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Krishnanunni Menon

Summary

A very driven professional with significant experience in Failure Analysis, Continuous Improvement Projects, and substantial knowledge in Procurement and Equipment reparation. Adaptable under pressure and strong interpersonal skills allowing to solve problems efficiently. With an experience of over 6 years’ in Quality, Failure Analysis metholodgy and equipment. Have experience in capital expenditure and managing expenses within department. Received 14 Appreciation Awards and 2 Spotlight Awards as a Associate Failure analysis engineer. Broaden horizon by learning more intricate technology in all electrical fields.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER II

THERMOFISHER SCIENTIFIC
01.2023 - Current
  • Installed and repaired Nanoprobers, Thermography systems and AFP equipment on clients' premises.
  • Tested equipment performance and demonstrated operation and servicing of equipment to customer.
  • Recommended design changes, upgrades and replacements to improve systems performance.
  • Provided technical support to troubleshoot, repair and maintain operational efficiencies in electrical systems.
  • Completed preventive maintenance on machines to enhance production and maintain quality.

Senior Associate Engineer

GLOBALFOUNDRIES
08.2016 - 06.2022
  • Carry out failure analysis on several failed wafer lots through electrical and physical failure analysis techniques
  • Well versed in SEMs and Focused Ion Beams FIBs and also other wafer processing tools such as Corial RIEs, laser marking, Gatan PECS, use of chemicals and so on.
  • Provide detailed qualitative results from Failure Analysis to achieve higher yields in future lots.
  • Initiate and work on projects for continuous Improvement in Failure analysis techniques.
  • In charge of communicating with Service Engineers to ensure equipment uptime and transition towards production.
  • Responsible of tool ownership and maintaining uptime.
  • Mentor and train new hires on equipment usage as well as failure analysis mechanisms.
  • Worked in selective procurement for consumables and machine parts allowing cost-saving measures while delivering maximum operation throughput.

INTERNSHIP

GLOBALFOUNDRIES
04.2015 - 08.2015
  • Industrial attachment to Failure Analysis department.
  • Trained to work on two Random Access Memory (RAM) devices and complete projects on recipe improvement.
  • Introduced and trained in SEM and FIBs to work on Failure analysis requsts.
  • Well recognized by Supervisor and Head of Department (HoD) which they offered a position in Failure Analysis

Education

Bachelor of Science - ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
SINGAPORE
05-2022

DIPLOMA - MICROELECTRONICS

TEMASEK POLYTECHNIC
SINGAPORE
04-2016

Skills

  • Software skills: Avalon, Matlab, Microsoft Office etc
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Organizational skills
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Continuous improvement
  • Process improvement
  • Maintenance and repair
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Equipment installation and repair
  • Service documentation
  • Safety and compliance

Accomplishments

    GlobalFoundries:

  • Polyamide Etchant to safely remove polyamide without attacking passivation and removal time efficiency to 1%.
  • Received 14 Appreciation Awards and 2 Spotlight Awards
  • Have co-authored 6 publications in IEEE.
  • Nanyang Technological University:

  • Surface Analysis on Semiconductors using RHEED analysis and Simulation using Python

Timeline

FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER II

THERMOFISHER SCIENTIFIC
01.2023 - Current

Senior Associate Engineer

GLOBALFOUNDRIES
08.2016 - 06.2022

INTERNSHIP

GLOBALFOUNDRIES
04.2015 - 08.2015

Bachelor of Science - ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

DIPLOMA - MICROELECTRONICS

TEMASEK POLYTECHNIC
Krishnanunni Menon