SATPAL SINGH

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Fremont, CA ****9

Phone: 510-***-****

OBJECTIVE Seeking as an Engineer/Manager position in your company.

SUMMARY

** ***** ** *********** *********** experience in design, development, and process optimization. Expertise's in failure analysis, yield improvement, and cost reduction in thin film magnetic storage industry (Disk Drive). Program management activities include; design and development of new product from concept through field implementation. Application of SPC, DOE, first articles, alpha test, beta test, and customer specific tests to achieve quality and manufacturing goals. Considered an expert in the following:

·Program/Product Management

·Process development/optimization

·Manufacturing Engineer

·Failure Analysis

·Yield Enhancement

·Cost Reduction

·Budget Management

·Cost structure/Scheduling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ThermoFisher Scientific., 6055 Sunol Blvd., Pleasanton, CA

Sr. Manufacturing Tech. Sep. 21 - Current

·Follow detail cGMPs and SOP’s to perform Oligo Synthesis and purification.

·Purifies Oligos using IEX, Desalting, HPLC, size exclusion chromatography

·Perform routine preparation of reagents, buffers, and other chemical formulations.

·Operate manufacturing and QC instruments; HPLC,LCMS,UV/VIS,&Fluorescence Spectrometer

·Follow safe laboratory practices, and keep all safety training up to date.

·Proficient in computer skills; Microsoft office, SAP, and Agile.

·Recommend to change SOPs, order chemicals, and lab supplies as required.

Franchise Owner - 7-Eleven Inc./Arco Am/PM redwood city Ca Sep. 11 – Sep. 21

·Managed and directed daily activities of 7-Eleven and Arco Am/Pm stores.

·Increased the sale of stores from $3.25 million to $5.2 millions

·Increased gross profit from 35% to 45%.

KLA-TENCOR CORP., Milpitas, CA 95035

Sr. Product Engineer - Product Support Manager July 99 - Nov. 11

·Managed and directed the activities of NPI, technical support, Install team, service engineer, call center support, and spare parts logistic support to sustain and maintain 250 CRS/ABI tools-worldwide.

·Transferred five new products from development to manufacturing by satisfying all Product Life Cycle (PLC) requirements.

·Coordinated engineering activities with design team to develop UV con-focal review station, and automatic bump inspection tools. These tools are used to review <0.13 um defects in wafer manufacturing processes.

·Providing technical guidance to diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair complex electro/mechanical equipment, sophisticated computer systems, software applications with corrective action plan to field support engineers.

·Reduced installation and warranty cost (25%) by improving training methods, updating install and service manuals, serviceability/reliability improvements, and by improving on-line support to field engineers.

·Responsible for facility preparation, installation, 24 hour service support, logistics support, Alpha and Beta evaluation support, and training at various customer sites-Intel, IBM, TI, TCMS, Lucent,& Hitachi.

·Managed and prepared cost structure, department budget ($1 million).

·Assembled Reliability Best Practices team to improve MTBF, MTTR, & MTBS of various sub assemblies.

WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION/KOMAG, INC., Santa Clara, CA Sept. 97 - May 99

Sr. Principal Engineer - Program Manager

·Coordinated engineering activities to design, develop, manufacture, & deliver prototype samples to customer

·Qualified, and successfully transferred 5 new products to WD and IBM storage divisions by meeting and exceeded the electrical, mechanical, and reliability performance as per customer specs

·Followed up with Reliability Testing (EVT, DVT, DMT AND CST) to ensure that the thin film magnetic media was qualified as per customer specification.

·Accomplished a successful transfer of five new products from development to manufacturing including pilot build, PMT build, per-production build, ISO-9000 documentation, data package, BOM, training and production tracking system update with >85% cumulative yield.

·Completed First Article, FEMA, SRA, PCP, QAP, and Product Ramp plan to qualify as a media supplier.

·Special Projects; Customer failure analysis report with action plan, Cost Reduction, and Yield improvement

HOYA CORPORATION, San Jose, CA Apr. 96 - Sept. 97

Sr. Process Development Engineer - Process Development Manager

·Program manager for developing the 84mm/95mm glass media for drive industry.

·Developed sputtering, lubrication and post sputtering processes for glass thin film media.

·Developed tape burnish process for glass disks by using EDC and FTP machines.

·Managed pilot production runs, reliability testing and customer data packaging.

·Transferred new product to manufacturing with proper ISO 9001documentation.

AKASHIC MEMORIES, San Jose, CA Mar. 90 - Apr. 96

Manufacturing Engineer - Staff Process Engineer

·Increased texture yield (5%) by improving the coral filtration process, texture tape quality, coral solution, cleanliness of texture machines, and building a texture defects library to train and certify the operators.

·Reduced post-sputtering certification error by reducing micro scratches and also improved 3% yield by optimizing the wash process.

·Improved nickel-plating processes to reduced plating defects by 5%.

·Simplified post-sputtering process to reduce labor and machines usage - saved $2.5 million in 1995.

·Improved and sustained plating, polishing,texture and tape burnishing processes.

·Developed SPC control charts to enhance process control and improve Cpk.

·Selected, evaluated, characterized and implemented new equipment (EDC 1800A, P12, TMS 2000, Chapman MP2000, Diskan-6000, U.I.C. plating line).

·Solved production process problems such as stiction improvement, pits and nodules elimination, flatness improvements and post-sputter contamination.

·Tested and qualified new chemicals and filtering systems, Mipox texture and tape burnishing tapes. Set up Failure Analysis program for plating hot lots.

·Proficient in SPC, DOE, EDC machines programming and Microsoft programs.

·Documented new and existing processes as per ISO 9001 requirements.

CENSTOR CORPORATION, San Jose, CA Dec. 88 - Mar. 90

Process Engineer

·Developed new Electrolytic Ni-Fe plating and polishing processes.

·Developed wash process to control 0.2m size particles in magnetic head lap process

·Documented new and existing processes as per ISO-9000 requirements.

SEAGATE MAGNETICS, Fremont, CA Apr. 88 - Dec. 88

Production Supervisor: Supervised 25 employees in nickel plating line.

KOMAG, INC., Milpitas, CA Jul. 87 - Apr. 88

Lab Technician: Analyzing, preparing, & testing the chemical for nickel plating.

F.I.S.T., San Jose, CA Oct. 83 - Apr. 87

Production Supervisor: Supervised 20 employees in PCB assembly line.

EDUCATION

M. Sc. In Chemistry, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

B. Sc. In Chemistry, Punjab University, Punjab, India

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