• Direct and manage the activities of an robotic NPD and CIP group with responsibilities for the design, development, modification, and evaluation of the vacuum and atmospheric robots• Assure proper documentation and interacts with marketing, sales, manufacturing, field, and other functional areas to assure product success• Direct technical design, initiation of patents, and recommending most effective manufacturing methods• Project manager for the design and delivery of new product development and continuous product improvements – demonstrated abilities in leading and influencing cross-functional groups to reach a common goal.• Organize the interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget constraints• Serve as primary technical contact for customers and manage their requirements• Accountable for results in terms of costs, budgets, operational goals, and employees• Led product line extension, bringing additional sales exceeding $10M

• Ownership of a mature line of robotics, EFEMs, Sorters and related products• Product Life Cycle management for robotics, EFEMs and Sorters product line• Cross-functional leader with engineering, manufacturing and product support to achieve continuous improvement of the product line• Technical Architect for customers, defining deployment approaches, ensuring pilots products are properly implementated• Communicate with customers and manage their requirements• Demonstrated successful project management of high-tech products• Successfully supported tool’s operation, leading to MCBF exceeding 300,000• Proposed, piloted, and migrated to enterprise operations an automated system for collecting, analyzing, and reporting MTBF metrics for top-tier customer accounts• Saved tool account with Intel and led to Intel’s selection of Asyst’s tools, displacing competitor’s tools leading to additional tool sales exceeding $10M• Ongoing support to Intel leading to back-to-back years receiving Intel’s coveted ‘Preferred Quality Supplier’ award

• Successfully completed over 10 product introductions to manufacturing including new and revised designs• Lead assembly process improvements, Lean Manufacturing and process support activities• Responsible for resolving manufacturing issues and increasing efficiency• Acts as key-liaison to coordinate Manufacturing Engineering interfaces with other departments such as Design Engineering, Applications Engineering and Quality• Organize inter-departmental activities and effective participation in the Change Control and Document Control process • Supervises launch and pilot runs of new products, working closely with production and Design Engineering, ensure specifications are being met• Works with Design Engineering, Production, Cost Accounting, and other departments to reduce manufacturing costs and improve profitability

• Identify and implement design requirements, generate Statement of Work documentation• Provide a liaison between customer and in-house engineering in the areas of product specification, designs validation and process verification• Create and maintain product specs, BOM structure and firmware database according to established Engineering Change Process, utilizing ERP and Source Safe systems• Layout of robotic systems and integrated fab automation using 2D/3D CAD applications• Set up and test prototypes; establish and document calibration procedures; program servo motion control units using proprietary robot-oriented macro language• Provide on-site installation, setup and remote trouble¬shooting of startup issues• Generate, review and recommend change to manuals, procedures and policies• Provide training to engineering staff in building robotic applications