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Gary Alexander
AMC Intl., LLC and Executive Director of SEC/N®
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Julia Bussey
Geomatrix Consultants
- C. Richard Deininger
General Partner, Taylor-Deininger Partners, Inc.
- Bill
Funsten Program Manager, Contamination Control at Spansion, Inc.
- Kevin Gray Senior Etch Line Maintenance Supervisor at Cypress Semiconductor
- Chris Howington Supply Chain Re-Engineering Manager, Freescale Semiconductor
- Scott
Kramer Director of International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI)
- Matthew Nadeau Director of Manufacturing at NEC Electronics
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Rafi Nave CTO, Tower Semiconductor
- Murty S. Polavarapu
Senior Principal Engineer at BAE Systems Semiconductor Technology Center in Manassas, Va.
- Bill C. Smoak Vice President of Operations - Intersil Corporation
- Paul Tan Manager, TSMC Fab 12 Facilities
- Mario Tellez Equipment Service Manager, On Semiconductor
- Kevin Venor Manufacturing Development Engineering Manager, Avago Technologies
- Mike Weiby
Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety Manager for Integrated Device
- Greg Westby Purchasing and Materials Manager, Integrated Device Technology
- Gregory D. Winterton Process Development Manager for TI's DLP® group
- Juergen
Woehl General Manager/VP Manufacturing,
International Rectifier - Temecula, CA
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 Gary Alexander
AMC Intl., LLC and Executive Director of SEC/N®
Gary Alexander is Founder/Managing Principal of AMC Intl. LLC, which independently consults on secondary market topics with organizations and government agencies worldwide. He is participating in U.S Department of Commerce/WTO and ANSI-ISO task forces on increasing trade opportunities and developing standards for the global secondary market. He is also Executive Director of SEC/N, the global trade association of the semiconductor industry for secondary market equipment and related services.
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Bussey
Geomatrix Consultants
Julia Bussey has over 25 years of experience working in the industry, including
five years at AMD, Inc., and government to incorporate sustainable compliance
practices into operations. As a senior scientist at Geomatrix
Consultants, she provides environmental compliance assistance to companies
to reduce business risk.
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 C. Richard Deininger
General Partner, Taylor-Deininger Partners, Inc.
Dick brings 50 years of successful executive management and business
experience to the high tech industry. He is one of the general partners in
Taylor-Deininger Partners, Inc. (TDP) consultancy and the owner principal
of Deininger and Associates, LLC consultancy. He holds a BSEE degree
from Newark College of Engineering and is a senior life member of IEEE,
Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
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 Bill Funsten
Program Manager, Contamination Control at Spansion, Inc.
Bill Funsten has 33 years of experience in semiconductor processing, defect
metrology, yield improvement and contamination control. He is currently
program manager, contamination control at Spansion, Inc. Mr. Funsten has a
B.S. degree in materials engineering from UCLA.
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Kevin
Gray
Senior Etch Line Maintenance Supervisor at Cypress Semiconductor
Kevin Gray is a Senior Etch Line Maintenance Supervisor at Cypress Semiconductor. In 1991, he joined the US Navy, becoming a nuclear electrician aboard the Submarine USS Michigan. Kevin co-authored “Polymer control in a LAM TCP 9600 Aluminum Etch Chamber” at ISSM 2001. He became a Maintenance Supervisor in 2004 and has led the Fab Owners Association LAM 9600 team since March 2007.
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Chris Howington
Supply Chain Re-Engineering Manager, Freescale Semiconductor
Chris Howington has over 20 years in the semiconductor industry in manufacturing
and supply chain leadership roles. He is currently Supply Chain Re-
Engineering manager at Freescale Semiconductor. Previous experience
includes management roles at TSMC, National Semiconductor and AMD. Mr.
Howington has a B.S. in mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin.
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 Scott Kramer
Director of International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI)
Scott Kramer is the director of International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI), a subsidiary of SEMATECH, overseeing the Equipment Productivity, Fab Productivity, 300mmPrime/450mm, Metrology, and Environment, Safety and Health programs. He joined SEMATECH in 1994 as Fab Manager of the Advanced Technology Development Facility (ATDF). Mr. Kramer holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri and an M.B.A. from the University of Utah.
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 Matthew Nadeau
Director of Manufacturing at NEC Electronics
Matthew Nadeau is the director of manufacturing at NEC Electronics, America in Roseville, Calif. He joined NEC in 1989 and worked as a process engineer in the Dry Etch and Wet Etch areas before starting his work in the manufacturing environment. Matthew received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Davis.
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Rafi Nave
CTO, Tower Semiconductor
Rafi Nave has been Tower Semiconductor's CTO since 2005. From 2003-2005, he was Tower's VP Customer Services. From 1996-2003 he was VP R&D for NDS Corp. From 1974-1995, At Intel Corp he held the positions of: chip design engineer; General Manager of Intel's design center in Israel; Director of Corporate Engineering & Corporate DFM. He earned his MSc and BSc EE from Technion, Haifa Israel.
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Murty S. Polavarapu
Senior Principal Engineer at BAE Systems Semiconductor Technology Center in Manassas, Va.
Murty S. Polavarapu is a senior principal engineer at BAE Systems Semiconductor Technology Center in Manassas, Va. Over the last 23 years, he has worked on developing and manufacturing advanced CMOS memory and logic products. His current interests include development of phase change memory technology and application of nanotechnology to meet the needs of the Department of Defense, particularly for space-based applications.
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 Bill C. Smoak
Vice President of Operations – Intersil Corporation
Bill Smoak is the vice president of operations for Intersil’s silicon wafer fab site in Palm Bay, Florida. He has 28 years of semiconductor manufacturing experience in engineering, development, manufacturing systems and operations roles with Harris Semiconductor and Intersil. Primary experience has been in SOI materials and high-performance analog processes. Bill holds a B.S. in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida.
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 Paul Tan
Manager, TSMC Fab 12 Facilities
Paul Tan has 16 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. In addition to facilities management in Fab 12, he concurrently served as water group leader on the Facilities Technical Board. His previous roles include technical manager for facilities design in TSMC future fabs, facilities director in SSMC, and UPW application manager in ionics.
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 Mario Tellez
Equipment Service Manager, On Semiconductor
Mario Tellez is an equipment service manager with On Semiconductor. He obtained his B.S. in electronic engineering and completed various studies in project management. Mr. Tellez has 20 years of semiconductor-equipment-related experience in Photo, Implant, Diffusion, Etch and Backgrind. He has held various roles including lead technician, equipment engineer and equipment service management.
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 Kevin Venor
Manufacturing Development Engineering Manager, Avago Technologies
Kevin Venor is the manufacturing development engineering manager for Avago Technologies in Fort Collins, Colo. He has more then 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and has held various positions in R&D, manufacturing and business development at Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, SEMATECH and Avago Technologies.
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 Mike Weiby
Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety Manager for Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDTI)
Mike Weiby has 8+ years managing ISO 14001 and environmental programs, injury/illness prevention, emergency response, business continuity and risk management/loss control plans. He has an M.B.A. from Portland State University, a Master of Industrial Safety degree from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin.
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 Greg Westby
Purchasing and Materials Manager, Integrated Device Technology
Greg Westby is the purchasing and materials manager at Integrated Device Technology’s 200 mm wafer fabrication facility in Hillsboro, Ore. Mr. Westby earned his M.B.A. from the University of Portland and has over 19 years of semiconductor experience, 12 of which are in procurement and materials management.
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 Gregory D. Winterton
Process Development Manager for TI’s DLP® group
Greg Winterton is the Process Development Manager for TI’s DLP® group. Greg has responsibility for the development and production of TI’s next-generation spatial light modulator MEMS devices. Greg is a 23-year veteran of the semiconductor industry with experience in process engineering, equipment engineering, manufacturing, technology transfer, and quality and reliability assurance on wafer diameters from 125 mm to 300 mm.
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 Juergen Woehl
General Manager/VP manufacturing, International Rectifier – Temecula, CA
Juergen Woehl is the General Manager/VP manufacturing of International Rectifier Temecula site in Southern California. Previously, he held management positions at IBM, Infineon, Sematech and ON Semiconductor. Juergen has over 25 years in the semiconductor industry, in engineering, manufacturing and R&D. He has a B.S. in chemistry from the Fachhochschule in Aalen, Germany and an M.B.A. from St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas.
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