SUMMARY:

Highly - skilled and adaptable Senior Lab Specialist who works well under pressure, consistently meeting deadlines and targets while delivering high-quality results. Broad-base experience in failure analysis, quality control, and assurance fields, with over 20 years in software design, development, and integration. Dependable and hardworking team member / leader with a desire to learn and be flexible in complex work environments.

TECHNICAL & SPECIALIZED SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows (8, 7, XP); Ubuntu and RedHat Linux

Databases: Lotus Notes/Domino, SQL, MS-Access, Microsoft Excel

Languages: Visual Basic, C++ and Lotus Script, Lotus Formulas, Lotus Script Libraries, Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI)

Web Technologies: Servlets, JSP, XML, XML Schema, JavaScript, CSS and HTML

Application Server: Apache Tomcat 4.x, IBM Lotus Domino

IDE: Eclipse and Domino Designer

Tools: MS Office 2003,2007,2010,2013, Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Access, VBA

Other: Data collection, analyses, & management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hopewell Junction, NY

Senior Lab Specialist, Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided end-users with workflow database application, facilitating the creation of analysis requests across several departments within characterization area and contracted partners.
• Implemented secure way of storing / retrieving information regarding processes used in the production of semiconductor parts for gaming and communications sector, tracking confidential / non-confidential information through individual failure analysis labs.
• Tracked purchases, transfers between facilities, and donations of tools purchased by failure analysis labs, eliminating duplicate purchases and helping control inventory problems between labs.
• Improved operational performance by designing and implementing lean database to track reduction of waste: Lean is sustained by continuously improving processes used to produce deliverables customers require, resulting in identifying waste variability, removal, and additional improvements from stable baselines.
• Tracked delivery of wafers to centralized lab and notified respective analyst on delivery / pick-up through the design and implementation of wafer depository database, which resulted in 1 focal point for overall tracking within failure analysis labs.
• Responsible for all projects lifecycle phases, using Excel-based VBA to design, analyze, and deploy programs for massaging & analyzing data using Pivot Tables & Charts for internal departments.
• Development and management of Access database solutions includes application architecture design, table design, and writing queries/stored procedure, forms, and VBA code.
• Responsibilities included getting required specifications and coding to deployment, testing, debugging, documentation, and maintenance of the project.
• Administration support included tasks such as installation, configuration, upgrading, patching, and system monitoring.
• Performed daily Lotus Notes administration tasks such as recertifying Notes users, maintaining and troubleshooting Domino Server, resolving Notes Client issues, Lotus Notes Applications and developing database project solutions
• Maintain security and access control lists for the databases
• Created clustered Lotus Domino servers between the failure analysis server and a site server in the event of a server crash or network issue

Failure Analysis Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted failure analysis on the 300mm semiconductor line in support of the manufacturing and engineering community.
• Performed analyses by cross-sectional destructive analysis using the scanning electron microscope (SEM), focused ion beam tool (FIB), or polishing, identifying root cause of failure or changes in defect cases.
• Completed sample prep and collected photos of defects, utilizing SEMs to qualify tools for particular methods.