Co-chaired San Francisco Bay Area's First Global Multi-ethnic Conference that brought together 425 leaders of various ethnicities from the Bay Area, Rest of USA, Canada, Central and South Asia.

Created a new center co-coordinating efforts across Materials and Engineering divisions Provide strategic consulting for materials selection, design analysis, standards development and contamination control across all Storage Infrastructure products

Directed and led process, application, engineering and field service teams during new product introduction and beta testing at a major customer site in Singapore.Collaborated with Growth and Technology and Development Engineering teams in optimizing and bridging R&D concepts to actual designs to support business objectives.Developed process strategies and experiments to enhance yields by up to 5% in media cleaning.

Experienced in integration of new products and processes for single wafer clean equipment at leading customer sites through joint development programs.Optimized processes using numerous DOEs to address significant cleaning challenges for various applications and customers.Extensive experience in numerous characterization techniques such as Surfscan SP2, X-SEM and CD-SEM.

Provided strategic business consulting for an overseas mid-sized IT firm onsite after completion of training in repurposing businesses.

Fabricated the world’s first thinnest monolayer polymeric organic field-effect transistor for use in Molecular Electronics (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/chemistry/me/). Link to article:http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl0622449Formulated nanoporous thin films using polymeric nanoparticles for low-k dielectric applications.Developed polymeric multilayers using layer-by-layer deposition of star-shaped polymers.Extensive experience in various film forming techniques… Show more Fabricated the world’s first thinnest monolayer polymeric organic field-effect transistor for use in Molecular Electronics (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/chemistry/me/). Link to article:http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl0622449Formulated nanoporous thin films using polymeric nanoparticles for low-k dielectric applications.Developed polymeric multilayers using layer-by-layer deposition of star-shaped polymers.Extensive experience in various film forming techniques such as CVD, Langmuir-Blodgett, spin and dip coating.Significant proficiency in the independent use of characterization techniques such as X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy(XPS), X-Ray Reflectivity (XRR), Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR), Imaging/Spectroscopic and variable angle EllipsometersAFM, Static and Dynamic Contact Angle, Surface spectroscopic techniques, Probe Station (four probe and two probe conductance measurements), FT-IR, UV-Vis, GPC, TGA, NMR, Light Scattering, BAM. Show less

Innovated new process to reduce surface conductivity in Gas Sensors using fluorinated polymeric nanofilms.Developed new processes to bind organic molecules to nanoparticles and planar substrates.Synthesized a new class of bio-organic materials - “peptide templated polymeric nanotubes”.