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Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Refined change management and process development review business processes to improve risk assessments and streamline experimentation and validation/verification activities.• QA representative on technology review board. Provided guidance to development and manufacturing engineers on effective application of the change management process.• Continued role as internal consultant on risk assessment and control techniques (risk matrix, FMEA, control plans) and on problem solving tools (8D, 5-Whys, Is/Is-Not, etc.).• Continued role as internal consultant for statistical tools and techniques. Examples include DOE design and analysis; regression, correlation, clustering, partition and time series analysis; hypothesis testing, components of variance and metrology studies; outlier detection; acceptance sampling OC curves; and Monte Carlo simulation.• Conducted assessment/analysis of cycle time and yield issues impacting product delivery.

Bloomington, Mn

• Continued role as internal consultant for statistical tools and techniques.• Assumed internal consultant role for risk assessment and control techniques (risk matrix, FMEA, control plans) and on problem solving tools (8D, 5-Whys, Is/Is-Not, etc.).

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Facilitated continuous improvement program. Moved into the role to support corporate mandate.• Developed training and templates for applying Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and other statistical techniques. Conducted over 50 training sessions per year.• Internal consultant for statistical tools and techniques. Examples include DOE design and analysis, regression, correlation, clustering, partition, time series analysis, hypothesis testing, components of variance, metrology studies, outlier detection, acceptance sampling OC curves, and Monte Carlo simulation.• Developed statistical models to support key corporate business metrics; examples include revenue and price forecasting, cycle time analysis and yield loss analysis.• Presented at ASQ Minnesota Section 1203 dinner meetings on SPC, Lean, DOE, and problem-solving tools.

• Co-developed, programmed and implemented Advanced Process Control (APC) software for the control of Critical Dimensions (CD), resulting in greater than 80% reduction in failing critical product CD SPC charts.• Programmed Excel macro with embedded SQL query for estimation of photolithography doses for new product lots, saving engineering time and improving first-pass success rate by 7 basis points.• Developed regression model to enable in-house overlay APC development. Model allowed replacement of problematic black-box system.• Developed overlay control method which allowed product to run on alternate photolithography steppers or scanners, resulting in 18% photo area capacity improvement.• Programmed script to assess CD and overlay performance, enabling logic-based bypass of metrology operations, eliminating metrology bottleneck and reducing cycle time.• Wrote SQL query to provide heads-up report of Look-Ahead-Wafer (LAW) restrictions tied to the CD APC system, allowing proactive mitigation by engineering, saving significant cycle time for new and low-running product.

• Developed training and templates to support Lean Manufacturing and SPC improvement teams.

• Held process engineering positions in hybrid assembly, tape automated bonding and thin-film substrate fabrication. Recognized with technical award for excellence in process control and optimization.• Developed and taught internal courses in Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments and published a series of bulletins on statistical techniques.