Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.
Providing expertise in physics, consulting and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.
Yield Improvement Section Manager, Dallas Semiconductor, Dallas, TX
Successfully started up and staffed first yield improvement group at DS using KLA/SEM/EDX equipment-combination for InLine Automated Inspection & Real-Time Visual Defect Prevention. Introduced new techniques for Yield Reporting, Analysis & Improvement. Responsible for working with all fab and product groups to identify, trouble-shoot, and prevent problems in support of wafer fabrication. New process introduction. Bought-out by MAXIM.
Yield Integration Project Manager, Cypress Semiconductor, Round Rock (Austin), TX
New anti-fuse FPGA process with multi-level metal/CMP. Worked with all fab areas to identify and solve technical problems involved with new process introduction including Device and Yield.
Yield Improvement Manager, Hitachi Semiconductor, Irving (Dallas), TX
Start-Up and Ramp of 4MDRAM 0.7um CMOS Fab to full production of 12K wafers/month with world-class efficiency & yields. Process transfers from Japan -- including introduction of two 4MDRAM shrinks.
Pilot-Line Fab Manager & Production Fab Process Engineering Manager, SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, Carrollton, TX
Ramp-up of 1.3um multimetal HCMOS process. Conversion of fab to larger wafers. Transition to Franco-Italian ownership.
Thomson Components-Mostek Corp., Carrollton, TX
Downsizing and resurrection and transition from American to European ownership. Synthesis of common HCMOS process between Mostek and Thomson.
United Techologies Mostek Corp., Carrollton, TX
In charge of successful development of double-level metal CMOS 1MDRAM Process. Involved in startup of two new advanced DRAM fabs. Misc R&D Process Development activities including design rules, test structures, power mosfets for automotive applications, failure analysis.
Mostek Corp., Carrollton, TX
Varied career in high-volume Wafer Fab Engineering beginning as a Sustaining Engineer progressing to Process Engineering Manager. Conversion of fab to larger wafers. Diffusion, Metalization, Implant, Parametric Test. Main job transfer and de-bug of new processes from R&D into production.
Sustaining Diffusion/Implant Engineer, Texas Instruments, Stafford (Houston), TX
Entry-Level Fab Process Engineering. pMOS & Si-gate nMOS 1KDRAM.