and.
• Directly managed a team of six senior engineers, $250K capital budget and a group responsible for PEC programs across fabs in New York, Dresden and Singapore.

Malta, NY, US

• Assessed key business drivers and gaps to define annual program goals and objectives for the Process Equipment and Control domain across all three GLOBALFOUNDRIES sites.
• Championed and led a team of technical leads within the Manufacturing Systems and Technology (MST) organization to develop a comprehensive, five-year technical roadmap for Automated Precision Manufacturing solutions.
• Coordinated global efforts to develop a Lithography control roadmap, and led initiates to improve scanner monitoring and excursion prevention solutions.
• Identified the need for technology transfer efficiency in the APC application domain and sponsored efforts to refactor the suite of application to prepare for the startup of Fab 8 in Malta.
• Led and coordinated a Variability Reduction program across all GLOBALFOUNDRIES sites that identified key manufacturing variability challenges, identified the most effective control methods to address them, and shared.
• Defined and lead an initiative around Design for Manufacturability that sought to gain a line of sight from PDK development through to manufacturing capability development, and the improvement that could be realized in.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Received recognition as an authority on the state of AMD's Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM) implementations and roadmap, and communicated said both internally and externally.
• Completed an expatriate assignment to Singapore to provide onsite management and execution of an Advanced Process Control licensing and implementation project with Chartered Semiconductor, creating improvements valued.
• Project successfully transferred and implemented the first controller in less than nine months.
• Maintained project execution according to its established schedule and priorities, completing on time the transfer an implementation of 14 separate control applications in the Fab 7 facility.
• Facilitated joint company project meetings, including Chartered onsite meetings and AMD/Chartered teleconferences.
• Provided guidance on the staffing, training and development of an APC organization in the Chartered Fab 7 to sustain the transferred APC technology upon completion of the agreement.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Proliferated Advanced Process Control (APC) across multiple modules, with development and ownership of several Lithography applications, as well as Diffusion and Etch processes.
• Led the APC/Litho team in AMD Fab 25 to continuously develop new capabilities, extend existing capabilities to meet new control challenges, and train additional engineers to support the growing number of controllers.
• Facilitated the Fab 25 conversion to Flash memory manufacturing by creating more than eight specific Overlay modeling and control advancements, which allowed a continuous production ramp with under a 0.5% overlay.
• Introduced Linear Model Predictive Control capabilities to Lithography control applications to realize a 10% control performance improvement.
• Directed control technology development, both in terms of novel theory and the application of existing control theory from other industries, e.g. Recursive Least Squares, Bayesian control, Plant Wide Control.
• Developed and managed the implementation of a controller monitoring and optimization roadmap, which indoctrinated BKM methods and improve engineering efficiency in maintaining control performance.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Invented, developed and implemented Advanced Process Control (APC) for Lithography overlay, reducing maximum measured error by 44% and reworked wafers by 80%.
• Introduced novel business process and rules to Lithography operations through factory automation and control, thereby facilitating full mix-and-match Lithography, automated rework and new product initialization, and.
• Developed and implemented integrated Lithography and Etch control application for Lithography critical dimension (CD) control, improving Cpk by 40%.
• Established Advanced Process Control techniques within the semiconductor industry as a major inventor, factory automation architect and recognized technical leader within the industry.
• Standardized control implementations as a principle architect of a common application development library, thereby establishing BKM and reducing development time and support requirements.
• Led the initial APC technology transfer and training effort for a new Dresden fab facility.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemical Engineering

Master Of Science In Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering