Engineer Manufacturing

AUTHUR N. NGUYEN

***** **** ********** ***** ***** Land, Texas 77498

H 281-***-**** C 713-***-**** ******@*****.***

SUMMARY

An accomplished, problem solving and results-driven engineer with extensive experience in the

semiconductor industry as well as in Oil and Gas industry. Many years of experience in new

product testing, product development, hardware and software troubleshooting, quality control,

team leadership, as well as process improvements. Apply best knowledge and practice to down-

hole tools manufacturing. Committed to 5S and Lean manufacturing methodology to reduce

waste and optimize productivity. Identify opportunities to improve productivity, reducing cost

savings and cycle time. Committed to excellence, success and profitability of an organization.

Highly motivated, self-starter, practical and technically-oriented engineer.

EXPERIENCE

C&J ENERGY SERVICES, Houston Texas

Senior Manufacturing Engineer Mar 2014-Apr2015

Worked closely with design teams of new technology and product development to introduce new and

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advance down-hole products used in well perforating and in wire-line logging tools such as Electronic

Switch, Feedthrough, and Tension tool.

Contributed to the success of ISO-9001:2015 certification.

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Planned, directed, and coordinated Lean 5S methodology on shop floor that resulted of increasing the

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manufacturing productivity.

Initiated investigations into tool testing and tool operation failures and generated engineering reports.

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Generated in-coming parts inspection sheets and issued Non Conformal Reports (NCR) and Supplier

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Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions (SCAPA).

Designed production floor layout for manufacturing process optimization.

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Generated and approved for more than 30 documents for tool assembly, process flow and test

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procedures.

Designed and maintained the intranet site for wireline tools projects to provide paperless, live

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information and documents (part of 5S)

Created test flow and process for new tools build (in GP).

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Analyze and improve exist process for better efficiency.

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Tracked and updated engineering and manufacturing changes to products and updated BOM.

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Monitored production processes and activities to ensure they are complaint to the EHS guidelines.

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Monitored and adjust production processes or equipment to ensure quality production and productivity.

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Prepared product and process reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.

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Master use of Microsoft Great Plane (GP), Oil Field Services Management Software (OFS PRO), and

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Winchill database.

PAC (PETROLEUM ANALYTIC COMPANY), Houston Texas

Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Contract) Jul 2013-Feb2014

Managed testing the quality of heater tube (used in JFTOT) and filter kit which designed specifically for

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testing jet fuels for Aviation industry.

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Re-tooled the heater tube tester that resulted in improving down time and the quality of testing product.

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Implemented Lean 5S methodology and procedure on shop floor that resulted of increasing the

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manufacturing productivity.

Key team player for ISO-9001:2013 certification.

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Responsible for continuously monitoring the Plant critical streams to ensure balanced operation rates

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and optimum operations

Responsible for the maintenance and troubleshooting assistance in the manufacturing processes.

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Monitored production processes and activities to ensure they are complaint to the EHS guidelines.

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Monitored and adjust production processes or equipment to ensure quality production and productivity.

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Prepared product and process reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.

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Kept equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services; following manufacturer’s

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instructions and established procedures.

Ensure adherence to all applicable regulations, policies and procedures for health, safety and

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environmental compliance.

Maintained equipment specifications by reviewing and revising for the updates.

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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC, Stafford Texas

Senior Test and Manufacturing Engineer 2000-June 2013

Researched and implemented machine LEAN 5S and 5-why technique throughout manufacturing

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facilities and processes

Led testing of semiconductor products, ranging from digital signal processing (DSP) to mix signal

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devices.

Fixed down and failure test hardware. Aided manufacturing on new setups or repair of hardware issues.

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Directed engineering and manufacturing teams on investigation of probing pad damages and drove for

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solutions.

Provided technical direction, and training for operators performing detailed process steps to ensure that

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production specialists, and support engineers have necessary skills, appropriate documentation (SPLs) and

process control capability to improve yield and manufacturing’s productivity and cycle time.

Revised and maintained manufacturing probe training documents as well as updated and maintained

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probe/parametric specifications.

Monitored, followed up and updated FMEA’s actions.

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Ran fail bin pareto and tool common analysis to identify and eliminate systemic fails associated to

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equipments, test hardware and device processes.

Audited manufacturing equipment, methods and procedures that could affect yields, making

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recommendations for improvement.

Tracked and analyzed tester utilization and drive for testing optimization. Debugged test programs to

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improve unstable fails. Released new test program for production. Identified project to save probe cost.

Analyzed test and device characterization data to identify device process marginalities, making

recommendations for process improvements.

Planned work and coordinated between process, quality, yield enhancement, equipment engineers and

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manufacturing on problems solving.

Helped process and yield engineers to analyze testing data then identify causes of low-yield devices then

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drive for solutions.

Implement test programs for new products ramp and sustained products which transferred to

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manufacturing facility.

Audited and wrote specifications for manufacturing procedures and equipment.

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Wrote training tools for manufacturing specialists and other test engineers.

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Conducted GR&R and Repeatability for new program release.

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Senior Customer Quality Engineer 1996-2000

Held responsibility for testing all customer returns internally and externally.

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Worked closely with automotive customers, Ford, Chrysler, and GM on customer returns and corrective

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actions implementation

Qualified new devices to win business at Seagate hard drive and HP equipment groups.

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Ran tests for device quality and reliability for internal qualifications.

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Oversaw design of experiments (DoE), Design For Manufacturability (DFM) and Six Sigma (6-sig)

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control.

Served as member of TI internal audit team and conduced many worldwide audits.

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Initiated test methodologies and procedures that increases test throughputs and test costs, including

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upgrading moisture level to reduce dry pack and eliminated burn in for CAT1, saving company millions by

eliminating burn-in equipments.

Developed utility program for tracking system that significantly reduced customer’s returns cycle time

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that results in improving customer scorecards from bottom rank to top three.

Ran effective meetings with customers that enabled company to win future design-in for customers’

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projects.

Senior Product Engineer

1984-1996

Held responsibility for writing and debugging test programs to test prototypes and production-ramp in

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manufacturing.

Worked with different design teams to collect and analyze test parametric and multi-probe data to

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identify design flaw for improving device functionality and performance.

Held responsibility for writing qualification plan and conducting the qualification process for new

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design EPROM and Flash products.

Wrote datasheet for new EPROM and Flash products.

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Supported product groups to generate and track new device and tester qualification roadmaps.

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Served as key member of first team of new flash product development to help test and qualify first flash

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technology at earliest time for market, helping company win first HP business in flash devices.

Traveled oversea to support assembly sites on new devices qualification and testing.

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Traveled to customer sites to present qualification data and prototype testing results.

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COMPUTER SKILLS

Software: Basic, Fortran, Assembly codes, C++, Pascal, autoCAD, SQL, All Microsoft Office,

IPARM, IFS

Hardware: Memories and digital signal processing (DSP) performance boards interface,

circuitry design

EDUCATION

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OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, Stillwater, Oklahoma

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, 1984

President’s and Dean’s Honors at OSU, August 1982

LICENSURE

Texas Professional Engineer

PUBLICATIONS

Co-author of publication "A 5-volt Contactless Array 256K Flash EEPROM technology" published in:

• 1989 IEEE International Solid State Circuit Conference- section 10.

• TI Technical Journal July-August 1989 - Volume 6, Number 4

Co-author of publication "A Novel Sublithographic Tunnel Diode-based 5V only Flash Memory" published in:

• TI Journal March-April 1990 Volume 8, number 2.

SPECIAL MACHINES

Memory and DSP testers such as Genesis, Teradyne, Eagle, VLCT, HSM; HP digital analyzer, Oscilloscope,

EPROM programmer, I-V curve

LANGUAGES

Fluent in English and Vietnamese.

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