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Newbury Park

Program management on key business development of New Product Introduction (NPI) in semiconductor industry for major cell phone manufacturersUtilization of Product Realization Process (PRP) for new product launches via Agile softwareApply Design for Manufacturability (DFM) practices to New Product Introduction (NPI)

Newbury Park

Manager of Thin Films and Implant group within Skyworks Process Engineering.

Newbury Park

Black Belt with strong focus on continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, customer quality and yield improvement for the manufacturing of semiconductor devices for the communications industry. Development and sustaining of CVD films and Rapid Thermal ProcessesLeader of a cross-functional self-directed work group, which consistently exceeds the production.

Santa Rosa, CA.

• Responsible for the manufacture, development, sales and customer support of consumable products used in the semiconductor field.
• Assisted both domestic and overseas customers with process development and troubleshooting.
• Effectively managed manufacturing facility and personnel.
• Implemented improvements to manufacturing operations which included creation of a document control system and procurement of advanced manufacturing equipment which greatly improved quality and throughput (35% increase).
• Responsible for overseeing training and conformance to environmental health and safety government regulations.
• Performed strategic analysis of marketplace and competitors in the marketplace resulting in streamlined operational activity.

San Jose, CA

• Responsible for process development of semiconductor lasers used in the telecommunications industry.
• Drove development of wafer processing for a startup company.
• Technical Program Manager in charge of coordinating and scheduling for foundry development and processing ($1.5M in savings by outsourcing process capability).
• Acted as chemical safety officer and liaison to the safety consultant.
• Negotiated and procured clean room equipment for the tooling up of low cost manufacturing.
• Established and documented statistical process control for manufacturing.

Newbury Park, CA

• Member of a development team focused on advanced technologies in semiconductor devices used for mobile communication.
• Implemented an improved silicon nitride film, allowing a 10% increase in number of units produced.
• Designed and implemented a yield enhancing, technology enabling metal lift-off process.
• Documented and coordinated with process, yield and reliability engineering the integration of new technology to the manufacturing production line.
• Other process development responsibilities including: dry etch, photolithography optimization, backside wafer processing development, and basic electrical characterization.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering