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Florida, United States

Tampa, Florida, United States

Defining and delivering Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions for Semiconductors OEMs and Wafer Fabs. Serve as the central function and driving force for the design, strategy, marketing, and business development for Tignis’ products in the semiconductor market.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Responsible for segment growth providing operational improvement products and services, NPI best known practices and smart manufacturing solutions. Lead business development activities and ownership of client management for execution of new and sustaining projects. Full P&L accountability for Americas market, hiring and team development. Main point of contact to customer and management of MAX team at customer’s site.

Worldwide - Us, Phillippines, & Malaysia

Senior Consultant providing unique range of operational solutions focusing on product development cycle time reduction, project management effectiveness, and overall business process improvement in the semiconductor and compound semiconductors industries.LED product development experience supporting LED industry leader NPD & R&D organization in time-to-market acceleration, organization transformation, re-definition of phase gated process, R&D Supply Chain planning & execution process… Show more Senior Consultant providing unique range of operational solutions focusing on product development cycle time reduction, project management effectiveness, and overall business process improvement in the semiconductor and compound semiconductors industries.LED product development experience supporting LED industry leader NPD & R&D organization in time-to-market acceleration, organization transformation, re-definition of phase gated process, R&D Supply Chain planning & execution process, and improving overall program management techniques.PM for Solar module project to improve their OEE by 40%. Focus on analyzing labor resource between tools and workstations to maximize attendance at bottlenecks, redesign ways of working, material flows (eg line versus cluster), WIP staging points, increase starts levels, and remove any constraints preventing the factory from ramping quickly. Currently PM for major LED manufacturer in Malaysia providing a study in productivity improvements for one of the high volume runner products and one of the new innovative product lines on the back-end assembly processes. Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Project engineering responsibilities including planning, scheduling, vendor contractor selection, and resource allocation for project with program management teamHeavy interaction with ASIC design team to have design for test and design for manufacturability guidelines in place on new designsTechnical project management tasks including parts selection and procurement, system in package and multi-chip module design interaction, design package control management documentation ownership… Show more Project engineering responsibilities including planning, scheduling, vendor contractor selection, and resource allocation for project with program management teamHeavy interaction with ASIC design team to have design for test and design for manufacturability guidelines in place on new designsTechnical project management tasks including parts selection and procurement, system in package and multi-chip module design interaction, design package control management documentation ownership, functional test analysis.ASIC product engineering responsibilities include planning, scheduling, cost, vendor contractor selection, product prototype to production flow definitions, test spec and qualification plans.ASIC foundries technical understanding of digital and RF process specs to be able to pick right technology for desired customer application needs.Maintain vendor relationship and continue researching and making sure vendors maintain ITAR compliance and other required documentation to be an approved vendor to ITT.Assure of best achievable product profit margins by test time reduction, lower cost test (ATE) solution and vendor sub-contractor negotiated costs. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed technical activities for team of 6 product engineers and 8 projectsReported to senior management and customers project status and achievementsCo-developed standardize procedures for best practices in design for test (DFT) Weekly interaction with manufacturing facility in the Philippines, monitor yield reports, suggested process improvementsAssisted junior engineers in professional development; reviewed and schedule tasks to improve skill sets, identified… Show more Managed technical activities for team of 6 product engineers and 8 projectsReported to senior management and customers project status and achievementsCo-developed standardize procedures for best practices in design for test (DFT) Weekly interaction with manufacturing facility in the Philippines, monitor yield reports, suggested process improvementsAssisted junior engineers in professional development; reviewed and schedule tasks to improve skill sets, identified strengths/weaknesses and communicated with section managerRepresented ASIC product development team during vendor's technical meetings, roadmap reviews, and external industry's conference on IC design and test Show less

Highly integrated devices with short time cycles to release to production, fast pace environment with ability to multitask across different devicesHardware/Software development of new ASIC devices with complete engineering characterization analysis of initial siliconProcess characterization, qualification, release to production, ramp-to-volumeWork closely with fabs/design team to quickly resolve yield issues observed on ATE side - some exposure to fab and simulation data for… Show more Highly integrated devices with short time cycles to release to production, fast pace environment with ability to multitask across different devicesHardware/Software development of new ASIC devices with complete engineering characterization analysis of initial siliconProcess characterization, qualification, release to production, ramp-to-volumeWork closely with fabs/design team to quickly resolve yield issues observed on ATE side - some exposure to fab and simulation data for designsProduction release offloads with multiple overseas trips to ensure quality handoffs to production sites, work cross functional with engineering teams Part of profit enhancement team - concentrate on improving device cost of business margins, contributing to bottom line PFO for business groupDevice optimizations to test times, burn-in reduction, yield improvements and/or ATE platform conversions for less expensive test costCollect and analyze data and reliability stress data to identify gaps in design performance, quality and reliability. Identification and implementation of containment and corrective actions to resolve gapsWork closely with external customer and quality engineering on field returns to ensure right test coverage in place in production release programs Show less

Product engineer support for ASIC group at customer, Texas Instruments. Responsible for device development from hardware design/test program development to analysis, yield tracking and solving test related issuesLTX Fusion HF semiconductor tester applications support for Sparc architecture technologies at customer site, Texas Instruments.Custom test code development for different applications in memory groups for SRAM testing.Memory custom test methods development and support using… Show more Product engineer support for ASIC group at customer, Texas Instruments. Responsible for device development from hardware design/test program development to analysis, yield tracking and solving test related issuesLTX Fusion HF semiconductor tester applications support for Sparc architecture technologies at customer site, Texas Instruments.Custom test code development for different applications in memory groups for SRAM testing.Memory custom test methods development and support using e-fuse repair and Die ID on Sun 90nm device.White paper description for e-fuse programming methodology using LTX Fusion Platform.Full support for production and engineering groups for any tester malfunction, hardware or software related.Performance Evaluation between LTX VX250/VX4 Fusion testers on Sparc Device Show less

Synchronous DRAM design verification for .14um technology: Full product development involvement including initial hardware test and characterization of different process split lots, analyzing data and characterizing tests to minimize yield lost, recommended different voltage/timing parameters to design team for manufacturing team based on results collected, optimization for best post-fused wafers and package level test programs. Development and maintenance of ATE code (Teradyne &… Show more Synchronous DRAM design verification for .14um technology: Full product development involvement including initial hardware test and characterization of different process split lots, analyzing data and characterizing tests to minimize yield lost, recommended different voltage/timing parameters to design team for manufacturing team based on results collected, optimization for best post-fused wafers and package level test programs. Development and maintenance of ATE code (Teradyne & Advantest) for test programs.Full ownership of crucial parts of design verification package: Signal Margin Analysis by varying chip internal voltages and checking to see at what point part starts to show failures. E-fuse optimization for determining best blowing voltage/timing conditions required for 100% fuse success. Device characteristics shmoos at wafer and package level to determine window of functionality.Characterization of failures to understand root cause and give feed back to design team and/or process engineering team Show less

Executive Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Activities and Societies: Executive MBA program

M.S, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE, SHPE Emphasis in Integrated Circuits Relevant courses: Computer Aided Design, Device Process, Reliability.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc Founded Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc Rho Alpha.