Engineer Quality Control

TRUNG NGUYEN

408-***-**** **** la crescent loop san jose ca 95136

**********@*****.***

Productive, hands-on research engineer with expertise in thin films, nanoparticles, green energy, and

research and development looking for a position in the field of advanced materials, product applications,

thin films, process development or manufacturing

KEY STRENGTHS/SKILLS

Project leadership Colloidal dispersion/nanoparticle Material selection, failure analysis

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Team Leadership hydrothermal synthesis Mathematica, Aspen, Matlab

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Innovation Driven Thin film development Simulink, Word/Excel

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Process Improvement Laboratory characterization tools: Bilingual Vietnamese and English

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Product Development UV-Vis, Filmetrics F10, Profilometer, DLS,

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TGA, Optical Microscope…

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Svaya Nanotechnologies, Sunnyvale, CA – Member of Technical Staff

Sept 2011- Present

• Develop process and produce solar control thin film prototypes for JDA partner worth $0.75 million

• Formulate high refractive index nanoparticle material sets for solar control film applications

• Develop QC program for in-house synthesized nanoparticles and in-coming nanoparticles from formulators

• Formulate, synthesize, optimize, and port different nanoparticle material sets for various current and future products

• Define process windows for nanoparticle/ polymer solutions on small and mid-scale sprayers and transfer them to

large scale and pilot line platforms

• Develop and optimize manufacturing processes for simple AR thin films

• Build durability tests and define specifications for scale-up processes for simple AR thin films

• DoE in process development, collaborate with process team to define specifications for LbL thin film self-assembly

• Collaborate with equipment and process teams to scale up solution mixing for pilot plant

• Develop oxygen barrier, intumescence thin film using LbL spraying technique with polymers and nanoparticles

• Develop measurement methods and specifications to quantitatively verify thin film uniformity for different platforms

• Build SOPs for equipment operation, solution mixing, QC, data collection, and testing methods from laboratory to

pilot plant scale

• Operation, QA, QC, failure analysis and troubleshooting for roll-to-roll coating

Nanotune Technologies, Mountain View, CA – Chemical Engineer

Oct 2010- Sept 2011

• Optimized manufacturing process for producing EDLC (Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitor) electrodes by

reducing 15% of electrode production time and saving 60% organic chemical feed stock in the process

• N2/Ar sorption analysis using BET, NLDFT methods to measure silica templates, carbon electrode surface area, and

pore size distribution

• Used TGA (Thermal graphical analysis) to optimize heat treatment, improve material quality and propose initial study

for curing processes, carbon activation, epoxy and material selections

• Developed stable packaging processes for future commercial super-capacitor

• Designed and selected materials for super-capacitor housing protection

• Tested prototype products using standard battery testing machine (Maccor) and performed data collection, data

analysis to provide feedback for building commercial product

• Designed experiments to select best electrolyte for super-capacitor such as organic electrolyte, ionic electrolyte

• In charge of quality control for electrode and super-capacitor product

• Collaborated with strategic partners to build a commercial product

• Organized inventory and equipment by interacting with suppliers and determining necessary orders

Material Processing and Characterization Research Group, UC Davis CARAPT – Research assistant

Sept 2009- July 2010

Performed experiments to study the bio-compatibility of hydroxyapatite and human body fluid

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Ran chemical analysis (ICP-MS analysis) to study changing cation concentrations in experiments with ceramic

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hydroxyapatite

Data collection and analysis to propose a trend and mechanism for the reaction in the materials

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Measured grain size boundaries to compare the microstructure and mechanical properties of materials using

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optical microscope

Prepared, polished, ground, and etched a variety of samples for SEM, TEM, and microscope

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EDUCATION

B. S . Chemical engineer and Material Science Engineering, University of Cali f o rni a-Davis

Graduated June 2010

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