Semiconductor, wafer, fabrication, process, engineer

Daniel R. Taylor

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Wakefield, MA 01880

Home: 781-***-****

E-mail: ******@*****.***, Linkedin

CAREER SUMMARY:

Senior level equipment sustaining/wafer process engineering professional.

Seeking to leverage technical background with business acumen to excel in

semiconductor/hybrids, wafer bonding, metrology OEM equipment

sales/service. Background includes 8 years successful sales experience in

fabrication foundry services including semiconductors, medical devices, and

Hybrid circuits. Technical presenter and client technical contact.

Skills and Qualifications:

Prototype development: GaAs, InP, patterned Optics

Implant Junctions, diffusions, and characterization. SEM, SIMS, EDAX, FTIR.

Customer Facing Internal/External

Solar Cell High Volume Manufacturing

Medical Device development: Alzheimer Brain Probes, Oxygenation Sensors,

Edge emitting diode lasers, Tattoo removal

Semiconductor development, LEDs, VCSELs

Fabrication foundry equipment sustainment

Secret Clearance

International manufacturing experience

Lean Six Sigma White Belt/DFM/FMEA

Low-Medium-HVM accomplishments

III-Vs, II-VI, and group IV

Capital equipment selection capability

Facilities Expansion

Patterning of Optical Coatings

Working Experience

MATERION BARR PRECISION OPTICS & THIN FILMS - Tyngsboro, MA

2010-Present

Senior New Product Development Design Engineer; Troubleshooting Process

Engineer

Responsibility:

Troubleshoot delinqent fabrication jobs through engineering review, Failure

Modes & Effects Analysys

(FMEA). Implement process improvements and develop necessary needed

process steps. Six Sigma White

Belt protocols where possible.

Move cleanroom from one town to another, requalify, and re-commision the

cleanroom.

Secret Clearance and Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certificate, Abundant short

courses.

Invited member of the Strategic Business Unit developing near and long-term

planning.

Accomplishments:

1) Shipment of 4 delinquent patterned optic jobs. Took on jobs others

avoided and successfully delivered.

Significant positive movement in new product development including

development of high temperature vacuum compatible lift-off processes.

* Asked to present research at the American Vacuum Society 2012

Symposium Did so.

3) Congratulated on the successful trouble free movement and re-

commissioning of the cleanroom.

4) Re-activated Secret Clearance and earned Lean Six Sigma White Belt.

5) Offered near and long term planning being utilized through the

Strategic Business Unit.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Lincoln Labs, Lexington, MA

2009-2010

Research Associate

Responsibility:

Add value and process prototype Transparent Evanescent Amplified Silicon

Delay (TEASD) device. Department of defense (DoD) waveguide project.

Accomplishments:

Added significant value in bringing collaboration to a higher level of

communication.

Recognized through experience technical issues offering value added

solutions to device fabrication.

RADIATION MONITORING Devices, Watertown, MA

2009-2009

Staff Scientist

Responsibility:

Recruited to create and implement semiconductor device fabrication

processes.

Advise top management in build-out of existing structure adding two new

laboratories, capitalization, layout.

Accomplishments:

Initiated development of two crystal growth labs (cz) for exotic X-ray

detection materials growth.

Introduced improvements for fabrication processes, succeeding at surface

studies, conductor patterning approach, vacuum malfunction issues, surface

prep-polish, and chemical process fundamentals.

Generated process documentation for ISO present use and future planning.

Spire Corporation, hudson, NH and Bedford, MA 1994-2008

mc-Silicon Solar Cell Line Process Manager (8/2007-12/2008)

Responsibility:

Responsible for Start-up new company initiative of international high

volume manufacturing (HVM) of multicrystalline solar cells, capital

expenditures, 1200 wafer starts per hour. (12MW)

Accomplishments:

Utilized AutoCAD to modify/upgrade existing plant layout.

Capital Expenditures.

Performed Site Acceptance Testing (SATs) and signed off on multi-million

dollars worth of capital equipment.

Troubleshot with all contractors over any type of issues whether facility

or continuity of automation.

Pure-Play Foundry Fabrication Manager (04/1994-08/2007)

Responsibility:

Fabrication of custom semiconductor devices for Spire's subsidiary.

Commercial, commercial-government, and private/public contracts.

Hands-on fabrication processing. Troubleshoot process.

Maintain cleanroon and sustain ~ 45 pieces of fabrication related

equipment.

Author quotations manage product/projects always-primary client-contact.

Accomplishments:

Fabricated a myriad of custom Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Indium Phosphide

(InP), Silicon (Si), and more devices.

Sustained Fabrication Equipment and Hazardous Semiconductor Etch Chemicals

& Waste.

Implant Junctions, diffusions, characterization.

Planned Capital Equipment Acquisitions.

Trained Staff.

Designed process and fabricated medical devices for use in blood

oxygenation measurement, Alzheimer's research brain probes, Edge emitting

diode lasers for tattoo removal.

Expanded business pipeline from zero to ~60% capacity after

telecommunication fall.

Lowered scrap 92% while boosting yield to ~92% by engineering de-ionizing

closed-loop water system to reverse device failures; efforts delivered

significant client-side improvements.

Generated ~Multimillion $ in revenue, prospecting, and landing new business

that resulted in international recognition, presence, and demand.

Secured contracts for custom R&D and played central role in positioning

company for proof-of-concept.

Prior to 1994:

Optical Filter Corporation, Natick, MA

Photolithography Engineer/Cleanroom Manager

New England Research Center - Magnavox Subsidiary, Sudbury, MA

Sole Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) Process Engineer

Honeywell Electro-Optics Division, Lexington, MA

Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) Process Engineer & R&D

Technician

Education:

Suffolk University

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (Business Minor) with American Chemical

Society Certification

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