Kong Min Tan

- Manage commercial and automotive product test development and maintenance, characterization, qualification (Eg: uHAST/bHAST/HBM/CDM/etc), and reliability (Eg: HTOL/ELFR/etc based on JESD47/AEC-Q100) related activities

- Data analysis on wafer test and final test result for appropriate disposition on outlier lots on STDF file with QuickEdit and python script/tool

- Oversee all production related activities such as wafer test, final test, probe card design, load board design and package assembly build from NPI to EOL (mainly on Teradyne J750) - Cooperate with subcons/OSATs for throughput, production, and qualification activities - Collaborate with subcons/OSATs to improve quality, test time reduction and flow optimization activities - Automate test process by writing software scripts (mainly with Perl/Python/SQL) to improve work efficiency and yield analysis

- Enhance test coverage to ensure excellent outgoing quality and customer satisfaction

- Develop and maintain test programs to cater to customers' specifications, device performance characterization needs and analysis of customer returns

- Optimize test programs by applying efficient testing methods to improve yield, reduce production test times and manufacturing cost in both wafer test and package test.

- Manage package and product qualification flows to ensure the product meets customers’ spec

- Manage the product’s overall test cost and improve over time for cost reduction

• Key accomplishments:

- Created a Power BI dashboard for production volume and yield to provide infographic view insights for weekly meeting.

- Collaborate with capacity and quality team on yield, test time and quality monitor metric.

- Collaborate with vendors, subcons/OSATs on product, hardware, and test program.

- Enable and develop NPI test program to meet customer request for new market.

- Develop and maintain multiple products' test program.

- Improve products' quality by analysing RMA and implement effective screen with minimal to no impact on test time and cost.

- Qualified new product on new subcon/OSAT with close collaboration. - Achieved 50% TTR on latest new product for cost reduction without sacrificing the quality.

- Leading a team to develop and maintain commercial and automotive product test program on latest technology node NAND devices from NPI to HVM with tight timeline for design win

- Perform DOE and FMEA to improve process and defect analysis. - Ensure proper data analysis with JMP/LINUX/in-house tools and disposition on SPC outlier lot to maintain excellent quality with target of zero excursion or quality event. - Automate test process by writing software scripts (Python/PERL/BASH) to improve work efficiency and yield analysis

- Enhance test coverage to ensure excellent outgoing quality and customer satisfaction - Cooperate with product/equipment engineering departments to improve overall product yield to maximize ROI.

- Collaborate with test capacity and manufacturing departments to realize output goals

- Develop and monitor process and engineering metrics to ensure stability, efficiency, and effectiveness of test processes

- Develop and maintain test programs to cater to customers' specifications, device performance characterization needs and analysis of customer returns.

- Optimize test programs by applying efficient testing methods to reduce product test times and manufacturing cost in both burn-in and ATE testing (mainly on Advantest T5375/T5585).

- Reduce cost by catching error early in production test program as an SME on peer/code review

• Key accomplishments:

- Created a Tableau dashboard to analyse production volume, machine, and test board down time.

- Collaborate with product, capacity, and quality team on yield, test time and quality monitor metric.

- Collaborate with different business units and team from Shang Hai and US on product and test program.

- Qualified new assembly site and test platform for cost saving and support high volume testing.

- Implement multiple screens and resolution on fabrication and assembly excursion materials to guarantee product's quality.

- Enable and develop NPI test program to meet customer request for new market.

- Develop and maintain multiple products' test program.

- Improve products' quality by analysing RMA and implement effective screen with minimal to no impact on test time and cost.

- Manage to implement reasonable test time reduction on multiple tech nodes with zero excursion for multiple years with proper DOE execution.

- Publish four technical papers in Micron.

- Designed, implementation and support of any engineering deliverables.

- Involved in requirements gathering and analysis, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, conducts end user training, documentations preparation in all projects.

- Maintained existing application and added new functionality based on functional specification documentations.

- Involved in improving existing application and system become more efficient and reduce time for analysis.

- Developed extensive data logging and analysis tools including an interface to Microsoft Excel for displaying detailed charts and graphs.

- Maintained department’s computers, servers and consoled utilities to automate maintenance tasks.

• Key accomplishments:

- Created a script to reduce Analysis Time for Low Data line Detection Rate by 75% which is 3 hours to 45 minutes (MI Project similar to 6 Sigma which implemented in Toshiba)

- Improve analysis tool which able to identify the defective location accurately. - Enable a real-time data to identify common defective location and fasten analysis time.

- Create tools to prevent human error and improve efficiency to correlate the coordinate/location of inspection and repair machine for yield improvement.

- Create multiple tools (PERL/VBA) to improve efficiency on analysis, detection, and processing data.