Engineer Process

James J. Chang

**** ***** ***** ***** #**, Playa Vista, CA 90094

********@*****.*** • 310-***-****

Process Development Engineer

Expertise driving engineering process improvement identification and implementation efforts

Innovative Process / Process Development Engineer offering 20 years of process development, process troubleshooting, productivity improvement, product development, and manufacturing infrastructure implementation experience. Demonstrated ability to drive continuing process improvement efforts across both nascent and mature product lines resulting in demonstrable improvements to yield, product quality, and production costs. Highly effective troubleshooting, process development, and analysis efforts between teams of internal, vendor, and supplier resources. Strengths in process control development and technology transfer.

Highlights of expertise:

•Project Management

•Technical Documentation

•Change Management

•Process Development

•Continuing Process Improvement

•Vendor & Partner Management

•Metrology

•Capital Equipment Procurement

•R&D

•Cost Control

•Risk Management

•ISO & TL Standards

Professional Experience

Spectrolab, Inc., Sylmar, CA 2008 to present

Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy Engineer (MOVPE) Research and Development Engineer

Develop, modify and optimize growth of solar cells and sensors. Identify, develop, and implement equipment modification to MOVPE reactors to enable growth technique improvements and expand to different material systems. Work with vendors and consultants to improve in-situ metrology and real time reactor process monitoring, manufacture and engineer improved component parts.

Selected Projects & Achievements:

•Help develop and establish production procedure and protocol on running new K475 reactors

•Developed growth process methodology and quality metrology to scale up XTJ solar cell production from 4” to 6” wafers, InAlAs/InP LIDAR sensors from 2” to 4”

•Implemented reactor modifications to enable H2S doping and InGaAsP growth

•Developed growth recipes for InP based PIN diode arrays, Geiger-mode and Linear Mode Avalanche Photo Diodes for 3D LIDAR

•Worked with C13 welding team to repair design flawed flow distribution reactor flanges

•Designed and managed production of re-engineered reactor components

Ablestik Laboratories, Rancho Dominguez, CA 2006 to 2008

Process Development Engineer

Identify, develop, and implement process improvements supporting product enhancements for a supplier of electrically and thermally conductive pastes, films, tape adhesives, and underfill encapsulants used in electronics manufacture. Team with vendors and clients to assess and execute changes. Facilitate audits, manage internal and external communications, and develop engineering change documentation. Lead process changes across multiple, physically diverse sites including new equipment qualification. Troubleshoot Non-Conforming Materials Reports (NCMR). Provide direction and guidance as member of Materials Review Board (MRB) and Change Approval Board (CAB). Scale up and push new products through process development Stage Gates.

Selected Projects & Achievements:

•Directed manufacturing cost reduction efforts for the 2nd and 8th largest volume products. Assessed opportunities using Six Sigma methods. Developed multi-phase project plans, and managed process reengineering resulting in 30% reduction in costs that directly improved profitability by 6%.

•Identified and remediated oversize particle risk for pBOC product line due to customer usage methodology change. Saved $13 million in sales with potential for additional savings across all product lines.

McBain Instruments, Chatsworth, CA

Metrology Application Engineer (2005 to 2006)

Guided clients through tool development for a provider of custom microscopy metrology to the semiconductor industry. Provided onsite consulting, training, and product support. Created microscopy solutions used for contamination analysis, including Xray Flourecence (XRF) and Confocal microscopy techniques.

Luminent, Inc., Chatsworth, CA 2000 to 2005

Chip Processing Section Manager / Chemical Vapor Disposition (CVD) Process Engineer

Directed process engineers engaged in controlling, monitoring, and improving flagship DFB laser manufacturing, wet etching, wafer cleaning, evaporation, and thin film coatings processes. Developed and coordinated production planning, development experiments, and technology transfer. Identified and implemented process changes and controls. Planned CVD equipment installation and process troubleshooting efforts. Monitored, tuned, and optimized MOCVD processes.

Selected Projects & Achievements:

•Built a team of engineers and technicians from the ground level supporting MOCVD production of InP-based lasers for CWDM and DWDM applications.

•Planned and implemented manufacturing infrastructure improvements to Thomas Swain reactor resulting in 20-fold improvement to DFB laser production.

•Reduced supplier costs up to 60% through vendor price renegotiation and supplier changes.

•Procured electro-capacitance voltage measurement equipment, leak checkers, and digital photography enabled microscopes that reduced downtime and increased throughput for MOCVD manufacturing processes. Concurrently reduced costs for outsourced diagnostics.

•Developed process databases used by R&D and process development teams to correlate first order yield effects and to improve awareness of process abnormalities.

•Implemented changes to device structures, MOCVD growth parameters, and photolithographic masks that vastly improved yield and electrical performance.

•Supported ISO certification by developing Procedural Library technical documentation.

•Created PNPN and 300 mm mask implementation strategies.

Spectrolab, Inc., Sylmar, CA 1996 to 2000

Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy Engineer (MOVPE) Process Engineer

Managed monitoring, control, and process improvement of InGaP/GaAs solar cell manufacturing processes. Developed and improved MOVPE troubleshooting and diagnostics processes. Coordinated production in compliance with all quality and production goals. Facilitated experimentation, data analysis, and process improvement. Maintained nine Emcore E-400 reactors. Evaluated capital equipment capabilities.

Selected Projects & Achievements:

•Teamed with Germanium substrate vendors to identify and resolve morphology issues impacting wafer quality as the Germanium team representative. Identified and resolved cleaning process deficiencies. Created strong partnership with vendors as a springboard for continuing collaboration.

•Pioneered large-scale production for InGap/GaAs/Ge triple junction solar cells.

•Installed five Emcore E-400 reactors supporting consumer demand increases that improved production capacity 800%. Served as key team member to develop and document processes supporting capacity expansion.

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•Identified source of product performance degradation as oxygen contamination. Partnered with vendor to identify and remedy source. Established new testing quality control practices.

•Introduced closed loop process in response to operator errors impacting production quality. Automated program changes to maintain lattice matching that eliminated miscalculations and simultaneously boosted production.

Education and Training

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Six Sigma Green Belt

Engineering Strengths

DOE SPC Gauge R&R FMEA Photoluminescence (PL) Spectral Responsivity Double Crystal X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) Electromechanically Capacitance-Voltage (CV Measurements) Light IV Measurements Transmission Line Measurements Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS) Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Die-Shear Lap-Shear Rheology Measurement

Professional Development

Design for Six Sigma ~ Lean Manufacturing ~ Minitab ~ SAP PP Level II ~ M/PCpS for SPC ~ TL 9000

~ Technically Proficient in Lotus Notes, Minitab, MS Office Suite, SAP, and Sigmaflow ~

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