Process, Fabrication and Integration Research and Development• semiconductor fab expert: process development and integration (mill/RIE/CMP/litho/thinfilm/plating/wet-etch/mask design) • metrology and characterization: FIB/SEM/TEM, EELS/EDX, rf/VNA, AFM, ellipsometry, optical and electronic probes• magnetic, MEMS, microwave, optical, semiconductor and superconducting devices • data-storage: HDD, SSD, NVM• device design • data analysis w/JMP and SPC tools • 35 patents and trade secrets • 53 publications • 21 invited talksEXPERIENCE:2016-presentWestern Digital (WD, HGST, SanDisk), San Jose and Fremont, CA: Director, Optical-Device Fabrication• Manager of wafer-fabrication team of engineers and technicians developing Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR)o wafer integration and process development for optical components: waveguide, near-field transducer, heatsinkso process development w/IBE, RIE (O2, CO2, Cl2, BCl3, F-based) and deposition (IBD, PVD, CVD/ALD, metals, oxides) o development and optimization of CMP (metals and oxides), lithography and wet processes (etch, release, strip, plate) o materials development, characterization and integration of electronic, magnetic, optical and plasmonic deviceso manage 24/7 process teams to shepherd and deliver finished wafers to internal/external customerso work with New-Product-Integration team preparing HAMR for manufacturing2010-2016HGST, a Western Digital company, San Jose, CA: Technologist and Research Staff Member• Design, fabrication and characterization of optical and magnetic devices for advanced recording-head technologiesNthDegree Technologies (start-up), Tempe, AZ: Senior Scientist• Leader of a research team developing printed LEDs (30-m scale, singulated from Si and sapphire substrates) • Design, modeling, fabrication and characterization of GaN LEDs (both Si and sapphire based), photovoltaics, and sensorsSeagate Technology, Research Organization, Pittsburgh, PA: Research Staff Member • Part of teams that developed PMR, HAMR, WAMR (team leader), MAMR (team leader), MRAM, MEMS-probe storageo Outstanding Technical Contribution Award (ceremony in Maui): invention, research, development of WAMR• Project leader for FMR (microwave) probe: developed µ-probe to measure magnetization dynamics in head, media, multiferroicsEDUCATION:• PhD in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE), The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Math and Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Listed skills include Characterization, R&D, Physics, Device Physics, and 22 others.