Fred Butt

About Fred Butt

High-performing Senior Manager with 20 years of experience in global operations, high volume manufacturing and technology development. Extensive operations and technical program management experience. Self-starter with strong communication and leadership skills. Strong team building and employee development skills. Challenge driven, reliable and adapt quickly to change. Successfully started up new production and greenfield facilities as well as improved performance of existing service and spares businesses. Extensive experience in IIF Safety cultures, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Quality programs. Recognized for improving customer-focused service and spares solutions. Extensive P&L experience in managing revenue and cost targets. Fluent with KPI metric programs and strategies.

Experience

1. Director, Technical Project Program Mgmt

   Applied Materials

   Jul 2015 — Present

   Drive continuous improvement and product development of CMP systems which enhances previous-generation planarization technology to achieve nanometer-level precision for FinFET and 3D NAND applications. Close engagement with new product implementation to ensure customer requirements are met. Work closely with customers to identify and resolve high value problems. Engaged with cross functional teams to drive design, engineering, software and CIP improvements to enhance overall product performance.

Education

• DeVry Institute of Technology

  BS Engineering, Electronics

  1992 — 1995

• University of Phoenix

  MBA, Business

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Electronics
• Lean Manufacturing
• Semiconductors
• Leadership
• P&L Management
• Process Engineering
• Management
• Program Management
• Silicon
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Customer Satisfaction
• Recruiting
• Thin Films
• Marketing
• Metrology
• Inventory Management
• Pvd
• Six Sigma
• Spc
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Failure Analysis
• Semiconductor Industry
• Engineering Management
• Start-Ups
• Product Engineering
• Budgets
• Cvd