• Hired as Employee 9; built Process Engineering group from scratch; instituted statistical methods and rigorous experiment design, developed tool health monitoring, and established quality metrics• Advanced multiple customer engagements from prototype testing to high volume manufacturing; responsible for first manufacturing orders for the company in multiple industries (LED lighting and battery pack interconnect), which was integral to Series B fundraising• Responsible for start-up, de-bugging and qualification of custom roll-to-roll flexible circuit manufacturing line; led team that transferred technology from R&D prototype tools to higher volume manufacturing with >10x increase in maximum circuit footprint• Wrote custom Python-based database to integrate process tracking, metrology systems, and tool data, which enabled part traceability, prevented shipment of non-conforming parts, and drove quality improvement projects that resulted in >3x yield improvement during manufacturing ramp• Developed processes with external companies to enable traditional surface-mount technology (SMT) processing of custom flexible circuits in order to facilitate high-volume deployment

• Promoted from Individual Contributor to Executive Staff after 6 weeks; Doubled size of group and instituted 24/7 R&D operations to support company expansion• Delivered demonstration part set, which was essential in securing first customer contracts and Series B funding• Developed company’s technology roadmap, which focused engineering efforts on critical path, created timeline for customer delivery, and revealed strategic pivot points; Improved alignment between individual projects by illustrating convergence towards common deliverables• Instituted initiatives to streamline process development: daily/weekly monitoring for process/tool drift; rigorous documentation of procedures; templates for experimental design, project management, and root cause analysis; formal training in applied statistics and DOE

• Scaled up company’s differentiated metal 3D printing technology; Increased maximum part size by >100x volumetrically and generalized process to arbitrary geometry

• Process development technical lead for next generation pre-clean chamber for CVD growth.• Developed fast feedback process development techniques that significantly increased rate ofprocess development; used surface-science techniques to accurately predict quality of film growthon substrates• Added responsibility of customer-facing role as technical expert for pre-clean chamber; responsible for providing customer updates, traveling to face-to-face meetings, and ensuring technical milestones are delivered on time and according to specifications• Founding member of business unit’s statistics council; provides mentorship on experimental design, data analysis and statistical methods to junior engineers

• Technical leader focused on efficiency improvement of printed thin film CIGS solar cells• Transfer of next-generation cell technology from concept phase to manufacturing scale • Improved efficiency of manufacturing experimentation by using statistical analysis to implement experimental designs with improved signal-to-noise ratio and reduced manufacturing footprint• Responsible for design, implementation and analysis of screening and response surface experiments using DOE for process development, process window identification, and materials/tool qualification

• Dissertation research focused on synthesizing and characterizing novel magnetic semiconductor alloys to improve understanding of the complex exchange mechanisms in Mn-doped III-V semiconductors. Highlights include the first reported synthesis of Ga1-xMnxAs1-yPy and Ga1-xMnxP1-yNy, and the first demonstration of strain-engineered magnetic anisotropy by isovalent anion substitution in Ga1-xMnxAs and Ga1-xMnxP• Five years experience with electrical characterization of semiconductor thin films including leading a team that assembled instrumentation capable of measuring electrical transport at magnetic fields up to 7T• Work with magnetic semiconductors has resulted in unique dual familiarity with terminology, techniques and challenges that are relevant to both magnetic and semiconducting materials• Primary operator of ion implanter; performed over 200 implants at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for photovoltaic, spintronic, phase-change memory, and electrical device applications• Authored or co-authored 17 journal/book publications and presented research internationally• Supervised undergraduate and visiting foreign students on thesis research

Performed X-ray diffraction studies to examine structural properties of Ga1-xMnxAs thin films Exposed to synchrotron-based techniques at the Advanced Photon Source

Designed and fabricated H2/N2/CO2/CO gas delivery system that allows for control of O2 partial pressure during electrical conductivity measurements

Worked on identifying the cause of crystallization in liquid tanning sprays as well as the integration of hydrogen peroxide into facial cosmetics