lev makutonin

defect inspection and metrology engineer

About

Senior process and equipment engineer with 20+ years experience in semiconductors industry. Specialties: Bright field and dark field inspection, EBeam inspection and SEM review, metrology and yield enhancement. application development, process and field service support.

Country

united states

City

durham

Industry

semiconductors

Skill

semiconductors, metrology, semiconductor industry, failure analysis, spc, yield, silicon, r&d, jmp, cvd, optics, characterization, engineering, test equipment, scanning electron microscopy, yield management, technology product development, optical microscopy, research and development

Experience

defect inspection and metrology engineer

wolfspeed

2018-9 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

process engineer

globalfoundries

2012-7 - 2018-8 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Defect inspection and review, recipe creation for BF and DF inspection and SEM review, new tool H2H evaluation and tool selection, inspection strategy and data review and interpretation. New application development for special tool monitors and integrated monitors, capacity planning, tool qualification for the new processes and applications.

application engineer, field service engineer

applied materials

2000-1 - 2012-7 · 12 yrs 7 mos

lead engineer

2005 2011 applied materials north america

2005-1 - 2011-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

* Application and HW support for multiple Inspection and Review systems. * Spare parts management. * Continuous Improvement Projects (CIP) and Joint Development Projects (JDP)

asia business group technologist, wafer inspection team leader

applied materials

2000-1 - 2005-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Project prioritization and manpower assignment. Negotiation with R&D group and local teams for resources allocation and utilization. Customer management, including understanding and addressing of customer's concerns and requests, finding work-around and temporary solutions, follow up till final solution, advanced troubleshooting Tool evaluations on customer site, including objectives and success criteria set-up, recipe creation and troubleshooting at initial step, advice for app. engineers on site, communication between customers, local teams and headquarter. Major accomplishments: Successful tool evaluation and head-to-head competition resulted in first in fab tools in two sites in Taiwan. Successful long term head-to-head competition resulted in repeat orders in Taiwan and Korea.