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Process Engineer X Ray

Location:

San Jose, CA, 95124

Salary:

100000 to 125000

Posted:

January 23, 2024

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Daniel P. Schick

**** ******** ****

San Jose, CA 95124

Mobile # 408-***-****

E-mail: ad2087@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-schick-5b594618/ SUMMARY

Innovative, Imaginative, Materials-Chemical-Ceramic Process Engineer with B. S. Ceramic Engineering, B.S. Chemistry, CAD Solidworks and Inventor, and 30 years of firsthand experience in ceramic processing, equipment design and material characterization. History of improving materials, product quality, and process control using experimental design and statistical process control techniques. My wide range of material processing experience allows me to be a valuable resource for yield improvement regarding material processing. EH&S and Hazardous Materials Management Certified. Excellent communication and people skills. APPLICABLE SKILLS

Hard Grinding and Polishing of Ceramics, Honing, Spray Drying, Slurry-Milling Processing, Tape Casting, Thin and Thick Film Coatings, Controlled Gas Atmosphere and Vacuum Brazing / Sintering, Induction Brazing, Air Firing, Chemical Cleaning and Etching, Autocatalytic and Electrochemical Plating, Materials Testing, Chemical Analysis, Surface Science Analysis, Particle Size and Morphology Analysis, Slurry & Coating Rheology, SPC, DOE, 5S, Technical Writing & Communication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

08/01/2022 to 01/11/2024

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

FM Industries, 300 Discovery Drive, Livermore CA 94551

• Process development and testing of diffusion bonded 6061-T651 aluminum assemblies.

• SAM testing of bonded assemblies for bond interface adherence and void defects.

• Hermeticity testing and verification of bonded assemblies for bond interface vacuum integrity.

• Creation & revision of production design review ECO’s, BOM’s, WO travelers, procedures, specifications for piece part and assembly drawings.

• Creation & revision of production manufacturing processes, procedures, and local work instructions (i.e. furnace operations, coatings application methods & techniques).

• Designed, engineered, and built fixtures.

• Process definition and fixturing for laser welding, ribbon gap welding, wire and wedge bonding operations.

• Coating applications of Boron Nitride spray coatings on Molybdenum sheet metal fixtures.

• High temperature vacuum hot press furnace: temperature profiling, programming, gas atmosphere control, d

• Dew point control, oxygen analysis, installation & maintenance, furnace loading efficiency, control and work thermocouple integration with programmed soak temperature, heating ramp rates. Design and manufacture bonding carbon fiber and graphite fixtures, jigs, mandrels, and supports.

• Establishment and implementation of purchase specifications for ceramic and metalized ceramic components. Raw materials specification, testing, and vendor qualification

• Chemical cleaning DOE for quantitative evaluation of bond interface seal faying surfaces.

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• Anodizing process engineering and quality control, chromate conversion coatings, cleaning, stripping reagents,

• Creation & revision of production manufacturing processes, procedures, and local work instructions (i.e. furnace operations, coatings application methods & techniques).

• Utilized process control techniques to increase conforming production yield.

• Explored and tested innovative material compositions, geometries and forming techniques. Design and implementation of assembly packaging, metal to metal & ceramic/glass to metal seal design and testing.

• Facility gas line and DI water design and installation.

• Failure analysis of manufacturing defects to increase production quality improvement at the lowest cost or minimal change to processes.

03/04/2022 to 08/01/2022

Manufacturing Engineer

Plasma Ruggedized Solutions, 2284 Ringwood Ave., Suite A, San Jose, CA 95131

• Creation & revision of production design review ECO’s, BOM’s, WO travelers, procedures, specifications for piece part and assembly drawings.

• Creation & revision of production manufacturing processes, procedures, and local work instructions (i.e. furnace operations, coatings application methods & techniques).

• Designed, engineered, and built fixtures.

• Process definition and fixturing for laser welding, ribbon gap welding, wire and wedge bonding operations.

• Coating applications of conformal coatings which included but not limited to: Parylene

(Polyparaxylylene), Acrylics, Silicones, Fence & Fill Chemistries, Polyurethanes, Epoxies, Nano Chemistries, Various BGA underfill compounds, and PRS IP Formulated Materials

• Facility gas line and DI water design and installation. 09/01/2016 to 03/04/2022

Materials and Process Engineer

Teledyne Microwave Solutions, 1274 Tera Bella Ave., Mountain, CA 94043

• Materials and Process Engineer

• Creation & revision of production design review ECO’s, BOM’s, WO travelers, raw material specifications for hybrid piece part and assembly drawings.

• Creation & revision of production manufacturing processes, procedures, and local work instructions (i.e. furnace operations, coatings application methods & techniques).

• Designed, engineered, and built fixtures.

• Process definition and fixturing for laser welding, ribbon gap welding, wire and wedge bonding operations.

• Thin film RF circuit network drawing and materials specifications.

• Optics lapping and polishing, slurry suspensions chemistry, process engineering, and quality control for grinding, polishing, chemical cleaning,

• Specialty thick film coatings / epoxy paint, process improvement and fixtures.

• Chromate conversion, plating, and chemical cleaning process control support, bath chemistry, and standardization support.

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• Plating quality (ref. Mil-std & fed-std) and thickness verification: X-ray fluorescence thickness measurement, salt spray testing.

• Process engineering and quality control for optics chemical cleaning, specialty chemical wax strippers, RTV & epoxy removal,

• Design and implementation of assembly packaging, carrier materials, case plating, solder flux and solder materials selection, metal to metal & ceramic/glass to metal seal designs, and testing

• Implementation of X-ray fluorescence coating thickness measurement & analysis system.

• Analysis of failed products and assemblies via metallurgical analysis using digital X-ray

& CT tomography, cross-sectional metallography, surface analysis techniques such as AUGER, ESCA/XPS, SEM/EDX, SIMS, AF microscopy, Arc spectroscopy, XRF, FTIR, etc.

• Establishment and implementation of XRF plating & metalizing thickness measurement system.

• Thin film vacuum deposition process engineering and manufacturing of Au, Cr, and Zinc Oxides.

• Design and implementation of assembly packaging, metal to metal, & ceramic to metal seal design and testing. Design and manufacturing braze fixtures and jigs, supports

• Statistical process control and testing, DOE, Mini-tab. 09/21/2014 to 09/01/2016

Materials and Process Engineer

AI Industries,1725 East Bayshore Road, Redwood City, CA 94063

• Creation & revision of production design review (MSO’s), BOM’s, WO travelers, raw material specifications, piece part and assembly drawings.

• Creation & revision of production manufacturing processes, procedures, and local work instructions (i.e. furnace operations, coatings application methods & techniques).

• Anodizing processes and equipment, chromate conversion coatings, chemical cleaning, specialty chemical strippers, process engineering and quality control

• Design and implementation of anodizing operations, equipment, dielectric breakdown testing, ultrasonic and eddy current thickness measurements, impedance testing, corrosion resistance design and testing.

• Design and manufacturing masking plugs, preforms, fixtures and jigs, supports

• Statistical process control and testing, DOE, Mini-tab

• Plating and chemical cleaning process control, plating bath analysis and standardization. SPC of plating quality (ref. Mil-std & fed-std) via bath solution analysis: Atomic absorption, Baume, ILC, mass spectroscopy, pH, titration), hull cell testing, x-ray fluorescence thickness measurement, and salt spray testing.

• Failure analysis of manufacturing defects to increase production quality improvement at the lowest cost or minimal change to processes.

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04/01/2014 to 09/01/2014

Materials and Process Engineer, Operations Manager VU1 Corporation, 1001 Camelia Street, Berkeley, CA 94710

• Creation & revision of production design review (MSO’s), BOM’s, WO travelers, raw material specifications, piece part and assembly drawings.

• Creation & revision of production manufacturing processes, procedures, and local work instructions (i.e. powder blending, furnace operations, coatings application methods & techniques).

• Utilized process control techniques to increase conforming product yield

• Explored and tested innovative material compositions, geometries and forming techniques. Design and implementation of assembly packaging, glass to glass, glass to metal pin feedthrough seal designs, and testing.

• Design and manufacturing fixtures and jigs, supports

• Statistical process control and testing, DOE, Mini-tab

• High temperature natural gas glass sealing and annealing: temperature profiling, programming, gas atmosphere control, dew point control, oxygen analysis, installation & maintenance, furnace loading efficiency, control and work thermocouple integration with programmed soak temperature, heating ramp rates, glass stress inspection

• Graphite DAG coating fixtures, equipment, and processes

• Thermal bake out, vacuum exhaust pump down schedules, pinch-off/ tip-off, getter flash, for glass bulb vacuum envelopes.

• Phosphor analysis, composition, and coating processes

• Thin film evaporative vacuum deposition of Aluminum, equipment design

• Failure analysis and materials/ surface analysis via Auger, Electron Microscopy, EDS, XRF, metallography.

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01/21/2012 to 04/01/2014

Materials and Process Engineer, Engineering Manager Elcon Precision, LLC, 1009 Timothy Dr, San Jose, CA 95133

• Sales engineering support and design

• Creation & revision of production design review (MSO’s), BOM’s, WO travelers, raw material specifications, piece part and assembly drawings.

• Creation & revision of production manufacturing processes, procedures, and local work instructions (i.e. furnace operations, coatings application methods & techniques).

• Utilized process control techniques to increase conforming production yield.

• Designed, engineered, and built Tesla battery feed-through braze fixtures, braze alloys, and brazed components.

• Chemical cleaning, chemical process engineering and quality control

• Specialty thick film coatings / paint development, testing, process improvement and fixtures

• Design and manufacturing braze fixtures and jigs, supports

• Statistical process control and testing, DOE, Mini-tab

• High temperature atmospheric furnace: temperature profiling, programming, gas atmosphere control, dew point control, oxygen analysis, installation & maintenance, furnace loading efficiency, control and work thermocouple integration with programmed soak temperature, heating ramp rates

• Hermetic leak testing, environmental thermal shock, and thermal age testing

• Cathode gun assembly vacuum pump down and exhaust temperature profiling. Variables include the CTE of the glass systems, glass to metal seals, the interior coatings.

• Establishment and implementation of XRF plating & metalizing thickness measurement system.

• Failure analysis of manufacturing defects to increase production quality improvement at the lowest cost or minimal change to processes.

• Formulation, manufacturing, and testing of powdered metals, glass frits, glazes, and thick film specialty coatings. Analysis of glass composition and processing.

• Supervision of laboratory and metalizing production technicians. Process improvement and fixtures.

• Chemical cleaning process engineering and quality control

• Implementation of X-ray fluorescence thickness measurement system

• Analysis of failed products and assemblies via metallurgical analysis using digital X-ray

& CT tomography, cross-sectional metallography, surface analysis techniques such as AUGER, ESCA/XPS, SEM/EDX, SIMS, AF microscopy, Arc spectroscopy, XRF, FTIR, etc.

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04/01/1990 to 01/21/2012

Materials and Process Engineer, and Failure Analyst L-3 Communications Electron Device Division, 960 Industrial Road, San Carlos, CA 94070

• Thin film vacuum deposition process engineering and manufacturing of Au, Cu, Mo, NbC, W/Os/Ru, Os/Ru, Ti, & Zr.

• Establishment and implementation of XRF plating & metalizing thickness measurement system.

• Design and implementation of assembly packaging, metal to metal, & ceramic to metal seal design and testing

• Design and manufacturing braze fixtures and jiging supports

• Statistical process control and testing, DOE, Mini-tab…

• Cathode and gun assembly design, materials development, and process control

• Development and testing of Tungsten powdered metallurgy injection molding and Isostatic pressing program for dispenser cathode manufacturing.

• Hermetic leak testing, environmental thermal shock, and thermal age testing

• Cathode gun assembly vacuum pump down and exhaust temperature profiling. Variables include the CTE of the glass systems, glass to metal seals, the interior coatings.

• Implementation of X-ray fluorescence coating thickness measurement & analysis system.

• Purchase specifications for plated or chemical conversion coated components

• Team development of CVD pyrolytic graphite coating equipment and processes for deposition of pyrolytic graphite oxide and non-oxide ceramic substrates using acetylene and propane gases in inert cover gas for a semi-continuous deposition system. Materials characterization, XRD, and chemical analysis of pyrolytic coatings were performed to map process controls.

• Testing of Aqua-Dag, Electro-Dag and equivalent colloidal graphite lossy coatings.

• Establishment and implementation of purchase specifications for ceramic and metalized Ceramic components

• Establishment and implementation of purchase specifications for plated or chemical conversion coated components

• Formulation, manufacturing, and testing of powdered metals, glass frits, glazes, and thick film specialty coatings. Supervision of laboratory and metalizing production technicians

• Analysis of failed products and assemblies via metallurgical analysis using digital X-ray

& CT tomography, cross-sectional metallography, surface analysis techniques such as AUGER, ESCA/XPS, SEM/EDX, SIMS, AF microscopy, Arc Spark, XRF, FTIR, etc.

• Experience with hard machining, grinding, and polishing of alumina bodies, and microstructural stress relief for ceramic component manufacturing.

• Hazardous materials, wastes, and environmental management, ground and wastewater testing, PCB waste testing and decontamination, with supervision of 15-30 operators and two supervisors. Site closure of plating and chemical facilities.

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06/01/1987 to 04/01/1990

Materials and Process Engineer, and Failure Analyst Varian Associates(EIMAC Div.), 810 Industrial Way, San Carlos CA 94070, 415-***-****

• Statistical process control and testing, DOE, Mini-tab

• Establishment and implementation of purchase specifications for ceramic and metalized Ceramic components. Raw materials testing and vendor qualification.

• Ceramic to metal seal design and testing

• Cathode and gun assembly design, materials development, and process control

• Metalizing methods, techniques, and fixturing support

• Development and testing of thick film metalizing paint and binder-lacquer formulations

• Design and manufacturing braze fixturing and jigs, supports

• Compression boning of Thoriated Tungsten wire.

• Hermeticity testing, environmental thermal shock, and thermal age testing

• Cathode gun assembly vacuum pump down and exhaust temperature profiling. Variables include the CTE of the glass systems, glass to metal seals, the interior coatings.

• Development of process controls for 24" diameter pyrolytic graphite billets production using acetylene gas in a Brew vacuum furnace. Materials characterization, XRD, and chemical analysis of pyrolytic graphite billets for map process mapping.

• Failure analysis and materials/ surface analysis via Auger, electron microscopy, EDS, XRF, metallurgical analysis using metallography.

• Plating process control, plating bath analysis and standardization. SPC of plating quality

(ref. Mil-std & fed-std) via bath solution analysis: Atomic absorption, baume, ILC, mass spectroscopy, pH, titration), hull cell testing, x-ray fluorescence thickness measurement.

• Experience with hard machining of sintered ceramic bodies and microstructural stress relief

• Establishment and implementation of XRF plating & metalizing thickness measurement system.

• Chemical cleaning process quality control.

• Site closure of three plating shops, in addition to construction of a new plating facility 03/01/1987 thru 05/01/1987

Product Sales Engineer, Materials and Process Engineer Coors components, Inc. (Microsemi), 800 Hoyt St., Broomfield, CO 80020, 303-***-****

• Development and modification of glass to metal electrical feed-through assembly products & processes.

• Sales support functions included: product cost analysis, product capability analysis, product sales and delivery orders, and raw materials pricing.

• Design and manufacturing braze fixturing and jigs, supports

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08/01/1984 to 02/01/1987

Materials and Process Engineer, Product Engineer, and Failure Analyst W.R. Grace (Metaramics Inc.), 1107 N Fair Oaks Ave., Sunnyvale CA 94089

• Sales support functions included: product cost analysis, product capability analysis, product sales and delivery orders, and raw materials pricing.

• Development and modification of product design and processes for high reliability ceramic to metal electrical feedthroughs

• Statistical process control and testing, DOE, Mini tab

• Development and testing of thick film metalizing paint and binder-lacquer formulations

• Metalizing methods, techniques, and fixturing support.

• Establishment and implementation of purchase specifications for ceramic and metalized ceramic components. Raw materials specification, testing, and vendor qualification

• Site closure of three plating shops, in addition to construction of a new plating facility

• Aluminum Nitride green tape research and development

• Experience with hard machining, grinding, and polishing of glass bodies, and microstructural stress relief for ceramic component manufacturing.

• Experience gained through engineering support of Diamonite (Cerco) ceramic manufacturing operations. i.e. ball milling, spray drying, dry press, Isostatic press processes.

• Failure analysis and materials/ surface analysis via Auger, Electron Microscopy, EDS, XRF, metallography.

• Developed and implemented ceramic cleaning, & plating process

• Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of Silane coatings on graphite braze fixtures.

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Experience- Prior to 1983 Wafer Fabrication and Photo-lithographic Technician

(references and skills listings available)

National Micronetics

Box 188, West Hurley, NY

12491

1983 Ceramic engineer/technician-

vacuum annealing pilot plant R&D for tantalum

nitride micro-resistor circuit fabrication, designed and fabricated wafer electron-beam sputter

turntable system.

Tau Laboratories, Inc.

Route 55 Page Industrial Park,

Poughkeepsie NY, 12603

1982 R&D of peroxides as etchants for thin film

sputtered molybdenum and indium tin oxide to be

used as photolithography mask materials.

Applications of contact exposure printers,

programmable automated chemical etch /

developer; RF tuned sputtered systems.

Tau Laboratories, Inc.

Route 55 Page Industrial Park,

Poughkeepsie NY, 12603

1981 Microchip dicing, automated chip picking,

inventory Control. Hard grinding, and polishing of ceramic substrates, and microstructural stress

relief for optical photomask manufacturing

IBM, East Fishkill, NY, 12533 1980 Negative photo resist applications to programmable silicon wafer line

Tau Laboratories, Inc.

Route 55 Page Industrial Park,

Poughkeepsie NY, 12603

1979 Final QC inspection of lithographic masks

Education and Training:

• BS Chemistry, American Chemical Society Accredited, State University of New York state at Oswego, 1981

• BS Ceramic Engineering, American Ceramic Society Accredited, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1983

• Probability & statistics courses, Santa Clara Univ., 95' -96'

• Environmental Engineering Studies, MS, San Jose State, continuing education

• Hazardous Materials Management Certification, UC Santa Cruz, CA June 1993

• Metallographic Image Analysis, ASM @ Buehler Inc., Chicago, Il 2001-2003

• Principles of Failure Analysis, ASM 2004-2005

• Technical writing courses, De Anza College, continuing education

• AutoCAD, Copper Connection, 2055 Gateway Pl # 400 San Jose, CA 95110-1060, 2002-2003

• Solidworks, ACAD, De Anza College, 2014 continuing education

• Excel, Word, WordPerfect, Access database, MS Project, programs training

• Mini-Tab SPC software

• Access database, MS Project, programs training

Affiliations: American Ceramic Society, American Chemical Society, American Plating Society, and North American Metal Finishers Society, American Metals Society

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References and Contact Information

Stefanie Harvey

Materials Scientist

L-3 communications (Litton Electron Device Division) 960 Industrial Way,

San Carlos CA

Present- TE Connectivity

Phone # 650-***-****

E-mail: ad2087@r.postjobfree.com

Vasilios Vlahos

Materials Scientist

L-3 communications (Litton Electron Device Division) 960 Industrial Way,