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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Hawthorne, Ca

Leader of Quality Assurance for all Avionics hardware on Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Cargo Dragon & Crew Dragon vehicles: SMT/PCBA, Electro-Mechanical Assembly, Solar Arrays, Harnessing, Batteries, Transducers & Instrumentation, and Space Simulation Test Lab. Defined Quality Inspector skills matrix that consolidated 13 distinct job roles into unified structure of core skills and discipline-specific expertise. Avionics champion for IT project to enable high-volume manufacturing within high-mix/low-volume infrastructure while maintaining strict traceability requirements and control of non-conforming material.

Austin, Texas Area

Executive leader of Samsung Austin launch into direct foundry operations and automotive sector expansion on leading-edge 14nm technology node. Created US Customer Service quality team and served as executive host for on-site audits. Oversaw ISO/TS16949 automotive certification and established wafer-level reliability function with full FEOL/BEOL product qualification capability. Represented Samsung S.LSI division at SEMATECH Quality Council proceedings. Exceeded product quality requirements for Tier1 customers to meet 21% schedule reduction for mass production delivery. Co-leader of executive risk management decision board that reduced COPQ (direct cost of scrap and RMA) by 25~37% year-over-year from 2013-2018.

Austin, Texas Area

Achieved record low OSHA RIR for the Samsung Austin site (0.15 vs SIA of 1.6). Mentored new Health & Safety manager responsible for critical Health & Safety programs: Emergency Response Team (ERT), Life Safety Systems (hazardous materials, fire), personal protective equipment (PPE), and regulatory compliance. Created data mining program to pro-actively identify sources of safety near-miss events joined with closed-loop tracking of preventive countermeasure execution. Reduced expenses 28% through vendor partner restructuring of safety equipment and supplies.

Austin, Texas Area

Leader of Quality & Reliability Engineering department for 300mm logic manufacturing at the Samsung Austin facility. Manage staff comprising 31 engineers, supervisors, and technicians. Executed strategic planning, human resources management, and mission critical business decisions while maintaining costs, quality, and professional staff development. Completed process and device reliability qualification for 9 technology nodes and 30+ devices. Developed continuous improvement business structure that set consecutive best-of-best record for shortest time to meet high-volume manufacturing process capability standards (Cpk/Ppk).

Project manager for the 2009 and 2010 'Quality Champion' initiative that controlled company-level KPI and activity for core functions of Education & Certification, Materials & Supplier Management, Infrastructure-Facilities, Infrastructure-Systems (IT), Process Equipment, and Process Control & Contamination. Project manager of 2006, 2007, and 2008 Executive Vice President Six Sigma Mega projects for the 106nm 512M DDR1 device. Managed timelines and sub-project scheduling and achievement. Certified Samsung Six Sigma Training Black Belt and Mentor. Authored and instructed Improve Phase of Six Sigma training manual (Minitab and SAS JMP versions), topics included SPC control, process variation and Ppk, design-of-experiments [DOE] and FMEA/FDM risk management. Conducted 11 two-day classroom training sessions and mentored 68 green belt projects and 15 black belt projects.

Determined site-wide strategy for defect process control and reduction, baseline yield improvement, and incident detection and containment in high-volume DRAM manufacturing facility. Managed cross-functional department of 53 engineers, technicians, and operators. Managed multi-million dollar department operations budget and exceeded year-over-year cost reduction targets. Negotiated defect inspection service contract terms and defect management software license agreements.Core member of the Process Change Control Board that controlled all process changes, reviewed and approved any technical specification change and all experimentation. Interfaced with local and overseas Samsung QA to establish quality criteria for high-margin consumer devices and implemented fab out-gate visual inspection work process that reduced customer claims by 75%. Brightfield Equipment: KLA-Tencor 2800 Discovery, 2351 Stealth, 2139, 2138Darkfield Equipment: KLA-Tencor AIT UV, AIT XP, Surfscan SP1E-beam Equipment: KLA-Tencor eS20, Applied Materials SEMVisionData Management: Synopsis Odyssey Defect Manager, SAS JMP/JSL Scripting

Texas Executive Education Program

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Summer ChE lab program at University College-London