Skills Summary:
• 16+ years of engineering experience conducting process and product research and development, process and equipment design, and project management from prototype to production HVM phase with worldwide transfers.
• 10+ years of direct customer product and process development for external and internal customers. Traveled around the world visiting customers to be the voice of the customer and deliver technical presentations.
• 4+ years working directly with external customers on projects ranging from short term low budget to long term multi- million dollar projects. Served as voice of customer and technical liaison to engineering and management teams.
• 3+ years engineering supervisor experience in fast paced high demand semiconductor fab.
• Broad range of materials knowledge including plastics, metals, ceramics, composites, and glass.
• Highly competent with quality systems, Microsoft Office software, computer hardware, SPC, and DOE experiments.
• Four years of 3D CAD experience designing custom tools and hardware.
• Extensive experience in Kepner Tregoe – FMEA, decision making, problem solving, project management.
• 10+ years of mentoring, training, and supervision of junior engineers and technicians.
Experience
2012-2013 Senior New Product Development Engineer at Optomec, Inc.
• Design and test new aerosol jet 3D printing hardware technology creating circuitry on thin film polymers and other rigid substrates in 2D and 3D.
• Designed and managed building of new R&D lab in St. Paul with small budget and large needs.
• Developed new hardware design demonstrating a 300% improvement in performance versus current system.
2010-2012 Senior Staff R&D Process Development Engineer at Seagate Technology, Inc.
• Brought in new hardware platform to enable 3D micron level printing of dielectrics and metals onto thin film substrates and flexible materials.
• Developing next generation process technology in polishing wafers and transfer to production fabs.
• Conducting consumable and process development for next generation encapsulation and dispensing technology.
• Supporting advanced material development and integration into future products in hard disk drives.
2008-2009 Senior Development Engineer at Cabot Microelectronics
• Travel to key customers, domestic and abroad, for onsite process development and relationship building. Served as voice of the customer and technical representative for Cabot.
• Provided high level support for quality and performance issues for worldwide sales and field teams.
• Replaced existing production QC returned material inspect hardware and methods with state of the art inspection and measurement methods that allowed for a transition from best guess judgment to real data analysis and testing.
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