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Group lead, responsible for the technical coordination and guidance of the qualification group at central quality management with focus on• product qualifications, product release for mass production within the worldwide manufacturing network • definition and release of customer samples for external customer qualifications • qualification procedures, strategies and contents obligatory for the whole company • coordination of customer inquiries regarding product quality, release of external customers reports

Responsible for the disciplinary and professional guidance of 12 employees with following main tasks: • central design and customer interface towards all Infineon divisions • preparation and provision of manufacturing data (mask writing, measuring and inspection data) required for mask production• production control, scheduling, prioritization and forecasting of deliveries towards customer. • organization and moderation of worldwide customer and expert meetings

Team member of the start-up team, responsible for the photo masks supply with following main tasks:• set up of infrastructure, procurement of necessary hard- and software, including mask inspection tool• definition and implementation of process and inspection flows, • consolidation of all mask specific requirements for new technologies and products within the organization, interface to the mask house and other wafer fabs. • introduction and qualification of new advanced mask techniques such as OPC (optical proximity control) or PSM (phase shift mask) • supervision of the inspection staff within the manufacturing line

1996-1997-group lead of photo mask design group at SMST responsible for the generation of mask layout data compiled out of chip design data• Interface to various chip design centres of Philips, wafer fab and external mask house • Qualification of second source mask houses

responsible to set up a mask design group with the capability to generate mask layout data out of chip design data required for the mask manufacturing process • Know-how transfer from the Philips Nijmegen to SMST Boeblingen • Implementation of the infrastructure (hard- & software)

Over all process owner for photolithography, etch- and implant processes, • introduction of new products and processes • process control, data analysis, correlation of manufacturing data against electrical performance data, failure analysis, definition of corrective actions

Tool owner of all litho tools e.g. GCA / Nikon, Perkin Elmer • introduction of new litho tool generations• introduction and start up of new products / processes on Lithography tools • optimization of process windows • Implementation of monitoring and calibration concepts to stabilize equipment and processes • driving various capacity improvement programs to improve throughput and tool performance

equipment and application engineer working on an international Joint venture development project • technical interface responsible for the know-how transfer from USA to IBM affected production sites in Germany and France

Procurement, commissioning and acceptance of various photolithography equipments for semiconductor manufacturing, technical interface to equipment suppliers