Shi Choong, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

• Specialize in custom event planning
• Design events with creative themes and ideas
• Seamless and stress-free execution for weddings and non-wedding events such as galas, conferences, fundraisers, fashion shows and more
• Featured in the 2024 inaugural issue of Oregon Wedding Day magazine
• The Knot Best of Weddings 2023 & 2024 award
• WeddingWire Couples' Choice 2024 award

Santa Clara, California, US

• Senior engineer
• Pioneered the new hire onboarding program and the unified technical training program for engineers across various departments within the organization to promote healthy and effective learning process and work life.
• Built and maintain one-stop training and learning library for the defect metrology to promote continuous learning
• Co-lead of Workplace of Choice Committee to establish the structure of this committee, created and communicated a vision that motivates the organization to enhance best practices and to drive positive changes.
• Design & organize professional development series for engineers across the company through partnership with content experts

Santa Clara, California, US

• Layer Owner, actively monitored quality of the production line and responded timely to contain quality concerns based on data
• Advocated model-based troubleshooting action plans, and effective planning and communication between modules
• Project lead for defect metrology system improvement and training for new hires to ensure smooth transition and to set them up for success for their new roles
• Project leader to improve documentation and communication system to reduce redundancy and promote effective documentation to reduce reliance of tribal knowledge
• Strong ownership and goal orientation; role modeling effective communication, documentation and deliverables

Santa Clara, California, US

• Part-time actively helping Intel Scholars Program to reimagine and implement a best-in-class engagement model for Intel Scholars to benefits first generation STEM college students and scholars from under-represented.
• Explore opportunities and drive team missions towards helping Intel Scholars along their academic journey and growing Intel's pipeline of diverse STEM talent

Santa Clara, California, US

• Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) module process engineer with direct contact of semiconductor wafers in an Intel's fab
• Supported team projects and conducted hands-on experiments to optimize planarization process
• First point-of-contact as a day-shift or night-shift on-call to ensure smooth operation and to troubleshoot when issues arise
• Worked closely with technicians to drive experiments, projects and PM forward effectively
• Tool owner, maintained the well-being of polisher tools and troubleshot when tool-related issues arise. Also to identify and evaluate equipment-specific shortcomings and make modifications to improve existing processes
• Supported rigorous product and process optimization through recipe developments and experiments, data analysis, and commonality assessment using JMP Statistical software

Led, planned, and executed conferences and events to promote positive changes, locally and globally Raised $180k of cash sponsorship within 4 months to support 3 years of event productionDeveloped budgets to host events with attendance ranging from 200 to 1000. Secured continuous funding of the organization through strong partnership with local business.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Contributed 2 patents for interfacial patterning strategy for synthetic material applications based on wetting using bioinspired molecules to create amphiphilic monolayers with precisely spaced chemical orthogonality.
• Contributed 3 IP for quantitative and qualitative analyses of cosmetic, pharmaceutical (trace analysis and cleaning validation) and hydrocarbon related compounds (kerogen source rocks and naphthenic acid) using paper.
• Maintained linear ion-trap mass spectrometry, trained and coordinated the instrument use among 15–20 users

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry
• General Chemistry with labs, Advanced Analytical Chemistry II with labs for senior majors, Physical Chemistry labs for senior students

South San Francisco, California, US

• Delivered 20-30 a day highly purified milligram small drug molecules for Assay, DMPK, and Genotox analyses
• Responsible for several sample handling operations involved in the purification of small molecules such as reverse-phase HPLC, roto-evaporation, lyophilization, and data analysis
• Reversed phased chromatography: LC-MS, HPLC, UPLC

Emeryville, CA, US

• Formulated lubricants using home-made biodegradable baseoils and different additives
• Analyzed samples using viscometer, GC-MS, GC-FID & Bromine Index
• Created and organized database for the team project

San Francisco, CA, US

• Under the supervision of Prof. Anton Guliaev.
• Studied the conformational features serine protease variants by molecular dynamic (MD) simulations
• Studied the role of the disulfide bridges (C42-C58) in the structure stability
• Studying the conformational features of the XPC variants complexed with DNA using MD

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Analytical Chemistry

Ba, Chemistry