Test Equipment / Instrumentation Technician

MANUEL L. OCO

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Union City CA *4587

510-***-**** (H)

510-***-**** (M)

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Objective/Position Applied For:

Test Equipment and Instrumentation Technician

WORK EXPERIENCE

November 2010 – Present Presto Engineering

RF Test Technician

Set-up, calibration , maintenance and production support of RF rack and stack test and probe fixtures and instruments for both time domain and frequency domain tests. Instruments included are Agilent 86100C Digital Communications Analyzer, 3631 Programmable power supplies, 70340 Signal Generators, 70843 BERT (Error Performance Analyzer) and E8363 Network Analyzer.

Yield monitoring and reporting

Unix shell scripting

January 2010 – February 2011 LAM Research

Senior Test Technician

Set-up, inspection, troubleshooting and repair of fully integrated plasma etcher and sub modules such as high power RF pump cart / generators (1.5KW to 5KW), RF matches (bias and TCP). Equipment is used in semiconductor fabrication (plasma etching) thru combination of RF and process gases to produce plasma.

Determines methods & sequence of operations of automated test systems in conformance with published test procedures and engineering specifications.

August 2007 – July 2009 Magnum Semiconductors, Milpitas, CA

Senior Test Engineer

Responsible for all aspects of the ATE test hardware, test program developments, debugs and updates to support productization and manufacturing which including: test vector conversion, wafer sort, final test, new silicon debug, product qualification, characterization, release all test hardware and programs to off-shore manufacturing sites for correlation and production, yield analysis, test correlation between System and ATE evaluation results, maintaining production test program, test time reduction, FA and RMA support.

Test Program development on new SOC products using Verigy Pinscale. / Agilent 93K

ATE Load board design and debug

Conversion and debug of ATPG (Scan / MEMBIST/ JTAG) tests

Conversion and debug of functional test vectors for interfaces (Audio, Transport, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, PCI, Video, SDRAM DDR)

DC/AC/MXS Characterization (DC Parametrics/AC Timing/PLL)

PLL Test using test methods.

Hardware development for burn-in.

Part of the transition team to support the LSI Logic product family that was acquired by Magnum Semiconductors.

Direct interaction with offshore foundry and test houses to ensure a smooth high volume production.

Apr 2005 – July 2007 LSI Logic, Milpitas, CA

Senior Test Engineer

Responsible for implementation of test solutions (wafer sort, final test and characterization) for digital and mixed signal ASIC devices involving digital, analog, memory, and mixed signal (PLL, DAC, ADC) cores using the Agilent 93K platform.

Pattern conversion from wgl or evcd format to tester executable vector file using Simutest converter tool.

Design, Systems and Product engineering support.

Test package HW/SW release to production (local and offshore).

Off-shore Test and Product Engineering support (including real-time remote debugging using WEBEX software)

Test Support for yield improvement and test time reduction.

Test Support for Product Qualification (ESD/Latch-up, Burn-in board development), RMA Validation and Analysis

April 2001 - Dec 2004 Centillium Communications, Fremont, CA

Staff Test Engineer

Production and characterization test programs generation on the Agilent 83K/93K platform

Coordination with design engineers to debug functional and DFT test patterns

Creation and implementation of test plans to ensure that new products meet specs

Test hardware sourcing (loadboard, probecard, sockets ), ordering, assembly and debug

Test package release (HW/SW) to production

RMA verification and program improvements for added coverage

Offshore and local test house production support.

Dec 2000 - April 2001 SZ Test Systems Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Applications Engineer

Developed application programs as needed for existing and potential customers using the SZ test platform

Company liaison for all customer technical questions

Installation of applications at customer site

Customer support for applications and engineering

July 1998 - Dec 2000 ASAT Inc., Fremont, CA

Project Engineer

Customer support and interface.

Test program development, conversion and debug

Coordination of test program/hardware release activities between offshore manufacturing plant, local test floor and US customers

Automatic test equipment (ATE) maintenance, system calibration, diagnostics, and spares parts management

System administration tasks including installation of software updates

Preparation of presentation materials for customer performance review

Intranet/Internet website and applications manual review and modifications such as test socket database, tester configurations, equipment list and test capability

Test hardware (loadboard/probecard) sourcing, procurement and assembly

Production line support

Jan 1997 - July 1998 Zilog Incorporated, Campbell, CA

Senior Product Engineer

Production release of assigned new products to component manufacturing for production within the defined schedule NPI

Coordination with Design, Process and Test Engineering to complete product characterization, with Reliability group for product qualification and with Manufacturing to complete production test documentation, software and hardware release

Product Yield verification and management

ATE Temperature characterization and ATE to bench correlation

Technical Program Management for New Product Development, including project scheduling and managing the team to the schedule

Perform bench work in the lab.

Product qualification, including ESD, latch-up, and package qual, using outside suppliers for reliability testing.

Nov 1996 - Dec 1996 Advanced Semiconductor Assembly Technology (ASAT) Ltd Hkg., New Territories Hong Kong

Test/Product Engineering Section Head

Supervision and mentorship of Digital and Mixed Signal Product Engineering Staff composed of engineers and technicians

Planning, delegation, and supervision of day-to-day operational activities of the engineers and technicians, customer account management and mentoring subordinates pertaining to technical aspects of assigned jobs and projects and project management

Feb 1994 - Jan 1996 Advanced Semiconductor Assembly Technology (ASAT) Ltd Hkg., New Territories Hong Kong

June 1992 - Feb 1994 MUSIC Semiconductors Corp. (Philippines), Camelray Compound, Light Industrial Parkway, Carmona, Cavite, Philippines

Feb 1989 - June 1992 Electronic Test Lab Corp. (Philippines), Avocado Road, FTI Complex

Taguig, Metro-Manila, Philippines

Sept 1986 - Aug 1988 American Microsystems Inc. (Philippines), Soreena Avenue, Paranaque, Metro-Manila, Phils

Test / Product / Burn-in Engineer

Product Performance Development and Qualification

New products qualification according to customer/parent company requirements

Analysis, and debug of customer/mother company supplied test programs and review of test program parameters that maybe affecting performance of device under test

Generation and implementation of customer specific test specifications and processes

QA group support for purposes of failure analysis

Product yield and electrical gate performance monitoring (target yields and quality levels)

Test hardware/fixture maintenance such as loadboards, dutboards and socket adapters.

Supervision of engineering technicians in building and repairing test fixtures and burn-in boards

Administrative Functions

Supervision, training and evaluation of engineering technicians and production operators

Report generation to customers such as Product Yield Reports, Status Reports, Corrective Action Reports

Customer interface, which includes sales and technical support

Inter-departmental support (QA, Production and Maintenance)

Determination and procurement of necessary production and engineering materials

Offshore support and assignments (eg. Set-up of test operations Euro Technology SA Spain)

Sales and technical support to offshore sales office

Jan 1984 - Sept 1986 Advanced Micro Devices Phils., KM. 13, South Superhighway, Muntinlupa, Metro-Manila, Philippines

Test / Burn-in Technician

Set-up, troubleshooting, preventive and corrective maintenance, conversion and calibration of automatic test handlers, automatic test equipments and burn-in ovens

SKILLSET

Experience developing or writing test programs on ATE's (Agilent / Verigy 93K / 83K / Pinscale)

Test program creation, analysis of existing test programs, debugging of test programs and device problems

Interfacing with Design, Product, Manufacturing personnel as well as Contract Manufacturing partners

Experience working with others in a team environment

Familiar with Digital (DFT/Functional) / Mixed Signal (DAC/ADC/PLL) testing strategies

Working knowledge of bench test instruments such as DVM, LCR, Oscilloscopes, Power Meters, Curve tracer, ESD tester, Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer etc.

Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word / Excel) / C programming / UNIX / LINUX / SAP Production Systems / Operational Methods Systems (OMS)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

BS Electronics and Communications Engineering, Mapua Institute of Technology, Philippines 1984

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