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Mesa, Arizona

• Responsible for the operation and maintenance of 2075 Automated Sapphire Furnaces on a 24 hour 7 day a week schedule.
• Duties included hiring and training a workforce of over 50 permanent and temporary Electro-Mechanical Technicians working a four shift compressed schedule.
• Managed the furnace qualification project and met an aggressive production ramp schedule on time.
• Managed an equipment upgrade on 2070 furnaces and completed the project on time and on budget.
• Worked with several external contract companies to address facilities equipment installation issues.

Mesa, Arizona

• Monitor and repair building facilities equipment. Track and report on the performance of equipment pertaining to the entire facility. Work with various equipment contractors on scheduling and monitoring equipment.
• Created, developed, and maintained, the system for tracking equipment performance necessary to comply with the Maricopa County Air Permit requirements.
• Scheduled the external contractors daily to perform required warranty repairs, or to work on new projects.
• Created the Planned Maintenance Checklists for various facilities equipment and entered PM schedules into MAXIMO.
• Managed contractor selection process to perform annual inspections on Building Life Safety equipment under budgeted target.
• Utilized SAP software to generate purchase requisition’s, to obtain work PO’s, and order necessary materials.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Managed the Maintenance group and monitored processing equipment performance that met project, program and utilization goals, within this high volume environment, by managing planned maintenance and tool upgrade.
• Managed a workforce of 20 Electro-Mechanical Technicians working a 24/7 compressed work schedule.
• Achieved 25% reduction in costly misprocessing errors, equipment downtimes and aborts by leading Diffusion Furnace Upgrade and Standardization Project encompassing 60 furnaces in 16 furnace banks.
• Increased equipment utilization with extended tube life from < 168 runs to 200 runs as TEOS Foreline Project Manager that reformulated preventive maintenance processes.
• Leader that reduced number of furnace aborts by 75% thus achieving 30% reduction in material scrap for eleven consecutive months by monitoring data and efficiently scheduling upgrades and repairs.
• Improved tool qualification process management by developing and implementing Post Maintenance Checklists for multiple tool sets.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Probe Process Engineering 2001-2003Managed Probe area projects and maintained he Probe Backgrind process area.
• Achieved $3M recurring annual savings in product costs by qualifying and implementing a new Backgrind laminate tape completed in three months.
• Saved $1million annually and increased production capacity to 100% by introducing and managing installation of a new low cost test platform tool set.Section Manager - Probe Maintenance 1997-2001Managed eleven.
• Doubled yield and reduced process variations by installing tools and modifying hardware.
• Project Manager that achieved QS9000 certification and 100% PM completion goals by leading implementation of automated Preventative Maintenance (PM) Scheduling System.
• Achieved >200 hours of lost production time and increased work efficiency by installing Automated Down Equipment Notification System resulting in reorganization of three separate facilities.