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New York, United States

Milpitas, California, US

Newport, GB

Remotely manage a group of 8-10 process engineers located around the United States. Responsible for engineer career development, group budgetary needs, process engineer hiring, along ensuring process projects are completed in a timely and correct fashion.

Newport, GB

• Leads installations for plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) tool, specializing in dielectric deposition.
• Acts as “installation coordinator” for new tools in North America, focusing on proper tool setup, process install planning, final process report guidance while working with North American management, process and.
• Proactively developed a catalog of training materials for hardware engineers to properly understand the process setup for tools in the field, along with procedures for proper reporting of results/issues. Delivered.
• Acted as an escalation process engineer for customers’ questions on process and endpoint development, along with simple hardware issues.
• Created BKM (Best Known Method) documents for the proper procedures ensuring ICP chambers are ready for production.
• Represented SPTS at the ECTC conference presenting a talk on Plasma Dicing

Newport, GB

• Acted as the process lead on the installation of SPTS etch modules for multiple production, R&D companies, and universities. Ensured the tools fulfill all customer specifications, while training other process engineers.
• Extensive experience in Silicon (DRIE/Bosch Process), III-V ICP, dielectric, metal, novel material and isotropic release etching (HF and XeF2). Wafer size experience from 75mm to 300mm for MEMS, Power, BAW and SAW.
• Led and developed process demonstrations for potential customers. Gained experience on multiple metrology approaches, including the usage of SEM.
• Assisted in “live demonstrations” for customers that showed the process ability of toolsets. Works closely with the Wales-based factory team on process installations and questions from the field.
• Applied basic “Design of Experiments” concepts for process development planning and analysis, while being exposed to statistical process control for optimizing customer production.
• Solved, remotely and onsite, customers’ process issues and spurred further development of new processes needed.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Using an ultra high vacuum chamber to study the chemical dynamics of Si Etching with fluorinated noble gas dimers. An internal, rotatable line of sight mass spectrometer fitted with a pseudorandom chopper for.
• Operating and maintaining two precisely coupled, triply differentially pumped molecular beam sources. The beams are used to expose the Si crystal to both reactive and noble gases.
• Familiar with the design and engineering of components to interface with the existing apparatus to add functionality as desired.
• Worked with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) to design energy based problems and concepts for introductory chemistry and biology courses, along with mentoring undergraduates in a project-based energy course.

Master'S Degree, Physical Chemistry

Bs, Chemistry