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Vancouver, BC, CA

Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

San Francisco Bay Area

Chandigarh Area, India

• 8Minutes Future Energy is a full service solar energy provider. We cater to residential, commercial and government sectors and help them go solar.
• Key executive member responsible for expanding early stage start-up into new region and looking after business development, market strategy, sales and project execution.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Key member of next generation technology development critical for reducing CAPEX by around 25%
• Integrating new process with existing IBC architecture to enable high solar cell efficiency
• Led the process development on C&F tool, collaborated with design team to bring up the main tool

San Francisco Bay Area

• Tool and process owner for critical product improvement while meeting PLC phase gate exits by demonstrating hardware and process reliability
• Increased time between PM cycles by 100%
• Developed high dep rate process resulting in reduction in overall MCOS; delivered gross margin improvement of 12%
• Process lead to develop recipes on new concept reactor design; reduced cost of consumables by > 60%, Improved system up-time by 5% and increased throughput by 25% Key interface with Business Management and field team.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Key founding member of Solar Passivation Technology. Includes PECVD and other films used as passivation and anti reflective coating (ARC) layers
• Developed PECVD AlOx for PERC technology; demonstrated 21% solar cell and 290 W 60 cell module at customer fab
• Advanced technology developed for SiN anti-reflecting coating; patent issued on 6/24/14
• Key contributor for PLC phase gate exit; demonstrated hardware and process reliability

• Part of Solid State Research Group, with work responsibilities ranging from setting up test-beds to conducting experiments, collecting data and analyzing the same.
• Graduate Thesis on 'Active Cooling and Thermal Management of Semiconductor Devices and materials'; application in miniaturising solid state devices
• Worked on ‘Non-Contact optical method for measuring thin-film lattice temperatures’; program funded by U.S. Dept of Energy; OCAST
• Collected PL data and performed ‘finite element analysis’ to model material parameters
• Heat management of MBE (molecular beam epitaxy) grown III-IV quantum lasers

• Tutored discussion sections for senior class on ‘Introduction to Solid State Electronic Devices’
• Mentored undergraduate students in solving quantum well, device physics and device parameters related problems

Master Of Science, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelors Of Technology, Electronics And Communication

Activities and Societies: AIESEC, Debating Society