Stephen Mallin
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Professional Summary
Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience at what is now the most technologically advanced semiconductor foundry in North America. Winner of four company-wide individual awards for innovative problem-solving abilities. Demonstrated ability to develop successful first-of-its-kind business utilities and to identify and learn new skillsets needed to do so.
Professional Skills
Operational Managerial Technical
Complex Problem Solving Team Member Strength Identification SQL Queries and Administration Detailed Investigations Creating Ownership/Buy-In .net Programming for Web Solutions Integrated Issue Unraveling Building Trust through Fairness Statistical Analysis / Lean / Six Sigma Creative Solutions Expectation Clarity JMP and other statistical software Root-Cause Failure Analysis Tracking Performance Circuit Design and Fabrication Subtle Problem Detection Performance Evaluation Agreement Microsoft Office Suite Primary Work History
Samsung Austin Semiconductor Austin, Texas – March 2017 - Current Manager / Part Leader (Acting), Process Integration Systems (PI Systems) Department
• Manage a department of two teams of varied job grades (6 engineers, 9 technicians, 7 systems administrators)
• Use my process knowledge to coach team formally and ad hoc in order to solve difficult problems
• Provide training and guidance to team members and team representatives to achieve departmental goals
• Negotiate directly with headquarters when in best interest of the department and local company
• Set, track, and report Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for department to executives Samsung Austin Semiconductor Austin, Texas – July 2013 – March 2017 Team Representative / Senior Engineer, Process Control Monitoring (PCM) Team
• Written and delivered over 40 annual performance reviews, extolled by Senior Manager for detail and fairness
• Managed daily operations of team of 7-9 technicians and 2-4 engineers
• Responsible for stable performance and immediate corrective action for over 50,000 measurement trends daily
• Successfully demonstrated local team aptitude, organization, and decision-making to headquarters dispatch team
• Dynamically optimized monitoring strategy to safely handle rapidly growing monitoring scope with constant resources
• Presented team output and metrics in daily manager-level factory operations meeting
• Served as key point of contact for daily communications between department and headquarters counterparts
• Consistently praised by management for team's stellar performance record Samsung Austin Semiconductor Austin, Texas – May 2006 – July 2013 Yield Analysis Engineer, Yield Engineering Department
• Primary investigator of factory yield loss issues, identifying over $10 million dollars in cost savings through yield
• Winner of four individual awards for unique and challenging solutions to problems of varying nature and scope
• Developed first automated lot-based yield predictor at Samsung Electronics, accurate within 1% by lot and 0.5% by day
• Created first true closed-loop issue tracking system at Samsung Electronics, used factory-wide for over 3 years
• Designed first web-based yield loss issue tracking system for rapid sharing of data and simultaneous co-working
• Built first automated die-level yield loss source identification tool at Samsung Electronics
• Regarded as excellent investigator / problem solver by HQ members and local management across departments Education
Case Western Reserve University
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (2004), Electrical Engineering Master of Science (2006), Electrical Engineering
Master's Thesis: Phase Noise Processes and Suppression Techniques in RF LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillators Publication
D. J. Young, S. J. Mallin, M. Cross. "2 GHz CMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with Optimal Design of Phase Noise and Power Dissipation", 2007 IEEE RFIC Symposium. Cited by 16 other IEEE papers. Other Technical Work History
CornerBlitz.com 2013 – 2015
Owner, Publisher, Developer
• Developed asp.net and SQL-based football-interest website
• Produced visually appealing SQL and .net-based football content
• Created functional, interactive SQL-based multi-user “draft” game on website
• Reached peak readership of over 17,000 page views in one day with zero advertising budget GE Consumer & Industrial Lighting East Cleveland, OH – October 2004 - January 2005 Engineer, Innovation Department
• Performed lamp transient thermal and electrical testing
• Developed solution for fast synchronization of lamp illumination and characterization FLIR IR camera
• Specified, ordered, and set up testing apparatus GE Lighting East Cleveland, OH – May 2001 - August 2001 Applications Engineer
• Performed compatibility testing between fluorescent lamps and ballast circuits
• Provided approved technical information to sales force and executives of partner companies for NPI launches
• Carried out life testing via thermal and electrical measurements