Tracy L. Robinson
**** ****** **. ******** *******, CO. 80922
719-***-**** (C)
********@*****.***
Education:
University of Colorado
Degree: Master of Business in Finance and International Business
University of Phoenix
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Management
Pennsylvania Technical Institute
Degree: Associate of Science in Electronic Engineering
Skills:
. Strategic planning, Risk assessment, Proactive planning
. Mentoring, Coaching, Team Leader, Personnel development
. Customer relation, Vendor and Supplier negotiation, Toyota Way
. SPC, Preventative Maintenance, Analytical Troubleshooting, Process
Improvement
. Microsoft Office, Expert systems
Professional Experience:
Simax Lithography Title: Technical Support
Customer Service Manager
Simax Mesa, AZ Facility Manager
Date: December 2012 - Present
Responsibilities:
Technical Support Customer Support Manager:
. Manage Technical Support and Field Service Engineers
. Manage and actively participant in customer escalations
. Develop solutions for various predicaments
. Risk analysis and go / no go planning
. Demonstrate confidence and abilities in high stress situations
. Promote team building and mentoring throughout the group
Mesa Facility Manager:
. Controller of Simax Parts and Tooling inventory
. Vendor and Supplier management
. Manage shipping and receiving department
. Manage warehouse personnel
. Strategic cost cutting actions, Budget forecasting, Lean manufacturing
(TPS)
Simax Lithography Title: Procurement and
Technical Support Project Manager
Global
Headquarters Netherlands Date: February 2010 - November 2012
Responsibilities:
Parts Project Manager:
. Source suppliers for parts inventory
. Qualify suppliers
. Qualify Repair Vendors
. Forecast inventory purchase and sales
o Revenue
o Margin
o Profit
o Lost
. Market pricing and demand
o Sales price
o Cost price
o Tax liability
Technical Support Engineer:
. Interface with customer's equipment managers and engineers
. Manage escalation actions at customer sites
. Manage field service engineers actions at customer site
. Travel domestically and internationally to alleviate customer's
worries and resolve pressing issues.
. Interface with customer, factory support, and account team to inquire
and provide action plans to the Customer Service Engineer(s).
. Training of customer's engineers on the repair and maintenance of the
equipment.
Atmel Corporation Title: Equipment Engineer
Colorado Springs, CO. Date: May 2006 - February 2010
Responsibilities:
. Manage project to eliminate Atmel's ASML vendor contract at the Colorado
plant.
o Put in place a training program on the ASML PAS5500_/100-/300 and
the Cymer Laser for Atmel's technicians.
o Negotiate pricing and establish relationships with various second
source suppliers of parts and services to reduce OEM cost.
o Track uptime and availability and utilize SPC to determine effects
of the contract reduction.
. Successfully reduced the ASML contract budget from $3.5 million to $1.2
million, with scheduled total elimination of budget by March of 2010.
o Traveled to the Atmel France plant to set-up a program to assist
them with the elimination of their ASML contract.
. Lead of the area's Function Action Team (FAT) for the stepper cross-
functional group that is currently focusing on three areas of
improvement.
o Cost Reduction
o Yield Increase
o Operating efficiency (OEE)
. Member of the Work Action Team (WAT) formed as a self directed team made
up of production, process and equipment engineering to address roadblocks
and implement lean manufacturing principles.
. Responsibilities expanded to include all photolithography and KLA
metrology tool sets in early 2008
o Increased responsibility from 32 systems of three different models
to 200+ systems of 30 different models.
o Joined the project to eliminate the $1.3 million KLA contract and
by utilizing the lessons learned during the elimination of the ASML
contract, the team was successful.
ASML Title: Technical Support Engineer II
Tempe, AZ Date: January 1997 - May 2006
Responsibilities:
. Support, monitor, and assist ASML Customer Service Engineers (CSE) on all
escalated service calls for ASML systems:
o PAS5500_/100-/300 Steppers
o PAS5500_/400 - /1100 Scanners
o Twinscan _/1400 - /1700i
. Attended Cymer Laser level one and level two training at the Cymer
training facility in San Diego.
. Traveled domestically and internationally to alleviate customer's worries
and resolve pressing issues.
o Interfaced with customer, factory support, and account team to
inquire and provide action plans to the CSE.
. Champion of continuous improvement by utilizing TQM and Six Sigma with
both internal and external customers, vendors, and suppliers.
. Managed projects for the escalation team and initiated action plans for
on going issues.
. Trained mentored and coached colleagues and peers and provided a channel
of knowledge transfer for rapid issues resolution.
IDT Technology Inc. Title: Equipment Engineer
Salinas, CA. Date: November 1993 - January 1997
Responsibilities:
. Oversaw the reliability and maintenance activities on the following
automated fabrication systems:
o ASML Stepper
o Ultra tech Stepper
o DNS track
. Contributed to the company's bottom line by reducing the number of vendor
activities by using my technical and mentoring skills to optimize the
systems and provide training to the technicians
. Responsible for the resolution of chronic system issues and
identification of root causes.
. Provided and discussed trend reports and statistical data to function
managers at daily meetings.
. Used the information from the analysis of system data to create and
implement engineering changes to improve reliability.
. Created a database for queuing of information pertaining to past issues
and resolutions to be pulled and used for troubleshooting.
Societies:
Member of the National Society for Leadership and Success