Build Support & Workflow Optimization
Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
- Traced build cycle-time overruns to root causes and agreed fixes with production and IE.
Process Development & Characterization
Jan 2024 – Nov 2025
- Performed FA on new-process builds with issues, coordinating SEM lab work and summarizing findings.
- Introduced a weekly lab-priority agreement for shared SEM requests, reducing mid-week priority changes.
- Contributed pole-tip-recession (PTR) data to a material change that resolved a dimensional defect.
- Presented experiment findings to engineering leadership to guide next steps.
Process Validation
Jan 2022 – Dec 2023
- Supported second-level failure analysis (HAST, NaCl) to verify process integrity.
- Interpreted BQST/SDET electrical results and reviewed HAST (humidity) and NaCl (salt-corrosion) reports.
- Ran qualification builds and tests on roughly 10 new-process projects, feeding results to process owners.
Cleanliness & Electrostatic Control
May 2019 – Dec 2021
- Monitored contamination in two cleanroom buildings, directing corrective action through three technician teams.
- Worked with industrial engineering on lasting tool fixes (door openings, robot paths, monitoring-probe locations).
- Followed ESD control procedures set by the team's ESD specialist to protect sensitive head components.
- Supervised 20+ personnel: shift planning, leave and overtime approval, Kaizen activities.
Test Engineering
Jun 2013 – Apr 2019
- Planned DOE test execution on GUZIK head testers, converting testers per product and directing technician setup.
- Coordinated with equipment teams to keep testers calibrated and available.
Advanced System Failure Analysis
Oct 2010 – May 2013
- Performed FA on drives that failed reliability tests (oscilloscope capture, drive bring-up, error duplication).
- Assessed reliability data to identify root causes; later used automated FA tooling that shortened analysis time.
- Developed corrective actions for recurring failure modes with R&D, quality and manufacturing.