Solar Engineer

Thierry Nguyen

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San Francisco, CA 94114

Tel: 408-***-****

Email: ***************@*****.***

INTRODUCTION

I am a result-driven and energetic engineer with a good understanding of the various solar technologies and their applications. My background is in semiconductor processes and thin film characterization and I am looking for a position, which can utilize my skills, enthusiasm, passion and experience.

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Technical Skills:

•Photovoltaic technologies (PV and CPV physics) and their applications.

•Reliability and testing methodologies (85/85, HALT/HAST, IV traces, acceleration testing).

•Materials Science and Engineering, Solid State Physics

Soft Skills:

•Project management, product engineering, customer support

•Programming language / software : Excel, Word, Power Point, MS Project, SolidWorks

•Investment Science + Statistical Methods in Finance (2 classes taken at Stanford).

•Introduction to Finance, Components of Financial Statement, Analyzing Income Statement and Balance sheet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Barkam Engineering Services, San Jose, CA February 2009 to present

Solar Engineer Consultant

Company profile: Barkam Engineering is a consulting firm specializing in electronic packaging, semiconductor and solar technologies.

•Working on the design and prototyping of a concentrator technology for the Clean Tech Open competition.

•Helping PeachTree Power to obtain UL certification in order to take advantage of the California Solar Incentive program.

Greenvolts, San Francisco, CA December 2007 - January 2009

Quality & Reliability Engineer

Company profile: Greenvolts is a start-up, which is developing high concentration photovoltaic technology. Its mission is to provide solar power at fossil fuel cost.

•Developed electrical and optical methods and accelerated test to drive material selection and qualify product development. Main achievement consisted in writing a quality book consisting of over 60 reports.

•Improved and recommended design changes for the opto-electronic package by conducting failure analysis of prototypes and field returned units.

•Worked with R&D and design team to qualify and improve product quality and reliability (stress test, UV acceleration testing, environmental chamber testing).

•Responsible for lab and testing equipments (UV and Xenon stations, environmental chamber).

•Interface with suppliers and outside testing labs (process troubleshooting, acceleration testing, UL and IEC certification process, material selection).

KLA-Tencor, San Jose, CA June 2000 - December 2007

Senior Application Engineer

Company profile: KLA-Tencor is the world leader in yield management and process control solutions for semiconductor manufacturing and related industries.

•Strong knowledge in e-beam review, e-beam Stimulated X-rays and spectroscopic ellipsometry for thin film thickness and composition measurement.

•Contributed to the development, production, test and deployment of KT new products as part of a cross-functional team (PLC process).

•Drove disruptive technology adoption at key customer accounts (IBM, AMD, TI, Matsushita) by performing strategic pre-sales technical evaluations.

•Improved fab yield by implementing KT solutions and by working closely with process engineers on challenging applications in front end and back end of line.

•Conducted and managed multiple on site head to head evaluations, which resulted in tool purchase by major customers in the US, Asia and Europe.

Dunlee X-ray tube, Aurora, IL July 1998 - June 2000

Materials Engineer & SEM analyst

Company profile: part of Philips Medical, Dunlee is a world leader manufacturer of radiographic and CT x-ray tubes.

•In charge of the analytical and metallurgical lab. Responsibilities included managing equipments maintenance (SEM, optical microscope, polishing equipments) and keeping the lab customer ready.

•Performed Scanning Electron Microscope and EDX analysis to investigate x-ray tube failure mode (particles, metal contamination, and fracture mode).

•Worked with design group for the selection of materials (refractory alloys, ceramics) and the qualification of vendor processes.

EDUCATION

Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA Oct 1996 - May 1998

MS in Materials Science and Engineering

Thesis subject: “CMZP and Mg-doped Al2TiO5 thin Film coating via sol-gel process for Si4N3 protection against alkaline corrosion at high temperature”.

•Deposited thin ceramic oxides film of CMZP and Mg-doped Al2TiO5 on Si3N4 using the sol-gel technique.

•Characterized the coating morphology and composition with SEM and XRD.

•Designed and conducted corrosion tests on coated and uncoated samples at 1000C in highly corrosive sodium atmosphere.

ISTIL (Engineering Institute), Lyon, France Sept 1991 - Sept 1996

BS in Physics and Multi-materials and interfaces

LANGUAGES

English, French.

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