Medical and Production Equipment Maintenance and Process Technician with over 16 years experience in medical device, solar photovoltaics, and electronics industries as well as government. Outstanding skills in observing, identifying, and solving mechanical problems. Designed and built modifications to existing machinery to improve reliability and productivity. Thorough learner and I enjoy frequent new challenges.
General Experience
Maintained the following processes/equipment:
• Defibrillators, Vital Signs Monitors, Blood and Fluid Warmers, IV Pumps, Electro surgical Units, Pulse Ox and Blood Pressure Devices, Centrifuges, Stryker and Hill-Rom stretchers and hospital beds, and many other medical devices.
• Newport, Manz, Vytec, and 4Jet laser scribing systems
• Spectra Physics laser power supplies
• Nordiko, Von Ardenne, and Ion Beam Vacuum deposition tools
• Bilco and Benteler glass washing equipment
• Automated Spin coaters
• ESC and Alphasem die placing equipment
• Dynatex and K&S wafer dicing systems
• Cardinal conveyor systems
Optimization of focus, pitch, beam alignment, collimation, power, and rep rate of laser scribers.
Performed new production equipment installations.
Took ownership of manufacturing processes for continual monitoring of equipment efficiency, labor efficiency, yield, and improvement.
Worked under cGMP (good manufacturing practice) guidelines to meet FDA requirements.
Utilized Lean Manufacturing concepts, six sigma, and 5s to improve production lines.
Vacuum chamber maintenance and mechanical pump rebuilds.
Maintained and improved an ozonated de-ionized water system.
Designed and built modifications to improve reliability and efficiency.
Skilled using a vertical milling machine to fabricate or modify parts.
Interfaced with injection molding vendors regarding dimensional and manufacturability issues.
Involved in numerous cost savings and product improvement teams.
Wrote Standard Operating Procedures and validations for lab and manufacturing processes.
Designated trainer of personnel for process operation.
Lab Experience
Instron bond peel strength testing of vapor deposited thin films.
Measured vapor deposited materials for scaling photo resist imaging artwork using a Smartscope and a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM).
Contact angle experiments to determine hydrophobic/hydrophilic properties of thin film coatings.
Microbial monitoring and ozone sanitization of a De-Ionized water system.
3-D surface profiling to locate topographical defects on silicon dies.
Studied cross sections for plating and etching characteristics of circuitry substrates.
Wire bond testing to determine bond ability of gold plating.
Ball shear testing to determine the durability of chip mounts after solder.
Generated images of chip carriers using a SEM and a C-Sam (Sonoscan) to locate defects.
Carbon analysis of dry lake core samples to establish the climate change record.
Software/Hardware Experience
Designed relational databases using Access to store and analyze test results with numerous calculated fields and provide live SPC charting for monitoring and metrics presentations.
Provided statistical analysis and control charting to monitor vacuum deposition quality.
Implemented database multi-user security schemes.
Replaced Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s).
Diagnosed problems from ladder logic.
Utilized Excel and Visual Basic coded macros to automate dat...
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