Michael Kennett Email & Phone Number

Malta, NY, US

Developing and Implementing Precision Maintenance Strategy for GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab8 in Malta, NY

Malta, NY, US

Module manager covering operations, process, and equipment engineering team for single wafer diffusion module ( ALD and EPI ).

Armonk, New York, NY, US

•Upline engineering manager responsible for 6 300mm semiconductor wafer manufacturing engineering and operations departments. •Manage all equipment, process engineering teams for CVD, PVD, CMP, PLT, and Chem Dist systems. Also manage 24x7 line support teams for same areas.•Organization is responsible for new process deployment, all capital tooling installs.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

•Managed a team of very highly skilled process and equipment engineers supporting Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) and Chemical Operations.•Managed project to develop and qualify a new cleaning process for Cu CMP that eliminated ring scrathes using a novel combination of cleaning processes; patent awarded.•Led transfer of alarm reduction program I created.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

•Managed a team of 20 line support technicians and 2 engineers supporting Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) and Chemical Operations. •Also managed supplier contracts for OEM tool suppliers, which included another 40 maintenance technicians. Responsible for 24x7 through 4 operations shifts.•Implemented gemba process for CMP as a communications.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

•Shift manager responsible for line support. Managed team of 24 D1 shift process and maintenance technicians.•Managed AMAT, Ebara, Novellus, and DNS service contracts.•Developed web-based fab reporting scorecard application using Python and Django.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

•Equipment engineer responsible for AMAT Reflexion and Ebara FREX-300 300mm Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) equipment. •Managed cost takedown program. •Standardized, documented, and continuously improved PM procedures.•Represented IBM on several international benchmarking and information exchange trips, including another IBM semi.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

•Equipment engineer responsible for installing ASM vertical furnaces for intial ramp of the 300mm factory.•Completed design review and managed project schedules for new tooling•Provided advanced troubleshooting guidance as needed for the line support team.•Led continuous improvement program with ASM. •One of 3 developers who created a web based ( Django ).

Armonk, New York, NY, US

•Equipment engineer responsible for belt-style solder reflow furnaces, and very-high-temp, reducing environment batch furnaces used for ceramic sintering. •Provided advanced troubleshooting, PM documentation, capacity planning, etc. •Completed full-redesign of a material handler, replacing several large relay logic cabinets with a single.

•Laboratory technician and research project scientist investigating the effects of tobacco exposure on active breast cancer tumor cell metastasis for a Westinghouse project.•Experience included design of experiments, experiment execution, data analysis and summarization, data review with peers, and technical writing.