Build Support & Workflow Optimization
Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
- Issued build instructions for every experimental build, sequenced around shared-tool slots and soak-time limits.
- Traced cycle-time overruns to root causes and agreed fixes with production, process owners and IE.
- Built schedules and tracked KPIs, helping cut cycle time 10% with production, process and equipment teams.
Process Development & Characterization
Jan 2024 – Nov 2025
- Supported characterization of next-generation HAMR technology and investigated failures in new processes.
- 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.
- Introduced a weekly lab-priority agreement for shared SEM requests, reducing mid-week priority changes.
Process Validation
Jan 2022 – Dec 2023
- Coordinated roughly 10 new-process validation projects over two years, from build scheduling to test reporting.
- Ran qualification builds and tests on new processes and changes, feeding results to process owners for release.
- Interpreted BQST/SDET electrical results and reviewed HAST and NaCl reliability reports.
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.
- Part of the team managing two cleanroom shutdown-and-restart cycles, with no major issues at restart.
Test Engineering
Jun 2013 – Apr 2019
- Coordinated DOE test scheduling and execution on GUZIK head testers for close to six years, working from test requests submitted by process engineering teams.
- Planned technician-led conversions of GUZIK testers between products and directed technician setup and spare-parts preparation ahead of each test run.
- Supported day-to-day test-floor coordination across a multi-technician team, building broad familiarity with test-equipment operation and scheduling across product lines.
Advanced System Failure Analysis
Oct 2010 – May 2013
- Performed failure analysis on reliability-test failures (oscilloscope signal capture, drive bring-up, error duplication).
- Developed corrective actions for recurring failure modes with R&D, quality and manufacturing.