OBJECTIVE
Acquire a senior product quality, customer/supplier quality, project management, product engineer, and/or failure analysis engineering position with opportunity for professional growth and leadership.
EMPLOYMENT
International Rectifier, Temecula, CA, June 2000-Present
• LVIC & LVIC Modules, Product Quality Engineering Manager, October 2011-Present
• Manage 2 FA engineers, 1 reliability engineer, and 1 FA specialist.
• Review FA analysis steps, FA reports, reliability plans, reliability reports, and failure dispositions regularly.
• Communicate any required 8D/corrective action to end-customer.
• Interface and act as cross-functional team lead with field quality, sales, marketing, product engineering, design, and/or business units on any particular quality/reliability issues or shipment concerns.
• Develop plans to assess risk and determine if particular product outside normal manufacturing should be released for shipment or scrapped (MRB).
• Approve or reject PCRs, TRs, and DRs using PCR/NPI systems.
• Review and monitor staff performance, generate training plans, highlight and identify possible solutions for unacceptable staff performance, and complete annual performance reviews for direct staff.
• LVIC & LVIC Modules, Reliability Engineer, October 2011-March 2012
• Acted as reliability engineer due to inherited responsibility as PQE manager.
• Created qualification plans, dispositioned reliability failures, and created final qualification reports based on qualification results.
• Used knowledge of JEDEC, AEC, and any customer specific requirements to generate qualification plans.
• Managed multiple reliability projects simultaneously.
• Provided regular project status reports to program managers.
• Interfaced with reliability lab operations regarding project status.
• Hired reliability engineer replacement in March 2012 and generated training plan.
• LVIC & LVIC Modules, IC Failure Analysis Product Quality Engineer, January 2006-October 2011
• Performed failure analysis (FA) on multiple integrated circuit (IC) product lines (primarily LVIC).
• Performed failure analysis (FA) on external customer returns, internal requests, and reliability failures.
• Performed electrical characterization using curve tracers, power supplies, function generators, oscilloscopes, probe stations (SUSS, Micromanipulator), automated testers (Credence ASL 1000, Eagle ETS-364), and fault isolation equipment (Photo-Emission, XIVA).
• Required significant time in lab for diagnosing, troubleshooting, and data acquisition.
• Used device layout and circuit diagrams to perform FA, which included use of Knights/Cadence.
• Developed advanced FA techniques and identified need for additional FA equipment.
• Composed FA reports and corrective action 8D reports based on FA results.
• Interacted with customers on technical issues related to product failure.
• Mentored multiple IC FA engineers.
• Acted as cross-functional team lead comprising product, design, test, and manufacturing engineering on any quality, reliability, product issues, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Completed professional development coursework, including Situational Leadership, Speaking to Influence Others, Mistake Proofing, Project Management, Global 8D Problem Solving, and FMEA.
• Promoted to small group FA supervisor in October 2008.
• Promoted to PQE manager in October 2011 (and acting reliability engineer).
• Failure Analysis Specialist Supervisor, October 2008-September 2011
• Supervised 1 day-shift FA specialist from October 2008 to September 2011.
• Acquired 3 additional night-shift FA specialists between September 2010 and April 2011.
• Additional night shift required availability to manage priority and staffing issues.
• Developed and executed training plans for 4 FA specialists.
• Worked with all product quality engineering teams (discrete, IC, module) daily to manage FA priorities.
• Reviewed and monitored staff performance, generated training plans, highlighted and identified possible solutions for unacceptable staff performance, and completed annual performance reviews for direct staff.
• Discrete Failure Analysis Engineer, July 2004-December 2005
• Performed entire FA analysis flow on discrete (MOSFET, IGBT, diode) product lines.
• Acquired knowledge of failure analysis techniques, procedures, and failure mechanisms.
• Created failure analysis reports for external and internal customers.
• Interacted with customers on technical issues related to product failure.
• Mentored multiple discrete FA engineers.
• Promoted to IC FA Engineer due to discrete FA excellence.
• Failure Analysis Analyst, June 2003-July 2004
• Used scanning acoustic microscope (SAM), real-time XRAY, chemical decapsulation, chemical deprocessing, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipment in the FA lab.
• Generated FA reports based on results acquired during analysis.
• Promoted to engineer after earning two B.S. degrees at California State University, Long Beach.
• Summer Intern, June 2000-August 2002
• June 2002-August 2002: Summer internship with FA engineering. Performed electrical characterization on discrete products (MOSFET, IGBT, diode) using Tektronix curve trace.
• June 2001-August 2001: Summer internship with wafer fab engineering. Analyzed probe area wafer test time as a function of hex size using MS Excel.
• June 2000-August 2000: Summer internship training with wafer fab engineering. Analyzed issues related to cost, yield improvement, process control, and efficiency using MS Excel.
EDUCATION
• M.S. in Quality Assurance, expected April 2013
California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Emphasis: Manufacturing (with 1 remaining course in MSQA program)
• Planned Final Project: Product Manufacturing, Quality, and Reliability Initiatives to Maintain Competitive Advantage and Meet Customer Expectations in the Semiconductor Industry
• Grade Point Average: 4.0 out of possible 4.0
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2006
California State University, Long Beach
• Emphasis: Power Electronics
• Final Project: Harmonic Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation in Residential Applications
• Grade Point Average: 4.0 out of possible 4.0
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2004
B.S. in Engineering with option in Biomedical and C...
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