Catherine Dinh Nguyen
Email: abnvz2@r.postjobfree.com ~ Address: 24801 South Lammers Road, Tracy, CA 95377
Home: 209-***-**** ~ Mobile: 503-***-****
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position as a supervisor, engineering technician, or process technician.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Pilot Line R&D Technician, Philips Lumileds, San Jose, CA. 7/2007-2/2009
Built prototype LED. Process included: Operate ASM pick and place machine. die attach, wire bond, lens attach, silicone
inject, singulate and LED testing.
Process Technician & Planner/Buyer, The MicroDisplay Corp, Fremont, CA. 2/2004-7/2007
Built Microdisplay chip. Process included: Print mat, lamination, scribe and break, singulate, Liquid crystal fill, end seal, cell
clean, anneal, die attach, wire bond and encapsulation. Managed DVT/Production: Planning and buying. Oversaw inventory
control.
Production Control Supervisor, JDS Uniphase, San Jose, CA. 2/1996-1/2003
Formed lots for production line. Scheduled epi growths and wafer processing. Reported work progress at daily operations
meetings. Epi inventory and epi scrap management. Direct and indirect material management.
Production supervisor, SDL Inc, San Jose, CA. 2/1991-2/1996
Supervised production group of ten people. Oversaw daily operations. Delegated responsibilities to production group.
Facilitated communication between production group, engineers and management. Prepared and presented annual performance
reviews. Formed lots for production line.
Process Technician, SDL Inc, San Jose, CA. 11/1985-2/1991
Processed GaAs wafers. Handled all wafer processing operations from photo masking to facet mirror coating. Trained new
employees in wafer processing, including: wafer clean, dehydration bake, wafer prime, photo lithography, wet and dry etch,
diffusion, metallization, polish, facet optical coating, dicing and testing.
Technical Specialist, National Semiconductors, West Jordan, UT 2/1984-4/1985
Processed silicon wafers, including wafer clean, diffusion and thin film sputtering.
Lab Technician, Sorenson Research, Murray, UT 1/1983-2/1984
Tested medical devices. Entered data for engineering reviews.
SKILLS
Technical Front and back end semiconductor processing of laser fiber optics, LCOS
microdisplay, LED
Management Task delegation, communication liaison, conflict management, performance reviews
Computer Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, computer accounting
EDUCATION
T.T.L. College, San Jose, CA 2/2003
Computer accounting course
Utah Technical College, Salt Lake City, UT 6/1983
Associate degree in Electronics
University of Saigon, Vietnam 6/1974
Bachelor of Science degree in Biology
REFERENCES
Available upon request