David Van Heerden Email & Phone Number

Brewster NY

• Provided technical leadership, engineering know-how, and market insight to the identification of new business opportunities as well as the development of new products.
• Generated new business opportunities by collaborating with research institutes as well as the R&D groups of large semiconductor fabs.
• Lead the development of multiple new products that yielded profitable differentiated market solutions.
• Introduced new products to customers and oversaw the qualification and successful scale-up of these materials. Awarded “Materion Growth Champion 2019” in recognition of my efforts.
• Provided critical problem-solving skills to troubleshoot production process issues with existing products, thereby increasing yields and resolving customer issues.
• Created innovative market extensions of existing products by having a deep understanding of customer products and processes. Extensions included lowering cost of ownership of precious metal and high value targets.

Brewster

- Established new inroads into customer R&D and technical groups- Raised technical profile of AMG to trusted partner by engaging with customer R&D groups, solving technical issues in their fabs and presenting cutting edge R&D- Provided troubleshooting oversight of PVD functions- Worked closely with customers to develop new processes for materials.

Binghamton, New York, United States

- Served as the technical lead for the development, qualification, and launch of five new products using NanoMas’ precious-metal-based nanomaterials- Ensured product market strategy effectively communicated and supported long-term objectives- Assessed product performance and identified unique processing techniques, resulting in some of the smallest.

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Established a metallurgical laboratory as well as a powder metallurgy processing facility for the development and production of thermoelectric materials.- Developed brazing and soldering solutions for bonding thermoelectric materials for use in waste heat recovery and cooling applications

Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States

- Led the successful technical transfer and scale-up of NanoFoil® and NanoBond® technology from a university project to volume manufacturable commercial product.- Designed PVD manufacturing equipment for the facility and led the development and scale-up of manufacturing processes.- Recruited and hired the core engineering and production teams and.