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• Determined root cause of a product design issue that impacted $2.5 million of material and implemented new defense lines within the factory to prevent future impact• Solved a product-specific process issue to save $200,000 of lost product per year• Created and maintained a daily yield analysis script in Python for products on multiple teams to aid early detection and investigation of product issues• Wrote Python scripts to assess factory emergencies and quicken engineering… Show more • Determined root cause of a product design issue that impacted $2.5 million of material and implemented new defense lines within the factory to prevent future impact• Solved a product-specific process issue to save $200,000 of lost product per year• Created and maintained a daily yield analysis script in Python for products on multiple teams to aid early detection and investigation of product issues• Wrote Python scripts to assess factory emergencies and quicken engineering response• Led my team as acting manager in addition to my standard duties • Owned 17 products at once. Qualified 5 NPI and assisted qualification of 3 others• Ran 7 experiments and implemented changes to improve yield on our products • Managed documentation, coordination, and final approvals for 80+ process changes • Communicated with stakeholders and formalized a procedure for part of the new product checklist to prevent quality issues on new material• Led my team as acting manager in addition to my standard duties • Represented my department in weekly meetings to discuss projects that impacted our products and provide feedback to other teams with new project proposals Show less

• Spearheaded DOE to overcome process change which made qualification difficult and shared findings with international sites to boost process capacity company-wide• Debugged and enhanced MS Excel VBA script to cut regular data analysis from 20 minutes to 2 minutes, then spread script to other teams in department• Drove qualification of three machines and assisted qualification of four others• Ran experiments and presented data analysis for task forces to solve in-line problems•… Show more • Spearheaded DOE to overcome process change which made qualification difficult and shared findings with international sites to boost process capacity company-wide• Debugged and enhanced MS Excel VBA script to cut regular data analysis from 20 minutes to 2 minutes, then spread script to other teams in department• Drove qualification of three machines and assisted qualification of four others• Ran experiments and presented data analysis for task forces to solve in-line problems• Reviewed SPC charts daily and developed gameplans to drive best-in-class performance• Crafted documentation and trained new engineers in routine tasks and programs• Taught new fab technicians basic tasks to support tool qualifications and sustaining, and documented procedures for more complicated sustaining activities Show less

Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) of Nanostructures under Dr. Grant Willson.• Investigated chemical selectivity of brush/graft molecules in DSA• Created silicon wafer samples and analyzed those samples with atomic force microscopy (AFM), and ellipsometry

Research under Dr. Bernd Reck and Dr. Crispin Amiri Naini• Synthesized polymer dispersions via emulsion polymerizations and discovered an unexpected phenomenon for dispersion stabilization• Analyzed samples with ring-tensiometry, size-exclusion chromatography, and spectrophotometry• Constructed a Microsoft Access database with user interface and automated report creation• Authored documentation for database architecture and search functionality to aid future developments

• Assisted students in physics I/II, calculus I/II/III, differential equations, organic chemistry I, and genetics• Interviewed tutor applicants and judged the best for hire• Rated 4.80/5.00 by students