Dynamic engineering leader with extensive experience, excelling in technical team management, planning, and troubleshooting. Proven track record in enhancing operational efficiency and cultivating team culture, while implementing innovative solutions that significantly reduced downtime. Recognized for mentoring talent and driving quality assurance in high-stakes environments.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Section Manager, Equipment Engineering
GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF)
Malta, NY
06.2014 - Current
Lead a team of 12 GF technicians and 35 vendor engineers in the photolithography process in semiconductor manufacturing.
Performed professional coaching and mentoring for engineers throughout the department.
Managed shift operations, collaborating with other departments and disciplines.
Implement process and equipment improvements at a state-of-the-art 300mm wafer fab.
Cultivated culture of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement while providing operational leadership.
Supervised daily workflow activities within the section, ensuring all tasks were completed in a timely manner.
Built rapport with international business contacts, colleagues, and equipment manufacturers.
Improved efficiency by minimizing downtime.
MTS Scanner Equipment Engineer
GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF)
Malta, NY
06.2014 - 04.2023
Photolithography scanner equipment engineer experienced with ASML scanners, and Cymer and Gigaphoton excimer lasers.
Perform installations, qualifications, special projects, and all sustaining semiconductor photolithography manufacturing activities to support 14 nm and 7 nm technology requirements.
Tool owner for ASML models NXT1900, XT860, XT1000, and XT1450, and responsible for all excimer lasers and supporting equipment.
Departmental and factory-wide project and program management. Support other fab organizations to ensure the equipment will meet the required cost, quality, and reliability metrics.
Performed FMEA and risk management.
Support technology insertion and improve equipment robustness by providing technical solutions for equipment-related yield problems.
Project manager for defueling and inactivation chemistry control for decommissioning nuclear-powered submarines, and for the installation of new radionuclide measuring technology onboard submarines and aircraft carriers.
Liaison between the engineering unit and the Navy Nuclear Prototype Unit training support activity.
Troubleshoot and respond to fleet emergent action requests.
Write chemistry control procedures and develop fleet-wide chemistry control guidance to meet Naval Reactors (NR) licensing criteria.
Trainer for the USS Virginia-class design school.
Project manager for USS Pennsylvania refueling activities for KAPL. Supervised chemistry, radiological controls, remote handling, and contamination containment systems.
Performed heat transfer analysis for nuclear power submarine safety analyses to meet NR and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing criteria.
Only the engineer within the department will take the lead engineering position in both reactor plant chemistry and steam plant chemistry control projects.
Internal Training Instructor
General Electric Company
Niskayuna, NY
10.2008 - 09.2010
Perform classroom and laboratory training for GE field engineers on GE gas and steam turbines, and generators.
Program Manager for Basic Engineering Training School and GE Software Applications Training.
Directed gas turbine outages for training.
Lead instructor for engineering drawings and software, precision tools, and lifting and handling training.
Implemented learning management system for Six-Sigma Green Belt project.
Radiological Engineer
Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure
Niskayuna, NY
01.2007 - 10.2008
Engineer of Radiological Work. Procedure development for the decontamination and deactivation of DOE site facilities.
Engineer for the Waste Reduction Facility. Manage ten technicians for radiological and hazardous waste handling and disposition. Procedure development for remote handling and radiological containment.
Engineer waste reduction, maintain the waste database, and develop radioactive waste transport and storage systems.
Field engineering work on the facility caretaking project for DOE contractors. One of a team of four engineers who traveled to Naval Reactor facilities and contractor facilities to evaluate and estimate the demolition, decontamination, and lay-up of aged or obsolete facilities.
Lead Chemistry and Radiological Controls Instructor
US Navy
West Milton, NY
11.2004 - 01.2007
Program Administrator and Training Coordinator for the Navy Engineering Laboratory Technician School.
Classroom and laboratory instructor for engineering laboratory technicians, officers, enlisted personnel, DOE employees, and KAPL supervisors and engineers.
Member of the KAPL Reactor Accident Environmental Monitoring Team.
Program manager for shutdown radiological controls (refueling, dual-media discharge, maintenance).
Department procurement officer, and hazardous materials and waste representative.
Collaborated with other instructors on curriculum development projects and interdisciplinary initiatives.
Implemented new technologies for reactor and steam plant chemistry analysis.
Lead Engineering Laboratory Technician/ Nuclear Propulsion Plant Supervisor
US Navy
West Milton, NY
09.2003 - 11.2004
Responsible for the oversight, guidance, and training of students and staff in reactor plant and steam plant chemistry, radiological controls, steam, and reactor plant operation and supervision.
Qualified Mechanical Operator, Engineering Laboratory Technician, and Engineering Watch Supervisor. These watches are responsible for overseeing operations in the engine room, operating a nuclear reactor, and steam turbines during power operations, and operating and maintaining a nuclear reactor during maintenance periods.
Supervisor of the Reactor Laboratory Division. Ultimately responsible for reactor and steam plant chemistry, radiological controls, and radioactive material handling and disposition.
Awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (3) for excellence in leadership of an engineering division (Reactor Laboratory).
Submarine Nuclear Propulsion Plant Supervisor
US Navy
Kings Bay, GA
04.2000 - 08.2003
Supervised and performed operations, maintenance, analytical troubleshooting, inspections, testing, and quality control on standard and specialized reactor engineering systems in support of a shipboard nuclear power plant.
Awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for being selected as Junior Sailor of the Year in 2001.
Awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (2) for leadership and performance in shipboard reactor inspection and performance evolution (2003).
Awarded the rank of First Class Petty Officer (E-6) after only four years of service.
Qualified Leading Engineering Laboratory Technician, Reactor Technician, Electrical Operator, all mechanical watch stations, and supervision positions in the Engineering Department.
Ship's Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Representative.
Selected over those senior in rank to manage chemistry and radiological controls during an extensive maintenance period for the USS Maryland, and a dual media discharge (reactor plant purification media) for the USS Rhode Island.
Awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
Education
Doctorate - Strategic Leadership
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA
01.2023
Master of Engineering - Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
06-2006
Bachelor of Science - Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics
Contributor to NRC license renewal for Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility reactor safety analysis.
Designed two reactor platforms for Jupiter Icy Moon Orbital (JIMO). Engineering award for Propulsion/Electrical system design utilizing thermal driving head and thermoelectric effect.
Project Lead, and NRC licensing author, for Moored Training Ship reactor plant safety analysis.
Certification
KAPL Hazardous and Radiological Waste Management School
PM(Preventive Maintenance) at Singtest Technology and Contractor in GF(GlobalFoundries)PM(Preventive Maintenance) at Singtest Technology and Contractor in GF(GlobalFoundries)