SUMMARY * 10+ years of Manufacturing and Process Engineering Experience * Lean/ Six Sigma Certified * Extensive Statistical Process Control (SPC) Experience * Superior Troubleshooting Skills * Exceptional Process Optimization Skills * Expert in the Programming and Use of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Asset Manager (AM) System contained in the Eyelit Platform. * Skilled in the use of JMP, Oracle SQL queries, and the Microsoft Products, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, and Project. Manufacturing/Process Engineering experience * Led a several day PFMEA workshop involving engineers and operators to identify possible failure modes for a micro-gravure coating system. The ratings from the PFMEA were used to prioritize the continuous improvement projects for the tool. Pioneered the use of a DMAIC (Define Measure Analyze Improve and Control) approach to identify the root cause of a lingering electrical arcing problem involving the sputter targets used in a set of AMAT sputter tools. The approach involved developing a contract with a senior manager who sponsored the project which defined the scope of the problem solving effort along and the team members. Periodic face-to-face meeting occurred with the sponsor and senior staff to report on the progress of the project. The DMAIC approach provided the team with enough data to move the focus of the root cause of the problem from the supplier of the sputter target to the installation of the target. * Led a team of engineers and technicians to convert a Mark Andy P7 Flexographic Press to coat a patterned optically clear film called Diamond Guard (DG) on top of flexible metal mesh sensors. The success of the project led to 26 design wins from potential customers during the 2nd year of operation. * Headed a smaller effort to develop a Diamond Guard coating process on a smaller on a micro-gravure coating system that had the ability to fabricate thicker DG films. The success of the project led to a purchase order for several prototype sensors. * Initiated a project to benchmark Unipixel's in-house flexographic plate manufacturing process against an outside vendor. The benchmark project showed that the outside vendor could deliver a higher quality plate faster (overnight) and for much less cost (price was lower than the cost of the raw materials used to fabricate the in-house plates). The ability to qualify the outside vendors also freed Fab floor space to install a state of the art machine for coating DG. * Developed a special stripcoat process that enabled Atmel to reduce its sensor fabrication cycle time by using an in-house coat process rather than relying on an overcoat process located in Cambridge England. * Coupled existing SPC skills with acquired extensive skills on how to use Eyelit MES and AM modules to become the Unipixel expert at developing data collection operation and SPC charts with automatic responses for violations. Skills were used to help other engineers to develop data collection operations and SPC charts for their process module. Troubleshooting Skills * Mastered the operation of an Automated Dek-Tak Surface Profiler to help identify the root cause of several product failures. * A customer returned a number of sensors for peeling Cu metal from then sensor electrical ground line. The Dek-Tak was used to reveal and ESD problem traced to the testers used to test the functionality of touch sensors. Other EMC issues were revealed involving ground loops and possible unintentional antennas. * A number of sensor visual defect failures related to DG flakes were occurring at the Final Visual Inspection station just prior to shipping the sensors to the customer. The Dek-Tak was used to characterize the shape of the defects which helped to identify the origin of the defects to debris from the laser scribing process used to mark each panel. * Utilized unique insight on how PVD/CVD chemical processes interacted with the AMAT processing equipment to implement several modifications to procedures that dramatically reduced the failure rate and/or repair costs of several expensive system components. JAMES SINGLETERY JR. page 2 * Virtually eliminated the failure of VOR matches ($60k per unit) by constructing a dummy match from scrap parts to use during chamber burn -in. Previously failing at a rate of 1 to 2 per quarter each failure entailed about 48 hours of downtime. * Eliminated the replacement of cryo pumps ($4K per unit) by periodically cleaning or replacing the cryo atmospheric pressure relief valve ($300 per unit) along with doing cryo re-generations more often. Previously replacing cryo pumps at a rate of two per quarter each failure entailed about 24 hours of downtime. * Became aware of an RF match failure problem on a tool set not under my responsibility. Failure represented the module's highest source of repair costs. Problem traced to the pre-set position of the load and tune capacitors. Once the Tool owner modified settings failure rate was reduced by approximately one-third.

Highlights:

• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Fabrication
• Green Belt
• JMP
• Microsoft
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance