Quality Assurance Engineer

Li-Qiang(Jason) Guo

***-*** ******* ****, ********, Ontario, Canada, L8K5N2

905-***-**** *********@*******.***

CAREER OBJECTIVES AND QUALIFICATIONS:

I have extensive knowledge and working experience of

optical thin film deposition by PVD, CVD, PE-CVD, MCVD, sputtering and evaporation ;

tunable diode laser & optical amplifier design, fabrication and application ;

III-V compound epitaxy by gas source MBE.

I have ample experience on Quality Assurance & Product Management, and thrive on using my

expertise to provide innovative solutions in optical engineering.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 2008 – laid off in March, 2009

OFS Optics, Sturbridge, MA

Develop quality assurance system and document control within the organization and

orchestrate the effective execution of quality plans

Conduct suppliers’ quality audit to improve supplier quality processes and performance

Provide technical support to customers to achieve total customer satisfaction (TCS)

Develop, control, and optimize chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for multi-mode and

specialty fibers

Issue non-conformance report (NCR), return material authorization (RMA), root cause

analysis, and corrective/preventive action plan

Responsible for leading ISO9001 audit, internal ISO audits and supplier/customer audits

Sr. Engineer, Reliability and Characterization 1997 – 1999

Motorola Tianjin Plant, China

Manage the operation of Reliability & Characterization Center

Develop test procedures & system to support development of new products and to meet

customer requirements

Coordinator of ISO9001 audit

Recipient of Quality System Review (QSR) Excellence Award

Recertified Six Sigma Black Belt

New Product Engineer 1994 – 1996

Motorola, Schaumburg, Illinois, the U.S.

In charge of successful launch and transfer of new products from Schaumburg, IL to

Tianjin, China

Develop and refine detailed product roadmaps, applications and target markets

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Process Development & Quality Assurance Engineer 1991 – 1993

Motorola, CPD, China

In charge of physical depositions (evaporation and sputtering), packing and reliability

testing for monolithic filter, crystal resonator and oscillator

In charge of process development/control and product quality improvement

Motorola certified Six Sigma Black Belt

ACADEMIC AND EDUCATION:

NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2007 – 2008

Photonics Research Group, ECE, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Fellow 2006 – 2007

Optical Communications Research Group, ECE, University of Limerick, Ireland

Ph.D in Optical Physics 2003 – 2006

Optical Communications Research Group, ECE, University of Limerick, Ireland

M.A.Sc in Engineering Physics 2000 – 2002

Diode Laser & Optical Thin Film Group, Dept. Engineering Physics, McMaster

University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

B.Sc in Applied Optics (with honors) 1987 – 1991

Dept. Physics, Shandong University, Jinan, China

EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE:

Optical Thin Film Design and Fabrication:

Fully in charge of the operations of an electron cyclotron resonance, plasma enhanced,

chemical vapor deposition (ECR-PECVD) system

In charge of the operation and maintenances of a high vacuum evaporation / sputtering

system (CHA Industries, SEC-600 series)

Solid working background of thin film depositions, such as ion-beam sputtering, thermal

evaporation, e-beam evaporation, physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor

deposition (CVD), modified CVD (MCVD) and plasma-enhanced CVD (PE-CVD)

Characterization of thin film coatings by ellipsometry (Rudolph Research Systems, Model

i1000 series), SEM, SIMS and FTIR

III-V compound epitaxy by gas source MBE

Reliability and Quality Assurance :

Generate manufacturing Standard Operation Procedure (SOP), process control charts, Bill

of Materials (BOM) and Out of Control Action Plan (OCAP) for manufacturing and

Quality Control (QC) department

Conduct reliability testing for internal & external customers, carry out Failure Mode and

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Effective Analysis (FMEA) analysis, determine necessary corrective measures

Design testing procedure to support new product development, and provide engineering

report/assistance to cross-functional groups

Proficient and experienced in: Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiment

(DOE), Gauge R&R, Design & Process FMEA

Motorola certified Six Sigma Black Belt and the recipient of Quality System Review (QSR)

Excellence Award

Formal training in Lean Manufacturing, Lean Management and Six Sigma tools

Extensive knowledge and experience on ISO audit/certification

Tunable Diode Laser & Optical Amplifier

Tunable diode laser design by utilizing blazed-grating external-cavity in Littrow

configuration to achieve broad-band wavelength tenability

Design, modeling and development of III-V diode lasers and optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Epitaxial structure design of asymmetric multiple quantum wells (AMQWs) for tunable

diode lasers and broad-gain SOAs

Design and fabricate III-V diode lasers by gas-source MBE (SVT Associates)

Utilize broad-gain asymmetric multiple quantum wells (AMQWs) diode lasers in tunable

laser configuration to realize maximum tenability and high optical power

Modeling and Simulation:

Multi-layer, broad-band AR/HR coating design for photonic devices

Simulations of thin film thickness and refractive index on an in situ ellipsometor during

the PE-CVD depositions

Develop computing codes to simulate the facet effective-refractive-index of the

edge-emitting MQWs diode lasers and SOAs

Designs of single mode quantum wells (QWs) lasers at 980nm &1550nm and broad-band

tensile-strained SOAs

A model to calculate far-field and near-field divergence angle of diode lasers

Modeling of nonlinear optical gain and refractive index in tensile-strained SOAs

Simulations of nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) in SOAs in a pump-probe scheme

Software Skills:

MATLAB, TF Cal, LabView, ZEMAX, Turbo C, MINITAB, STATISTICA, Excel

REFERENCES:

Randy Morin, Senior Manager, Engineering, OFS Optics, LLC, Sturbridge, MA 01566.

Tel (office): 508-***-****, Mobile: 508-***-****, E-mail: ******@*********.***

Kevin J. Smith, Senior Human Resource Manager, OFS Optics, LLC, Sturbridge, MA

01566. Tel : 508-***-****, E-mail : *******@*********.***

Dr. Michael J. Connelly, Director of Optical Communications Research Group, ECE,

University of Limerick, Ireland. Tel: +353 (0) 61-202173, E-mail: *******.********@**.**

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