Timothy Davidson

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Rochester, New York 14626

585-***-****

k29ksy@r.postjobfree.com

Skills:

SAP, Jump Statistical Software, Production Modeling Applications, Business Objects, Numerous Computer Programming Languages, Microsoft Office, MES systems of Insite and Workstream.

Education:

12/1995 University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB

* Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

5/1993 Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB

* Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology.

Work Experience:

Capacity Planning and Inventory Manager

6/2010 – Present Eastman Kodak, Image Sensor Solutions, Rochester, NY

Responsibilities include:

Capacity Planning

* Creates and maintains capacity planning models for Semiconductor manufacturing and Final Assembly flows.

* Models, and identifies resources required for current and future manufacturing demands using SAP and various Fab Capacity modeling software systems such as Applied Materials real-time dispatch (RTD) and Auto Scheduling (AutoSched) style applications.

* Identifies proper capacity measurements, work-center performance capability, and staffing effects on capacity and manufacturing thru-put.

* Implements process improvements and enhances functionality and usability of capacity models.

* Key contact between Manufacturing and Business Operations.

* Analyzes risks and develops contingency plans

* Creates rough cut manufacturing plans for wafer fab and final assembly in support of monthly S&OP, D&OP processes. Provides plans to Supply Manager and Manufacturing Manager.

* Monitors and reports performance against key metrics: Cycle times, Bottleneck performance, Delivery Performance, etc.

Inventory Control

* Oversees quarterly inventory control audit process.

* Solves inventory control process issues in a timely manner by interacting with appropriate departments

* Develops and establishes standard policies and procedures to ensure that all inventories are adequately controlled.

* Identifies and reports on recurring issues that drive inventory discrepancies and recommends and implements corrective actions to avoid recurrence of the same.

* Leads a team of shipping and material handling personnel – provides leadership, coaching, motivation, evaluation and assistance to team to ensure high performance and teamwork

* Ensures timely processing of domestic and international shipping

* Ensures timely movement of chemicals, components and consumables from general stocking point to production areas.

Technical Operations Manager

11/2004 – 7/2010 Eastman Kodak, Image Sensor Solutions, Rochester, NY

Responsibilities included:

* Balancing the wafer fab work load to ensure optimal performance and thru-put within the Fab by use of the KanBan system in which I am responsible for maintaining the correct levels based upon work within the fab.

* Creating and presenting monthly manufacturing metrics reports to the Operations Department Manager.

* Manage and lead 50+ Kodak employees and contract labor to form an efficient lean manufacturing group by following the rules KOS (based on the Toyota Operating System), as well as team building events, technical guidance, and giving feedback to the employees via weekly, quarterly meetings as well as a formal yearly Performance Appraisal.

* Working closely with the Maintenance group to schedule down time for equipment maintenance as well as other non-standard maintenance work.

*Work closely with the Engineering groups to resolve process issues within to avoid line down issues while avoiding loss of device quality.

* Constantly work with Quality Groups within the department. Since being at Kodak I have created the Manufacturing Departments Gemba and helped put together an operations Quality System verification presentation. Helped to create the departments Value Stream Map, to identify, eliminate or reduce areas of waste. Created an improved scrap wafer investigation process, including failsafe MES system report changes and made this scrap wafer pareto data available at the departments Morning Market meeting. Helped create a down tool cost analysis spreadsheet. Created a control wafer supermarket strategy using 5S events as well as an extensive Kiazen event, which involved all fab employees.

* Continually attending Supervisor/Leadership training classes, 5S and Kiazen events presented by Kodak.

Associate Engineer

6/2002 - 8/2004 Little Optics, Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Responsibilities included:

* Supporting Senior R&D Engineers in design and fabrication of optical processing devices such as Ring Resonators, Dispersion Compensators, Programmable Delay Lines, Optical Rotators, Biochemical Optical Sensors and Mode Transformer’s. Most processes created are for deposition and etching of silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, and silicon oxide films. Once processes are qualified in the R&D stages, process scale up and through put modifications are then applied to maximize the systems abilities.

* Total tool ownership of Applied Materials P5000 deposition and etch systems. Creating new processes, modifying/improving older processes, systems maintenance, hardware calibrations, process qualifications, trouble shooting system issues and writing Standardized Operating Procedure Manuals.

Process Engineering Tech.

3/1998 - 11/2001 Applied Micro Circuit Corp., San Diego, CA

Responsibilities included:

* Acting as Production Manager when Production Managers were absent, involving maintaining production line balance, arranged production priorities for processing, supervised 20 production operators and collected data on product line inventory/status and passing the data down to the next shift’s supervisor.

* Taking on the Shift Lead Engineer’s duties.

* Sustaining Thin Film, Diffusion, Etch and Photo bays. This required experience in Sputter etch / deposition of AlCu, TiW and Pt thin films, growth of epitaxial films, LPCVD, APCVD, High-Pressure oxide growth systems, and various plasma and wet etch processes. Photo Bay sustaining was limited to programming and updating an IVS pattern recognition system for photo CD measurements. Writing and updated equipment and process specification manuals for operators and maintenance employees to operate equipment.

* Training new Process Technicians.

* Implementing projects related to improving yield, through-put, and quality of products produced in the Fab using DOE and SPC data.

Process Specialist / Software Developer

1/1995 - 3/1998 Prosensys Inc., Fredericton, NB

Responsibilities included:

Process Specialist:

* Duties involved consultation and set-up of various Chemical Vapor Deposition processes such as Low Temperature Oxide (LTO), TEOS, PSG, BSG, Nitride, and Poly. Designing semiconductor hardware and quartz-ware, refurbishing LPCVD furnaces, and creating software to run LPCVD furnaces has also been performed for various companies. Such as Philips, Intel, Siemens, Lucent Technologies, etc.

Software Developer:

* Responsibilities involved creating graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for internal office use and for commercial TCP/IP security software products using X-Windows software, and X-Motif and C/C++ programming languages. Porting these products to many UNIX platforms was required, along with creating install scripts for these programs.

Publications

F.G. Johnson, O.S. King, D.M. Gill, T.J. Davidson, and W.P Berk, “Silicon-oxycarbide high index contrast, low-loss optical waveguides and integrated thermo-optic devices,” Patent awarded, Patent and Trademark Office, 10/864,511 (2004).

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