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Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Semiconductor Manufacturing Consultant, Engineering Failure Analysis, Accident Investigation, Accident Reconstruction, Specialist, Forensic Analysis Investigation Expert, Product Liability Expert Witness Testimony, Patent Infringement, Expert Witness Testimony, Engineering Consulting Services
Expertise in conceptual design, process flow, tooling, layout, modeling and economic analysis of semiconductor manufacturing facilities, factory floor and operational management, wafer fab automation and design, solid state processing and digital electronics.

This associate's experience includes project management, international market research, technical analysis, product conceptualization, equipment design and system prototyping, systems and materials suppliers, technical surveys, and computer/PLC control systems.

In addition, this associate specializes in areas related to thin-film equipment and materials, epitaxial silicon, polysilicon, thermal oxides, APCVD dielectrics, LPCVD dielectics, plasma enhanced LPCVD, evaporated metals, sputtered metals and CVD metals, thin-film applications, conductors and insulators, LSI/VLSI/ULSI semiconductor integrated circuits, and non-semiconductor applications.

Additional experience and specialization includes environmental issues, recycling chemicals, plastic, water, recycling equipment, AutoCad 13, wood and metal fabrication prototyping, expert witness, patent infringement, and business partnerships.

Other areas of emphasis include marketing literature, advertising, trade shows, sales, automation strategy, factory start-up, thin-films depositions and etching, product yield improvement, microprocessor chips, DRAM, SRAM and EPROM, test and measurement, lithography and cluster tools, automation for VLSI processing, and cleanroom facility layout

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Automotive, Chemical, Computer, Electronics, Manufacturing

EDUCATION
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc

Providing electrical engineering consulting, manufacturing engineering, semiconductor manufacturing consulting, expert testimony, failure analysis, forensic engineering and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Consultant

Provided executive level management advice, market research, in-depth technical analysis, market forecast computer modeling, product conceptualization, detailed design and system prototyping for equipment, systems and materials suppliers. Provided conceptual design, process flow, tool list, layout, modeling and economic analysis for a number of large, state-of-the-art fabs. Conducted technical surveys and detailed market modeling with forecasts or projection of market potential versus time for specific technology capabilities and products. Designed and prototyped manufacturing equipment, including their computer/PLC control systems. Worked with thin-film equipment and materials, including epitaxial silicon, polysilicon, thermal oxides, APCVD dielectrics (doped and undoped), LPCVD dielectics (doped and undoped), Plasma enhanced LPCVD, evaporated metals, sputtered metals and CVD metals. Applied thin-film knowledge in active regions, conductors and insulators in the manufacture of LSI/VLSI/ULSI semiconductor integrated circuits, and in some non-semiconductor applications. Provided expertise in environmental issues with regard to recycling chemicals, plastic, water, etc. as well as processes which use less to begin with. Designed and prototyped a number of items which utilize recycled plastic from numerous sources as well as equipment for recycling. Used AutoCad 13 in 3-D for preliminary design and conventional wood and metal fabrication techniques for prototyping. Also, provided expert witness services on a number of patent infringement cases.

Director of marketing and sales (VP level), a semiconductor equipment supplier

Was responsible for multi-million dollar project management and general international marketing management. Functions included management of operations, development, business partnerships, marketing (including literature, advertising and trade shows) and sales. Contributed to multi-million dollar business plans and developed detailed financial plan computer modeling, with the associated presentations to venture capitalist and government agencies. One project involved a 13 sub-system, cleanroom robotic work cell demonstrated at SEMICON WEST.

Manager, Wafer Fab Equipment Automation, Intel Corp.

Responsibilities included developing corporate automation strategy/tactics and implementation via in-house staff and vendors. Staff developed and improved electronic, computer and mechanical (including robotics and computer vision) automation systems for state-of-the-art production wafer fab equipment. Many of the concepts/strategies staff developed have stood the tests of time, recessions and massive re-organizations. Projects included automation of thin-film processing operations.

Engineering Supervisor/Manager, Intel's

One of six technical members of the original factory start-up team. Responsibilities rotated through all areas, including thin-films depositions and etching, and included a staff of about 50 engineers, technicians, clerks and specialists. Served as factory liaison and traveling member of the critical corporate technology development/transfer task force. (The weekly meetings of this team included now COB Gordon Moore.) Pioneered numerous techniques and procedures for the monitoring and control of factory operations. Bottom line accomplishment was radical improvement in product yields.

Supervising Engineer, Intel's original Fab 1, Mountain View, CA

Was responsible for manufacturing introduction of the company's key new products during that era. These included the historically significant first 8080 microprocessor chips and several generations of DRAM, SRAM and EPROM. Pioneered what is now known as “New Technology Engineering” (NTE).

Laboratory Assistant, Solid State Processing Lab, Oregon State University

Worked with the installation of donated wafer processing equipment.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Numerous presentations on topics related to automation for VLSI processing, wafer fab automation, cleanroom facility layout, wafer fab design, and more.

CLIENT REFERENCES
Allied Signal, AMD, Amtech, ATA Optics, Automation Technology, Berglund & Associates, Cahill, Sutton & Thomas, Cahners Publishing Co., Caltex, Cascade Micro Tech, Concord Leasing, Corps of Engineers, Cray Research, Digital Equipment, Dow Corning, Dow Chemical, Data General, Delphax, EMR, FSI, Fujitsu, Ford Motor Co., Genus, Heraeus Amersil, Hutchinson Technology, IBM, Intel, Interconnect, ITT, KE, Leybold AG, Micron, MoFo, Morgan & Finnegan, Motorola, MRC, Nalco, Northern Telecom,
Pacific Chemical, PTS, Perkins-Coe, Perkin-Elmer, Pocco Graphite, Process Technology, Quantum Chemical Corp., Sematech, SI, SNL, Southwest Research, Spectramed, Watkins Johnson, Westinghouse, WT Malaysia

PUBLICATIONS
Numerous publications on topics related to test and measurement, wafer processing, lithography and cluster tools, fab design and automation, and more.

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