John Bernhard, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Manage all Site Quality duties and escalations. Report performance metrics to upper Management and direct continuous improvement projects.
• Customer Contact for Quality issues and returns
• External audits contact and primary support for audit follow up
• PCS / SPC reports to customer and internal management
• Maintain ISO 9001 requirements and facilitate recertification audits
• Conduct GR&R and other site process control procedures

Vancouver, Washington, United States

• Head of Technology and Process Development at IMAT. Overseeing new processes, integration, and equipment modification and optimization. Responsible for customization of processes to meet customer requests.
• Technical contact with customers to understand their needs and align IMAT solution
• Head of process control and integration
• Responsible for equipment modification to improve process and meet new customer requirements

Orange, CA

• Program Manager qualifying Infineon semiconductor technologies at external Foundries, supporting business demand and supplier roadmaps. Manage qualification process through wafer fabrication, assembly, reliability.
• Composed needed documentation aligned with change management requirements from internal and external quality standards: JEDEC, AEC-100, AEC-101, ZVEI
• Presented qualification results to Change Management Board, securing final approval
• Analyzed reliability failures, determining root cause and escalating corrective action to source of failure

El Segundo, CA

• Oversaw several major Semiconductor Wafer Foundries. Experienced with full supplier life cycle, from enabling new Foundries as certified suppliers to phasing out Foundries.
• Conducted quarterly business reviews with Foundries to review new business opportunities and presented performance KPIs ranking Foundries to motivate becoming best supplier with gap analysis
• Monitored and improved Foundry yield, cycle time, capacity, Cpk, and 8D response
• Headed audits to certify new Foundries and verify approved Foundries accomplished Infineon and customer requirements, allowing suppliers to start or continue as certified suppliers for Infineon
• Supervised 8Ds for customer returns, addressing automotive returns directly with end customers providing effective corrective actions to meet customer satisfaction and prevent recurrence
• Acted as Company Quality representative during customer audits of Foundries to automotive standards, followed up on customer audit findings and developed corrective actions with customer approval

Monterey Park, CA

• Oversaw Photolithography process control and development while raising production throughput with 5 reports.
• Increased Photo Cpk to above 1.33, meeting company quality requirements
• Optimized CD SEM recipe, leading to better metrology GR&R and enhanced accuracy of Cpk measurements
• Added particle monitoring to equipment and introduction of KLA-AIT for in-line defect control, increasing yield and preventing returns due to defects
• Performed process simulation using Mentor Graphics software, pushing 250nm scanner to 110nm node
• Managed Fab 8D with complex process interactions and failure modes, correcting major across Fab yield loss and customer return

El Segundo, CA

• Quality manager representative for International Rectifiers Corporate Headquarters and Quality Head over Foundry semiconductor wafer suppliers
• Represented Quality Control on process change boards, ensuring requirements achieved with documentation
• Led 8Ds, addressing assembly issues and automotive returns working directly with customer
• Maintained lab test equipment calibration/certifications and setup Access Database for audits, allowing auditor to quickly check calibration status from PC vs. file cabinets
• Updated and controlled site Quality Manual and all supporting documents for TS16949 certification
• Led Foundry audits, meeting automotive quality TS16949, VDA, and 5S requirements

El Segundo, CA

• Managed team of 6 engineers to ramp up production of Power IC semiconductors in Photolithography Module.
• Maintained world class standards in rework (0.5%) and scrap (100 ppm by layer scrap)
• Established SPC controls and rule selection, giving enhanced process control and CD Cpk over 1.33
• Supported several important 8D returns as technical team member, addressing end customer failures
• Conducted process transfer into and out of Fab with ownership of Reticle changes and ordering
• Boosted photo throughput by 50% with introduction of new steppers, optimizing Coater track recipes, and detailed optimization of photo layout and procedures to reduce handling and improve wafer flow

Hillsboro, OR

• Overlay Improvement Team Leader. Led team of 7 engineers that reduced overlay errors by half
• Determine sources of overlay error due to process, metrology, target, reticle, and ASML Stepper/Scanner
• Implemented overlay improvements through process changes, mark usage, equipment and metrology recipe upgrades, and operation procedure specification. Standardized overlay offset usage
• Chief engineer for implementation of Advanced Process Control system for Overlay / CD feedback and feedforward control using the Inficon/NVS Argus system. Implementation into production resulted in both CD and Overlay.
• Project Manager over automated Overlay SPC collection, control, and quality with associated specifications
• Overlay Metrology Tool Owner: Oversaw tool hardware acceptance, upgrades, and specifications.Photo module development engineer