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Goals:Innovative professional with over thirty-five years industrial experience in development, research, and manufacturing. Enjoy accelerating the transfer of technology, creative problem-solving, technology assessment, use Data Mining to identify problems quickly and build solutions cheaply. Fascinated by our lack of 20:20 hindsight; the acceleration of technology drives a continuously evolving meaning and new jargon complicating the ability to find the foundational innovations of new products. Currently pursuing Single subject certification from CSULBACCOMPLISHMENTS:Developed Patent Analytics, understand risk, id procurement targets and prioritize review of patents.Managed Reverse Engineer, over $4M budget 2012, coordinating work of 4 external firms.Taught MCA, Stat 101, DOE 1, ANOVA Analysis.Coordinated Tool Installation in new PLC factory.Revamped Screening process, eliminated steps and improving process control, decreasing CoV by 75% and increasing yield from 0 to 35%.Saved $100K/ year by redefining heavy metal waste disposal, Rendering Cu and Ni undetectableDeveloped, Optimized, and Qualified TwinstarTM process at Customer using Photo BCB.Co-developed the ENVISION cost model for process change analysis (commercialized software)Developed training program to teach workstation ownership to manufacturing operators. Lead to increased ownership by manufacturing, reducing need for engineering technicians by 50%.Developed and Implemented contamination reduction plan integrating manual and automated inspections leading to reduction in reliability defects from 60 ppm to less than 13 ppm.Applied multivariate analysis on electron beam lithographic process, implementing robust new process resulting in 50% reduction in rework.Developed new Diazoquinone/Novolak mid-UV sensitive resist, tailoring its performance using multivariate analysis to obtain robust new material giving IBM 5-year lead on first 1 Megabyte chip.

Listed skills include Semiconductors, Patents, R&D, Manufacturing, and 46 others.