SUMMARY
A materials scientist with highly specific technical skills that result in efficient process development and optimization through quantitative data analysis, team collaboration, and by recognizing opportunities for improvement.
SCIENTIFIC SKILLS
• Thin film deposition techniques: MBE, GS-MBE, CVD, ASM Epsilon reactor experience.
• Bulk Silicon Carbide (SiC) crystal growth and development via physical vapor deposition.
• Surface and bulk analysis techniques: STM, TEM, AFM, SEM, RBS, SIMS, SRP, FTIR, 4PP.
• Four years experience with 200mm Si Wafer handling, cleaning, and processing.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Warehouse Coordinator, Advanced Water Systems, Raleigh, NC. June 2014-Present
Advanced Water Systems is an authorized Kinetico dealer, providing residential and commercial water filtration systems.
The duties of this position include managing inventory, scheduling service calls, trouble shooting, repairing and bench testing equipment, and communicating with customers regarding their questions and concerns with their equipment.
Key achievements: Designed and built a custom, easy to use apparatus for testing water softening and filtering systems.
Research Scientist III, Cree Inc, Durham, NC. August 2010- December 2013
Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting products, LED components and semiconductor products.
This position revolved around the growth and manufacturing of SiC bulk crystals and wafers. Through detailed experimental runs, computer modeling, and data analysis, was able to double wafer yields, drastically improve crystal quality, and reduce costs by a factor of 3.
Key achievements: Demonstrated a sustainable process to produce exceptionally high quality crystals. Reduced micropipe densities to their lowest levels.
Specific technical skills: MS Access queries, JMP data analysis, DOE, Finite element modeling.
Epi Engineer, Lawrence Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Tempe, AZ. 2007-2010
Characterization Analyst, Lawrence Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Tempe, AZ. 2006-2007
Lawrence Semiconductor Research Laboratory supplies custom epitaxial growth as a service for commercial organizations as well as for government and academic use worldwide. They also supply research and development for new semiconductor materials.
Initially as a characterization analyst, responsibilities were to maintain, calibrate and operate metrology equipment.
Key achievements: Found root cause of failure for tool without any prior knowledge of tool.
Promoted to Epi engineer in the R&D division. Based on direct communication with third party clients, developed novel epitaxial growth processes. Processes included selective and non-selective growth of doped and undoped Group IV (Si, SiGe, Ge) epitaxial thin films on patterned and un-patterned substrates via CVD.
Key achievements: Developed a highly efficient deposition process using a new approach to growth kinetics.
Specific technical skills: SPC, Spreading resistance profiling (SRP), Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS) using Cs and O beams, ASM Epsilon epi reactors.
EDUCATION
PhD, Science and Engineering of Materials, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 2001-2005
Dissertation: Growth and coarsening of Ge quantum dots on Si(100) in real time.
Constructed and operated a home-built, ultra-high vacuum, elevated-temperature scanning tunneling microscope with atomic resolution capability, which included a custom-built scanning tube that increased the signal-to-n...
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