Laura Hughes Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

Skills for Life provides custom life skills education for children's groups and private schools. The program combines the classic courses of Home Economics, Personal Finance, Shop Class, and Sex Education into a modern, effective program that is beneficial for children of all ages. Customization for all abilities and religious institutions available.

Campbell, California, United States

Milpitas, Ca

• Established and drove the development of corporate-wide engineering standards across all technical divisions; Electrical Engineering: worked with top KLA engineers to assemble best practices and ratings documents for all common EE components and systemsMechanical Engineering: established documents listing clean room materials, ultra-high vacuum requirements, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Serviceability (DFS)Software Engineering: established protocols for both agile and waterfall design Optoelectronic Engineering: assembled standards for optical fixtures to ease time to align optical paths in manufacturing and servicing, and specific materials for ultra-high vacuum environments where photocontamination is a challenge• Established Custom KT Systems Engineering Training Program; instrumental in creating and developing content and selecting instructors and students; this program was critical given the high attrition rate of systems engineers due to retirement • Managed the development and progress of collaboration groups for multiple areas: lasers, optics, photocontamination, etc. – to counteract siloing of technical knowledge; this significantly increased the speed at which technical challenges were resolved

Fremont, Ca

• Managed the development and implementation process of Lam service product• Planned and directed schedules, monitored budget, identified and acquired new resources• Presented to executive management

Santa Clara, Ca

• Managed a team of 22 that included buyers, planners, customer service representatives, laser/electro-optics technicians, engineers, and PhDs• Managed the operations of the New Focus product lines: tunable external cavity diode lasers (ECDL), electro-optical modulators, high speed detectors, and precision motion positioning devices• Responsible for all manufacturing operations, production control, manufacturing engineering, inventory control, materials purchasing and planning• Liaised with managers of functional areas such as product management, engineering, and sales• Developed operations plans, budgets, and policies and procedures• Implemented 5S within the manufacturing environment

Newark, Ca

• Drove the development of 10 Gb transceivers; significantly increased quality by aligning component specifications to actual product needs, and optimizing assembly line• Transferred a product line to Fabrinet (Thailand), purchasing and qualifying capital equipment, training engineers, and establishing process controls; established daily calls regarding production issues, quality issues, and technical challenges; traveled to CM site to develop new processes and solve technical issues

Sf Bay Area

I travelled to residences in the SF Bay Area to do in-home energy evaluations, to establish their current energy usage and overall carbon footprint size, and suggest areas of improvement. Installation of energy-reducing devices is done, future energy-saving actions are proposed, and a complete review of the energy and CO2 saved as a result of the changes are discussed in detail, with each action monetized. The goals are to 1) make the resident aware of their impact on the world at large, 2) demonstrate how small, simple changes can make a difference, and 3) to encourage consistent, positive change for the future.

Product Engineer for CD-SEMs (Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscopes) • Acted as liaison between field and engineering, as well as SME for service group • Traveled to fabs worldwide to solve technical issues with KT tools at customer sites• Coordinated all product support worldwide (field engineer training, documentation, parts assembly categorization, world-wide stocking) CIP (Continuous Improvement Process) Engineer for Global Support Services• Managed cost reduction and revenue enhancement programs for capital equipment• Acknowledged for persistence in being able to drill down to the primary issue at hand and create a consensus to resolve• Reduced CoS by 12%, and reduced down time for KLA customers’ production toolsNPI (New Product Introduction) Engineer for Wafersight Acquisition• Ensured successful on-time transition of all PLM phase exits for new acquisition• Coordinated all support for acquisitions; established training of field service engineers, authored field documents, established global stocking levels of critical partsProduct Engineer for CD-SEMs (Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscopes) • Acted as liaison between field and engineering, as well as SME for service group • Traveled to fabs worldwide to solve technical issues with KT tools at customer sites• Coordinated all product support worldwide (field engineer training, documentation, parts assembly categorization, world-wide stocking)

• Dean's List• Chair of SJSU IEEE – largest organization on campus (250 members)• Used networking skills and industry contacts to acquire over $50k in donated lab equipment

• Successfully migrated all processes from the experimental design phase to production phase; designed all protocols, procedures, documentation, and training • Trained and supervised seven technicians and all QA personnel• Established a 10-step technician certification program for each clean room process• Established all documents used in processing of 10Gb optical transceiver modules – process/equipment qualification plans, process control plans, vendor specifications• Increased productivity by applying the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to manufacturing process• Project manager for outsourced fiber-optic manufacturing process• Successfully migrated all processes from the experimental design phase to production phase; • • • established cleanroom layout, purchased equipment, designed all protocols, procedures, documentation, and trained seven technicians and all QA personnel• Project manager for outsourced fiber-optic manufacturing process - created and managed production schedules, established FMEA and cost-benefit analysis, authored qualification plans, and trained CM on process

• Managed InGaAsP wafer processing of tunable laser diodes: photolithography, etching, metal distribution (MOCVD), annealing, diffusion, SEM metrology, mounting, wire bond, final testing and burn-in • Chosen to train new technicians• Selected as technical liaison for external vendors• Improved yield, perfected design to satisfy extremely low tolerance specifications required• First technician to do all processing and testing of the lasers, from epitaxial growth recipe adjustments to final test

Mba, Mergers And Acquisitions

• Classes in Corporate Finance, B2B Marketing, Supply Chain Management, M&A, Business Valuation, Corporate Strategy • Received Belotti.

B.S., Electrical Engineering