Engineer Manufacturing

JOHN J. GLENNING ****

Mink Place Drive Chattanooga, TN 37416

Telephone: 423-***-**** E-

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BACKGROUND:

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, graduating from Clarkson

University in 1981

. Pi Delta Epsilon: Vice President 1979 to 1980, President 1980 to 1981

. WTSC-FM: News Director 1978 to 1979, Program Director 1979 to 1981

. Clarkson Dingos: Clarkson Rugby Team 1977 to 1979

Twenty nine years of experience on various Manufacturing and Development

Lines. Co-inventor on 7 US Patents.

. Process Development Engineering . Manufacturing Engineering

. New Product Commercialization . Process Capability

Analysis

. Continuous Improvement experience . Lean Manufacturing

. Completed IBM's Six-Sigma Program . Project Management Training

. SPC and Engineering Statistical Analysis . Design of Experiments

(DOE) . Planning and installation of new lines . Optimized

new manufacturing lines

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Steward Advanced Materials, Chattanooga, TN

2010

SENIOR DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, commercializing Thiol SAMMS Technology

developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

. Transfer product from lab to process development

. Developed plans for full scale manufacturing operations

. Developed process improvement strategy to improve product quality and

reduce product cost

. Developed Product Specifications

. Worked with Marketing team to develop product marketing strategy

Velocys, Plain City, OH

2007 to

2008

SENIOR DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER for a Start-up company in that was

commercializing the Microchannel Technology developed at the Pacific

Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for Fischer-Tropsch and Steam Methane

Reform reactors for the Biofuels Industry

. Developed plans for the installation of Velocys' Photo-Chemical

Machining (PCM) manufacturing line

. Managed toll manufacturers

. Responsible for new product commercialization

. Review product designs for manufacturability

. Modified design, reducing manufacturing costs by $5,500 per reactor

. Identify alternative manufacturing processes for quality improvement

and cost reduction

. Led the project that redesigned the reactors that reduced long-term

manufacturing costs by 80%

Hutchinson Technology, Hutchinson, MN

2006 to 2007

SENIOR ENGINEER, Advanced Process and Materials Development for Suspension

Assemblies in hard drives

. Developed Equipment Specification for Development Lab wet processing

equipment

. Upgraded & modified existing Development Equipment

. Optimized 2 Polyamic Acid/Polyimide processes

. Resolved Polyimide to Stainless Steel delamination problem

. Member of team that resolved Polyimide to Polyimide delamination

problem

. Upgrade temperature control, chemistry control, oven control, process

fluid flow and web handling on Polyamic Acid Developer to improve

process uniformity

. Reduced measurement variability for key polyimide material properties

. Member of team that prepared Process Readiness Report for Internal

Review Board

. Member of team that transferred the process to Manufacturing

Zephyr Group, Binghamton, NY

2002 to 2006

FOUNDER AND SENIOR PARTNER of the Zephyr Group-contract Service Provider

for small to mid-sized manufacturers that works with Manufacturers and

their Equity Partners to improve manufacturing operations.

. Watlow Electric-Columbia, MO: Evaluated and assessed production

problems and developed a Profitability Improvement Plan for their

Kapton based flexible heater manufacturing line.

. Hungerford Corporation-Painted Post, NY: Reviewed Manufacturing

Operations to identify inefficiencies and developed Productivity

Improvement Plan for sheet metal fabrication operations

Corning, Corning, NY

1998 to 2001

CONTRACT PROCESS ENGINEER in the Manufacturing Process Development Group

for Polymer Processes, several photonic component manufacturing lines

(Optical Couplers, Fiber Bragg Gratings, Fiber Gain WDMs, Filter and

Wavelength Division Multiplexer Assembly) and with Corporate Engineering

. Identified three process alternatives for in-situ injection molding

and coating

. Resolved incoming fiber material problem for 1x2 Fiber Gain WDMs

. Improved process yields for 2x2 Optical Couplers from 71% to 87%

. Wave Division Multiplexer (WDM) manufacturing line

o Cycle time was reduced from 26 days to 3 days

o Yields increased from 44% to 89%

o Critical performance parameters improved by a factor of two to

five times

o Manufacturing process was redesigned without the need to retool

o Profitability: Line went from losing $2 M/month to a profit of

$3.5 M/month

. Developed process settings for Cellular Ceramic extrusion that were

robust and capable

Buckbee-Mears, Cortland, NY

1993 to 1997

MANUFACTURING/PROCESS ENGINEER on a production line for aperture masks

using photolithography and metal etching technologies in a continuous web

manufacturing process

. Process Engineering Leader on the Plant Expansion Team

. Led the team that developed and optimized the process for new

manufacturing lines

. Member of team that upgraded two existing manufacturing lines

. Implementation of Statistical Process Control (SPC) leading to

improved operations by reducing "out- of-control" manufacturing

operations

. Led Plant Contamination Reduction project resulting in over 3% process

yield improvement on standard product and 43% on high resolution

aperture masks

. Designed, installed and optimized photoresist coating and viscosity

control system

. Optimized photoresist curing tower reducing defect levels by 8% and

increase throughput by 15%

IBM, Endicott, NY

1981 to 1993

MANUFACTURING and PROCESS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER on five manufacturing and

development lines.

. Developed manufacturing process for photosensitive polyimide resulting

in a US Patent

. Worked with R & D scientists to develop the basic Kapton Etching

process resulting in a US Patent

. Developed and optimized final Kapton Etching process in Pilot Line

facility resulting in 3 US Patents

. Designed and installed prototype Kapton Etching manufacturing tool for

pre-production hardware

. Designed, installed, qualified and optimized Kapton Etching

manufacturing equipment

. Converted Kapton Etching equipment to handle 500 foot production rolls

. Successfully transferred Kapton Etching process to manufacturing

. Member of cross-site team integrating manufacturing operations in 3

plants

. Developed chromium etching process which created Cr+3 waste versus

Cr+6 waste resulting in a US Patent

. Developed DI water rinsing head (Fluid Head) which improved rinsing

quality by one order of magnitude and reduced DI water consumption by

two orders of magnitude resulting in a US Patent

. Led transfer of new photoresist system from development to

manufacturing

. Reduced manufacturing cycle time on Print Band manufacturing line from

14 days to 5 days

. Increased process yields on Print Band manufacturing line from 92% to

94%

. Led four product qualifications

. Led Invention Disclosure Review Committee

. Responsible for developing the manufacturing processes for Polyamic

Acid coating, imaging, developing and curing for the next generation

of electronic chip carriers

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