Quality Engineer /Manager

Norman E. Wakeland Jr.

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Aloha, Oregon 97006 Cell: 971-***-****

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Middle Level Manager

Sr. Equipment Engineer/Technician

Extensive experience within the Semiconductor Manufacturing environment. Managed small to large teams of production and maintenance technicians in support of production requirement. Implemented Total Productive Maintenance and 5S methodologies in various factories. Designed and implemented equipment improvements resulting in increased production capacity. Additional areas of knowledge include:

Supply Chain Management World Class Manufacturing Operations

TPS/Lean operations Total Production Maintenance

Engineering upgrade designs Leadership techniques

Equipment installs Continuous Improvement/SPC/DMAIC

PRODUCTION, MAINTENANCE, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

• Planned, detailed, and implemented the 5S Visual Workplace concept techniques into the ten TriQuint Hillsboro maintenance chases. Each area was mapped and detailed so each piece of maintenance or movable production equipment in the chases were identified and marked. These efforts substantially decreased the wasted time the technicians spent looking for test equipment and tool boxes. My effort received laudatory comments from the floor technicians, and Engineering management through the VP of operations.

• Supervised and lead the entire night shift maintenance team in support of the production goals. My efforts resulted in two highly cohesive teams where esprit de corp. and camaraderie were not just buzz words but a feeling of pride displayed by the night shift technicians. During my tenure, the results of this was demonstrated in over eight on the spot awards being presented by the Director of Manufacturing to the N1 and N2 technicians for outstanding effort in supporting the manufacturing objectives.

• Planned and orchestrated the efforts to test, evaluate, and implement a new type of o-ring from Valqua Corporation. The new o-ring was determined to extend the PM duration by over one hundred percent, increasing the wafer count between PM’s on the LAM etchers from three thousand to ten thousand wafers between chamber cleans. The o-ring has been adopted as a standard part on the LAM etchers and is being evaluated by the CVD engineer or use in his tool sets.

• Coordinated and orchestrated the hiring plan that increased the fab maintenance department from 32 to 64 technicians within a four month period. The details included screening, setting up the interviews, interviewing, coordinating the responses of team interviewers, and writing hiring offer packages. Within the four months we effectively doubled the size of the maintenance group.

• Designed a fixture for accurately measuring Novellus Sequel showerhead heights for quick replacement. Fixture eliminates the need for crush ball tests when replacing single showerheads.

• Coordinated the effort to fabricate a high temperature brush to reduce wet clean time and particle reduction on Novellus Prism and Altus tools. The brush reduced the hot showerhead wipe time from 2 hours to 30 minutes and by a step function eliminated backside particles on the Prism tools.

• Designed and implemented a pump EMO bypass that enables the Edwards vacuum pumps to be replaced on Novellus Concept Two tools without EMO'ing the tool. This feature deceased overall down time for pump changes from 8 hours to 1.5 hours.

• Engineered a modification to the IQ80 Edward pumps packages that would prevent the pumps from shutting down when the Novellus tools were power cycled. This decreased down time by 45 minutes whenever the tool was power cycled.

• Engineered a modification to the Novellus Altus pedestal pumps (Edward’s IQ40) that would create a fatal fault to the tool whenever the pumps lost power. This modification saved production 5 product wafers whenever the pedestal pump failed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TriQuint Semiconductor, Hillsboro, OR.

Fab Maintenance Manager. (2007 – 2010)

• Responsible for the leadership and management of fab maintenance personnel in maintaining the capacity of fab equipment to meet production requirement. Coordinate and schedule maintenance and repair activities of assigned teams of maintenance technicians. Worked with process and equipment engineering teams to enhance operational status of equipment. Reported and charted status of fab equipment and projects associated with same.

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ON Semiconductor (formerly LSI Logic). Gresham, OR.

Sr. Equipment Technician Thin Films (2005 – 2007)

• Responsible for shift maintenance of Thin Film CVD equipment. Performed PM’s and emergency repairs on Thin Film semiconductor equipment. Wrote PM specs, designed and implemented equipment improvements. Implemented upgrades. Worked with process and equipment engineering to enhance performance of equipment.

ASM America. Hillsboro, OR.

Sr. Field Service Engineer (2004 – 2005)

• Responsible for shift engineering activities related to D1D Eagle12 CDO equipment. Worked as liaison with Intel management to maintain and enhance tool capabilities.

LSI Logic. Gresham, OR.

Sr. Equipment Technician Thin Films (2001 – 2004)

• Responsible for shift maintenance of Thin Film CVD equipment. Performed PM’s and emergency repairs on Thin Film semiconductor equipment. Wrote PM specs, designed and implemented equipment improvements. Implemented upgrades. Worked with process and equipment engineering to enhance performance of equipment.

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Maxim Integrated Products. Beaverton, OR.

Sr. Equipment Technician (2000 – 2001)

• Responsible for shift maintenance of Novellus Concept 1 PECVD tool set. Change inert and toxic gas bottles. Perform pump exhaust line maintenance. Refurbish and install used Novellus 1 tool sets.

LSI Logic. Gresham, OR.

Sr. Equipment Engineer (1998 – 2000)

• Responsible for engineering activities related to Novellus Concept II PECVD tungsten, titanium, and dielectric equipment. Wrote PM Specs, technical procedures, and set up training programs for operators/technicians. Designed and implemented equipment upgrades. Coordinated efforts with vendors to install equipment upgrades. Directed the efforts of assigned technicians in servicing assigned tools.

Integrated Device Technology, Inc., Hillsboro, OR.

Sr. Equipment Engineer, Thin Film (1995 – 1998)

• Responsible for installing, maintaining, and directing the maintenance effort on the Novellus Sequel C2 tool. Wrote PM specs, technical procedures, and set up training programs for the operator/technicians. Developed solutions to equipment failure modes. Worked with process engineering to resolve process related issues. Worked with vendors to resolve technical issues.

(Sept. 25, 1995 to Jan 9, 1998)

Novellus Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA.

Northwest Region Field Service Engineer (1993 – 1995)

• Provide technical service for Novellus Concept Two Altus Tungsten CVD equipment. Provide technical training to site customer and Novellus field personnel. Draft and implement technical procedures. Work with on-site production team to ensure operation capability of the tool set.

Material Research Corporation Phoenix, AZ. (previously Motorola Spectrum)

Field Service Engineer (1991 – 1993)

• Provide technical service for MRC Galaxy 1000 CVD system, Spectrum 211 & 202 systems. Provide technical training to site customers and MRC personnel. Draft and implement technical procedures. Work with customer production teams to ensure operation capability of the tool set. Installed tools at customer sites worldwide.

Motorola Bipolar One Mesa, AZ.

Total Production Maintenance (TPM) Coordinator (1990 – 1991)

• Developed, coordinated, and orchestrated the implementation of Total Production Maintenance into Bipolar One (BP1) Worked with TPM guru Ed Hartman and Dr. Mark Goldstein in performing the baseline prior to acceptance and implementation of TPM into BPI. Coordinating the efforts of initiating/implementing the feasibility study for the implementation of TPM in BP1.

Motorola Spectrum Phoenix, AZ.

Field Equipment Engineer (1989 – 1990)

• Provide technical service for Spectrum CVD 211 & 202 systems. Provide technical training to site customers and Spectrum personnel. Draft and implement technical procedures. Work with customer production teams to ensure operation capability of the tool set. Installed tools at customer sites worldwide. Provide technical service for Spectrum 211, and 202 Selective Tungsten CVD systems.

Cherry Semiconductor East Greenwich, RI.

Supervising Equipment Engineer (1987 – 1989)

• Responsible for directing the maintenance effort related to thin film metallization and epitaxial growth equipment. Wrote PM specs, technical procedures, and set up training programs for the operator/technicians. Developed solutions to equipment failure modes. Worked with process engineering to resolve process related issues. Worked with vendors to resolve technical issues.

Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. South Portland, ME.

Fab Maintenance Supervisor (1986 – 1987)

• Responsible for directing the shift maintenance efforts related to the fab semiconductor production equipment. Wrote performance reports, PM specs, technical procedures, and set up training programs for the operator/technicians.

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Developed solutions to equipment failure modes. Worked with process engineering to resolve process related issues. Worked with vendors to resolve technical issues.

Sabbatical. –

Partner 1985-1986

• Worked with former military associate to build a single seat helium blimp

USAF - Holloman AFB Alamogordo, NM.

Aircraft Maintenance Officer (1980 – 1984)

• Responsible for directing the maintenance efforts for F-15 aircraft and supervision of assigned personnel. Assigned squadron team leader of the Rapid Deployment Force constantly training for immediate and rapid response to any foreign threat.

ADDITIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Unpublished Book

How to Implement TPM

EDUCATION

MBA - Colorado State University – Fort Collins, CO. 22/36 hours toward completion estimated graduation date May 2012

BS Avionics Systems Management - Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, IL. 1980

AAS Electronics Technology - Southern Illinois University – Carbondale IL. 1980

AAS Avionics Technology - Southern Illinois University – Carbondale IL. 1978

FCC 2nd Class License 1978

Currently certified as First Responder-Oregon

MILITARY

U.S. Air Force

Aircraft Maintenance Officer

Honorable Discharge, Secret Clearance

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