Engineer Manufacturing

KEVIN KRAUSE

**** ******** ***** 972-***-**** McKinney, TX 75070 ********@*******.***

Manufacturing Associate

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Active DOD Clearance

Manufacturing Supervisor

Technical Trainer

Yield Management

Process Engineering

Process Improvement

Team Leader

SPC Management

Production Support

Failure Analysis

Cross Functional Team

Testing Verification

Continuous Improvement

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Process Engineer, 1997 – 2016

Photronics Inc., Allen, TX

Maintained a 94% 1st pass clean rate in final clean process and reduce chemical usage 70K per year.

Increased pellicle yields each year as a pellicle mount engineer to a record high 98%.

Interface regularly with Customers, Suppliers and fellow process engineers to resolve product quality issues.

Provide data to Sales and Customers on ESD, cleaning procedures, and pellicles.

Train and certify manufacturing specialist in pellicle mount, scratch reduction and bright light inspection techniques

Presented weekly SPC data and maintained Class 10 clean room particle levels by performing both surface and ambient particle detection test in accordance with SEMI standards.

Manufacturing Supervisor, 1990 – 1997

Photronics Inc. / Toppan Printronics / Texas Instruments, Allen, Texas

Directly supervised staff of 20 manufacturing specialist.

Constantly outperformed all other shifts’ output by coaching and training team members to achieve their highest performance level.

Tested new algorithms from equipment suppliers and internal developers on production equipment and wrote protocols for their use.

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science in Technical Management, 2000

DeVry Institute, Irving TX

Associates Degree in Electronics Technology

Tampa Technical Institute, Tampa FL.

PUBLICATIONS

SPIE-BACUS Symposium. Sept. 1999

European Mask and Lithography Conference, Nov.1999

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