Dean Hunt

Available for new opportunities in high-tech, fast-paced and challenging product development and manufacturing opportunity.

Assumed executive responsibility for Manufacturing Operations and Field Service as well as continuing to manage Engineering Product Development and IT. Continued to meeting business unit revenue and profitability goals which included 25% revenue growth to $52M for the 1st year following the acquisition. Executive sponsor for post-acquisition integration activities for Operations, Field Service, IT and Engineering. Led plan development and execution for Field Service transition into world-wide Zeiss sales and support structure. Achieved high employee retention and morale through transparency and enthusiastic support of postacquisition integration

Acquired by Carl Zeiss in July 2013 Responsible for all new product releases with improving performance and market acceptance enabling year-year revenue growth of greater than 25% from ~$10M/yr in 2009 to $42M/yr in 2013. R&D 100 award for VersaXRM-500 in 2012, R&D 100 award for NanoProbe in 2009. Managed team growth and majority of hiring and internal development programs as we grew Xradia from 40 to over 100 employees. Participated and led at various levels of management/technical contribution as projects required – in order to achieve committed goals. Managed development and qualification with customers of Versa and Ultra lab-based x-ray computed tomography microscopes - as well as custom synchrotron projects. Developed internal Product Life Cycle (PLC) process customized for business type and developed continuously as the company and requirements changed – with mgmt. team developed strong customer segment marketing based strategic planning and PLC processes

OnWafer Inc. Acquired by KT in January 2007 Responsible for product engineering: a) current products improvement (temperatures sensing wafers, temperature measuring masks, and software and support hardware) and, b) bringing new products to market (RF current wafer and new visualization software). Managed integration of OnWafer into KLA-Tencor, with Sensarray. Included physical asset move management, new building facilitation and manufacturing coordination to maintain revenue. Led engineering team’s integration into KLA-Tencor PLC process, and consolidated document control and ECO systems. Developed standards for operation to meet new combined BU requirements

Managed engineering department: $2M/year budget/personnel/product development programs for small ($8M/year) start-up company. Responsible for hardware, firmware and application software. 5th employee of company. Performed all/any engineering and manufacturing tasks related to developing and delivering products to initial customers and generating revenue. Developed and documented all the initial manufacturing and calibration processes for temperature measurement wafer products. Initially managed in-house manufacturing team – schedules, quality standards and personnel. Performed mechanical & system design of temperature measuring wafers: Plasma Temp, BakeTemp and MaskTemp products. Included packaging of electronics for operation in plasma etch and PEB environments. Experience with thick film and thin-film processing, electronic packaging, temperature metrology and precision calibration. Managed engineers developing next generation of products. Products included temperature, electrical and optical sensors mounted on wafers for plasma diagnostics. Plasma Volt and PlasmaLux product developed to varying levels of production. Participated in due diligence and managed asset transfer of OnWafer acquisition of a division of Advanced Energy

Worked in the Diagnostics Systems Group on the IDS1000, and IDS 2000 LVP Managed focused ion beam (FIB) engineering group. Re-staffed group with experienced technical professionals in order to execute to roadmap. Led engineering project to develop next generation FIB product – OptiFiB – included coaxial IR optics for backside flip-chip navigation prior to FIB circuit modification. Managed requirements document and detailed schedules for team of ~19 technical contributors. Led regular project reviews and technical design reviews. Resolved day-to-day technical and schedule conflicts to maintain schedule and product vision

Managed mechanical engineering resources and schedules for all product-lines within the division. Provide technical mechanical engineering leadership for engineers on e-beam, FIB and laser product-lines. Managed mechanical engineering effort for PICA (photon-detecting timing-skew) product development. Interfaced regularly with manufacturing to ensure continuous improvement via process and specification change orders. Manage hiring, training, resource allocations and reviews for mechanical group. Individual contributor on project to provide custom cooling solution, using diamond film heat spreader, for high power unpackaged ICs during waveform acquisition. Patent received

Provided complete mechanical engineering design/development for new capital equipment product, IDS 2000, IR laser-based flip-chip waveform acquisition tool. Tool employed IR lasers, LSM, crystal modulators, fiber coupling and other optics. Vendor selection and management of custom precision (100nm resolution) XYZ positioning stage for product. Experience with programming Delta Tau controllers using PMAC software. Designed high bandwidth, high I/O count, electrical interface feedthru for stimulating IC’s within the high vacuum environment (10-6 torr) of the SEM oscilloscope product (IDS 10k). Developed expertise with Pro/Engineer and Pro/Mechanica FEA Structural and Thermal software modules

Started career at KLA Instruments as a Manufacturing Engineer and the migrated into the Design Engineering department in 2 years. Designed custom probe card interface fixtures for wafer prober products (KLA 1007). Designed value-added accessories and configurations for wafer prober products. Included custom optical assemblies for OCR and bar-code readers for wafer ID’s. Participated in the introduction of ProEngineer CAD software into engineering group