Heaven Ruiz

Engineer technician in the R&D division to support and improve electrical, fluidics, and optical machinery. Adept at managing large scale projects and resolving issues in software and hardware before transferring processes to production labs. Skilled in collaborating with stakeholders, engineers, and scientist to produce quality products.

NovaSeq

• Feeding San Diego, Community Outreach Ambassador, January 2021 - Present, Provide food services to local communities most in need at food drives., Train volunteers’ safe food handling during “Together Tour”, Educate community members about food services and encourage donations at outreach events across San Diego.
• Kāko'o Ōiwi, Restoration Member, January 2019 - May 2020, Restoring alluvial wetlands every second Saturday of the month, Plant taro plants in lo'i farms on the east side of Oahu, Clean and maintain river streams leading to salt marshes

• Mentored with Staff Engineer to improve tool recipes for product yield rate. Outcome: 92 percent to 98 percent quality output.
• Mentored with Staff Engineer to assist in 2 large scale chemistry experiments. Each experiment consisted of 12 conditions, assisted in data collection, and identify which condition produce best quality outcome using JMP program.
• Completed 1 month Lab Layout project. Goal: Improve workflow processes for cost and human efficiency. Outcome: identified processes that require long cycle times and mitigated downtime, decrease de-gown and gowning for technicians to save on time, cost, and resources.
• 3 month air particle count project. Goal: Identify particle count (0.5-10+ micron) in a lab to identify if tools may be transferred into lab and meet ISO1000 standards. Execution: collect data daily in 3 different location within lab. Organize and create graph with 3 months of data collected. Data/graph indicated meeting ISO1000 standards. Tools transferred for efficient workflow.