Six Sigma Engineer

THOMAS P. CHOJNACKI, Ph.D.

(Hoy-not?-ski)

*** ***** **** ****** **** Phone: 608-***-****

Lake Mills, WI 53551 Email: ******@******.***

Results and team oriented Problem Solver

with a proven record of success in several technologies

RESULTS and QUALITY - Attention to detail, high performance through team

building, employee development, and an expectation of quality and

professionalism

. Instituted ERP, SPC, DOE, FMEA (ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt) and

Lean Manufacturing including:

- Product specific 2 dimensional Statistical Process Control mapping

- Work standardization across product types

- Design for cycle time optimization

. Failure Analysis and Process Improvement

- Increased yields (number of good parts/number of parts started) by 93%

in magnetic memory (MRAM) technology

- Improved yields by 43% in integrated circuits (IC) technology

- Increased yields by 7 times in active matrix liquid crystals display

technology

. Saved $1 million by specifying a design change to a vendor of integrated

circuits process equipment; the design change became part of the vendor's

standard product design improving process yield and process capability

. Designed custom process specific equipment for the manufacture of liquid

crystal displays

- Design achieved 95% compliance to specification as measured by

function and performance

. Increased yields 4% developing a quality control program with a Japanese

supplier

TECHNOLOGY - Experience in several technologies

. Thin film deposition - plasma enhanced physical vapor deposition and

physical vapor deposition

. Multi-chip modules (MCM) both die first and die last utilizing both

column and ball grid array technologies, and through wafer vias, and

wafer-to-wafer bonding for wafer scale MCM production

. Wafer scale integration of ICs routing to know good die

. Advanced products utilizing advanced materials as required by various

Defense Advanced Research Agency programs

. Fresnel lens on glass wafers

. Ceramic package development

. Active matrix liquid crystals displays

. Liquid crystal on silicon for the development of micro-displays

. Magnetic random access memory

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching 2005-Present

. High school teacher: Physics, and Chemistry 8/05-present

. University of Phoenix - Milwaukee Campus: Area Chair of Mathematics

3/02-9/04

- Mentored new mathematics faculty members, and instructor of

mathematics

Consulting 02-05

. High tech start-up: Budgeting, accounting, operations, and organization

. Provided technical services: Feasibilities studies, Designing,

Prototyping, Product development, Production method development,

Equipment evaluation

. Analyzed and modeled the fate and transport of water borne volatile

pollutants

Vice President of Manufacturing 01-02

NimbleGen Systems, Inc. - Madison, WI, a Biotech start-up whose main

products are devices (DNA arrays) for analyzing DNA and the determination

of how genes are influenced by different drug treatments

. Established manufacturing of devices for the analysis of DNA (DNA arrays)

- bringing a proof-of-concept DNA array process to manufacturing and

establishing good manufacturing practices including Six Sigma and Lean

Manufacturing such as DMAIC and Value Stream Mapping, and selecting and

implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as well as product

traceability

Director of Technology 99-01

Union Semiconductor Technology Corp. - Chippewa Falls, WI, a manufacturer

of non-volatile magnetic random access memory chips for the use in

commercial computers

. Lead Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing including 2 dimensional Statistical

Process Control mapping

. Lead all process development, process integration, and yield improvement

for the manufacture of computer memory.

. Lead all failure analysis, data analysis and process improvement efforts

Department Manager/Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Project

Manager

Planar Systems, Inc. - Lake Mills, WI, a Liquid Crystal Display

manufacturer 95-99

. Managed the Planar - Lake Mills R&D effort for the development of high

resolution laptop type Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays for military

applications as a subcontractor to Xerox and AT&T, both prime contractors

of $50M Defense Advanced Research Agency project

. Established production process for high resolution militarized Liquid

Crystal Displays implemented and sustained ISO-9001, Six Sigma, Lean and

Quick Response Manufacturing practices throughout the organization

THOMAS P. CHOJNACKI - Page Three

Senior Scientist - New Technology & New Product Development

Senior IC Engineer-Integrated Circuit Manufacturing

Cray Research, Inc. - Chippewa Falls, WI supercomputer manufacturer 89-95

. Senior Scientist: Provided technical support in all process areas for

special projects as required by various Defense Advanced Research Agency

programs directed toward developing advanced products utilizing advanced

materials including failure analysis and process improvement

- Technical resource for Cray's Advanced Packaging facility

. Senior IC Process Engineer: Managed and developed new thin film processes

for the manufacture of computer chips used in producing Cray's super

computers, maintain and improve production processes for existing

products

EDUCATION

Ph.D. - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Teacher Certification - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

MS - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

BS - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Improving Performance Management - UW-Madison, School of Business

Management Institute

Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Executives - UW, School of Business

Management Institute

ISO-9001 - Planar Systems, Inc.

Project Management - Planar Systems, Inc.

Effective Management Practices - Cray Research, Inc.

Total Quality Management - Cray Research, Inc.

Design of Experiments - Cray Research, Inc.

CERTIFICATIONS

ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

LEED AP (Accredited Professional)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Nanoscience Advisory Board - Chippewa Valley Technical College

Electron Microscopy Program Advisory Board (former member) - Madison Area

Technical College

Member: Materials Research Society

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