Thuy Ngoc Pham
*** *. ****** ***. #***, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 • (C) 408-***-**** • ********@*****.***
Qualifications:
• Work directly with international and domestic customers to timely achieve goals and roadmaps.
• Key engineer in mission-critical projects that resulted in increased sales and market share.
• Interface with Research and Development to define specifications for engineering samples, new products
and customer-specific products and to coordinate their delivery.
• Support Corporate and International Sales and Marketing on several sales-dependent occasions.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Highly effective in working with cross-functional teams.
• Able to meet project deadlines and work under pressure.
• Provide technical consultation and training to different customer levels and internal departments about
new and existing products.
• Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills.
Achievements:
• Co-authored one external technical (“Applications for Automated Backside Inspection”, ASMC, May 2004,
Seaport hotel, Boston) and other internal papers for KLA-Tencor Applications group.
• Conducted flawless head-to-head evaluations that led to multiple purchase orders of unpatterned wafer
inspection tools.
• Successfully managed software application tests that allow the latest software to be released on time.
• Lead member in tool development testing at customer sites.
• Experience on SEMVision review tools.
• Regularly traveled to customer sites to troubleshoot hardware and software problems that critically impact
customer throughput.
• Established quality professional relations with customers.
• Key engineer in resolving process-induced wafer backside arcing during TEOS deposition and cost
reduction project for TEOS usage on P-5000 tools.
• Received two major cash awards for assisting in the critical 0.25/0.18um metal dry strip project
development utilizing Ulvac as a tool for metal polymer removal.
• Optimized metal etch strip process on Lam9600 TCP DSQ via Statistical Design of Experiment.
Career History:
• Sr. Process Tech, Applied Materials, DTCL, Santa Clara, CA
02/2011-05/2011 (temp position)
• Applications Engineer, Accretech USA, WIS, Milpitas, CA
2006-2007
• Applications Development Engineer, KLA-Tencor, Surfscan, Milpitas, CA
2000-2005
• Process Engineer, Hyundai Semiconductor America (now Hynix), Thin Fims, Eugene, OR
1999-2000
• Process Tech, Conexant Semiconductor (now Jazz Semiconductor), Diffusion/Etch/Photomask, Newport
Beach, CA
1997-1999
Education
MS in Applied Mathematics – Cal State University, Long beach, CA (GPA 3.55/4)
Professional Development
Courses: Project Management, Effective Negotiating, Analytical Problem Solving, Team Communications,
High Tech Speaking
Languages
Vietnamese, English, French
References
• Biao Liu: Sr. Process Engineer, Applied Materials, DTCL, Santa Clara. (C) 408-***-****.
• Patrick Taylor: Director of Metrology R&D, MEMC Electronics Materials, Inc. (O) 503-***-**** x338. (C)
• Keith Kasputis: Section Manager of A1 Photo/Hivac, Tower Jazz, Newport Beach, CA. (O) (949) 435- 8613
(C) (714) 425- 5051.