Ken Medlin Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

United States

Pa West

 Ran the daily R&D line fabrication meeting  Ran the Encapsulation tool  Did CAD work on two new designs.  Worked on CTQ processes  Worked on Bond DeBond process for Flexible solar cells  Spinning of Organic inks for the Anode

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Mask Design /CADCreate device layouts and made adjustments to existing designs for E-beam and Photo masks utilizing DW2000 Worked as a process integrator/lead on several research lotsHelped engineers with process development. Also developed several processes on my own  Trained 20 engineers and technicians on the use of DW2000 for design verification and device inspections. The training material was created by me.Created and presented a Power Point Presentation to Explain HAMR processing to techniciansConstruction and development of data collection forms /tools utilizing Excel and Microsoft WordDevelopment of device process flowsHave written process flows with detailed instructions for both product and research lots. Approve wafers for shipping to other sights for additional Processing.Have worked on projects with other Seagate sights. Helped with the integration of an ASML Stepper into our fab

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Research Lith/Plating/Wet ProcessesRead and followed instructions for electro deposition, chemical mechanical polishing and photolithography stepsWrote and developed a process for reclaiming wafers to save the company moneyReviewed and approved sliders and manual probe wafers for quality Performed wafer inspections During and after processing was completePerformed electrodepositing of NiFe alloy and CopperUsed a KLA Tencor stylus profiler to track film uniformity across the substrateUsed Titration to monitor and keep the plating baths in specStrausbaugh CMP tool maintenance and upgrades Used a Suss mask Aligner, UltraTech Stepper, Nikon Stepper Performed liftoff processesCollected and analyzed overlay dataHelped to support e-beam pattering

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Monitored humidity levels, temperature and particle count in a class 10 and 100 clean room.Installed new clean room equipment in a controlled environment to specs provided by the clean room managerCreated and updated forms using Microsoft Excel and Word. For the purpose of tracking student usage of clean room tools for billing purposes.Sent bills to student’s advisers after updating the Excel program.Track clean room inventory and ordered supplies as needed