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Fremont Ca

Athena helps manufacturing companies in high tech, life sciences, and med device transform to a digital factory. We help companies with MES, PLM, CMMS, Big Data, and system to system integration. Our diverse team not only offers technical expertise but has many years of hands-on experience working in established manufacturing and start-up organizations..

Working with Life science and med device compies in the implementations and upgrades of MES solutions.

Milpitas, CA

Joined to create, develop, and deploy field quality processes and systems for an early product to market operation. Successfully established a quality and data management system integrated with Salesforce and other data management systems identifying field defects and introduced a corrective failure action process to drive resolution.

San Jose, CA

Responsibilities include setting the vision and strategy for Manufacturing systems use in multiple factories and defining the manufacturing and MES systems architecture. Applications include, but not limited to: MES, Production reporting, Metrics management, CMMS, Project management, SaS, Cloud computing, Web portal development, Workflow management.

San Jose, CA

Managing manufacturing, equipment engineering, equipment maintenance, training, and IE functions in a 24/7 wafer fab.

Managing Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Equipment Engineering, and Equipment Maintenance in the Manufacturing Engineering organization operating in a 24/7 manufacturing operation.Responsibilities include hiring and managing engineering staff and technicians for multiple sites, equipment availability, manufacturing data management, reporting, and.

Responsible to build an engineering and maintenance department from scratch.Ownership of uptime performance for: - Automation (AGV, conveyers, Kuka Robots) - Production Vacuum Sputter (MOLLY/TCO) - Glass Clean (wet processing) - Production Vacuum Evaporation (CIGS) - Scribe - CdS Plating - Encapsulation - Reliability labs, and all other support.

Responsible for all equipment engineering and line maintenance for a 24/7 wafer fab operation.Developing and deploying various engineering and maintenance systems to improve efficiencies, quality, and cost reduction. Integration encompasses corporate MES and ERP systems operating within an Oracle environment.Establishing proper control systems to.

Total responsibility for leading operations (185-person operation - $24 M budget) that ensured availability of production systems to manufacturing and their ongoing performance.

Managed company’s MES (Camstar MESA- AS400) system to accurately process products throughout factories with data collection capabilities supporting real time yield, product costing, work in progress, and finished goods. Led software upgrade implementations for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems.

Provided machine shop, welding, fabrication, incoming inspection, spare parts, installation service, and managed sub contracted work to outside shops. Fabrication and mechanical installation of $18 million in-house designed sputter roll coater.

Responsibilities included preventive maintenance and repairs of all process equipment (sputter and converting), facilities, target casting/bonding, procurement, and all shop activity.

Ba, Industrial Arts, Division Of Industrial Technology. Area Of Emphasis: Manufacturing

Aa, Associate Arts, General Education.

Ms-Cis, Master Of Sciences In Computer Information Systems