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Frisco, TX, US

Tokyo, JP

Tokyo, JP

Richardson, Texas, US

-- Designed new test hardware on ETS364, A93K, and VLCT for Probe and Final Test as individual contributor and team lead for digital, analog, and high speed products with consistent first pass success.-- Developed and debugged test solutions for Power Management, Op Amp, Logic, and High Speed products on ETS364, A93K, VLCT, and Fusion meeting critical.

Dallas, TX, US

• Owned all aspects of product ramp for process driver product including test hardware design, silicon debug, test program generation and debug, characterization, qualification, and release to production. Successful.
• Led critical debug of memory design problem gating production release of two complex ASICs for major customer. Coordinated efforts of cross-functional team including test, design, quality, and sales. Released both.
• Took leading edge product from first silicon debug to production release in 5 months, meeting aggressive ramp schedule of division's largest customer.
• Designed advanced probe cards and final test boards for complex SOCs with high power and high speed I/O without need for a single re-spin.
• Released three high performance analog products to production in 2013 receiving perfect scores for project execution.
• Recognized for leading the effort between test engineering, quality, and manufacturing site to resolve yield issues and ramp key high volume device to production resulting in over 10 million units shipped.

Poway, California, US

• Completed contract for on-site product and test engineering support by independently releasing custom ASIC device to production, including hardware design, program generation, silicon debug, characterization, and.
• Used novel approach to latch-up testing by creating a program to run on LTX Fusion improving first pass success and reducing cycle time for latch-up qualifications. Test code has been re-used on all subsequent projects.
• Quickly learned to program Fusion test system in order to immediately provide on-site applications support for product and test engineers.
• Provided needed automation by creating Perl scripts for test data analysis, verification, and test program generation.

North Reading, MA, US

• Secured company position in DFT tester evaluation at key account by leading series of technical exchanges directly with field team and customer.
• Convinced EDA vendor to modify solutions for embedded deterministic test and memory BIST to enhance competitive position of company. Then, co-authored article in Electronics Design Magazine and presented at Teradyne.
• Led applications team in delivering turnkey test program and hardware package to fabless customer helping to establish Teradyne's competitive position in that market and driving tester sales at sub-cons.
• Acted as main liaison to customer management and engineering leads in identifying project requirements and was recognized for technical contribution to the project.
• First in the division to use new tester and program generation tools. Mentored colleagues to enable their use on other projects.
• Doubled the size of the group through aggressive recruiting campaign in order to keep pace with rapidly growing business needs.

B.S., Electrical Engineering

Mba