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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Salem, Oregon, United States

• Teach first-year chemistry students, covering multiple topics, including general, organic, biological, and health chemistry to diverse student group• Design, develop, manage curriculum for up to 17 chapters per term• Draft and design all tests, homework assignments, and quizzes• Develop and define grading criteria for classwork• Frequently provide extra study groups for students throughout the term to ensure student success• Provide oversight and instruction to students of varying experience levels, ages, and backgrounds

Salem, Oregon, United States

• Oversee day-to-day operations for MSVD coater, QC instrumentation, and glass handling equipment • Lead team of 12 coater operators in daily operations; in charge of training and continuing education • Root cause analysis for troubleshooting and customer related issues • Contribute to Hoshin cost savings of more than $4 million per year • Maintain less than 0.2% customer quality complaints, annually • Helped to achieve over 100% annual production index • Keep annual process losses below 7.5% • Created and actively maintain detailed digital defect library • Revise and develop new standard operating procedures • Manage dozens of ongoing projects for process improvement, data analysis, and research • Develop and conduct new research experiments to improve product design and process flow • Communicate and present problem solving and research findings to collaborative team

Tualatin, Oregon, United States

• Oversee daily operations of four PECVD process modules and three ICP process modules, including C2 Sequel PECVD, C3 Speed ICP-CVD, and Vector Express PECVD• Perform root cause analysis for tool faults, hands-on troubleshooting, coordinate with equipment and process teams to recover tool• Passdown creation, analysis, and execution for multiple projects per day; proactively track and report problems or inconsistencies in experimental plans• Coordinate with equipment and process engineers to ensure continuous quality production, create experimental plans, and determine long-term goals for toolset• Promoted three times within company due to outstanding performanceModule owner for seven Novellus Sequel PECVD Chambers, 200mm• Managed deposition of TEOS HM, P-Cover, passivation oxide/nitride layers for over 40,000 product wafers per month• Tracked production lots for data violations or tool faults, studied lot history, collected statistical information with variety of metrology tools, wrote dispositions for re-work procedures• Wrote and modified tool specifications for all Novellus processes• Coordinated with equipment and integration engineers to ensure continuous quality production, created experimental plans, and determined long-term goals for toolset• Led team of about a dozen technicians in daily operations

Tualatin, Oregon, United States

• Conducted engineering experiments and tests for PEALD processes on 300 mm wafers, per passdowns• Monitored tool processes, troubleshot problems that occurred on 6 PEALD chambers• Created wafer database to track usage and movement of all lots• Coordinated with engineering and equipment service teams for timely repair of tools

Portland, Oregon Area

• Led a small research team, which earned two student achievement awards for innovative research• Designed, developed, and executed experiments for the synthesis of BiSrCaCuO superconducting crystals of varying stoichiometries• Assisted in the design, testing, and improvement of a unique electrical characterization instrument• Performed materials characterization, including cyclic voltammetry, SEM, EDS, x-ray diffraction, FTIR, and UV-VIS• Wrote, reviewed, and improved lab SOPs and safety protocol for all lab personnel• Designed, created, and continuously improved unique gas transport device using Auto-CAD, 3-D printing, fabrication, and hands-on design methods• Performed ongoing methodology and materials research to update and implement new experimental procedures

Portland, Oregon Area

Thesis: Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Ethanol, and Formate.Designed lossless gas transfer system to carry analytes from cell to GC-MS, using Solidworks and 3-D printing.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Tutored chemistry and statistics to college freshmen through seniors.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Conducted data analysis and management for over 15,000 assets, reduced data errors by 85% • Created site maps by hand to audit 250 previously undocumented safety assets • Initiated replacement of corroded site assets through materials research and data analysis • Promoted to chemical incident advisor by safety officer, helped integrate new proactive safety measures • Implemented complete inventory update for more than $10 M worth of assets • Thoroughly reviewed as-built diagrams to obtain site asset information for replacement and overhaul

Wilsonville, Or

• Independently designed and performed research tests, resulting in 15% improvement in system efficiency• Troubleshooted and maintained multimillion dollars’ worth of electrochemical testing equipment • Performed synthesis, transport and storage of 100-gallon batches of low-pH electrolyte • Maintained dozens of optimization experiments, while creating new experimental procedures • Successfully rebuilt industrial oven motor after failure, saving over $1000 in repairs • Researched experimental methodology to improve analytical testing and decrease testing times by 10%

Salem, Oregon, United States

Tutored college students in algebra, calculus, statistics, writing, chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology.

Twentynine Palms, Ca

Master'S Degree, Materials Science, 3.84

Activities and Societies: Graduate Research Project: "Examination of 3D-printing Methods to Produce Gas-Tight Transfer System"; Center.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry, 3.3

Focus on Physical chemistry and energy research, including sysnthesis of superconductor BiSrCaCuO samples.