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Carlsbad, California, United States

• Developed strategic product plans that encompassed development, marketing, and product life management through rigorous market investigations and continual engagement with customers and deep product technical knowledge.
• Guided and managed the global marketing team to dramatically increase their efficiency resulting in the significant improvement of metrics such as “cost per lead” from the previous year.
• Leveraged an engineering background to optimize marketing efforts through a refocus of materials and messaging to better suit their intended audience in Palomar’s highly technical B2B market.
• Continued to maintain ownership of Palomar’s product lines while leading the marketing department furthering personal and departmental efficiency.
• Drafted comprehensive, well-researched, in-depth reports to deliver to executive management focused on medium to long term marketing strategy and product roadmaps.
• Maintained constant engagement with cutting-edge technology and industry advancements through attendance and analysis of technical presentations and papers provided at major industry conferences.

Carlsbad, California, United States

• Drafted product requirement documents, complete with technical performance specifications, cost targets, expected future sales volume, and estimated return on investment (ROI).
• Translated customer business and product roadmaps to future product needs through regular meetings to ensure development aligned with key accounts.
• Identified optimal pricing strategy for new and existing products based on customer value and optimal margins calculated through expected sales volume and anticipated manufacturing costs.
• Formulated accurate forecasts for future products through consultation with customers and sales representatives, in addition to market research on competitors and potential future commercial drivers.
• Consistently interfaced with the engineering team to obtain accurate estimations on effort and development cost in order to determine project priority and feasibility.
• Successfully led two major product launches for primary product lines through coordinating a cross departmental team whose purpose was to ensure all necessary requirements were met by the launch deadline.

Carlsbad, California

• Developed and advised optimal product configuration along with the creation of a process fit for the customer’s needs in order to jump start their production with the sold system.
• Tuned systems for maximum throughput while ensuring completed assemblies consistently met rigorous performance and quality metrics.
• Authored and conducted several informative articles, webinars, and training classes on diverse topics related to the processing and packaging of products in the semiconductor industry.
• Conducted both external and internal trainings on industry best practices and product usage.
• Determined optimal thermal, mechanical, and material choices and parameters for die bonding processes.
• Advised ideal solder materials and methods of application based on alloy melting points, thermal conductivities, customer device restrictions and completed device usage considerations and performance targets.

Riverside, California, United States

• Responsible for processing and interpreting data from various atmospheric chamber experiments.
• Communicated and worked with a combination of technical staff, graduate, undergraduate and high school students.
• Mentored other undergraduates on data processing, attention to detail, and proper operation of laboratory instruments and machinery
• Preformed lab analysis on multiple LVP-VOC samples through mass spectrometry and ion chromatography
• Processed data from multiple apparatuses concerning the LVP-VOCs experiments
• Knowledgeable in wet lab safety practices, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and hazardous waste disposal safety procedures