Vikash Ranjan, Phd, Mba Email & Phone Number

Lead Integration Engineers from multiple manufacturing plants in daily sustaining activities for product performance: Yield, Module Efficiency and Reliability.Along with sustaining product performance, responsible for projecting and meeting short-term forecast for factory metrics (yield, efficiency, module reliability).Lead team efforts in alignment activities among global sites on key metrics and new technology transfer.Lead new process and wattage improvement initiatives for Manufacturing Qualification and Implementation and align with global team on technology transfer.Lead Integration Engineers in data analysis to drive drive improvements and recommendations to operations and process engineering team.Responsible for establishing systems and leading team to reduce performance variation within local plants and between global sites. Lead team to troubleshoot gap to target (for yield, Eff, reliability, durability) during manufacturing qual and implementation.

Perrysburg, Ohio

As a project manager-Proven record of managing projects using stage/gate process methodology: develop and manage project scope, budgets, timelines; investigate Intellectual Property landscape; oversee risk assessments to ensure high EHS standards.-During project life cycle, I manage cross function team to identify and mitigate risk/safety issue; plan and execute lab activities, plant trials and scale-up activities to ensure project deliverable are on track.-Write business cases, conducting feasibility studies, prepare and manage budget (direct and indirect cost), overseeing risk assessments to ensure high Health, Safety and Environmental standards. -Transparent communication to internal and external stakeholders during project life cycle.-Work with cross functional team to qualify R&D developed materials or process into manufacturing.As a R&D Scientist, -Day to day activities includes but not limited to development of new materials and chemistries for on- line CVD applications: DOE using JMP, thin film coating deposition using APCVD process, summarizing data from sample analysis such as 4-point probe, Hall effect, Lambda 1050, XPS, SIMS, SEM, presents results to R&D group.-Provide business and technical support through analytical services. -Develop new methods to understand and improve electrical and optical properties of existing products.-Develop collaboration with Universities and write proposal for funding.

Norfolk, Virginia, United States

-Worked on implementing insitu ellipsometry for monitoring growth process of ultrathin CIGS.-Contributed to writing a successful grant proposal of $1.1 million from Department of Energy under Foundational Program to Advance Cell Efficiency (F-Pace). -Coevaporation, sputtering, ALD, ebeam deposition of thin film for CIGS, , ZnS, ZnO, CdS thin film application

Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Area

- Thin film (CIGS, Mo, CdS, ZnO, ITO) deposition (Thermal co-evaporation, chemical bath deposition, sputtering) and characterization (ellipsometry, XRD, SEM, EDS, AFM ...)- In-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry studies of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films- Solar cell characterization (Current-Voltage, Quantum efficiency)- Research, management and progress reports writing of three successful contracts with the Department of Defense (Air Force Research Laboratory).

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Phd, Thin Film Cigs Based Photovoltaics