QUALIFICATIONS:

. Process Engineering: Purchase and design considerations as it applies to

proprietary, commodity chemistry, and chemical process equipment as

applied to production, and waste treatment. Interact with material,

chemical, and equipment vendors for continuous process and cost

improvements.

. Process Control: Managed Analytical/Quality Lab and Waste Treatment

Departments. Maintained and improved all Chemical and Waste Treatment

processes from a cost, performance and compliance standpoint. Researched

chemistry and upgraded equipment to further reduced costs, improve

performance, and meet customer needs. Wrote and maintained Chemical

Process and Lab Analytical procedures required for ISO compliance.

Maintained regulatory compliance; handled inspections by, and reporting

to Federal, State, and local agencies.

. Administrative and Computer: MS office as it applies to technical report

writing, data analysis, and database design and query. Lab, process

history and statistical software to maintain product quality and yield.

Designed a Cost Analysis application (MS Access VBA) that records and

generates required chemical adjustment reports for dissemination and

chemical cost or usage reports by department, process, chemical or any

combination of the above.

. Management: Managed multiple in plant departments that included; hiring,

firing, training, cross training, reviewing, coaching, mentoring, and

conflict resolution of personnel.

Experience:

Waytec Electronics Inc. Circuit Board Manufacturing

Lynchburg, VA

Engineering Manager

11/09 to 4/10

Managed Chemical Processes, Analytical Lab, and Waste Treatment Dept.

Installed new Reverse Pulse Plate copper hand tanks, while decommissioning

an automatic DC copper plating line.

Found assignable cause for pitted copper plating issues associated with

automatic copper line, and implemented process changes to minimize the

effect during the process change over to reverse pulse plating.

Ended superfluous electroless nickel-plating, with chemistry changes.

Design and acquisition of a new electroless nickel immersion gold line.

Found issues with, and had lab equipment repaired to provide accurate

analysis for reverse pulse plating.

Responsible for corrective actions as generated by the Corporate EMS Plan.

Addressed VADEQ Storm Water runoff erosion concerns.

Colonial Circuits Inc. Circuit Board Manufacturing

Fredericksburg, VA

Process Engineer/Plating Manager

9/07 to 10/09

Managed Direct metallization and Reverse Pulse Plating processes and

chemistry.

Modified existing equipment and procedures that led to enhanced plating

capability along with quality and yield improvements.

Ended sporadic copper void issues by modifying direct metallization

methods.

Re-wrote entire Reverse Pulse plate batch programs to provide a

comprehensive catalog that facilitated

plating options.

Ended sporadic etch-out conditions with the introduction of bright tin

chemistry.

Designed methods to address dot plating on thin core and kapton substrates

that alleviated the need for post plate planarization and subsequent IPC

wrap violation concerns.

Trained operators to use methods that led to consistent plating results on

a daily and shift-to-shift basis.

Researched design and purchase considerations for conductive polymer

metallization equipment and chemistry.

Purchased lab equipment, and modified lab analysis to provide accurate and

timely analysis for direct

metallization and plating bath constituents.

Improved existing R.O. water system to ensure rinse water quality for all

wet processes.

Changed Waste Treatment chemistry to address product sulfidation issues.

Member of the Technical Review Board.

American Board Companies, Inc. Circuit Board Manufacturing

Vestal, NY

Chemical Process Engineer/Lab & Environmental Compliance Manager

3/90 to 11/06

Managed Analytical/Quality Lab and Waste Treatment Departments.

Developed teams in these Departments to provide seamless 24-hr. support for

production efforts.

Maintained and improved all wet and waste treatment processes from a cost,

performance and compliance standpoint.

Investigated the implementation of ISO 14000 as it applied to the Waste

Treatment operation.

Coordinated with Human Resources Department on EHS training.

Engaged in plant shut down and decontamination operations that comply with

Federal, State, and local

regulations.

Served as Corporate Liaison to the USEPA regarding ongoing Superfund

activities associated with the plant site.

Environmental consulting work for outside PCB Manufacturer.

American Board Companies, Inc. Circuit Board Manufacturing

Lab Manager/Chemical Process Control

Provided Production Department with around the clock analytical support for

wet processes.

This employed wet analysis, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, UV-Vis

spectroscopy, x-ray fluorescence,

Hull Cell analysis, metallography, and failure analysis.

Maintained records, databases, and Statistical Process Control data and

process procedures.

Developed a method to track chemical cost per unit manufactured.

Used this method to audit process equipment efficiency and supplied a

platform for chemical reduction.

Cut chemical cost by one third.

American Board Companies, Inc. Circuit Board Manufacturing

Lab Technician

Supplied analytical services for solution maintenance.

Cross-section analysis, Statistical Process Control data collection, and

historical data maintenance.

American Board Companies, Inc. Circuit Board Manufacturing

Waste Treatment Operator

Operate and maintain micro-filtration system.

Batch treat spent chemistry.

Maintain effluent standards as required by the POTW.

Designed a method that doubled the effluent flow rate in a sustained

manner.

S.U.N.Y. Research Foundation - Binghamton

Vestal, NY

Research Lab Assistant

1/89 to 1/90

Water disinfection methods as subsidized by NASA.

Helped design batch test methods as an analogue of carbon column exchange

capabilities.

Applied this method to selected organics associated with humidity

condensate

aboard manned spacecraft.

Education:

Broome Community College

Binghamton, NY

Associates in Science (Chemical emphasis)

1988

S.U.N.Y.- Binghamton

Vestal, NY

Course work toward B.S. in Chemistry 100 + credits completed

Military:

U.S. Air Force

Weather Specialist

Sgt., Honorable Discharge.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

Lab Equipment used:

Atomic Absorption

UV-Vis Spectroscopy

X-Ray Fluorescence

Wet chemistry

Hull Cell analysis (copper, tin, tin/lead, and nickel)

pH

Silver billet probe (Chlorides)

Microderm (Beta back scatter nickel and gold thickness)

CMI PTH-1 & Fisher CuScope eddy current devices for copper thickness

measurements.

Microscopes, microscope measurements and microscope photography

Metallographic Techniques (Cross Sectioning)

CVS Cyclic Voltammic Stripping

CPVS Cyclic Pulse Voltammic Stripping

Familiar with:

TMA Thermo Mechanical Analysis

DSC Differential Scanning Calorimetry

ESCA Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis

SEM Scanning Electron Microscope

Auger (Electron fluorescence)

EDAX Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis

SERA Sequential Electrochemical Reduction Analysis

Zeta Potential (as applied to colloid/dispersion graphite polymer)

Laser Particle Sizing (as applied to colloid/dispersion graphite polymer)

Equipment:

Vertical dip & Spray

Conveyorized Spray

Conveyorized flood modules

Waste Treatment Equipment

Water purification Equipment RO, DI techniques

Primarily responsible for purchase and design considerations as it applied

to proprietary, commodity chemistry, and chemical process equipment as

applied to production processes and waste treatment.

Familiar with chemistry and implementation of the following processes;

chemical clean, black oxide, alternate oxide, electroless copper

deposition, direct metallization, desmear, dry film developing,

copper/tin/solder plating, periodic reverse pulse plating, dry film

stripping, ammoniacal copper etching, tin/solder strip, LPI develop, Hot

Air Solder Leveling, electrolytic nickel/gold plating, electroless nickel,

immersion gold, immersion silver plating, and Organic Solderability

Protection deposition.

Laminate Material

CEM 1

CEM 3

High and Low Tg FR4, double treat, reverse treat, single treat

BT Cyanate Ester

Polyimide

Teflon

Rogers 4000 (Ceramic)

Kapton

Molybdenum

SPC

Identified all the key control parameters in our chemical process area and

constructed Process History Control Charts. Control charting of the

percent solids or the pH range of the graphite bath would serve as an

example. As a result we have been able to create codified reaction plans

for each of the processes. The Engr. Lab maintained 27 Process History

Control Charts on high impact chemical processes through out the plant.

These charts are updated each working shift. After years of collecting data

and examining trends it has been possible to determine what parameters

require control charting as well as analysis frequencies needed to control

processes and maximize efficiency of the Eng. Lab. Lab analyses from the

wet processes are logged and retained for at least one year, making it a

simple matter to generate a Process History Control Chart for any parameter

as may be required. This data was used to prepare a Master Lab Analysis

schedule for Lab analysis by shift, day, and week.

Standard X-bar and R charts for process history. SQC PLUS

Eventual upgrade to Infinity QS system. Classes reviewing statistical

analysis methods.

Graphing and charting data with MS Exel. Correlation coefficients, Chemical

Endpoint curves, and best-fit equations (example: x-ray attenuation

characteristics associated with Solder Mask over copper. The latter was

used to implement an X-ray Fluorescence method to gauge Solder mask

thickness.

Exposure to Motorola QSR and six sigma.

Cost Analysis

Designed a method that tracked chemical costs per panel produced for each

wet process based on Lab Analysis records. (MS Exel)

Designed an improved method of the above into a Historical Record and Cost

Analysis application (MS Access) that records and generates required

chemical adjustment reports for dissemination and chemical cost or usage

reports by department, process, chemical or

any combination of the above.

Certificates and Classes

Binghamton University Lead Free Soldering and Interconnection Symposium

Risk Management Programs 40 CFR Part 68 Seminar (provided by USEPA & NYDEC)

MacDermid Printed Circuit Seminar

Team Building Seminar (Myers-Briggs)

Certificate of Completion 40 Hr. Hazardous Waste operations & Emergency

Response

Certificate of Completion 8Hr. Confined Space Entry Awareness Training

Certificate of Achievement Hazard Communications & Lock out Tag Out

Certificate of Completion Leadership Training (Matco)

Certificate of Completion Supervisor Training Course (American Board

Companies)

Certificate of Achievement X-Ray Fluorescence Coating Thickness Measurement

Operators Certification (DSA)

Annual first aid and CPR training (Red Cross)

Environmental

Manager of Waste Treatment Facility and Regulatory Compliance.

Coordinated with Human Resource Manager on EHS training (OSHA and

Industrial Hygiene)

Air permits in NYS permanent after 1995 under 25 tons air pollutant per

year Title V

Follow RCRA (Resource Recover and Conservation Act)

Determination of hazardous wastes, recycle/reuse, reclaim etc.

Annual Hazardous Waste Generators Report (Biennial to EPA)

Annual Tier II SARA Title III reports

Annual & Biennial Waste Reduction Reports

Toxic Release Inventory

40 hr. Hazwopper Training

Confined Space Entry Training

Semi annual POTW reports

Annual slug discharge report POTW

Responsible for collection and interpretation of monitoring data for all

these reports.

Wrote recycle/reclamation process procedures.

Handled inspections by EPA, NYDEC, Local POTW

The development of a method that allowed the Waste Treatment department to

double the equipment manufacturers designed effluent flow rate.

Familiar with CBS (Chemical Bulk Storage) regulations

Responsible to keep up with industry regulation changes.

Familiar with RMP part CFR Part 68

Familiar with DOT 49 as it applied to the Plating Industry

Familiar with IATA rules as it applied to Plating Industry

Monthly industrial composite and grab by outside Lab

Chemical Storage safety.

Engaged in plant shut down and decontamination operations that comply with

Federal, State, and local regulations.

Served as Corporate Liaison to the USEPA regarding ongoing Superfund

activities associated with the American Board plant site.

Environmental consulting work for outside PCB Manufacturer.

Hazardous Wastes Handled:

Manifesting & Shipping of

D001, D002, D003, D008, F003, F006 and F007.

Waste Treatment Equipment

Micro Filtration waste treatment equipment

Batch Treatment techniques

Research into Clarification/Lamella system with DMP

Personnel management:

Human resources brought in a Myers- Briggs Team Building seminar.

The basic premise of course is that "personality types" perceive issues in

different ways and in fact applying the "four" personality types (Jungian)

on a problem gave a holistic insight into the a problem as well as a

creative wealth for solving said problem.

This gave insights into our individual perceptions and interactions with

each other and paved the way into a general team building atmosphere. It

became clear to me that communication was extremely important to verify

that any communications about our goals were understood, this is

accomplished by continual back and forth communication as it relates to an

end goal.

This was later followed by an internal Supervisory training course where

coaching and mentoring techniques were outlined as well as the importance

of documentation.

An outside Seminar on Technical people speaking/communicating with non-

Technical people.

A corporate Leadership Seminar dealing with coaching, mentoring, and

conflict resolution.

Responsible for hiring, firing, reviewing, coaching, and mentoring, Lab,

Waste treatment, and Plating personnel.

Cross-trained Lab and Waste Treatment personnel, instituted "flex time" as

needed for personal matters as long as I knew of department coverage

changes and no overtime was involved.

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