Engineer Process

Mark J. McCollum

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Processing Project Engineer expert in process development, manufacturing

and stabilization for quality manufacturing and production. 30 years

experience in continuous improvement and maintaining relevant and practical

quality in R&D and manufacturing. Hands-on team leader, mentor, and coach

of engineering and technical staff in advanced techniques and continuous

optimization and cooperation. Proficient in spearheading new designs and

taking them successfully into production. Leader and mentor in process

balance for yield improvement, smooth operation, high throughput,

vendor/supplier management and safety. Manage and model recipe and process

sequence for best cost/throughput, in process testing metrics, and

efficiency. Key qualifications include:

. Statistical Quality Expert at Black Belt Level (SPC, DoE, friend of

JMP, continuous process improvement).

. Identify Performance Needs in Cooperation with Stakeholders.

. Functional Analysis for Evaluation of Failure Modes and FMEA.

. Critical Path, Time-line and Vendor Management.

. Hands-on Engineering Leadership of Team and Cross Functional Groups.

. Expert Communicator and Presenter.

EXPERIENCE

Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer, Superior for Medtronic 2013

Supplier and Engineering oversight of incoming brain surgery navigation

system parts.

. Determine manufacturing operation requirements and process

parameters.

. Develop advanced manufacturing systems and processes for

repeatability and stability.

. Develop product and process improvements.

. Participate in internal supplier audits, procedure writing and

review.

. Process and equipment validations and technical support to other

engineers.

Sr. Consultant, Lewis and Fowler for Gates Corporation 2013

Business Process Lead to facilitate and guide the design and development of

quality process documents and continuity and recovery plans for Gates

manufacturing facilities.

. Create process documentation to support the Oracle Upgrade.

. Work with Plant operations to determine high risk activities and

create process continuity and recovery plans, outage work around

process, and mitigation plans.

. Plan and execute the Business Process Continuity Plan activities

across 15 locations.

. Facilitate process continuity planning sessions with plant personnel.

. Leveraged Black Belt experience with SixSigma and Lean to assess

process risk.

Tech-Trainer, President and Consultant 1998 - 2012

Consulting firm serving manufacturing and process engineering to maintain

quality, improve yield, optimize precursors, and develop advanced

techniques. Process problem solver.

. Consulted with Compound Semiconductor Engineers in crystal growth.

. Reviewed and corrected a critical thermal process using FMEA for III-V

start-up company allowing them to re-start their manufacturing line.

. Taught monthly classes on manufacturing processing (review of all unit

processes), Device Physics, and Process and Device Interactions

globally for Applied Materials. Course included device and product

Failure Modes and FMEA.

. Trained global engineering and support staff for state-of-the-art real-

time in-process monitoring and manufacturing measurements.

. Designed a course for researchers in Manufacturing Engineering

focusing on Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing Quality, Statistical

Process Control, CP/CPK, Design of Experiments, and other Quality

Metrics including six-sigma methods and failure mode evaluation.

. Featured as key global technical expert and keynote lecturer for 5

large multimedia presentations as key technical speaker and expert for

sales engineers in Hawaii and France for Applied Materials.

. Created specifications for processes in a world-class III-V process

plant to ensure proper sequence conforming to ISO standards.

. Created and delivered an intense proprietary attorney training course

to introduce contracted intellectual property lawyers to critical

technical yield, electrical test, process, vendor management and

safety issues.

. Developed and delivered a basic electronics and electrostatic

discharge safety, yield-loss and quality-awareness class for

technicians and manufacturing staff for a major surveillance equipment

manufacturing company to reduce ESD failures.

. Developed on-line course for a major telephone equipment company.

Spectrian Corp, Senior Yield/Process Engineer 1996 - 1998

. Designed and operated new processes for start-up of a brand new

factory including construction, installation, testing, process FMEA,

vendor selection and industrialization. Initial processes yielded and

were used to qualify the new plant.

. Stabilized existing wafer fabrication processes in diffusion, furnace,

and deposition area.

. FMEA used to identify process failure modes and mitigate yield risks.

. Visited and evaluated vendor plants for performance and qualification.

. Developed reactor process equipment and optimized operation and

maintained in production while continuously improving throughput and

yield.

. Supervised and mentored a team of engineers and technicians.

. Led safety team of manufacturing leaders and technicians in process

safety. Used FMEA to help the team identify risks and responses.

. Led effort to cooperate with R&D, pilot, and manufacturing for smooth

product introduction.

. Improved process yield and led change projects in manufacturing

through creative engineering, FMEA, and designed experiments.

. Scheduled operations, maintenance, and toxic waste handling.

. ISO compliance team leading to ISO certification.

. Decreased process variation using FMEA to eliminate leakage current

failure through process redesign.

. Set up all run sheets and automated Statistical Process Control system

used continuously for runtime quality.

. Developed and maintained manufacturing and vendor specifications.

. Initiated a data mining system to cross identify historical failure

modes.

Veeco, Customer Service Manager 1995 - 1996

. Responsible for worldwide customer communication and care, training,

safety, system installation, service, and visitor hospitality for

complex manufacturing process systems.

. Expert customer contact for new system application, understanding,

safety and process trouble shooting.

. Initiated a quality program.

. Used FMEA to identify failures in system installation process at

customer sites. This was used to reduce costs and continuously improve

the initial customer installation process.

. Grew device epi materials and demonstrated equipment function in

record time.

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Optical Electronic Metrology, Materials Growth Manager 1990 -

1995

. Responsible for the design, operations, and HAZMAT of the III-V

crystal growth facility.

. Headed safety team in process facility design and emergency

procedures.

. Built new thermal process plasma-based dielectric deposition system.

. Designed unique equipment for III-V compound semiconductor crystal

growth including unique gas-source and organometallics delivery

systems.

. Grew Bragg reflectors and other III-V compound semiconductor multi-

quantum-well structures for lasers, optical metrology devices, VCSELs,

quantum wires and process metrology development.

. Trained in hazards review including HAZOP, FMEA, and WHAT IF analysis.

Used in safety operations and responses for hazardous materials.

. Chaired the U.S. group for users of MOCVD crystal growth process

equipment.

Semiconductor Research Group, Research Assistant 1985 - 1990

Prof. Gregory E. Stillman, Advisor

National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Compound

Semiconductor Microelectronics

. Developed new processes for improved throughput and output quality

including several new processes that are used globally to this day in

consumer products.

. Built first academic CBE (GSMBE, MOMBE) system. Grew HEMT, mismatched

and strained layers, multi-quantum-well layers.

. Grew GaInP by several techniques and evaluated strain variations over

temperature.

. Grew highest purity GaAs which changed how crystal growth systems are

built.

. Grew highest purity InP grown by Hydride VPE (H-VPE) in system I

rebuilt.

Delco Electronics, Product Engineer 1983 - 1985

. Engineer for Silicon Bipolar FM radio IC processes including

operation, packaging, test, yield, and cost savings using Statistical

Process Control and Statistical Design of Experiments.

. Led production floor safety work team.

. Used FMEA to evaluate primary test yield loss modes the then worked

with the manufacturing team to save over $400K per year through in-

process electrical test improvements.

Community involvement and interests

. Help groups with special needs children.

. Math tutoring club.

. Teaching at the university, college, and high school level

(Northwestern Polytechnic University, University of California-

Berkeley, University of Washington, Colorado School of Mines,

University of Colorado, Denver Public Schools).

. Traveling.

. Motorcycling.

Educational Record

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN

. Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, February, 1990

. M. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, July, 1987

. B. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1983

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