Michael Azzaro
Portland,OR
Summary
Highly skilled and detail-oriented engineer with 5 years of experience in process development for semiconductor manufacturing. Proven expertise in developing and transferring robust and cost-efficient manufacturing processes. Strong track record of project ownership from formulation to successful completion. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines. Adept at problem-solving, troubleshooting and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Module Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
08.2021 - Current
- Drives technology development and enablement for both high volume manufacturing and future technology, provides process integration and equipment solutions, and performs feasibility studies to meet desired device specifications
- Leads design and development of technically sophisticated manufacturing processes and/or repair reverse engineering including material selection, parameter optimization, equipment metrology, and system design to enable new product designs and functional requirements
- Performs pathfinding activities in support of process and hardware development enabling manufacturing of innovative device architectures, and develops roadmaps for technologies enabling future roadmap
- Recommends and implements modifications for operating equipment to improve production efficiency, manufacturing techniques, and optimizing production output for existing products
- Partners with key equipment and materials suppliers to develop and implement enabling elements of the technology
- Performs process technology feasibility studies through theoretical simulations and/or practical engineering methods
- Remains updated on relevant industrial process and material manufacturing technical trends and develops view of inherent future Intel process technology needs to push industry forward by partnering with vendor ecosystem to build cost sensitive roadmap.
Process Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
06.2019 - 08.2021
- Defines roadmaps to meet requirements, goals and milestones for a new technology process
- Defines and establishes flow, procedures, and equipment configuration for the module
- Selects and develops material and equipment for the process to meet quality, reliability, cost, yield, productivity and manufacturability requirements
- Plans and conducts experiments to fully characterize the process throughout the development cycle
- Drives improvements on quality, reliability, cost, yield, process stability/capability, productivity and safety/ergonomic over variables such as material, method, equipment, environment and operating personnel
- Develops solutions to problems utilizing formal education, statistical knowledge, and problem-solving tools
- Establishes process control systems for the process module and sustains the module through volume ramp
- Develops strategy to resolve difficult problems and establishes systems to deal with these problems in the future
- Trains production/receiving process engineers for transfer to other factories
- Transfers process to high volume manufacturing and provide support in new factory start-up as well as install and qualification of the new production lines.
Education
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry -
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TXBS in Chemistry with Honors -
State University of New York At Geneseo
Geneseo, NYSkills
- Statistical Process Control
- Process Development and Hardening
- Design of Experiments
- JMP
- Data Analysis/Modeling
- Project Management/Planning
- Root Cause Analysis
- Quality Control
- Manufacturing Processes
- Technical reporting
- Engineering Documentation
Publications
- M.S. Azzaro, A. K. Le, H. Wang, & S. T. Roberts, Ligand-Enhanced Energy Transport in Nanocrystal Solids Viewed with Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 10, 5602-08, 2019
- M. S. Azzaro, A. Dodin, D. Y. Zhang, A. P. Willard, & S. T. Roberts, Exciton-Delocalizing Ligands Can Speed Up Energy Migration in Nanocrystal Solids, Nano Letters, 18(5), 3259-70, 2018
- R. W. Johns, M. A. Blemker, M. S. Azzaro, S. Heo, E. L. Runnerstrom, D. J. Milliron, & S. T. Roberts, Charge Carrier Concentration Dependence of Ultrafast Plasmonic Relaxation in Conducting Metal Oxide Nanocrystals, J. Mater. Chem. C., 5, 5757-63, 2017
- M. S. Azzaro, M. C. Babin, S. K. Stauffer, G. Henkelman, & S. T. Roberts, Can Exciton-delocalizing Ligands Facilitate Hot Hole Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals?, J. Phys. Chem. C., 120(49), 28224-34, 2016
Timeline
Module Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
08.2021 - Current
Process Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
06.2019 - 08.2021
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry -
University of Texas at Austin
BS in Chemistry with Honors -
State University of New York At Geneseo