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Manage end-to-end supply chain operations for multiple US facilities within the semiconductor industry, focusing on procurement, logistics, inventory management, and supplier performance. Lead cross-functional teams to ensure seamless alignment between supply chain activities and organizational objectives in a dynamic, high-tech global market.Key Responsibilities:• Strategic Sourcing: Develop global procurement strategies to secure critical semiconductor materials, ensuring supply continuity and cost optimization.• Supplier Management: Establish and maintain relationships with key suppliers, driving performance through regular evaluations and collaborative improvement initiatives.• Logistics Coordination: Oversee domestic and international freight operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and optimizing transit times and costs.• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and address potential supply chain disruptions, developing contingency plans to maintain operational resilience.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, production, and R&D teams to align supply chain capabilities with evolving technology demands.Key Achievements:• Delivered $500K+ in annual cost savings through supplier optimization and innovative sourcing strategies.• Directed inventory management improvements, reducing lead times and aligning with just-in- time manufacturing principles.• Optimized global supplier networks to support high-growth and high-complexity semiconductor manufacturing processes, managing $40M in annual spend.This role has requires a deep understanding of the semiconductor industry’s unique challenges, including navigating volatile markets, ensuring the availability of scarce materials, and adhering to stringent quality and compliance standards.

Acted as a focal point of contact for all IT communications between the customer and business, ensuring adequate quality control processes were in place to monitor deliverables and ensured all milestones were achieved within agreed timeframes. Kept accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing, and billing, all while implementing IT Policies and procedures, SOX Compliance procedures, and IT Audit Procedures. Worked to Design and support the buid of two Data Centers (Cisco UCS Blades, NetApp SAN, Cisco Networking equipment) with entire site-to-site replication and disaster recovery.Selected Highlights● Led and explored the underutilized capabilities of a team that successfully transformed the company into a best-in-class project organization; helped find a balance between the triple constraint (time, scope, and budget) to keep the project on track. ● Set transparent project budgets and formulated project timescales and deadlines with clients to set clear priorities and directions so that the most critical tasks were cleared out of the way first.● Held and actively participated in weekly internal and external meetings and brainstorming sessions to identify project progress, bottlenecks, and status, thus improving efficiency, effectiveness, and overall productivity.

Apply knowledge of measurement science, mathematics, physics, and electronics to calibrate inspection, measurement, and test equipment (IM&TE) in the electrical, dimensional, optical, physical, mechanical, environmental, and chemical disciplines to ensure measurement accuracy. ● Identified and utilized appropriate measurement procedures; performed corrective actions to address identified measurement problems; adapted equipment, standards, and procedures to accomplish unique measurements. ● Maintained calibration standards specified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ● Developed, tested, and maintained documented systems procedures and work instructions.Selected Highlights● Promoted yield improvement projects and initiatives which helped to maintain good yearly production yields of more than 97%. ● Filled in as the Designated Trainer for all Characterization Equipment; established process control procedures that improved product quality and increased throughput● Drove the effort in the MBE group to establish control plans and FMEAs (Failure Mode and Effects Analyses) to Help RFMD achieve ISO/TS16949 certification.

Electro-mechanical root cause troubleshooting and repair of all semiconductor process equipment.Assist in developing and performing preventive and predictive maintenance of all semiconductor process equipment as needed (including chamber cleans), as well as implementing modifications and upgrades to improve tool performance.Assist in equipment installations by plumbing utilities such as power, water, drain, gas lines, etc. Diagnosed and corrected problems precisely and promptly; interacted with the equipment manager, shift supervisor, equipment vendors, and maintenance engineers. procured installed and maintained all production PCs. Performed PC software upgrades and diagnosed/repaired hardware-related problems.Duties:• Trained to provide Maintenance support for GaAs based HBT and pHEMT production on the VG V100, VG V150, Riber 6000, Riber 7000, and Veeco Gen 2000 MBE platforms• Completed on-site RF Circuit Components course• Installed and Maintain control software for all Machines. Ensure all Software/Firmware is up to date