ROBERT GUNTHER
Fort Collins, CO
Semiconductor engineer with extensive experience in process improvement and product development. Effective Project Manager, demonstrated success completing projects on time and within budget (CPMI) Well educated, holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado and two Bachelors’ degrees from UC Berkeley.
Areas of expertise include:
Semiconductor Processes / Foundry outsourcingNew Product and Process Startup / SPC and Lean Mfg. procedures
Digital, analog, mixed signal and RF / Parametric test
Bipolar, CMOS process transfer / Discrete thyristor and bipolar design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Microsemi, Garden Grove, CA6/2007 – 7/2010
Senior Process Development Engineer
Responsible for yield enhancement of medium power thyristors for medical market.
•Designed 1600V thyristor, built and tested prototypes for sampling to customer.
•Used data mining to improve yields by comparing equipment performance on yield limiting parameters.
•Built awareness of metalization, diffusion, etch and photo equipment shortcomings by demonstrating output differences between tools that were thought to be identical.
•Purchased and started up spreading resistance profiling tool and dual-side alignment scope.
•Increased thyristor yield by eliminating losses due to gain and leakage problems.
dpiX, LLC, Colorado Springs, CO9/2006 – 2/2007
Process Engineering Manager
Joined startup activities for new facility for flat panel TFT production.
•Hired team of 4 excellent engineers, set up equipment assignments and facilitated process training.
•Engaged vendors of prototype process equipment to push schedules and understand risks.
•Mitigated risk of CVD, etch and photo equipment by working with development engineers to document unit process sensitivities.
FABTECH, Lee’s Summit, MO9/2005 – 7/2006
Lead Product Engineer
Responsible for discrete transistors for commercial market.
•Designed and began volume ramp of first production transistor.
•Performed reliability and electrical characterization.
•Eliminated metalization, resist stripping problems by changing various process steps.
Continuing Ed. / Financial analysis, Fort Collins, CO2003 – 2005
•Completed PMI training and became certified in project management.
•Wrote VBA program in Microsoft Access to develop a control system for CMP equipment.
•Wrote Perl CGI scripts on web server to execute financial analysis on securities data.
Agilent Technologies2000 – 2003
Foundry Engineer
Responsible for foundry management for ASIC design group. Agilent spun-off from HP in 1999.
•Led weekly communication meetings covering yield, delivery, and qualification status of processes.
•Co-managed 90nm foundry selection team that chose partner based on cost, quality, performance and schedule.
•Led F/A of low yielding wafers and wafers with visual defects, uncovering process and design issues.
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HP / Agilent / JV with CHARTERED Semiconductor1998 – 2000
CMP Section Manager, Singapore 1998 - 2000
Managed Chartered's Fab 6 Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) department. Company was a joint venture with first Hewlett Packard and then Agilent. The CMP department was responsible for all aspects of CMP startup and sustaining in a new fab.
•Expanded department to 18 equipment, process engineers and technicians
•Evaluated, purchased, installed and began operation of seven AMAT integrated Mirras, five KLA 1080s, and one parametric tester.
•Transferred CMP processes from Motorola and met ramp schedule and yield goals for baseline process.
•Processes included copper, tungsten, oxide and trench isolation polishes for 0.2 micron CMOS.
HEWLETT PACKARD, Ft. Collins, CO1987 – 1998
Process Development Engineer
Developed processes for bipolar and CMOS on implant, diffusion, wet etch, resist strip and CMP tools. Provided training and documentation. Led equipment selection teams. Participated in yield improvement projects with various yield and integration teams.
•Created CMP control system with Unix network and Perl scripts, eliminating all CMP scrap from operator errors.
•Developed Data Acquisition system for CMP tools that increased maintenance efficiency.
•Selected, purchased and managed six 6-inch horizontal BTI furnace stacks. Wrote all recipes, and networked system into UNIX engineering environment.
•Transferred Bipolar IC processes to the Fort Collins fab. Focus of responsibility was on diffusion, implant and DC transistor characteristics.
EARLY CAREER
Began career at Honeywell in Colorado Springs, serving as Lead Product Engineer, developing bipolar processes and products for several divisions.
CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management ProfessionalProject Management Institute
Amateur Radio License, KT0NFCC
EDUCATION
MBA FinanceUniversity of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO
BS Chemical Engineering University of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA
BA BiochemistryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA