Pravin Patel

About Pravin Patel

Drove Manufacturing Excellence (MX) effort for Thermal area to hit the Best-In-Class benchmarks for various components of wafer cost. Drove cost saving projects, achieving a 40% reduction in monitor wafer cost in 2006, as well as significant labor savings to improve technician productivity. Helped pull in Q3’07 total cost goal by 2 quarters. • Independently coordinated and managed cost projects and operations, making sure we prioritize high ROI projects and ZBB low return projects. Conducted financial ROI analysis for each project. • Effectively partnered with and influenced customers and geographical partners that span a broad management and organizational range. • Ensured supply output met, managed module area is aligned with commitments. • Identified material requirement gaps in factory schedules and coordinated product expedites with factory partners. Specialties: DIFFUSION,CVD, PVD,ALD, PECVD Film deposition SPUTTER, RTA, WET ETCH PROCESS. Data analysis, project management, cost saving, lean manufacturing.Yield Improvement projects.

Experience

1. Sr Process Engineer

   WD

   Sep 2009 — Present · Fremont, CA, US

   Developing Thin film process, work on CVD,ALD,VIBD,SPUTTER process and tools

Education

• Gujarat University

  Bachelor

• University of California, Berkeley

  Device Physics and Semiconductor Processing