Richard C. Wood

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Equipment engineering leader with over 30 years experience in high tech industry. High-energy management style focusing on team ownership and measured results, following the philosophy: “if you don’t measure it -you can’t manage it”. Experienced in methods such as quality initiatives, TPM and Lean principles to foster continuous group improvement. Proven cost-cutting initiatives through second sourced parts, streamlined procedures, and improved quality/yield.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fairchild Semiconductor, South Portland, ME 1981-2011

Section Head - Epi/Wet Equipment (2011-present)

Section Head - Etch/Strips/Cures/Wet Equipment (2007-2010)

Section Head - Diffusion / Epi Equipment (2004-2007)

Manager - Tactical Equipment/ Maintenance (2002-2004)

Section Head - Photo Equipment, sub micron - stepper based (1996-2002)

Section Head - Photo Equipment, supra micron - aligner based (1992-1996)

Environmental Test / Electro Plate / Solder Engineer (1981-1992)

Management

• Managed up to 16 technicians and 3 engineers ensuring coverage 7 days a week, 24 hours/day.

• Supervised 120+ equipment technical staff and 4 tactical equipment maintenance section heads.

• Led Engineering & Tech staff to meet area yield, uptime & throughput requirements.

• Operated over $1M annual operating budget covering daily support activities and capital projects.

Facility Development

• Built new photo facility areas (Class 100 4’& 5” & Class 1 6”), by managing the purchase, installation & start up of capital equipment.

• Managed the design through to production of the new Mil-Aero Environmental / Test facility.

Problem Solving

• Solved chronic PE Aligner mercury lamp explosions.

• Received two IC solder patents; applied for point of use Epi scrubber patent.

• Extended weekly scrubber clean to a six week clean.

• Implemented re-plating of LPE Epi reactor gold RF coils resulting in improved process capability.

• Facilitated silicon electrode clean + re-use program resulting in $250K savings annually.

Ingersoll Rand Corp., Nashua, NH 1979-1981

Industrial filtration field engineer

EQUIPMENT / TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Mil-Aero environmental test & finish

• 340 & 650 PE photo aligners

• GCA/ASM steppers - MTI/FSI /TEL track

• 8” Apogee Diffusion start up

• Applied / LPE barrel reactors

• ASM single wafer Epi tooling

• Environmental & Quality audit readiness

• LAM Etch equipment

• Axcelis dry strip / cure tooling

• Semitool ozone & EKC strip tooling.

• Nexx -UBM plating of Au/Ni/Cu/Pd

• FSI Mercury spray tools

• Inline & Epi foundry/wafer-clean

• Vacuum systems

EDUCATION

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 1979

BS Chemical Engineering

SBTI Consultants- Fairchild Semiconductor, South Portland, ME

Lean Training - black belt 2009

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