Manager for team of engineers and technicians responsible for test in MOSFET and Schottky devices for power and RF applications between fab and final assembly. Matching of test platforms and processes across multiple sites, including international and contract manufacturers. Tool maintenance, test stability, product support, data integrity, process improvement, and capacity expansion validation and buy-off.

Engineering team lead for customer focused NPI team. Multi-national team (US- and China-based) of ~10 engineers. Owner of costing, process definition, and determination of feasibility for early project phases. Consulting support for R&D division on customer applications and product specification development of coatings and equipment. Provide coating and machine requirements, testing parameters and specification, throughput and cost considerations, and VOC.

Interim lead on several projects, including documentation and validation for coating process on key account. Subject matter expert addressing a range of topics from materials compatibility, coating process optimization, failure analysis, and development of problem models.

Working as the bridge between R&D, Engineering, and Sales, sourcing materials and developing methods for conformal coating of electronic products. Process and tool owner for cleaning, surface preparation, and several accelerated lifetime testing methods. Liaison to industry experts and responsible for maintaining known best practices and knowledge of industry standards (IPC/JEDEC/SMTA). Responsible for weighing relative strengths of each material in varying applications, in addition to validating materials for increasingly longer exposure and more aggressive environments. Development of testing protocols, electronic test vehicles, and testing apparatus. Development of new techniques and applications of protective materials. Documentation of DFX, SOP, and Process Development within the existing quality system.Independently driven projects with a minimum of supervision but highly visible results.

Worked as the materials engineer in a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Main project centered on the robotic deposition of multilayer structures of conducting and insulating polymers for use as easily customizable, novel body-interfacing electrodes. Duties included polymer chemistry for process development, microparticle characterization, formulation of conducting polymers, experimental design and setup, programming and control of robotic deposition, and development of testing procedures for final devices. Handled some or most aspects of simple electronic assembly and testing, laboratory handling and mixing of chemicals, inventory management, experimental design, programming, process development, troubleshooting, device design and manufacture, and all materials considerations.Other responsibilities included: general knowledge of materials (adhesives, thin films, silicones, urethanes, conductive particles, epoxies, combinations of all of the above and processing resulting from their use), biocompatibility, electrochemistry, grant writing and federal funding mechanisms, quality control systems and documentation, medical device regulations.

Materials specialist for electro-active polymers. Formulated, fabricated, and tested "artificial muscles" based on polypyrrole actuators. Built, maintained, and operated both fabrication and testing equipment, and developed processes for quantifying performance of the actuators.