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Yong Ling Chan

Summary

  • Product and test engineer with over 18 years of experience in backend manufacturing , product testing and product development.
  • Analytical product engineer focused on applying sound engineering principles using both traditional and innovative methods.
  • Background includes engineering support for product planning, testing and release. Knowledgeable about documentation, test program and production requirements.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

MTS Staff Engineer , Product Engineering

AMD-Xilinx Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
05.2022 - Current
  • Has ownership over FGPA wafer sort and final test program releases and product evaluation activities
  • Negotiated contracts with vendors strategically, securing favorable terms that contributed to cost savings for the company.
  • Scoped project timelines accurately by leveraging strong analytical skills, enabling successful delivery within deadlines.
  • Provide engineering support for a smooth and rapid agile operation business ramp
  • Own and drive product quality through continuous improvement
  • Interact with internal cross functional groups on all product issues such as customer return, coverage improvements and custom design application
  • Manage product cost reduction through test yield improvement projects, test time reduction and capacity expansion
  • Drive wafer sort and final test correlation, yield analysis and corrective actions
  • Problem Solving through rootcause analysis, data mining and Statistical modelling.
  • Improved project efficiency by streamlining communication between team members and stakeholders.
  • Designed and implemented innovative solutions for complex engineering problems, resulting in increased productivity.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop integrated systems, optimizing overall performance.

Staff Engineer , Product Engineering

Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
01.2022 - 05.2022
  • Support new product introduction initial phase to validate new device features and test/DFT methodologies
  • Perform new device characterization, circuit sensitivity analysis, interpret findings & support root-cause investigations
  • Perform data mining and statistical data analysis on wafer sort and final test parametric to support initial product assessment
  • Support product assessment report generation
  • Perform functional testing and analysis to ensure product operation and reliability
  • Support & resolve Test engineering & program related issues
  • Support volume Engineering sample supply for early customer engagement
  • Plan and coordinate (data analysis, debug, root-cause, implementing solutions) yield & test time improvement activities to meet the set mass production release goals
  • Provide customer return verification support including implement containment & preventive actions
  • Execute and implement test productivity activities which include test time reduction, retest reduction, test insertion removal, higher parallelism
  • Transfer product knowledge to sustaining engineer
  • Engage & manage Test Subcon in early production stage.

Senior Product Test Engineer

Infineonn Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
01.2012 - 01.2022
  • Managing a group of technician to support daily routine tasks and engineering activities
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless product development and launch.
  • Optimized test plans, resulting in reduced time-to-market for new products.
  • Lead and drive product cycle from new product to mass production
  • Liase with manufacturing and business units to ramp product into volume production at acceptable yield
  • Release new test program and hardware to production
  • Responsible in documentation, eg process control spec
  • Identify and implement productivity improvement and cost reduction projects
  • Provide technical support to production at final or wafer testing
  • Test Program optimization together with test developer to reduce test time and yield improvement
  • Perform product performance analysis with analysis tools ( eg corner stone, failure analysis methodology)
  • Risk assessment on low yield lots and disposition given to manufacturing.

Product Test Engineer

United Test and Assembly Center Ltd
04.2007 - 11.2011
  • Co-ordinate and qualify product testing activities to meet customers’ requirements
  • Led root cause analysis investigations to identify solutions for complex technical issues encountered during testing.
  • Test process improvement, flow simplification, test time reduction and test solution to enhance productivity
  • Test program and hardware fixture development and/or conversion
  • Provide OJT for Manufacturing Operators and Technicians
  • Involved in test and burn-in yield improvement activities
  • Involved in manufacturing support activities to minimize downtime
  • Handle equipment qualification and release to Production
  • Prepare engineering reports and manage data.

Service Engineer

ELV products marketing PTE LTD
07.2006 - 02.2007
  • Responsibilities: Responsible in maintenance of company products and those bought in by customers
  • Coordinated with development engineer in design and development
  • Developed and improved designed project
  • Installation of company products upon customers’ request
  • Provide engineering expertise in supporting product setup and failure analysis.

Assitant Engineer/trainee

Cubi Creative Electronics Sdn Bhd
10.2005 - 01.2006
  • Responsibilities: Assists engineer or technician in manufacturing department
  • Debugging and repair failure product
  • Product testing
  • Achievements: Debugged few types of MP3 players

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) (Telecommunication) -

Multimedia University(Telekom University)
Malaysia
01.2006

Skills

  • JMP
  • Statistical Data Analysis
  • People management
  • Advantest tester (T5581 & T5593)
  • Verigy 93k
  • Teradyne J750 and Flex
  • Microsoft Office applications
  • Visual Basic
  • C Language
  • UNIX & Perl
  • Java

Accomplishments

    AMD (formerly Xilinix) Staff engineer,Product Engineering

    WS test time reduction program release

  • Up to 11% test time reduction in wafer sort by release new TP to production.
  • FT test time reduction program release

  • Up to 55% test time reduction in final test
  • Product WS test site to site low yield Issue

  • Improve site2 yield up to 5.4% by update the func freq of all rdbk freq.
  • The solution is to lower all rdbk test func freq from 100MHz to 75 MHz to have robust testing regardless the hardware variation.
  • Infineon product test yield engineer

    Managing a group of technician since 2019.

  • Assign routine tasks to respective technician to perform.
  • Test Package optimization.

  • Optimize the test efficiency by minimize index time between tests.
  • Test Insertion Reduction

  • Various product ambient test removal in costs and cycle time saving ( ~20% overall).
  • Platform Migration

  • OEE improvement up to ~20% through different handler migration (Rasco to Multitest handler)
  • Involve of tester upgrade qualification to reduce up to 15% test time.
  • Product transfer from other sites

  • Involve in product transfer and qualification from Batam and Malacca sites.
  • Provide product knowledge training to other sites engineers.
  • UTAC product test engineer for Memory/Mixed Signal and Logic products)

    New product qualification

  • Engine power management IC (during 2012)
  • Intel 3G mobile chip (starting from March 2011)
  • DRAM DDR TSOP66 & SDR TSOP 54 – new type of wafer (during Nov 2009- August 2010)
  • DRAM DDR2 LBGA 2GB and DDR2 WCSP 1GB (during 2008-2009)
  • DRAM SDR TSOP54 128MB (during 2007)
  • Cost reduction evaluation project

  • Assembly wire bonding 0.8 mil FT evaluation to reduce material used in wire bond process. (Feb 2009)
  • E-fuse x4 wire bonding to x8 project to increase flexibility of product output. (March 2009)
  • Long life capillary evaluation for QIT cost down project. (March 2009)
  • Different type of solder ball FT evaluation. (April 2009)
  • 0.7 mil & 0.9 mil wire bonding evaluation. (June 2009)
  • Product quality/yield improvement activities:

  • Retention DOE evaluation to achieve lower retention failure (estimated <1 %). (Jan 2009)
  • Achieved pretest rate < 0.3% in weekly yield monitoring due to product delam issue. (Feb 2009)
  • TSOP66 devices pins bridging test sorting 13 affected lots (total ~155k). (May 2009)
  • Evaluation of DDR2 LBGA qualified testers to resolve high temp low yield issue, improving yield from 97% to 98.5% averagely (June 2009)
  • Achieved TSOP66 Shank angle test sorting which involved ~245k (60 lots). (June 2009)
  • Assembly step cut (process improvement) FT evaluation. (Dec 2009)

Languages

Bahasa Malaysia
English
Japanese
Mandarin

Timeline

MTS Staff Engineer , Product Engineering

AMD-Xilinx Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
05.2022 - Current

Staff Engineer , Product Engineering

Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
01.2022 - 05.2022

Senior Product Test Engineer

Infineonn Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
01.2012 - 01.2022

Product Test Engineer

United Test and Assembly Center Ltd
04.2007 - 11.2011

Service Engineer

ELV products marketing PTE LTD
07.2006 - 02.2007

Assitant Engineer/trainee

Cubi Creative Electronics Sdn Bhd
10.2005 - 01.2006

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) (Telecommunication) -

Multimedia University(Telekom University)
Yong Ling Chan